This study explores the digitalization of healthcare phenomenon in relation to patient empowerment. Because digital environments change the way individuals interact with healthcare providers, there are consequences for patients’ ability to act and determine their health outcomes in a digital health ecosystem. An assessment of the mediatization of healthcare was therefore conducted through a critical phenomenological analysis of patients’ lived experiences. This methodology facilitated an investigation of their descriptive and subjective reflections on health structures and the means of entering into capabilities that can, but not necessarily do, emerge from specific technical artifacts. Through in-depth interviews, I accessed patients’ perspectives and narratives to phenomenologically enter into their consciousness intentionalities. These revealed that mediatized healthcare certainly affects, possibly enables, and risks constraining health agency. In theoretical terms, this study was based on structural dimensions within the theories of mediatization (Couldry & Hepp, 2017) and health lifestyles (Cookerham, 2005), combined with the individual dimensions of patients’ capabilities (Oosterlaken, 2015) represented by empowerment constructs (Palumbo, 2017), where it elaborates on matters of structure and agency as interrelated and negotiated concepts. The thesis concludes with a critical discussion of the avoidance of technological determinism of the phenomenon: digital tools were incorporated in some of the capabilities of participants, and indeed sometimes contribute to their empowerment, but not always and not for everything. Empowerment must be seen as a process rather than an outcome and, concerning digitalization processes, must be investigated by scrutinizing individual initiatives embedded in a long chain of interconnectedness.

The concept of work-life-balance has gained significant attention during the coronavirus pandemic. There are challenges in keeping solid boundaries between Danish female professionals work and private life. There have been previous studies that have demonstrated gendered roles of females that interrupt work and private life. This thesis builds on these qualitative studies. This is done by providing new insights into the challenges experienced by Danish females in balancing their work-life due to varying degrees of media dependencies when exposed to new digital practices (current pandemic). Therefore, the main research question is, “How and why do Danish female professionals experience fluid transitions between professional work and private life, with the increase of new forms of media dependencies?” The study consisted of eight semi-structured interviews with Danish female participants followed by a qualitative approach. Thoroughly employing social design in a mediatization framework, key themes in the experiences of the participants; work-life-balance, flexibility at work, virtual fatigue and self-care practices were extracted. The study also found that there are gendered roles during the coronavirus pandemic, with women shouldering a greater burden due to unpaid labour. The findings of this work provide deeper insights into the challenges females may endure during national lockdowns. It is envisioned that this work will allow for deeper reflections on the usage and consumption of digital media in keeping boundaries between work-private life. This includes Denmark and other countries. /p>

The religious landscape in Sweden has changed in recent years as a result of secularization processes, individualization, and migration. This has led to religion occupying new places in society and one such place is media. The visibility of religion in the media creates space for debate about what role religion should play in different context, which in this thesis applies to school. Since 2018, there has been a debate in the media regarding the being or non-being of independent confessional schools. This bachelor thesis aims to examine the arguments that appear in the criticism versus the defense of independent confessional schools in debate articles in Sweden. Debate articles from the Swedish newspapers Svenska Dagbladet, Dagens Nyheter, Aftonbladet and Expressen are examined with qualitative text analysis. The result shows that the most common arguments among those who want to ban independent confessional schools are: religious indoctrination, segregation, and extremism. From the other side of the debate are the ones who defend independent confessional schools and the most common arguments from this side are: freedom of religion, corresponds to the Swedish curriculum, and integration. Further, an additional aim is to analyze how the debate can be understood using the theoretical concepts of narrative, institutional and cultural transformation processes in mediatization theory. The analysis shows that there are signs of these transformation processes in the debate articles. Many of the debate articles on the ban side are structured according to media logics where one perspective is set against another to provoke reactions from the readers, which expresses the narrative transformation process. The institutional transformation process is reflected in how actors from different institutions communicate in the debate, where political actors control the debate and religious actors adapt accordingly. The cultural transformation process is made visible by seeing how the debate relates to the surrounding society which is characterized by secular norms on one hand and increased religious diversity on the other.

