Essays about: "inanimate"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 19 essays containing the word inanimate.

  1. 1. Mainstream Media Representations of People Experiencing Poverty And/or Social Exclusion in Greece in 2022

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Author : ADAMANTIA BAMPOULA; [2023]
    Keywords : poverty; social exclusion; representation; framing; visual lexicon;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to analyse how poverty and social exclusion are visually represented through photographic images in the Greek mainstream media, following relevant articles in 2022. It contributes to the discourse on poverty using visual research methodologies, examining media-generated visuals that accompany articles on the same topic, addressing a gap in similar work within Greek media. READ MORE

  3. 2. Semantic change and the description of disability : A diachronic corpus study of lame, crippled, handicapped, and disabled

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Andreas Johansson; [2022]
    Keywords : corpus of historical american english; euphemism; language change; lexical change; pejoration; semantics;

    Abstract : With data from the Corpus of Historical American English, this study charts the semantic development of lame, crippled, handicapped, and disabled from the 1900s to the 2010s. Using both qualitative concordance line examination and frequency data, it attempts to determine what types of change have occurred in American English (as represented by COHA) within each adjective. READ MORE

  4. 3. Freedom through restriction : An artistic project which investigates movement, freedom of expression and the value of restrictions in creative processes.

    University essay from Stockholms konstnärliga högskola/Institutionen för cirkus

    Author : Gaia Santuccio; [2022]
    Keywords : freedom; restriction; movement; knots; thinking; research; adaptation; rope; aerial; circus;

    Abstract : Freedom through restriction is an artistic project which investigates movement, freedom of expression and the value of restrictions in creative processes, through my experience. Through this study, I aim to develop innovative methods to encourage myself and fellow practitioners to connect with the body, to expand awareness and knowledge of the circus practice through the self, and to think through movement for creative, artistic, and pedagogical purposes. READ MORE

  5. 4. The Habitat : A Posthumanist Design Project for Making Kin with Nonhuman

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för design (DE)

    Author : Betyul Hafazoglu; [2022]
    Keywords : climate emergency; nonhuman; agency; posthumanism; multispecies design; human exceptionalism;

    Abstract : ‘the habitat’ is a Design+Change project which originates from the will to create positive change in the current situation of climate and ecological emergency. The design project takes the Anthropocene and the materialization of nonhumans as starting point and develops further around the possibilities of forming non-anthropocentric and nonhuman-centered mentalities and world-making processes. READ MORE

  6. 5. Can I and AI be Friends? : Robots and personal relationships

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier

    Author : Tâm Beran; [2020]
    Keywords : AI; robots; personal relationships; friends; AI; robot; personliga relationer; vänner;

    Abstract : To exist is to relate. As human, you are relating to other beings, animate and inanimate entities, physical objects and abstract ideas. A kind of relationship that affects our life and wellbeing in a most concrete sense is that between humans. READ MORE