Essays about: "Media Digitisation"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words Media Digitisation.

  1. 1. Representing a Roman Portrait: An investigation of archaeological digitisation

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Antikens kultur och samhällsliv

    Author : Filip Johnstone; [2021]
    Keywords : Roman portraits; Digital material studies; Visualisation; Knowledge Transmission; History and Archaeology;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to explore the uses for digitised information in the archaeological knowledge process, specifically on how it can be used when studying Roman portraits. By communicating the entire process from data acquisition and analysis to knowledge transmission and mediation, I hope to indicate strengths and weaknesses in the use of digital representations as a proxy for a physical artefact. READ MORE

  3. 2. Online Activism and COVID-19: Conceptualising the Role of Collective Identity in Relation to Contemporary Activism Challenges

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för strategisk kommunikation

    Author : Elena Susann Maiwald; [2021]
    Keywords : mediatisation; online activism; collective identity; slacktivism; social media; NGOs; strategic communication; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Advancing digitisation affects all areas of life, including activism and political participation. While the internet has long been seen as a way of democratising society and its systems, in recent years more and more critical voices opposing this view have been raised. READ MORE

  4. 3. Understanding Cryptocurrencies from a Sustainable Perspective : Investigating cryptocurrencies by developing and applying an integrated sustainability framework

    University essay from Högskolan i Jönköping/IHH, Informatik

    Author : Jan-Philipp Arps; [2018]
    Keywords : Distributed Ledger; Blockchain; Cryptocurrency; Sustainability; Digitisation; Triple Bottom Line; Digital Artifact; Digital Sustainability; Integrated Sustainability Framework; Bitcoin; Ethereum; Ripple; IOTA;

    Abstract : With the invention of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin in 2009, the world's first blockchain application was developed. While academic research gradually begins to investigate cryptocurrencies more closely and attempt to understand their functioning, technology is rapidly evolving and ecosystems grow exponentially. READ MORE

  5. 4. Human rights news in professional and citizen media : Comparative content analysis of Global Voices, The Guardian and Al-Jazeera

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för mediestudier

    Author : Vaida Razaityte; [2017]
    Keywords : human rights news; network journalism; professionalism; citizen journalism; digitalisation; globalisation;

    Abstract : The thesis aims to analyse how human rights issues are reported by different types of transnational media channels – professional and citizen. More specifically, the human rights related articles published during 2016 in citizen media website Global Voices and two mainstream media channels – The Guardian and Al-jazeera English are analysed in a quantitative way and compared. READ MORE

  6. 5. A Single-Minded Market for Digital Assets? : Copyright clearance of orphan works in the digitisation ecosystem

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    Author : Karolina Andersdotter; [2016]
    Keywords : copyright; orphan works; digitisation; information policy; digital asset and media management; extended collective licensing;

    Abstract : This dissertation assesses the Swedish and the United Kingdom (UK) legislative frameworks for cross-border copyright clearance of orphan works in mass-digitisation schemes. By reviewing relevant copyright frameworks and practices around the world, interviewing Swedish and British experts in the field of libraries and copyright, and discussing the national solutions applied in Sweden and the UK, conclusions are drawn to form a roadmap for future policy work in the area. READ MORE