Sökning: "Reading Culture"

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  1. 6. Death Online in Contemporary Russia : Memory, Forgetting 
and the Connective Presence of Mourning on the Internet

    Författare :Katerina Linden; Amanda Lagerkvist; Ylva Ekström; Anna Reading; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; existential media studies; virtual ethnography; death online; digital memory studies; connective presence; Dasein; default amnesia; Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Media and Communication Studies;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation explores the ways in which online technologies transform communal commemoration and grief practices in the Russian-speaking world, and what the existential implications of these changes are for individuals and society. This aim is rooted in the theoretical framework of existential media studies complemented by digital memory studies and death online studies. LÄS MER

  3. 7. För att bli kvinna - och av lust : en studie i tonårsflickors läsning

    Författare :Maria Ulfgard; Christina Sjöblad; Jon Smidt; Kerstin Munck; Litteraturvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; literature criticism; Key words: girl’s reading; gender; reading culture; spare time; reception theory; transactional reading; teaching literature; literary canon; General and comparative literature; Swedish syllabus.; Allmän och jämförande litteratur; litteraturkritik; literary theory; litteraturteori; Literature; HUMANITIES and RELIGION;

    Sammanfattning : As part of the development of the teaching of literature in school, it is also important to reflect upon what pupils read outside school. This thesis deals with the spare time reading of twenty 15-16-year-old girls which has been examined during a two-year period. LÄS MER

  4. 8. Typographic Man : Medielandskap i förändring - Studier i provinsens tryckkultur

    Författare :Roger Jacobsson; Alf Arvidsson; Billy Ehn; Orvar Löfgren; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Provincial print culture; media landscape media history; book history; cultural studies; field of cultural production; networks; history of reading; reading societies; voluntary associations; communication; book market; book distribution; Ethnology; Etnologi; Ethnology; etnologi;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of the present thesis is to study how the media landscape of northern Sweden was shaped and transformed in the final years of the 18th century and first half of the nineteenth. This slowly-emerging new landscape brought with it new thoughts and new voices. LÄS MER

  5. 9. Bookonomy : The Consumption Practice and Value of Book Reading

    Författare :Pamela Schultz Nybacka; Pierre de Monthoux Guillet; Thomas Bay; Margaret Hogg; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Consumption practice; Reading; Literacy; Books; Value; Consummation; Post-scarcity; Bookonomy; Business studies; Företagsekonomi; Business Administration; företagsekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : In contemporary society, book readers are increasingly being valued as consumers. Literacy and reading are often subjected to an economic logic and seen as constituting economic operations in themselves. LÄS MER

  7. 10. Sports of culture : Writing the resistant subject in South Africa (readings of Ndebele, Gordimer, Coetzee)

    Författare :Stefan Helgesson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Literature; African literature; Homi Bhabha; catachresis; ethics; Frantz Fanon; Emmanuel Lévinas; mimicry; post-colonial theory; South African literature; Gayatri Spivak; subaltern; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis interrogates the post-colonial and ethical implications of three works of fiction published in South Africa between 1983 and 1987, namely Fools and Other Stories by Njabulo S. Ndebele, A Sport of Nature by Nadine Gordimer and Life & Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee. LÄS MER