Essays about: "consonance"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 essays containing the word consonance.

  1. 1. A Discourse Analysis of News Values in BBC Reports on Refugees from Ukraine and Afghanistan

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Emma Strömberg; [2023]
    Keywords : News values; discourse analysis; DVNA; refugees; Ukraine; Afghanistan; the BBC;

    Abstract : Ukraine and Afghanistan are two nations not unfamiliar with war, with thousands of their civilians fleeing the two countries. This study examines reports produced by the BBC and the use of news values when reporting on refugees from Ukraine and Afghanistan. READ MORE

  3. 2. On Cultural Forms : The sensemaking and expression of cybersemiotics

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Jonathan Madeland; [2022]
    Keywords : cultural forms; transdisciplinarity; pragmaticism; cybersemiotics; case study; consonance management; mixed methods; Ernst Cassirer; C.S. Peirce; Søren Brier;

    Abstract : This study contributes to the understanding of cultural forms, inspired by Cassirer’s notion of a general function manifesting in the many particular expressions of human culture. The special case of cybersemiotics (a newly established scientific discipline) is studied as a social system to make sense of how it operates as a viable cultural form. READ MORE

  4. 3. World Management : The case of the Lord of Hosts Church

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Jonathan Madeland; [2021]
    Keywords : prophecy; Festinger; millenialism; netnography; case study; cognition; rituals; cybernetics; consonance management; world construction; world management; the Lord of Hosts Church; Hank Kunneman; Donald Trump;

    Abstract : Bringing together current research strands stemming from the Festinger tradition of failed prophecy, and by observing a recent case of a prophetic group dealing with disconfirming events under a period of 210 days, I theorize on what roles cognitive dissonance, rituals and continuous prophetic adaptation play in the management of prophetic groups’ alternative world views. The traditional conception of dissonance management is reinterpreted as a process of maximizing mental desirability, which is contingent on the level of cognitive dissonance as well as cognitive activity. READ MORE

  5. 4. “I don’t ask myself that question. Maybe because I don’t want to know the answer.” A Qualitative Study on Sugar Daters’ Cognitive Dissonance

    University essay from Örebro universitet/Institutionen för juridik, psykologi och socialt arbete

    Author : Paulina Fröling; Gabriella Helander; [2021]
    Keywords : Cognitive dissonance; Sugar dating; Social psychology; Prostitution; Thematic analysis; Sweden;

    Abstract : Cognitive dissonance refers to a state of internal conflict, arising when two or more cognitions are inconsistent with each other. The state brings about an urge to reach consonance - and to do so, different reduction strategies can be utilized. READ MORE

  6. 5. Mixing Music Using Deep Reinforcement Learning

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

    Author : Viktor Kronvall; [2019]
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    Abstract : Deep Reinforcement Learning has recently seen good results in tasks such as board games, computer games and the control of autonomous vehicles. Stateof-the-art autonomous DJ-systems generating mixed audio hard-code the mixing strategy commonly with a cross-fade transition. READ MORE