Essays about: "Materiality analysis"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 75 essays containing the words Materiality analysis.

1. 16. A Seamless City : female textile workers in the urban fabric of Malmö

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)

   Author : Sara Saleh; [2022]
   Keywords : textile industry; autoethnography; industrial landscape; Malmö strumpfabrik AB; Marabou; recreation; factory workers; architecture; urban planning; site analysis; urban history; Malmö; Sundbyberg; landscape architecture; industrial development;

   Abstract : This thesis examines how the historical presence of female textile industry workers can be envisaged in the urban landscape of Malmö. With the background of Malmö’s urban history and transformation from an industrial town to a “City of Knowledge”, and an autoethnographic method based on a framework of Critical Normativity, two case studies are performed. READ MORE

3. 17. Data centers : The influence of big tech on urban planning in Sweden

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)

   Author : Julie Maas; [2022]
   Keywords : data centers; digital infrastructure; the cloud; electricity; big tech; Sweden; Staffanstorp;

   Abstract : This thesis aimed to describe what (planning for) data centers reveal about the power relations between big tech companies and Sweden’s municipalities and national government. Data centers owned by large IT companies serve global interests but are dependent on and have an impact on local infrastructures, as demonstrated by for instance the large amount of energy they require. READ MORE

4. 18. Materiality and Brand Discursivity: Study case on commodities and discursive practices in the Swedish market.

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

   Author : Ray Rodriguez Manrique; [2022]
   Keywords : Discourse Analysis; Brand discourse; Materiality; Commodities; Social Biography of Objects; Cultural Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis analyzes the link between materiality and brand discursiveness. This study examines how material culture contributes to brand narratives' meaning and symbolic construction. For this purpose, the creation of commodities with metal obtained from molten guns is analyzed through a discursive analysis and anthropological theory. READ MORE

5. 19. The madness of the Search : The poetics of deconstruction in Hilda Hilst's With my dog-eyes and The obscene Madame D

   University essay from Södertörns högskola/Litteraturvetenskap

   Author : Isi de Paula; [2022]
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   Abstract : The obscene Madame D [A obscena Senhora D, 1982] and With my dog-eyes [Com os meus olhos de cão, 1986] are two short novels by the Brazilian writer Hilda Hilst (1930-2004) where the protagonists engage in a philosophical search for meaning that lead them to a state that is publicly interpreted as madness. In this analysis, they are read in light of the philosopher's Jacques Derrida theory of deconstruction. READ MORE

6. 20. THE EFFECTS OF OPEN SOURCE’S DUALITY ON DATA JOURNALISM

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för journalistik, medier och kommunikation

   Author : Sadettin Demirel; [2021-07-30]
   Keywords : Data journalism; open source; open source community; dta-driven journalism;

   Abstract : The purpose of this study is to find out how open source community influences the data journalism practices, and to what extent it contributes to solving the challenges that hinder the integration of data-driven journalism into newsrooms. The study approached the subject by drawing from the previous work of Lewis and Usher (2013) which proposes applying the duality of open source which constitutes of open-source culture (values, principles, ethics) and open-source materiality (software, coding libraries, etc. READ MORE