Sökning: "zombie"

Hittade 4 avhandlingar innehållade ordet zombie.

  1. 1. Monsterkroppar : Transformation, transmedialitet och makeoverkultur

    Författare :Kristina Stenström; Anja Hirdman; Kristina Riegert; Thomas Johansson; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; transmedia; audience; television; embodied spectatorship; makeover culture; late modernity; monstrosity; monster; vampire; zombie; transmedia; publik; television; förkroppsligat åskådarskap; makeoverkultur; senmodernitet; monstrositet; monster; vampyr; zombie; Media and Communication Studies; medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : This study offers insights into the motif of monstrous corporality in a transmedia environment, through the vampire and zombie characters. Different narratives of corporeal transformation surround us constantly. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Unwrapping Cobol : Lessons in Crisis Computing

    Författare :Linda Hilfling Ritasdatter; Susan Kozel; Maria Hellström Reimer; Florian Cramer; Nishant Shah; Malmö universitet; []
    Nyckelord :Crisis; Execution; Maintenance; Cobol; Automation; Global Flows; Y2K; Human Factor; Outsourcing; Development; Legacy Systems; Programming Languages; History of Computing; HCI; Software Wrapping; Postcolonial Studies; Diffraction; Broken world thinking; Grace Hopper; Media Archaeology; Debugging; Zombie Media; Obsolescence; Technological Development; Unsettling Ontologies; Fourth Industrial Revolution; Artificial Intelligence; Interaktionsdesign; Interaktionsdesign;

    Sammanfattning : By engaging with COBOL, a detested and would-be obsolete programming language, the dark sides of automation are examined in this thesis: hidden workforces and computational infrastructures that are, in reality, central to the execution and maintenance of global economic and informational flows. Frictions within these flows are made more visible in moments of crisis when asymmetrical power structures are surfaced, as demonstrated in an analysis of the infamous Y2K Bug, its connection to the outsourcing boom in India and the legacy of COBOL. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Scenarios we live by : Theorizing anticipatory practices for societal security

    Författare :Mikael Linnell; Anna Olofsson; Susanna Öhman; Sissel Haugdal Jore; Mittuniversitetet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis explores and theorizes practices for generating knowledge and experience of possible futures in the present. Often, our unreflected everyday actions are clearly focused on the future. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Hemsökt barndom : Bilder av barnet i gotisk barnlitteratur

    Författare :Peter Kostenniemi; Elina Druker; Magnus Öhrn; Maria Andersson; Christensen Nina; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; gothic children’s literature; children’s literature; Scandinavian literature; childhood; subjectivity; high modernity; technologies of power; technologies of the self; governmentality; self-governing; agency; growth; the competent child; gothic other; litteraturvetenskap; Literature;

    Sammanfattning : The 21st century has seen an increase in the publication of Gothic literature for children and young adults. The aim of this study is to explore this development and to discuss images of the child in Scandinavian Gothic fiction for children in relation to ideas about childhood in a contemporary context. LÄS MER