Essays about: "Polish studies"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 28 essays containing the words Polish studies.

1. 1. Conjunction of the spheres. The struggle for hegemony in the English language online reception of Netflix adaption: The Witcher.

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper

   Author : Sarah R. Kern; [2024-02-06]
   Keywords : Production reception; Hegemony; Discourse; Transmedia; Witcher; Fantasy; Polish Fantasy; Media literacy; Convergence culture; Fan-studies; Participation culture; Technical communication; Digital Role-Playing Games; Civic imagination; Netnography; ;

   Abstract : This essay uses the concepts of convergence culture, transmedia and hegemony, to understand the struggles within the English language reception to Netflix Tv production “The Witcher.” In order to help the reader, the essay presents the background to the larger Witcher franchise, as well as standard debates and issues within the fantasy genre, the role-playing-game genre and convergence culture. READ MORE

3. 2. Public goods games for collective agri-environmental contracts design

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Economics

   Author : Riccardo Spada; [2024]
   Keywords : Framed field experiment; Cooperation; Collective action; Heterogeneous endowment;

   Abstract : This thesis conducts a structured literature review of public goods games (PGG) experiments to analyze the differences between laboratory and field studies and to understand whether farmers cooperate more or less than standard PGG subjects. In addition, novel data on public goods games conducted on European farmers from Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, and Poland are analyzed to understand the effect of heterogeneous starting endowments on cooperation. READ MORE

4. 3. A risk of conflict – Perception or Reality? : A media study of securitization and strategic narratives in the Suwałki Gap.

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutet för Rysslands- och Eurasienstudier

   Author : Fieke Margaretha van Dijk; [2024]
   Keywords : Securitization; strategic narratives; Suwałki Gap; qualitative content analysis;

   Abstract : This thesis studies news media published by Lithuanian, Polish and Russian news outlets on the Suwałki Gap and the Kaliningrad Oblast. It analyses whether and how these online news articles portray a risk for conflict in this geopolitical area for English-speaking audiences. READ MORE

5. 4. Polish Collective Memory, The Jedwabne Pogrom inPolish Newspapers 2016-2018

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

   Author : Radoslaw Repelewicz; [2023]
   Keywords : Polish Antisemitism; Jan Tomasz Gross; Cultural Trauma; Collective Memory; National Mythology;

   Abstract : This study examines the Cultural Trauma associated with the Jedwabne pogrom, as portrayed in three Polish newspapers. The essay seeks to answer the following questions: How did the chosen three Polish newspapers with varying ideological and political views depict the discussion about the Jedwabne pogrom in their articles in the years 2016-2018? In what ways do these usages and representations reflect or challenge the dominant narratives of Polish national mythology? How has the discussion on Polish antisemitism in relation to the Jedwabne pogrom changed after the conservative Law and Justice party came to power in 2015? The source material used consists of 45 newspaper pieces from Gazeta Wyborcza, Tygodnik Powszechny, and Polonia Christianapublished between 2016-2018. READ MORE

6. 5. Monolingual and Cross-Lingual Survey Response Annotation

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

   Author : Yahui Zhao; [2023]
   Keywords : transfer learning; zero-shot cross-lingual transfer; model-based transfer; multilingual pre-trained language models; sequence labeling; open-ended questions; democracy;

   Abstract : Multilingual natural language processing (NLP) is increasingly recognized for its potential in processing diverse text-type data, including those from social media, reviews, and technical reports. Multilingual language models like mBERT and XLM-RoBERTa (XLM-R) play a pivotal role in multilingual NLP. READ MORE