This diploma thesis discusses the process of communication in new media environment and demonstrates it on the example of YouTube Beauty community which can be seen as an autonomous, independent space for expression and sharing of information. It introduces the specifics of communication in the environment of Beauty community and its characteristics. It discusses some theoretic concepts connected with communication in the environment of new media and also with the Beauty community, for example Web 2.0, citizen journalism, prosumption or the concept of internet as a new space of public discussion. It also discusses concept of political economy about how external especially commercial factors influence communication process and content of traditional media and connects it with influences of external commercial factors on communication in Beauty community. In qualitative research are explored factors that impact communication in this environment and also potential impact of external commercial factors on communications and its contents.

by Maria Chen. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves [81-85]). / Abstract also in Chinese. / Chapter Ch. 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1. --- The tension of the double goals in media organization --- p.2 / Chapter 2. --- Research question --- p.3 / Chapter 3. --- Significance --- p.3 / Chapter Ch. 2 --- Beauty pageants and television --- p.5 / Chapter 1. --- History --- p.5 / Chapter (A) --- "Miss USA, Miss Universe" --- p.5 / Chapter (B) --- Increasing popularity of beauty pageants in Hong Kong… --- p.5 / Chapter 2. --- Formats of beauty pageants --- p.8 / Chapter (A) --- TVB --- p.8 / Chapter (B) --- ATV --- p.9 / Chapter 3. --- Why beauty pageants? --- p.10 / Chapter (A) --- A popular TV program --- p.10 / Chapter (B) --- Controversial media product --- p.11 / Chapter Ch. 3 --- Corporate image and the tension between profit-making and social responsibility: a theoretical linkage --- p.15 / Chapter 1. --- Theoretical tension between the two goals --- p.15 / Chapter (A) --- The goal of responsibility --- p.15 / Chapter (B) --- The goal of profit --- p.19 / Chapter (C) --- The relationship between profit and responsibility --- p.20 / Chapter (D) --- The source of tension --- p.21 / Chapter (E) --- The conflict and compatibility of the double goals --- p.22 / Chapter 2. --- The method of tension resolution --- p.24 / Chapter (A) --- Marketing --- p.24 / Chapter (B) --- Corporate Image --- p.26 / Chapter (C) --- The position taken in this thesis --- p.30 / Chapter Ch. 4 --- Research methods --- p.32 / Chapter 1. --- Hypotheses --- p.32 / Chapter 2. --- Methodology --- p.33 / Chapter (A) --- In-depth interview --- p.33 / Chapter (B) --- Participant observation --- p.36 / Chapter (C) --- Documentation analysis --- p.36 / Chapter Ch. 5 --- Results --- p.38 / Chapter 1. --- TV stations and their structure in Hong Kong --- p.38 / Chapter (A) --- TVB's corporate image --- p.39 / Chapter (B) --- ATV's corporate image --- p.41 / Chapter (C) --- TVB's image for Miss Hong Kong --- p.42 / Chapter (D) --- ATV's image for Miss Asia --- p.44 / Chapter 2. --- Analysis of the tensions and resolutions in beauty pageants --- p.45 / Chapter (A) --- Managing external uncertainty --- p.45 / Chapter (B) --- Media frameworks for beauty pageants in Hong Kong --- p.47 / Chapter (C) --- Managing internal uncertainty --- p.58 / Chapter Ch. 6 --- Conclusion --- p.78

