Essays about: "thesis cultural dimension"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 65 essays containing the words thesis cultural dimension.

  1. 6. Climate Change Denial and Right-Wing Populism: The Mediating Role of (Mis)Trust in Climate Science

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för psykologi

    Author : Amanda Remsö; [2023]
    Keywords : climate change denial; mistrust; right-wing populism; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Climate change denial tends to be prevalent among right-wing populists, but the underlying reasons for this remain unclear. Given that persistent climate change denial among the public could impede efforts to address the negative consequences of anthropogenic climate change, it is important to identify the psychological correlates of these attitudes. READ MORE

  3. 7. Talk to the Sea: Deep-sea mining, the arts, and contesting narratives of extraction in the deep ocean.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Nicholas Frederick Olivier Lepage; [2023]
    Keywords : deep-sea mining; resource frontier; commodities; arts; extractivism; narratives; imaginaries.; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The deep-sea may be on the verge of becoming the latest frontier for resource extraction of critical metals and minerals in order to build renewable energy technologies such as electric vehicles. This thesis examines the narratives used by the deep-sea mining company The Metals Company to justify the extraction of polymetallic nodules from the seabed in the Clarion Clipperton Zone in the Pacific Ocean. READ MORE

  4. 8. Why do we go to the cinema?-A qualitative study of cinema attendance motivation in Sweden and Korea

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för tjänstevetenskap

    Author : Da Ok Jung; [2022]
    Keywords : Motivation; Cinema; Cinema attendance; Experience; Experiential consumption; cultural consumption; Uses and Gratifications Theory; OTT; Entertainment; Escape; Socialisation; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Due to COVID-19 and the penetration of OTT services, the cinema industry is suffering from audience loss. With this contextual change, the question of whether the cinema industry will survive is constantly rising. READ MORE

  5. 9. The Effect of using Asian Models in Foreign Brands' Advertising in China: A Quantitative Study on Customer Reactions

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för företagande och ledning

    Author : Haochang Li; Yutong Pi; [2022]
    Keywords : Asian models; advertising effectiveness; China; Self-Referencing; Cultural compatibility;

    Abstract : In this thesis, a specific dimension of marketing in China for foreign brands is investigated. This was accomplished by comparing the impact of two sets of advertisements on advertising effectiveness - one with Asian models included and one with only models from other ethnic groups. READ MORE

  6. 10. Theorizing & (re)discovering the Self : An autoethnographic & affect-theoretical approach to swedishness & colombianness

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Centrum för genusvetenskap

    Author : Daniela Rodriguez Alvarez; [2022]
    Keywords : affect theory; the self; identity; temporality; colombianness; swedishness; migrant; creative writing; writing from the flesh; WOC feminism; haunting; representation; shame; depression; autoethnography; brown commons; disidentification; translanguaging; writing and theorizing as healing;

    Abstract : This thesis is structured as a feminist creative endeavour, a practice of self-love that aims at exploring (my) depression as a cultural and social phenomenon caused mainly by an inability to correctly embody swedishness, a constant haunting of a colonial and Colombian past, and the affective dimensions of language. This text is based on autoethnographic material about the experiences of being a Colombian-born migrant in Sweden and uses mainly affect theory and decolonial theory to make sense of these experiences. READ MORE