Essays about: "cultural semiotics"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 62 essays containing the words cultural semiotics.

1. 11. Sunscreens Imploded : An eco-cultural exploration of enskinment, protection, and vulnerability

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

   Author : Tobias Bharucha; [2022]
   Keywords : Sunscreen; SPF; Protection; Vulnerability; Care; Toxicity; Ecologies; Skin; Enskinment; ‘Endocrine Disruptors’; Skin Cancers; Racialised Beauty; Smell;

   Abstract : In this thesis I explore sunscreen use-practices, imaginaries, and material flows. I aim to understand how young people in the globally-immersed UK use sunscreens and how they makesense of them. READ MORE

3. 12. The Shades of Styles : A human search for words communicating all aspects of styles.

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Konstvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Erlend Hellerslien; [2021]
   Keywords : Style; Styles; Shades of Styles; Digital Style; Design Theory; Semiotic Theory; Semiotics; Semantics; Seethics; Design Inclusion; User Experience Design; Cultural Analytics; Visual Worlds; Art Historical Writing; Digital Art History; Visual Studies; Visual Literacy; Human Communication; Digital Style Dictionary; Digital Visual Compass; Spectrum; Reality; Multi Realities; Core Reality; Abstract Reality; Surreal Reality; Artifical Reality; Phenomenolgy; Moral; Ethics; Labels; Critical Terms; Aspects of Seeing; Representation; Transpace Style; Swisch; Style; Medium; RAW; Image; Artifical Intelligence; AI; Visual Exploration; Humankind; Fundamentals; Bias; Gizmos; Hyperreality; Mythologies; Sterotyping; Discrimination; Stories of Art; Synesthesia; Post-truth; Fake Photo; Creativity; Art Direction; Editing; Advertising; Manipulation; Marketing; Animation; Photography; Film; Ilustration; Graphic Design; Arcitecture; Color; Icon; Beauty; Human Commonality; Respect; Diversity;

   Abstract : This research is an investigative attempt on the concept of style´s development to potentially noticing our diverse human history on viewing the aspect of styles, starting (in the part one) by looking into the problem of the development of styles and its characteristic of representation in terms of its messages, realties, semiotics, and human collaboration. Leading towards the human search in seeing style more commonly neutral for a more meaningful dialog. READ MORE

4. 13. Visualizing the Invisible: An Exploration of the Radioactive Image within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

   Author : Fannie Frederikke Baden; [2020]
   Keywords : Radioactive Image; Nuclear Disaster; Nuclear power; Chernobyl; Disaster Tourism; Visual tropes; radioactivity; semiotics; visualized natural phenomena; Cultural Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis explores the radioactive image and poses the multi-layered question: ‘(how) can radioactivity exist as an image, when it cannot be seen, heard or felt?’. By having no sensorial qualities, radioactivity is often narrated in popular media by metaphoric association. READ MORE

5. 14. The Tripartite Ideology : Interactions between threefold symbology, treuddar and the elite in Iron Age Scandinavia

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

   Author : Austin Main; [2020]
   Keywords : treudd; tripartite; odal; ancestral worship; liminality; Iron Age; Old Norse religion;

   Abstract : Amongst the Iron Age Scandinavian elite, there are several supra-regional and multifaceted tripartite (or threefold) symbolic expressions. These include expressions found in art, artefacts and monuments, such as the triangular stone-settings, or Sw. treuddar, which may be the strongest manifestation in the landscape. READ MORE

6. 15. Dizziness of Freedom: The influence of maladaptive anxiety on metaphorical meaning-making and the Motivation & Sedimentation Model (MSM)

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Kognitiv semiotik; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap

   Author : Kalina Moskaluk; [2020]
   Keywords : Anxiety; Cognitive semiotics; Metaphor; Metaphor identification; Metaphors in psychotherapy; Motivation Sedimentation Model; Phenomenology; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates and compares metaphors used in the context of psychotherapy by people who experience various forms of maladaptive anxiety and anxiety disorders (anxiety sample, AS) and people who experience stress caused by various events in their lives (stress sample, SS). It is grounded in a cognitive-semiotic theory called the Motivation & Sedimentation Model (MSM), which defines three levels of meaning-making. READ MORE