Essays about: "aestheticization"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the word aestheticization.

  1. 1. Gender & race in digital game cultures: A critical discourse analytical approach to Metacritic game reviews

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Genusvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Oskar Bork; [2020]
    Keywords : Feminist CDA; Gender; Digital methods; Game studies; Alt-Right; Feministisk CDA; Genus; Digitala metoder; Spelstudier; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis examines user reviews of the video game Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (Machine games 2017). From a total of 560 reviews, 176 reviews engaging with social and political issues in the game was selected for a critical discourse analysis. READ MORE

  3. 2. “Everything that needs to make the thing a whole” : aestheticization, exclusion and the political economy of Long Bay’s tourism landscape

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

    Author : Anwen Martha Davis; [2020]
    Keywords : Jamaica; Tourism; Marxist political economy; Landscape; Exclusion; Aesthetics; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Although a large volume of work has been conducted regarding tourism industries across the world, the dominant analysis in the geographies of tourism tends to draw upon post-modern discourse analysis and representational theories. This has resulted in calls to develop more materialist analyses of tourism landscapes. READ MORE

  4. 3. Welcoming Strangers : a study about digitalized hospitality visuals of Airbnb and Couchsurfing dwellings

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kommunikation och medier

    Author : Anna Puzanova; [2020]
    Keywords : tourism; hospitality; Airbnb; Couchsurfing; digital media; visual analysis; visual culture of hospitality; privacy; metaphors; viewer’s gaze; work of imagination; aestheticization; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : We live in a digitalized world where visuals are as essential to us as they have never been. Tourism and hospitality are not an exception here but rather examples of huge dependence on visual culture. READ MORE

  5. 4. Tourism gentrification in smaller destinations in Central and Eastern Europe

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för tjänstevetenskap

    Author : Christof Gasser; [2019]
    Keywords : Gentrification; physical changes; Poland; Czech Republic; Tourism; urban development; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : In recent years, low-cost flights to smaller cities in Central and Eastern Europe grew fast. This growth offered tourists new possibilities to explore new, lesser-known destinations at a low price. READ MORE

  6. 5. A symbol becomes the culture: Reinventing Japanese cherry blossoms

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

    Author : Hanyan Ye; [2015]
    Keywords : Nihonjinron; commodification; aestheticization; reinvention of traditions; nyoze; national symbols; cherry blossoms; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : A major concern of this thesis was the changing meanings of cherry blossoms in Japanese history, and the images of Japan created through the flower. With a peculiar emphasis on today’s international context, when cherry blossoms have become a unique culture of Japan, this research inquired into the process of symbol-making. READ MORE