Essays about: "blog thesis"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 57 essays containing the words blog thesis.

  1. 11. RELIGIOUS AMBIVALENCE AND THE PROBLEM OF AGENCY : A Qualitative Study on Cognitive Dissonance among Mormon Feminists

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

    Author : Kristel Torgrimsson; [2019]
    Keywords : Agency; ambivalence; cognitive dissonance; Mormon feminists; blogging;

    Abstract : The scholarly field of traditionally religious women has during the last decade gone from a so called “paradox-approach” which identifies women’s agency with the capacity of acting autonomously – something most clearly demonstrated through acts of resistance – to a nonparadox approach defining agency as a continuum encompassing both resistance to and compliance with traditionally religious structures. While the latter approach assumes that women’s participation in traditional religions is not necessarily a paradox – mainly because some women value religious submission – this thesis argues that the paradox of women and religion becomes essential when speaking about religious feminism. READ MORE

  3. 12. Frames of climate change skepticism : A comparative framing analysis of climate change skeptics in Sweden and the world.

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Miljövetenskap

    Author : Laura Linnala; [2019]
    Keywords : climate change skepticism; Klimatupplysningen; blog; comparative framing analysis; rhetorics;

    Abstract : We live in a time of changing climate and global warming, creating an urgency for policy- and societal ameliorative action. Increasing climate change skepticism in the Anglo-Saxon parts of the world as well as in Europe risks delaying urgent actions needed. READ MORE

  4. 13. Celebrating Privacy Day: The Right to be forgotten and individual Privacy in the digital Age

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Medier och kommunikation

    Author : Thea Kunz; [2018]
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    Abstract : This thesis explores the current status of privacy in the context of the upcoming implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and, more precisely, focuses on the redefined Right to be forgotten as its most controversial component. Norman Fairclough’s three-dimensional model of critical discourse analysis was deployed to show how the Right to be forgotten is reshaping the privacy discourse in the age of big data, digitalization, surveillance and data driven business. READ MORE

  5. 14. Evaluation of the Self-Governance Developer Framework from Software Developers' Perspective

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : Nishat Korada; [2018]
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    Abstract : very software developer uses some software process to build computer software. The process may be haphazard or ad hoc; may change on a daily basis; may or may not be efficient, effective, or even succesful; but a “process” does exist. READ MORE

  6. 15. The Presence of Alcohol in Swedish Lifestyle Blogs : An exploratory study on if and how the presence of alcoholic beverages on Swedish blogs may affect young females’ intention to pursue alcohol consumption.

    University essay from Högskolan i Jönköping/IHH, Företagsekonomi

    Author : Anton Axelsson; Charles Yousef; [2017]
    Keywords : Alcohol; social influence marketing; blogs; young females; intentions;

    Abstract : Background: Alcohol has become ubiquitous in Swedish lifestyle blogs, as alcohol can be present in one third or one fifth of blog posts in some of Sweden’s biggest lifestyle blogs. Research suggests that exposure to media and commercial communications on alcohol increases consumption and that users and user-generated content related to alcohol and drinking may intensify social norms around alcohol consumption. READ MORE