Essays about: "Immediacy"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 27 essays containing the word Immediacy.

  1. 16. Social Media Reactions - An Empirical Study about the Shifting Communication Dynamics on Facebook

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Maria Söderqvist; [2016]
    Keywords : Social media; Facebook; Reaction-button; Interpersonal communications; Culture of speed; Social acceleration; Media richness; Immediacy; Intermediacy; Telemediation;

    Abstract : Facebook is in the forefront when it comes to technical development and allowing new and faster communication opportunities. In this study, one of the latest technical additions on Facebook is being researched; namely the reaction-button. READ MORE

  3. 17. Spaces of Trade in Tallinn: Uncertainty and Everyday Life

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitet

    Author : Jana Dzadonova; [2015]
    Keywords : Open-Air markets; Tallinn; Every Day life; Architectural Interventions;

    Abstract : The everyday survival of the other at the border between ‘East’ and ‘West’ is the object of this study. The country in-between, Estonia, is a ‘melting pot’ of Russian, Western and Nordic influence, what makes this zone an active, diverse, nevertheless invisible in the global awareness. READ MORE

  4. 18. With Cold Foreign Eyes? Existential Meaning in Truth vs. Mystery in Religion and Art

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap

    Author : Linus Edenwall; [2014]
    Keywords : meaning; mystery; mysticism; sensuousness; immediacy; ineffability; truth; objectivity; existentialism; science; art; concepts; conceptualization; Philosophy and Religion;

    Abstract : This essay explores two approaches to finding existential meaning in religion: either by an approach advocating feelings of mystery and sensuous immediacy, thus justifying an ineffability of mysterious experiences, or by an approach which advocates truth and objectivity. Although the latter approach views truth in existential terms (“existential truth”) it can be criticised for diminishing the “magic” of religion much in the same way science does in its pursuit of material truth. READ MORE

  5. 19. If Humour be the Food of Learning, Joke on: Perspectives of Several Italian and Swedish Upper-Secondary School Students on Humour and Dialogic Classroom Interaction

    University essay from Sektionen för lärarutbildning (LUT)

    Author : Ashley Blackmore; [2013]
    Keywords : dialogue; interaction; humour; upper-secondary school; Vygotsky;

    Abstract : Social constructivism, known as Vygotskian theory, has been implicated in improving spoken language skills of upper-secondary school students. This qualitative study aims to investigate the perspectives of students regarding the teachers’ use of humour in ESL lessons both in Italy and Sweden. READ MORE

  6. 20. Motivation in the classroom : Teachers' perspectives on what motivation is; how you attain and sustain it

    University essay from Sektionen för lärarutbildning (LUT)

    Author : Daniel Kvick; [2013]
    Keywords : motivation; intrinsic motivation; extrinsic motivation; immediacy
; motivation; inre motivation; yttre motivation; omedelbarhet;

    Abstract : Motivation in the classroom: Teachers' perspectives on what motivation is; how you attain and sustain it Daniel Kvick 1. Abstract The aim of this essay was to explore the issue of motivation and gain better understanding of what motivation in the school environment is all about. READ MORE