Sökning: "spectacle"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 16 avhandlingar innehållade ordet spectacle.

  1. 1. Plot, Spectacle, and Experience : Contributions to the Design and Evaluation of Interactive Storytelling

    Författare :Jarmo Laaksolahti; Kristina Höök; Ruth Aylett; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Computer and systems science; Data- och systemvetenskap; Computer and Systems Sciences; data- och systemvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : Interactive storytelling is a new form of storytelling emerging in the crossroads of many scholarly, artistic, and industrial traditions. In interactive stories the reader/spectator moves from being a receiver of a story to an active participant. LÄS MER

  2. 2. Döden, kroppen och moderniteten

    Författare :Eva Åhren Snickare; Roger Qvarsell; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; death; the body; modernity; modernisation; Sweden; cultural history; 1870-1940; anatomy; pathology; corpse; dissection; specimen; spectacle; wax effigies; cerements; undertakers; post-mortem photography; cremation; döden; attityder; begravningsseder; medicin; historia; Sverige; 1870-1940; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation deals with attitudes towards death and the dead body in Sweden during the late 19th and the early 20th centuries. This was a period of intense social and cultural change, during which Sweden was transformed from an agricultural society to a modem industrial state. LÄS MER

  3. 3. Investigations of binocularity and reading performance in healthy subjects and patients with mild traumatic brain injury

    Författare :Jan Johansson; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Sammanfattning : Background: It is known that problems with binocular vision can cause issues for reading, less well known is to what extent binocular vision improves reading performance. A key aim for this project was to estimate the contribution of binocularity in reading in healthy subjects, and in patients with mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI). LÄS MER

  4. 4. Scenes of Writing, Scenes of Looking : Don DeLillo, Claus Beck-Nielsen, and the Politics of the Novel

    Författare :Morten Feldtfos Thomsen; Per Bäckström; John Sundholm; Karen S. Jacobs; Karlstads universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; DeLillo; Beck-Nielsen; literature; aesthetics; politics; technology; imagetext; W.J.T. Mitchell; print novel; visual culture; media; intermediality; Rancière; multimodality; materiality; image; vision; Comparative Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : Cries of the death of the novel and even of literature in general have become cultural commonplaces. In an age seemingly dominated by digital spectacle, many seem to think that traditional print literature has become an almost obsolete cultural practice, bereft of any critical social and political relevance. LÄS MER

  5. 5. Interlegality, Municipalities and Social Change: A Sociolegal Study of the Controversy around Bullfighting in Bogotá, Colombia

    Författare :Nicolas Serrano; Rättssociologiska institutionen; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Interlegality; legal scales; jursidictions; urban governance; social change; cultural change; law and culture; social policy; urban planning; socio-ecological transition; animal advocay; animal protection; civic culture; bullfighting; bullfights; sociology of law; Bogotá; Colombia;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis ponders the participation of municipal authorities amidst processes of sociolegal change. Such interest originated from acknowledging the limited autonomy that municipalities have in the nested scalar jurisdictional order of most contemporary states, the relevance of municipalities as spaces of local democracy, the social movements’ advocacy for social change at local levels, and the inherent nature of municipalities as places where the law is realised in space and time. LÄS MER