Sökning: "actant"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 avhandlingar innehållade ordet actant.

1. 1. Nyttiga bakterier och sjuka djur : En technoscience-resa från nätverksbildning till riskkonstruktion

   Författare :Lena Molin; Ulf Jonsson; Sven Fritz; Henrik Glimstedt; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; tehnoscience; hybrid; cyborg; risk; network; ANT; actant; pig; cow; bacteria; situated; nature; construction of nature; body; transgression; construction of scientific facts; truth; scientific process; knowledge production; risk construction; biotechnology; functional foods; food sector; high technology; alliances; innovation; Economic history; Ekonomisk historia;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of the dissertation is to examine the mechanisms at work when networks are formed and risk constructions made as bodies encounter frontline technology within the food sector. The concept of technoscience TS, is the link uniting the escalating technology of risk society, rebellious nature and the insidious threats of substances absorbed straight into the metabolism of our bodies through the food that we eat. LÄS MER

3. 2. Negotiating 'Culture', Assembling a Past: the Visual, the Non-Visual and the Voice of the Silent Actant

   Författare :Jonathan Westin; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Techniques of visual representation; visualisation; limitation; audience; museum; exhibition; technology; interactivity;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to describe and analyse the processes surrounding the creation of a scientific visual representation, where, both in the practical creation of this visualisation and in the way it is communicated, those actants which amount to what we call ‘culture’ or cultural value, are enrolled or ignored. Trying to answer if a broader set of non-visual cultural properties can be identified and their influence described, and if history can be visualised without displacing our knowledge of the past in favour of a popular representation thereof, I trace the interaction between client, artist, technology and target audience. LÄS MER

4. 3. Staten är vår herde god : Representationer av annorlundahet och ordning i fyra svenska trettiotalstidningar

   Författare :Merja Ellefson; Kristina Widestedt; Tom Moring; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; press history; Swedish press; inter-war period; ethnicity; social class; gender; otherness; media and communication studies; medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; journalistik;

   Sammanfattning : The aim is to study representation of order and otherness in the late 1930’s Swedish press. That is, who are envisioned as "us" and who are the "Others"? The theoretical frame is based on Foucault’s concepts of pastoral power, the reason of state and biopolitics. LÄS MER

5. 4. Clustering Architectures: The Role of Materialities for Emerging Collectives in the Public Domain

   Författare :Jesper Magnusson; Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Urban design; public life; public space; collective space; everyday life; actor-network theory; territoriality; social interaction; nonhuman agency; material culture;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis is a study of social life, addressing issues concerning how and by what means people meet in urban public space. The main aim of this thesis is to is to investigate how certain artefacts and architectural features support the formation and temporal stabilisation of heterogeneous clusters and collectives, and thus, in order to the development of conceptual tools that can contribute to a more refined description and analysis of the role of architecture and artefacts for urban public life [a very long sentence…]. LÄS MER

7. 5. The Movement of a Musical Work : Ernst Krenek’s Opus 20 in the Interwar Years

   Författare :Johan Larson Lindal; Eva Hemmungs Wirtén; Martin Fredriksson; Ingemar Grandin; Julian Johnson; Linköpings universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Actor-Network Theory; Musical work concept; Micro-history; Modernism; Ernst Krenek; Actor-Network Theory; musikaliska verkbegreppet; mikrohistoria; modernism; Ernst Krenek.;

   Sammanfattning : The dissertation studies how one ‘modern’ piece of music from the early 20th century became conceptualised as an idealised musical work: the Third String Quartet, opus 20 (op. 20) by Austrian composer Ernst Krenek (1900–1991). LÄS MER