Sökning: "Material semiotics"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 53 avhandlingar innehållade orden Material semiotics.

1. 1. Burkkänslan : surrealism i Christer Strömholms fotografi : en undersökning med semiotisk metod

   Författare :Anders Marner; Roland Spolander; Henning Hansen; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Art history; semiotics; cultural semiotics; visual semiotics; photography; semiotics of photography; surrealism; surrealist photography; rhetoric; photographic rhetoric; Art; Konstvetenskap; konstvetenskap; History Of Art;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation is mainly concerned with the photography of Christer Strömholm. In studying his work semiotics is used as a method in analysing the rhetoric of his photographs and their relations to the photographic world, the artworld and the lifeworld. LÄS MER

3. 2. Agency and Artefacts : A cognitive semiotic exploration of design

   Författare :Juan Mendoza-Collazos; Kognitiv semiotik; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Agency; enhanced agency; agency hierarchy; derived agency; material agency; intentionality; prior intentions; intentions in action; pictorial representations; artefacts; tool-making; design theory; design semiotics; design research; phenomenology; cognitive semiotics; agentive semiotics; semiotic hierarchy; 4E cognition; bio-cultural evolution; philosophy of design; philosophy of technology;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates the role of artefacts in relation to human agency and design within a cognitive semiotics framework. It deals with questions such as What is agency? What are artefacts and how does agency relate to them? What kind of intentions are involved in the activity of designing? What is human-specific with respect to agency and design? How can the origins and evolution of design be explained? Addressing these questions, the thesis proposes a layered model of agency for explaining the relations between different grades of agentive complexity. LÄS MER

4. 3. “The World at Your Fingertips if You Know the Computer”: Agency, Information and Communication Technologies and Disability

   Författare :Rebecka Näslund; Elisabeth Berg; Åsa Gardelli; Sisse Finken; Luleå tekniska universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Agency; Disability; Information and Communication Technologies; Intra-action; Material-discursive; Material Semiotics; Modes of ordering; Situated knowledges; Arbetsvetenskap; Human Work Science;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis focuses on the relationships between agency, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and people with disability (in various ages). The aim has been to create an understanding by describing and analysing, and as such, to develop knowledge of how people with disabilities experience agency, ICT, and disability in their everyday lives. LÄS MER

5. 4. Emotions carved in stone? The social handling of death as expressed on Hellenistic grave stelai from Smyrna and Kyzikos

   Författare :Sandra Karlsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Study of emotions; funerary reliefs; Hellenistic age; funerary epitaphs; Smyrna; Kyzikos; iconography; semiotics; epigraphical studies; social conventions; visual therapy; emotional communities;

   Sammanfattning : This study deals with expressions of emotions in Hellenistic funerary art. The material for this study consists of 245 grave reliefs from the Greek cities of Smyrna and Kyzikos in Western Asia Minor; mostly dated to the second century BCE. LÄS MER

7. 5. Skrifterna från Hoppet. C.H. Braads ostindiska resa 1748–49

   Författare :Rickard Melkersson; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Christopher Hinric Braad; Graphonomy; Semiotics; Eighteenth century Swedish; Swedish East India Company;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with the writings of Christopher Hinric Braad (1728–81), employee of the Swedish East India Company, and more specifical¬ly with the manuscripts from his first journey, from Gothenburg to Canton, in the years 1748–1749. Despite their great historical and philological value, witnessed by many authors, none of these texts has been the subject of an edition, nor of any exhaustive research. LÄS MER