In this thesis it is performed the measurement of electrons from heavy-flavor hadron decays, with the use of the ALICE detector, at LHC. Two analysis are performed. The first one consists in the measurement of the invariant cross section of electrons from open heavy-flavor (charm or beauty) hadron decays in pp collisions at s = 13 TeV, the largest center of mass energy generated by LHC up to now, in the transverse momentum interval 0.5 < pT < 4 GeV/c. The experimental cross-section is compared to the pQCD-based prediction given by FONLL, and it sits on the upper edge of the theoretical uncertainty band over the full momentum range. The ratios between this experimental result and the equivalent measurements performed at lower center of mass energy have the potential to bring constrains to the FONLL calculation. The second analysis consists in the measurement of the nuclear modification factor, RAA , of electrons from beauty-hadron decays in the 10% most central Pb-Pb collisions at sNN = 5.02 TeV, in the interval 2 < pT < 8 GeV/c. Electrons from beauty-hadron decays are extracted from the inclusive electron yield via fits to the impact parameter distribution using templates of electrons from different sources, obtained from Monte Carlo simulations. This measurement allows to probe the energy loss of beauty quarks when traversing the Quark-Gluon-Plasma (QGP), a color-deconfined medium produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. A suppression of about 40-50% is observed on the RAA for pT > 3 GeV/c and it is consistent, over the full momentum range and within experimental uncertainties, with the prediction of pQCD-based models that describe a mass-dependent energy loss of the heavy-quarks while traversing the QGP, interacting with its constituents via radiative and collisional processes. This analysis brings significant improvement of the experimental uncertainties with respect to the equivalent measurement performed with the run 1 data and consists in an important step in the study of the mass-dependence of the energy loss of heavy quarks inside the QGP at low pT . / Nessa tese é feita a medida de elétrons provenientes do decaimento de hadrons que contêm quarks pesados (charm ou beauty), com o uso dos detectores do experimento ALICE, no LHC. Duas análises são realizadas. A primeira consiste na medida da seção de choque invariante de elétrons provenientes do decaimento de hadrons que contêm quarks charm ou beauty em colisões pp a s = 13 TeV, a maior energia de centro de massa gerada pelo LHC até então, na região de momento transversal 0.5 < pT < 4 GeV/c. Esse resultado é comparado com a previsão dada pelo FONLL (calculo baseado em QCD perturbativa) e se situa no limite superior da incerteza teórica, sobre toda a faixa de momento. As razões entre este resultado experimental e medidas equivalentes realizadas em mais baixa energia podem trazer informações importantes para tornar o cálculo teórico mais preciso. A segunda análise consiste na medida do fator de modificação nuclear, RAA , de elétrons provenientes do decaimento de hadrons que contêm quarks beauty, em colisões centrais de Pb-Pb a sNN = 5.02 TeV, no intervalo 2 < pT < 8 GeV/c. Elétrons provenientes de hadrons que contêm quarks beauty são extrados do conjunto de elétrons inclusivos a partir do ajuste da distribuição do parâmetro de impacto com templates de elétrons de diferentes fontes, extrados de simulações de Monte Carlo. Essa medida permite estudar a perda de energia dos quarks beauty ao atravessarem o Plasma de Quarks e Glúons (QGP), produzido em colisões entre ons pesados em altas energias. É observada uma supressão de 40-50% no RAA medido para pT > 3 GeV/c e esta é consistente, sobre toda a faixa de p T , com a previsão de modelos baseados em pQCD, que descrevem a perda de energia dos quarks pesados via processos elásticos e inelásticos com os constituintes do QGP, de maneira dependente da massa. Este resultado possui incertezas experimentais significativamente menores com relação à medida realizada com dados do run 1 e consiste num importante passo no estudo da dependência em massa da perda de energia dos quarks pesados no QGP em baixo pT .

