Essays about: "material connotations"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 23 essays containing the words material connotations.

1. 16. Who Are We Talking About Anyway? : Anthropomorphism and Its Implications in Wildlife Films and Biology Textbooks

   University essay from Karlstads universitet

   Author : Henning Ewald; [2016]
   Keywords : Anthropomorphism; gender; sexuality;

   Abstract : In this study I investigate anthropomorphism and its use in biology textbooks and wildlife documentaries. Through the use of critical discourse analysis and with the help of three analytical tools, Hillevi Ganetz's concept of the cultural boomerang, gender and sexuality, I attempt to investigate to what extent anthropomorphism is used and which implications can be found in the material. READ MORE

3. 17. An Alternative Future of Spatial Materiality

   University essay from Konstfack/Inredningsarkitektur & Möbeldesign

   Author : Katharina Sofie Kraus; [2016]
   Keywords : Material; Materials; Experimental; Furniture; Spatial Applications; Biodegradable; Sustainability; Up-Cycling; Waste Materials; Material Development;

   Abstract : In our practice the choice of materials is mostly driven by practical reasons, aesthetics and a given budget, and it is often applied rather at the end of the process – rarely is it the driver of any design process. What often gets forgotten is that materials can carry an immaterial layer of connotations. READ MORE

4. 18. The Discourse of Religion in Swedish Secular Humanism. A Discursive study of religion and the secular in the Swedish Humanist Association

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion

   Author : David Westerberg; [2015-06-29]
   Keywords : atheism; secular humanism; The Swedish Secular Humanist Association; Humanisterna; identity; discourse of religion; discourse analysis; classification;

   Abstract : This study combines the two scholarly fields of studying atheism and secular humanism and the discursive approach of studying the uses of the category “religion” in socio-political interests. As an empirical case, the study looks at The Swedish Humanist Association, Humanisterna, with examples from some of the videos on their official website, as well as examples of articles from debates between the chairman of Humanisterna and critics of the association. READ MORE

5. 19. On the right side of wrong? : Viewing the other through a lens of normalcy, respectability and functionality

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Kriminologiska institutionen

   Author : Lily Wahlman; [2015]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : Seeking a more nuanced and reflexive treatment of criminality and deviance, this paper’s aim has been to demonstrate how ‘the other’ and ‘the other life’ is constituted discursively and how such constituting can be conceptualized in relation to the constructs of normalcy, respectability and functionality. The material consists of 8 life history interviews, from a total of 5 participants, who have all lived ‘the other life’. READ MORE

6. 20. The Mundaneum Imaginaries : A Media-Archaeological Study of the "Paper Google"

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för ABM

   Author : Lisa Sjögren; [2014]
   Keywords : Paul Otlet; Mundaneum; Google; Internet--History; Historiography; Storytelling; Google; berättande; marknadsföring; historiografi; informationsvetenskap; informationsteknik;

   Abstract : In this two year master’s thesis, using concepts borrowed from media archaeology, I examine the construction, content and function of the alternative historical narrative that is mediated through the partnership between Google and Belgian museum and archives centre the Mundaneum. This alternative narrative presents Belgian bibliographers Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine as having prefigured the Internet and as having created an analogue “paper Google. READ MORE