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Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 21 avhandlingar innehållade orden Queer studier.
11. Architectural Flirtations : A Love Storey
Sammanfattning : Formulated as a feminist project, written as a pulp fiction, Architectural Flirtations: A Love Storey begins with our claim that the architectural discipline is centered around a culture of critique, which is based in what bell hooks calls “a system of imperialist, white supremacist, heterosexist, capitalist, patriarchy,” and that the values instilled by this culture not only begin with, but are reinforced and reproduced by, the education of young architects.Sounds serious. LÄS MER
12. Gender and representation : investigations of bias in natural language processing
Sammanfattning : Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies are a part of our every day realities. They come in forms we can easily see as ‘language technologies’ (auto-correct, translation services, search results) as well as those that fly under our radar (social media algorithms, 'suggested reading' recommendations on news sites, spam filters). LÄS MER
13. Pojkarna vid datorn : Unga entusiaster i datateknikens värld
Sammanfattning : The aim of this study is to describe and to search for an understanding of Swedish computer captivated youth. This group is generally known as "hackers", often connoting queer loners and/or persons indulging in illegal activities. This picture is shown not to be a good representation of the Swedish countetpart. LÄS MER
14. Political corrections : Language activism and regimentation among high school youth
Sammanfattning : This thesis is concerned with senior high school students’ language activism and their efforts to navigate linguistic norms and language ideological geographies in contemporary Sweden. Guided by the traditions of child and youth studies (e.g., James & Prout, 1990) and linguistic anthropology (e. LÄS MER
15. "Creating the Senses" : Sensation in the work of Shelley Jackson
Sammanfattning : This monograph on the œuvre of contemporary American author and multimedia artist Shelley Jackson addresses the question of how literary works employ language to evoke sense impressions. Gilles Deleuze’s notion of aesthetic percepts is drawn on to develop a theory of literary phantom sensations which is then tested on the work of Jackson and related authors. LÄS MER