Essays about: "social semiotics"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 81 essays containing the words social semiotics.

1. 16. Art history through a queer lens - Focalization and semiotics applied to two Instagram accounts dedicated to queer art history

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

   Author : Leo Hildebrand; [2021]
   Keywords : art history; queer; instagram; semiotics; semiosis; narratology; discourse; representation; Arts and Architecture;

   Abstract : This thesis examines how queer art history is created through the interaction between two Instagram accounts, the art they post, and their followers. This thesis has analysed how the semiotic meaning-making construct a representation of queerness and what the effects are of a queer focalization in a social media context. READ MORE

3. 17. Talking in circles. A semiotic analysis of sustainability reporting in the Swedish heavy industries

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för strategisk kommunikation

   Author : Claes Arvid Hyllienmark; [2021]
   Keywords : sustainability reporting; post-structuralism; semiotics; structuralism; strategic communication; hyperreality; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : How publicly traded companies perform with regards to environmental sustainability is receiving increasing attention both by investors and in society in general. Annually released sustainability reports are an important tool for public companies to disclose information relating to their environmental performance. READ MORE

4. 18. Sustainable apparel marketing and consumption : An analysis of Patagonia’s Worn Wear video marketing campaign

   University essay from Jönköping University/Internationella Handelshögskolan

   Author : Artem Syniuk; [2021]
   Keywords : Sustainable marketing; fashion; apparel industry; semiotics; documentary video; Patagonia inc.;

   Abstract : Background: The modern world struggles with an environmental crisis and many industry sectors could be considered as non-sustainable. The fashion industry is poorly performing both in ecological and social sustainability due to mass production and apparel waste caused by fast changing fashion. READ MORE

5. 19. PICTURES AT AN ELECTION A visual semiotic analysis of Swedish political parties’ visual communication in the 2018 election

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Axel Karlsson; [2020-01-27]
   Keywords : Sweden; political communication; visual communication; political parties; visual semiotics; election posters; Facebook; social media;

   Abstract : The following thesis utilizes visual social semiotic analysis in order to investigate the usage of images by Swedish political parties during the election campaign to the Swedish Riksdag of 2018. Visual semiotics is used to identify the themes and the visual methodology used in images in election posters before comparing these to posts made by the parties on Facebook the week preceding the election in 2018 in order to ascertain whether there were differences in said themes and methodology in the posters compared to the Facebook posts or not. READ MORE

6. 20. The Tripartite Ideology : Interactions between threefold symbology, treuddar and the elite in Iron Age Scandinavia

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

   Author : Austin Main; [2020]
   Keywords : treudd; tripartite; odal; ancestral worship; liminality; Iron Age; Old Norse religion;

   Abstract : Amongst the Iron Age Scandinavian elite, there are several supra-regional and multifaceted tripartite (or threefold) symbolic expressions. These include expressions found in art, artefacts and monuments, such as the triangular stone-settings, or Sw. treuddar, which may be the strongest manifestation in the landscape. READ MORE