Sökning: "Technological Culture"

Visar resultat 36 - 40 av 85 avhandlingar innehållade orden Technological Culture.

  1. 36. Control, cultural production and consumption : theoretical perspectives, empirical dilemmas, and Swedish music industry practices

    Författare :Linda Portnoff; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Sammanfattning : Structural changes in the economy, such as new technological developments that create new conditions for the production and consumption of goods and services, have had a particularly strong impact on the popular music industry. This dissertation explores how musicians, record companies and publishers deal with the control dilemmas that the current environment poses for them. LÄS MER

  3. 37. Learning from miners' risk management : a case study from the Swedish mining industry

    Författare :Jaffar Kavian-Lanjani; Luleå tekniska universitet; []
    Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Teknisk psykologi; Engineering Psychology;

    Sammanfattning : This historical - empirical case study deals with miners' collective safety and risk management of an occupational lung disease (Silicosis) at Laisvall lead mine from 1943-1953. About 45 miners contracted the disease and the deaths of 25 are documented. LÄS MER

  4. 38. Maskin och idyll : teknik och pastorala ideal hos Strindberg och Heidenstam

    Författare :Martin Kylhammar; Inge Jonsson; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis analyses the writers August Strindberg and Verner von Heidenstam approach to, and interpretation of, modern society and the technological civilization. Strindbergs criticism of civilization is first expressed in political, later in religious terms: he examines critically negative consequences of modernity – for nature, man and society. LÄS MER

  5. 39. Framtidsbilder i offentligt utredande. : Teknik, utbildning och samhällsutveckling

    Författare :Ann-Marie Laginder; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Images of the Future; Public Image; Symbolic Image; Commissions of Inquiry; Upper Secondary School; Information Technology; Futures Studies; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN;

    Sammanfattning : Introduction of a bill to the Swedish parliament is often preceded by a commission of inquiry. The role played by government commissions on policymaking and their consensus-promoting function are the underlying motives for this dissertation on images of the future in commission reports. LÄS MER

  7. 40. Kulturprosten. Torsten Fogelqvist som DN-publicist och folkbildare

    Författare :Ingmar Lundkvist; Avdelningen för idé- och lärdomshistoria; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; History of philosophy; general education; anti-Nazism; journalism; Dagens Nyheter; Torsten Fogelqvist; biography; history of ideas; Filosofins historia; idéhistoria;

    Sammanfattning : The dissertation outlines the ideas behind Torsten Fogelqvist's (1880-1941) ambitions as a publicist for Dagens Nyheter and as a public educator. The study also seeks to do justice to a forgotten, or at least not exhaustively analysed, discussion, during the first four decades of the last century, and deals with education, humanism, modernity, cultural heritage, the role of the press and anti-Nazism. LÄS MER