Essays about: "faux"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the word faux.

  1. 1. How Do Craft Beer Brands Negotiate Authenticity Using Retro Branding?

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Rasmus Pihl; Alexander Svensson; [2020-06-23]
    Keywords : Retro branding; craft beer brands; authenticity; enchantment; consumer culture theory CCT ;

    Abstract : Craft beer brands are booming. However, many craft beer brands employ exceedingly similar retro-evocative techniques to negotiate authenticity with consumers. This article explores how craft beer brands systematically use retro marketing as a tool to negotiate authenticity with customers, through a consumer culture theory (CCT) lens. READ MORE

  3. 2. Automated Pulmonary Nodule Detection on Computed Tomography Images with 3D Deep Convolutional Neural Network

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : Antoine Broyelle; [2018]
    Keywords : Deep Learning; Artifical Neural Networks; Lung damages; Lung cancer; CT scans; Pulmonary Nodules; Detection; Region Proposal.;

    Abstract : Object detection on natural images has become a single-stage end-to-end process thanks to recent breakthroughs on deep neural networks. By contrast, automated pulmonary nodule detection is usually a three steps method: lung segmentation, generation of nodule candidates and false positive reduction. READ MORE

  4. 3. The sleeping feminism awareness in China : Through the case study of Girls’ Day and Women’s Day

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap

    Author : Zhiduan Jiang; [2017]
    Keywords : new media; consumerism; feminism; identity; girl; woman; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to explain how Chinese females’ are aware of their identities and feminism in a new media age. The study will answer the question through the case study of Girls’ Day and Women’ Day. The approach I adopt to solve the problem is qualitative research. READ MORE

  5. 4. "Nostalgia for the present": Digital nostalgia and mediated authenticity on Instagram

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för mediestudier

    Author : Phuong Thao Nguyen; [2017]
    Keywords : Instagram; digital nostalgia; mediated authenticity; human computer interaction; faux vintage filters; ephemerality; interface criticism; qualitative interview;

    Abstract : Retro art and technology have been on the rise in recent years, the phenomenon is fuelled by the nostalgia of a sense of authenticity that the offline world can no longer satisfy. The integration of technology into human’s social conduct has made it an extension of their beings. READ MORE

  6. 5. Embodying the Other - A Cross-Cultural Understanding of Misrepresentational Oppression

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Filmvetenskap

    Author : Eva-Marie Elg; [2016]
    Keywords : Embodiment; trans; the Other; embodying; crip; cinema; cripface; transface; blackface; Europe; Asia; Otherface; reversal; US; voyeuristic; gaze; phenomenology; imperial; colonial; male; critical whiteness; queer; monster; grotesque studies; gender; post-Darwanism; post-colonial; posthumanism; post-humanism; elite; culture; homogenous; industry; star; ableism; ableist; transphobic; show; freak; representation; misrepresentation; traditions; phenomena; bodies; morphing; hijra; Tamil; global; katoey; third gender; invisibility; visibility; uglyface; mediatedness; media; transing communication; animalizing; infantalizing; funny bodies; immoralizing; sexualizing; comedy; as; comparison; social; transing; queering; self-reflection; relations; looking; progressive; progression; freakery; mockery; awards; Academy; ridicule; Sensationalization; Trivialization; Stabilization; Rationalization; exorcized; bounderies; portrayals; violent; hetero-domesticity; violence; India; drag; faux; pathologised; tomboi; Thailand; character; deviant; Non-Normative; Normative; whitewashing; old age; identity; years; 102; monstreous; 2017; 1915; fantasy; stardom; Little Mermaid; figures; non-human; super-human; actor; exploitation; exclusion; transsexual; transversal; transman; transwoman; transgender; funkis; experiments; transperson; misrepresentational; psychology; oppression; North America; patriarchal; Frozen; films; isolated; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This thesis offers a holistic perspective on the phenomenon of embodying Otherface. It provides a deeper insight into the categories Transface and Cripface, the latter being a term for an able person depicting a person with visible or invisible disabilities, also referred to as cripping up. READ MORE