Essays about: "social conventions"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 77 essays containing the words social conventions.

1. 16. Representations of China on YouTube: A Visual Semiotic Analysis of Organic Placemaking Videos

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för tjänstevetenskap

   Author : Marcus Gerber; [2019]
   Keywords : China; Visual Semiotics; Multimodality; Placemaking; Tourism Studies; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Understanding how China is represented on international social media, such as YouTube, is potentially important for the success of China as a tourist destination. However, a study of how China is represented on YouTube by independent users has not been done. READ MORE

3. 17. AI and Human Rights : an explorative analysis of upcoming challenges

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheter

   Author : Joel Bergenfalk; [2019]
   Keywords : AI; Artificial Intelligence; Human Rights; Utilitarianism; Guidelines; Robots; Future; Philosophy and Religion; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : AI has a great deal to offer human civilization, but AI is also accompanied with a great deal of risks. This paper aims to give an introduction to the field of AI from a human rights perspective and to account for future challenges AI could bring forth. READ MORE

4. 18. Governing orders at odds in Sápmi : assessing governability in trans-border reindeer herding with help of social impact assessment

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

   Author : Agnes Grönvall; [2019]
   Keywords : problem-solving capacity; governing orders; first order of governance; social Impact assessment; trans-border reindeer herding; reindeer herding; Sami people; indigenous people;

   Abstract : The Sami people, an indigenous people in Scandinavia, and their cultural practice of reindeer herding have been divided across the northern parts of Sweden, Norway, Finland, and north-western Russia, since the national borders were established in the 1700-1800s. In Sweden and Norway, trans-border reindeer herding (TBRH) has been regulated by several bilateral agreements, but from 2005 the countries have failed to negotiate a new convention for TBRH. READ MORE

5. 19. Media Discourse of the Right to Privacy under Surveillance: An analysis of the media coverage from post-9/11 to post-Snowden US

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

   Author : Kuntal Roy; [2018-09-21]
   Keywords : Privacy; surveillance; critical discourse analysis; media construction; media representation; national security; social control;

   Abstract : The right to privacy in the age of surveillance is a long-standing controversial issue. This controversy first heightened in 2001, after 9/11 terrorist attacks; and again in 2013, after Edward Snowden‘s mass surveillance disclosure. READ MORE

6. 20. Gender Groups and the Genocide Convention's Protected Groups

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Juridiska institutionen

   Author : Filip Hassellind; [2018-02-15]
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   Abstract : This thesis explores the crime of genocide in connectivity to ‘gendercides’. Its aim is to investigate whether including gender groups as a protected group in the Genocide Convention is theoretically plausible. READ MORE