Sökning: "the book as medium"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 1962 avhandlingar innehållade orden the book as medium.
1. Själens medium : Skrift och subjekt i Nordeuropa omkring 1500
Sammanfattning : The era of the digital revolution has made it possible to acknowledge literature as a technological object, inseparable from its medium. This study attempts to outline the prerequisites of a material history of literature that does not focus primarily upon works or authors but rather on the media itself, the mnemotechnics and the practices of reading and writing that make such phenomena possible in the first place. LÄS MER
2. The forgotten encyclopedia : the Maurists' dictionary of arts, crafts, and sciences, the unrealized rival of the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert
Sammanfattning : In mid-eighteenth century Paris, two Benedictine monks from the Congregation of Saint-Maur – also known as the Maurists – started compiling a universal dictionary of arts, crafts, and sciences. The project was initiated simultaneously with what would become one of the most famous literary enterprises in Western intellectual history: the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d’Alembert. LÄS MER
3. Is the medium the message? : The impact of digital media on the newspaper concept
Sammanfattning : The impact of digital (new) media has caused both challenges and threats to newspapers’ continuing existence as a profitable and influential mass medium. While this is not the first time in history that new media appear to be challenging the future of the newspaper medium, from one perspective digital media offer not only direct competition, or alternative ways to produce and deliver news, but also possibilities for convergence, for making new media part of the traditional newspaper, inducing whole new possibilities for publishing. LÄS MER
4. Folkhemmets röst : radion som folkbildare 1925-1950
Sammanfattning : The present thesis deals with radio and adult education. It shows how Swedish radio, in cooperation with the governing authorities, the academic and (primarily) radical elite, succeeded in popularizing the ideaof the folkhem and its ideology, with the ambition of both modernizing and democratizing the Swedish population en masse. LÄS MER
5. Vår fana röd till färgen : Fanor som medium för visuell kommunikation under arbetarrörelsens genombrottstid i Sverige fram till 1890
Sammanfattning : The aim of this dissertation is to analyse banners as means communicating visual messages of the early Swedish labour movement. The theoretical basis is a communication-ethnographical point of view and a historical and a cultural scientific perspective. LÄS MER
