Essays about: "blindness"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 86 essays containing the word blindness.

  1. 21. "In-betweenship: New Swedish identities in the making? - A qualitative study about Swedishness and being in-between"

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Author : Suzanne Forsberg; [2021-04-28]
    Keywords : In-Betweenship; Race; Ethnicity; Whiteness; Swedishness; Colour-blindness;

    Abstract : This paper takes an approach sprung from practices where identities are formed and examines the experiences of being in the borderland of Swedishness. The research is placed in a Swedish context aiming at understanding people who has often or at times gotten their (Swedish) identity or origin questioned. READ MORE

  3. 22. Compensating for ultrasound frequency attenuation in tissue when determining tissue effective particle size

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Biomedicinsk teknik

    Author : Karolina Sandell; [2021]
    Keywords : Technology and Engineering;

    Abstract : Giant cell arteritis is a disease the affects the arteries, for example the temporal artery. When affecting the temporal artery, it can cause serious consequences such as blindness and stroke. The existing methods for diagnosing the disease are invasive, time consuming and costly. READ MORE

  4. 23. Tinder Communication In The Time of COVID-19

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Author : Michael Jonsson; [2021]
    Keywords : Tinder; COVID-19; Mediatization; Uses and Gratification Theory; Affordance Theory; Dating; Dating apps; Catfishing; Ghosting; Gender Blindness; Media and Communication Studies;

    Abstract : This study researches communication 2020-2021 via the Tinder dating app in Sweden during the COVID-19 pandemic, using a framework of mediatization, uses and gratification theory and affordance theory. Data collection was performed using qualitative interviews via Zoom video calls with respondents based in Sweden and findings were analyzed using thematic analysis. READ MORE

  5. 24. Racial Representation in Swedish Children´s Picture Books : A Reflection of Hegemonic Whiteness

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

    Author : Matts Anvin; [2021]
    Keywords : race; representation; whiteness; colour-blindness; children´s books; Sweden;

    Abstract : In this thesis, through critically analysing images and text in a selection of Swedish children's picture books, the aim is to investigate how white and non-white bodies are represented, and how racial differences between these white and non-white bodies are depicted and racial meanings addressed. Theoretical concepts from within the field of Critical race- and Whiteness studies are applied, to demonstrate how hegemonic whiteness and colour-blindness as discourse is prevalent in these children´s books, which is achieved by using non-white characters as tokens. READ MORE

  6. 25. Choice blindness and the (in)transitivity of preferences: A graph-based method for studying preference structures in real-time

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Kognitionsvetenskap

    Author : Erik Haglund; [2021]
    Keywords : Cognitive science; Behavioural economics; Choice blindness; money pumps; preferences; cognition; graphs; graph theory; intransitive preferences; transitive; decision-making; transitivity; cyclic preferences; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The axiom of transitivity states that if a person prefers option A to B and B to C, he must also prefer A to C. This simple axiom is often seen as one of the pillars of rational choice, but whether it should be has created a divide in the research community. READ MORE