Sökning: "the world in images"

Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 231 avhandlingar innehållade orden the world in images.

1. 11. Konst och kartläggning kring 1970 : Modell, diagram och karta i konstens landskap

   Författare :Karolina Uggla; Jeff Werner; Margaretha Rossholm Lagerlöf; Annika Öhrner; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Conceptual art; maps; mapping; art and cartography; art and mapping; visual culture; art and science; scientific images; art and cybernetics; alienation; the linguistic turn; Agnes Denes; Sten Eklund; Hans Haacke; Öyvind Fahlström; Richard Long; Yoko Ono; Robert Smithson; konstvetenskap; Art History;

   Sammanfattning : The years around 1970 saw the emergence of an artistic fascination with maps and mapping. In the present thesis this fascination is conceptualised as a mapping impulse, acknowledging how the discourses of art and mapping, respectively, intertwine and merge. LÄS MER

3. 12. German second home owners in the Swedish countryside : on the internationalization of the leisure space

   Författare :Dieter K. Müller; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Tourism; second homes; countryside; Sweden; Germany; tourist motivation; innovation diffusion; integration; gentryfication; GIS;

   Sammanfattning : Between 1991 and 1996 the number of German second home owners in Sweden increased from about 1,500 to more than 5,500. The purpose of this thesis is to give a comprehensive description and analysis of the German cottage purchases in Sweden, 1991-96. LÄS MER

4. 13. Hemsökt barndom : Bilder av barnet i gotisk barnlitteratur

   Författare :Peter Kostenniemi; Elina Druker; Magnus Öhrn; Maria Andersson; Christensen Nina; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; gothic children’s literature; children’s literature; Scandinavian literature; childhood; subjectivity; high modernity; technologies of power; technologies of the self; governmentality; self-governing; agency; growth; the competent child; gothic other; litteraturvetenskap; Literature;

   Sammanfattning : The 21st century has seen an increase in the publication of Gothic literature for children and young adults. The aim of this study is to explore this development and to discuss images of the child in Scandinavian Gothic fiction for children in relation to ideas about childhood in a contemporary context. LÄS MER

5. 14. The processing of natural images in the visual system

   Författare :Olga Dyakova; Karin Nordström; Dan Larhammar; Eric Warrant; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; natural scenes; image statistics; hoverflies; optomotor response; cSIFE neuron; sleep deprivation;

   Sammanfattning : Any image can be described in terms of its statistics (i.e. quantitative parameters calculated from the image, for example RMS-contrast, the skewness of image brightness distribution, and slope constant of an average amplitude spectrum). LÄS MER

7. 15. Blurring the Colonial Binary : Turn-of-the-Century Transnational Entertainment in Southeast Asia

   Författare :Nadi Tofighian; John Fullerton; Charles Musser; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; colonial history; early cinema; film history; distribution; transnational networks; entertainment culture; Southeast Asia; Singapore; postcolonial theory; colonial discourse; ethnicity; race; whiteness; Cinema Studies; filmvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines and writes the early history of distribution and exhibition of moving images in Southeast Asia by observing the intersection of transnational itinerant entertainment and colonialism. It is a cultural history of turn-of-the-century Southeast Asia, and focuses on the movement of films, people, and amusements across oceans and national borders. LÄS MER