In a heteronormative society where hegemonic masculinity prevails, beauty is often synonymous with, and presented as, feminine. For example, pictures of tall, thin women with perfect teeth and perfect skin gloss the covers of magazines and other forms of media as representative of some beauty ideal. This “ideal” is the barometer by which, on many levels, all women are judged. While some women may choose to ignore these messages, few women can always escape comparison. Our society constantly informs us that appearance matters. More specifically for women, a feminine physical appearance is often considered “ideal.” But what exactly does this construct, feminine, signify? Fundamentally, femininity is not static. To speak of it as a logical, simple construct is problematic for it means different things and is expressed in different ways in different environments. Furthermore, to assert one definition by which all others will be measured is difficult in that it presumes a homogenous population and/or idealizes one specific representation. In this research project I conducted in-depth interviews with 43 non-heterosexual women to discern how they constructed “femininity.” What did it look like? What meanings did it connote? When was it important and how was it negotiated? Applying a cognitive sociological lens and using grounded theory methods, I describe what femininity, or arguably femininities, look(s) like within this subpopulation. This project contributes to and extends the literature on gender, sexuality, and appearance. It does this by demonstrating the importance of analyzing non-heterosexual women’s experiences and understandings of femininity within a patriarchal society that valorizes hegemonic masculinity. Most literature contemplating appearance and related misogynistic messages emphasizes a heteronormative perspective. However, feminine and femininity uniquely impact non-heteronormative women. Non-heterosexual women must negotiate both misogynistic and heterosexist messages concurrently. By simultaneously addressing this “double” subordination or marginalization, this research endeavors to provide a more comprehensive overview of meanings and ramifications of appearance choices.

Thesis (M.S.)--Mississippi State University. Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work. / Title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references.

The internet and social media networks have created a changed world of media. Influencers work with creating content on these platforms. This study is focused on five female influencers which each has a large audience of viewers and that work within the category of beauty. They make content that mainly focuses on makeup and fashion. The study's aim is to examine discourses about beauty, identity and emotions in content created by these influencers, and to examine if norms and ideals about beauty is reproduced or challenged. The study relies on a theoretical framework with theories about influence marketing, identity and self-presentation online, the consumer society and how it relates to beauty, gender analysis, and also the role of emotion in cultural politics. The study uses two methods, the first being an analysis of content posted on Twitter using the tool Textometrica and the second being a multimodal discourse analysis of ten videos posted on YouTube. The results show that western ideals of beauty often are reproduced in this material, and that they are reproduced in different ways and forms. Multiple themes and topics within the discourse is discussed. These for example involving who the influencers are and what it takes to become a popular influencer, the identities these influencers build online and aspects of how they create their content, the myth that anyone can become as beautiful and sellable as the influencers if only they use the right products in the right ways, how the body and someone's appearance is seen as a never-ending project that can always be improved and also at theme about an internalised judging gaze. Beauty in this discourse is a word that metonymically becomes sticky with positive values and emotions and almost becomes a synonym for concepts of happiness and health. To be ideally beautiful becomes equivalent to be happy and confident.  To be ideally beautiful becomes equivalent to be healthy. The reproduction of these norms is problematic in many ways, where one of the most important is that it excludes people that does not live up to the norms. It can also be harmful in a way of effecting mental health and wellbeing of the people trying to live up to these norms.

The purpose of this thesis is to re-assert beauty as a fundamental and essential value within contemporary Christendom as it exists within a postmodern culture. Once a strong and meaningful concept within Christian belief, beauty has been lost over the passage of two millennia. This thesis examines the loss of beauty as a meaningful concept in western Christian belief, and offers a re-evaluation of the concept particularly within the postmodern world. Drawing together the fundamental concerns of postmodern society and the contribution that beauty is able to make from within the Christian context, this thesis demonstrates that "beauty" speaks to contemporary concerns and meets its deepest needs. Here, beauty, understood as the relational aspect of forms conceived by God, and offered to humanity as gift, is shown to overcome the affective sterility that has overtaken western society as an effect of enlightenment thought. An examination of the concept of beauty, particularly in the works of Thomas Aquinas, Jonathan Edwards and Gerard Manley Hopkins serves as a basis to posit a definition of beauty that is consistent with Christian beliefs without violating its unique content. Tracing the loss of beauty in western Christian thought and in western culture at large, and recognising the absence of a similar phenomenon within the Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches, suggests that the genius of these eastern traditions is their refusal to minimise the notion of "mystery" that stands at the heart of Christian revelation. The western Church then, is called to refocus on the centrality of the "mystery" inherent in her life. To this end, contemplation is proposed as the avenue wherein the believer experiences an intimate and transforming encounter with the Triune God which leads to the fruition of unique personhood that increasingly takes form as the "beauty of holiness." / Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / D. Th. (Christian Spirituality)

Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-23T13:44:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Iorrana Fioreti de Menezes Pupa.pdf: 2883631 bytes, checksum: b75520e1807ff81bbd48c8a3acfdbe47 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-06-13 / In the contemporaneous context, the act of consuming has been a subject of great interest by researchers from different areas. It has been approached from diversified perspectives, based on production process or social argument. This research, originated from Certeau s (2008, 2009, 1995, 1982, 2011) studies, is an attempt to understand the act of consuming as a creative use , taking into consideration the power of ordinary practices proper of people who perform everyday events. The practices artistic nature would confer to the act of consuming an inventive and political dimension. This way, this research concentrates on consumptions/uses that are performed at a beauty parlour in a high medium social class neighborhood in Vitória ES. The objective is to negotiate wider senses, related to the notion of esthetics consumption, than those stereotyped ideas which associate beauty consumption to superfluous and frivolous actions. The inform data production indicates a diverse range of possible uses of the beauty parlour, which strengthens different ways of existence, based on taking care of oneself, including body and health issues; on the ethical relationships guided by esthetics dimension and possibilities of assuming minor esthetics with vanishing lines, allowing to produce different meanings associated to consumption / Na contemporaneidade, o tema consumo tem despertado interesse de estudiosos de várias áreas. Assim, vem sendo abordado a partir de diversas perspectivas, sejam elas à luz do processo de produção ou marcadas pelo social. Este trabalho, a partir dos estudos de Certeau (2008; 2009; 1995; 1982; 2011), busca compreender o consumo como uso criativo, ao apostar na potência que têm as práticas ordinárias dos sujeitos praticantes do cotidiano. O caráter artístico das práticas daria ao consumo uma dimensão inventiva, inapreensível e política. Dessa forma, a pesquisa se concentra nos consumos/ usos que são feitos de um salão de beleza em um bairro de classe média alta na cidade de Vitória ES. A ideia é negociar sentidos mais amplos para a noção de consumo estético do que aqueles estereotipados que relacionam o consumo de beleza ao supérfluo e fútil. A produção dos dados sinaliza para uma diversa gama de usos possíveis do salão de beleza. Esses usos potencializam diferentes modos de existência, baseados no cuidado de si a partir do cuidado com o corpo e com a saúde; nas relações éticas pautadas pela dimensão estética, e nas possibilidades de assumir estéticas menores com linhas de escape, e dessa forma, produzirem diferentes sentido para a noção de consumo

The main goal of this diploma thesis is to analyse the customer satisfaction with the loyalty program Active beauty and to propose some improvement suggestions. The theoretical part is focused on the issue of the customer care, customer satisfaction and loyalty. In the following part is described the situation in the retail market and chemist's market in the Czech Republic. Subsequently is introduced the loyalty program Active beauty and evaluated results of the research.

The thesis deals with the influence of telecommunication transmitters on the aesthetic value of landscape. It uses both environmental and sociological approach. Subject of investigation is the relationship between the aesthetic stimulus (landscape) and the recipient (man). For the analysis, Scenic Beauty Estimation Method is used as a psychological procedure which measures aesthetic preferences and allows adequately assess how society perceives the presence of various types of telecommunication transmitters in the landscape, including the so-called camouflage. Analysis also includes a comparison of affected and unaffected groups. The aim of the thesis is to assess whether the perception of the presence of telecommunication transmitters in the landscape is negative. The thesis deals with hypothesis that "camouflages" reduce the negative perception of telecommunication transmitters in the landscape.