Sökning: "industrial crisis"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 49 avhandlingar innehållade orden industrial crisis.

  1. 1. Industrial Phantasmagoria : Subcultural Interactive Cinema Meets Mass-Cultural Media of Simulation

    Författare :Mikolaj Dymek; Mats Engwall; Claes Gustafsson; Alf Rehn; Saara Taalas; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; video game industry; computer game industry; video games; computer games; cultural industries; media industries; cultural economy; game studies; literary theory; ludology; narratology; interactive cinema; simulational media; ergodic literature; cybertext; interactive narrative; business studies; industrial economy; hardcore gaming; casual gaming; subcultural industries; Industrial engineering and economy; Industriell teknik och ekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : The video game industry has in three decades gone from a garage hobby to a global multi-billion euro media industry that challenges the significantly older and established cultural industries. After decades of explosive growth the industry surprisingly finds itself in a crisis – in terms of sales, future trajectories and creative paradigms. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Att möta krisen : Politikbyte på lokal nivå under industrikrisen i Söderhamn 1975-1985

    Författare :Henrik Lindberg; Sune Berger; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economic history; Sweden; policy change; local government; industrial decline; forest industry; ideas; concepts; local industrial policy; Söderhamn; Ekonomisk historia; Economic history; Ekonomisk historia; Ekonomisk historia; Economic History;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation is a study of how local municipalities handle local industrial crises. More specifically the aim is to investigate the change in ideas and concepts that lead to a change in industrial policy during the industrial crisis in the 1970’s and 1980’s in Söderhamn. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Growth, Accumulation, Crisis : With New Macroeconomic Data for Sweden 1800-2000

    Författare :Rodney Edvinsson; Karl Gratzer; Satya Datta; Olle Krantz; Jan Bohlin; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; GDP; employment; national accounts; Sweden; crisis; growth; capital; capitalism; accumulation; profit; surplus; economic history; growth theory; Marxism; long wave theory; business cycle; depression; recession; Economic history; Ekonomisk historia;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation has two main objectives. The first one is to construct historical macroeconomic series for Sweden using a consistent method throughout the relevant periods, and which rely on modern methods of national accounting. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Unwrapping Cobol : Lessons in Crisis Computing

    Författare :Linda Hilfling Ritasdatter; Susan Kozel; Maria Hellström Reimer; Florian Cramer; Nishant Shah; Malmö universitet; []
    Nyckelord :Crisis; Execution; Maintenance; Cobol; Automation; Global Flows; Y2K; Human Factor; Outsourcing; Development; Legacy Systems; Programming Languages; History of Computing; HCI; Software Wrapping; Postcolonial Studies; Diffraction; Broken world thinking; Grace Hopper; Media Archaeology; Debugging; Zombie Media; Obsolescence; Technological Development; Unsettling Ontologies; Fourth Industrial Revolution; Artificial Intelligence; Interaktionsdesign; Interaktionsdesign;

    Sammanfattning : By engaging with COBOL, a detested and would-be obsolete programming language, the dark sides of automation are examined in this thesis: hidden workforces and computational infrastructures that are, in reality, central to the execution and maintenance of global economic and informational flows. Frictions within these flows are made more visible in moments of crisis when asymmetrical power structures are surfaced, as demonstrated in an analysis of the infamous Y2K Bug, its connection to the outsourcing boom in India and the legacy of COBOL. LÄS MER

  7. 5. The Rise (and Fall?) of Post-Industrial Malmö : Investigations of city-crisis dialectics

    Författare :Ståle Holgersen; Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Urban planning; urban policy; dialectics; post-industrial city; economic crisis; crisis management; social relations; class; Malmö;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis aims to investigate the dialectics between urban planning and policy on the one hand and economic change and crises in the city of Malmö on the other, with a focus on both the city in general and the specific district of Western Harbour. Malmö provides a (highly) fascinating place to investigate relations between urban and economic change. LÄS MER