Essays about: "cultural cues"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 15 essays containing the words cultural cues.

1. 1. Negotiating Gender and Sexual Norms: Queer Women and Non-Binary Individuals' Experiences and Semiotic Interpretations on Heteronormative Dating Applications

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Eloise Rose Félicie Lanoir; [2023]
   Keywords : Dating Applications; Queerness; Heteronormativity; Gender Norms; Semiotic Interpretation.; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis explores how queer women and non-binary individuals navigate gender norms and heteronormativity on dating apps. It also gives insights about how queer women and gender non-conforming users semiotically perceive and interpret gender and sexuality through online profiles. READ MORE

3. 2. Exploring the Use of Nordicness in Sustainability Messages: The Case of Nordic Fashion Brands

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Sukhitha Basnayake; Emilie Nørgaard; Jonhatan Andres Acevedo Escobar; [2023]
   Keywords : Business and Economics;

   Abstract : Being on everyone’s lips for years, the concept of sustainability has become an almost unavoidable phenomenon within contemporary business discourses and practice. In particular, has the Nordic fashion industry increasingly been infused by sustainability with a continuous growing public interest in buying sustainable products from companies that have embarked on a sustainable path. READ MORE

4. 3. Anita: The Story of a Bad Film : The cultural life of Torgny Wickman’s 1973 sex film

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Filmvetenskap

   Author : Jason Carter; [2023]
   Keywords : Anita; Torgny Wickman; Swedish Sin; Cult Film; Sex Film; Pornography; Swedish film heritage;

   Abstract : Anita  (Torgny Wickman 1973) is a typical example of a film produced as part of a wave of Swedish softcore sex films created with an eye on the substantial overseas profits to be made in market curious to witness onscreen Swedish Sin.  Following an extremely brief and limited release in Sweden the film disappeared from popular cultural perception until resurfacing in the late 1990s as an object of nostalgic cult curiosity. READ MORE

5. 4. Towards a new aesthetics of care : a critical reading of Nassauer’s cues to care

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

   Author : Jack Richold; [2023]
   Keywords : cues to care; Joan Nassauer; Timothy Morton; strange stranger; sublime; scenic; broken windows; ecological function; aesthetics of care; design through maintenance;

   Abstract : Joan Nassauer’s concept of cues to care has been influential within landscape design since her seminal essay Messy Ecosystems, Orderly Frames was published in 1995 and her research is often used to justify the need for marking landscapes as owned, although there have been critical voices too. The enduring popularity of cues to care as a design method is due to how open it is to interpretation, and this thesis examines various landscape interventions that can be classed as cues to care, both explicitly and implicitly. READ MORE

6. 5. Between Worlds : An Exploration of Cultural Identity Development of Third Culture Kids

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Avdelningen för migration, etnicitet och samhälle (REMESO)

   Author : Giulia Purri Gomes; [2023]
   Keywords : Third Culture Kids; Cultural Identity; Non-Place; Identity; Belonging;

   Abstract : This thesis aims to understand and explore how the experience of adult Third Culture Kids (TCKs) – individuals who live abroad outside of their parents' passport country in their developmental years – impacted the development of their cultural identity. Child migrants on a global level are increasing in the modern context, and not enough literature has focused on exploring the impact a highly mobile and transient upbringing has on children. READ MORE