Essays about: "democratic responsibility"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 65 essays containing the words democratic responsibility.

  1. 11. A Decentralized Voting System

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för data- och informationsteknik

    Author : Fahmi Abdulqadir Ahmed; Gustaf Engström; Omar Hindawi; Tom Tobiasson; Melker Veltman; Oskar Wallgren; [2020-10-30]
    Keywords : Decentralized; Voting; Election; Blockchain; Hyperledger; Sawtooth; Consensus; Transaction Processor; Distributed Systems;

    Abstract : The target of the project "A Decentralized Voting System" is to investigate whether recent developments in distributed systems can make a decentralized voting system capable of replacing the current systems in place. The current voting systems that are taken into account are primarily democratic electoral voting systems, such as the Swedish national electoral voting system. READ MORE

  3. 12. The Brexit Subject : Cognitive Capitalism and Biopolitical Production in Post-Referendum Fiction

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Emma Flodqvist; [2020]
    Keywords : Brexit Fiction; Brexit Literature; BrexLit; Autumn; Middle England; The Cockroach; Perfidious Albion; The Friends of Harry Perkins; The Wall; The Cut; Cognitive Capitalism; Immaterial Labour; Creative Labour; Cultural Labour; Gig Economy; Biopower; Biopolitics; Biopolitical Production; Bioproduction; Subjectivity; Precarity; Casualization; Subject Formation; Patriotism; Collectivism; Individualism.;

    Abstract : This thesis explores precarization of work and subject formation in seven post-referendum Brexit novels through theories of cognitive capitalism and biopolitical production. The analysis is anchored in Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s reconceptualization of Michel Foucault’s notion of biopolitics. READ MORE

  4. 13. Att mäta med stadslivet som insats : en validitets- och reliabilitetsanalys av ett verktyg som kvantifierar sociala värden i urban miljö

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

    Author : Ida Lövgren; Ida Sjöberg; [2020]
    Keywords : landskapsarkitektur; stadsplanering; kvantifieringsverktyg; stadsliv; urbana miljöer; sociala värden; social hållbarhet; hållbarhet; mäta; mätbarhet; omätbar; kvalitativ; kvantitativ; kvantifiering; validitet; reliabilitet; expertkunskap; demokrati;

    Abstract : Samhället förlitar sig idag mer och mer på att mätbara variabler ska kunna fånga och förenkla den komplexa värld vi lever i. Människan vänder sig till kalkylerande metoder och går mot en “pedantisk byråkrati” där generaliseringen får oss att förlora det unika i situationer och individer (Bornemark 2018). READ MORE

  5. 14. Assessing the Aspects of Good Governance in Finnish Sport Federations

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS)

    Author : Ida Kivisilta; [2020]
    Keywords : Good Governance in Finnish Sport Federations; Good Governance; Principles of Good Governance; Finland; Comparative case study;

    Abstract : Background: Over the past few years, the issue of good governance has climbed to the sport’s political agenda rapidly through mismanagement and legitimacy crisis in international and national sport organizations. The Finnish sport movement has been forced to justify its reasons of actions for the surrounding society by the constant change in the operating environment and global phenomena in sports. READ MORE

  6. 15. Who is really in power here : A critical discourse analysis on the Facebook discussion concerning the media representation of Greekazo in Malou Efter Tio

    University essay from Karlstads universitet

    Author : Thomas Forssell; Bjerkland Axel; [2020]
    Keywords : Critical Discourse analysis; Malou efter 10; Greekazo; Swedish rap; Moral Panic;

    Abstract : The purpose of this essay is to investigate the confrontation of the Facebook group that was developed in response to the interview with the rap artist Greekazo in Malou Efter Tio. The study investigates the research questions: How is the discursive practice of Facebook utilized to challenge a mainstream television production? How are the stereotypes of contemporary marginalized rap artists reproduced in the Swedish news media? Our key interest lies in the moment of conflict between a section of the public and a mainstream media organization where we discuss how the media representation of a Swedish contemporary rap subculture is confronted by a minority of people online. READ MORE