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6. Material virtualities : Approaching online textual embodiment
Sammanfattning : While the Internet is often presented as a disembodied medium, various forms of bodily presence are continually introduced when people meet online. This study explores notions of embodiment in a particular text-based virtual world (here called WaterMOO) by investigating how bodies- always sexually specific- are created and rendered meaningful in online textual practices. LÄS MER
7. Robotic Companionship : The Making of Anthropomatic Kitchen Robots in Queer Feminist Technoscience Perspective
Sammanfattning : Specific machines furnish the contemporary socio-technical imaginary: ‘Robot companions’ that supposedly herald the age of robots, an age that is signified by the realization of robot technologies that are taking over labor from humans in every sphere of ‘everyday human lives’. How do we want these robot companions to work and look and how do we want to live with these machines? This thesis explores the engineering of relating humans and machines in the specific context of contemporary robotics from a queer feminist technoscience perspective. LÄS MER
8. Whirling Stories : Postsocialist Feminist Imaginaries and the Visual Arts
Sammanfattning : This thesis is about the geopolitics of feminist knowledge and the role of the visual arts in conceiving and reconfiguring postsocialist feminist imaginaries. Its central concern is to contest the fantasy, prevalent within Western feminist theorizing, of a “lag” between Western and former Eastern Europe. LÄS MER
9. Hatar Gud bögar? : Teologiska förståelser av homo-, bi- och transpersoner. En befrielseteologisk studie
Sammanfattning : Churches try to limit the human rights of homosexuals, bisexuals and transgendered people by opposing gay marriage, LGBT-people's right to adopt and protective legislation, concerning hate crimes and similar issues. They do so through publications, papal decrees and various other churchly forums. LÄS MER
10. Förkroppsligad fiktion och fiktionaliserade kroppar : Levande rollspel i Östersjöregionen
Sammanfattning : This dissertation concerns live action role-playing (larp). Larp may be described as improvised theater without an audience, as participants simultaneously embody both audience and actor in their constant interaction with one another. Hence, larp can be seen as a participatory culture. LÄS MER