The theory of mediatized war implies that any study of conflict that takes place in modern times must also consider the impact of the media within that conflict, especially including new media and communication technologies. Images as visual representations of war have become a part of the information warfare and used to create narratives rooted in the culture of media witnessing (Mortensen) but sometimes entirely divorced from reality (Baudrillard’s simulacrum). The purpose of this thesis was to study images from two Telegram channels, in order to analyze the visual representation of the Russo-Ukrainian War in 2022. A qualitative content analysis was used on the images, to observe and interpret the visual themes and context of the images. The theoretical framework that was applied to the categories were the theory of the visual, the culture of witnessing in war, and mediatization of war. The results indicate that both channels try to employ features of media witnessing, with a notable difference that the Russian channel presented a more sanitized, gore-less, and staged version of war while the Ukrainian one focused on the casualties and horrors of war. The study contributes to the fields of mediatization of war and visual representation of war by focusing on the previously unstudied material and combining this unique case with a broad theoretical and empirical body of knowledge.

[pt] Esta tese investiga a presença das tecnologias de informação e comunicação (TIC), em especial o smartphone, em um grupo de famílias compostas por mãe, pai e crianças pequenas no Rio de Janeiro, em diálogo com investigações realizadas principalmente em outros países, devido à carência de estudos empíricos desse tema no Brasil. De julho a dezembro de 2017, foi realizada uma pesquisa qualitativa exploratória, com 10 famílias, com crianças de 3 a 6 anos, da qual participaram, ao todo, 17 adultos e 14 crianças. A análise dos dados indica uma ubiquidade da tecnologia móvel no dia a dia de pais e filhos, com o uso frequente e diário do dispositivo. Teorias como a da domesticação de Silverstone, da ecologia dos meios, de McLuhan e Postman, e de mediação, de Martín-Barbero são exemplos de conceitos que foram utilizados para amparar a análise macro e microssocial que este estudo se dispõe a fazer. A reconfiguração das relações familiares que vem ocorrendo desde o século XX e o enfraquecimento da presença da autoridade parental como um dos fatores determinantes da separação entre mundo adulto e mundo da criança, cenário intensificado pela presença da tecnologia móvel, fazem parte da reflexão. Entre os resultados do estudo empírico, estão a predominância da estratégia familiar de mediação restritiva de tempo da interação das crianças com as TIC e a frequente utilização desses dispositivos pelos pais como babás eletrônicas dos filhos, em descompasso com um discurso de preocupação com o excesso de uso dessas tecnologias pelas crianças – elas estão usando esses equipamentos cada vez mais cedo e sem supervisão adulta. A pesquisa mostra também que, alheias a essa discussão, as crianças mesclam objetos tradicionais e dispositivos tecnológicos em suas brincadeiras, embora não chamem os smartphones de brinquedos, um indício de que o dispositivo ganhou uma nova dimensão simbólica nas relações familiares. / [en] This thesis investigates the presence of information and communication technologies (ICTs), especially the smartphone, in a group of Brazilian families with father, mother and young children in Rio de Janeiro, in dialogue with investigations in other countries due to the lack of empirical studies of this area in Brazil. We conducted a qualitative exploratory survey, from July to December 2017, with 10 families, with children from 3 to 6 years old – 17 adults and 14 children participated in the research. The analysis of the data indicates an ubiquity of mobile technology in parents and children s daily lives. The domestication of technology theory by Silverstone, the media ecology theory by McLuhan and Postman and mediation theory by Martín-Barbero are examples of concepts used to support the macro and micro-social analysis that this study is willing to do. We discuss the reconfiguration of family relationships that have been occurring since the twentieth century, with the weakening of the presence of authority as one of the determining factors of the separation between adult world and children s world, a scenario intensified by the presence of mobile technology. Among the results of our investigation are the predominance of strategy of restrictive mediation on children s ICT use and the frequent use of these devices by the parents as electronic babysitters of the children, in contrast with a discourse of concern with the overuse of these technologies by children – they are using such equipment increasingly early and without adult supervision. The research also shows that, unrelated to this discussion, children mix traditional objects and technological devices in their games, although they do not call smartphones toys, an indication that the cell phone has gained a new symbolic dimension in family relationships.

Through the introduction and popularisation of e-books and e-readers, the way books are read is changing. This paper aims to investigate the reading habits of five Swedish-based Kindle users to understand their reading ecologies and what place the Kindle has in their reading ecologies. The Kindle proves an interesting research focus as it is one of the most sold e-readers in the world, but has yet to establish itself on the Swedish market. The research focuses on three main themes: the reading ecologies and habits of the interviewees; why they use the Kindle; and how they use reviews on Kindle Store. The research uses the methods of communicative ecology mapping and qualitative interviews for collecting empirical data, which is then contextualised and analysed through the theories of communicative ecology, mediatization, and media as practice. The research shows that the interviewees prefer reading on digital devices, and that particular practices of reading are done in specific spatial dimensions. Three practices of reading are visible in the interviewees’ reading ecologies: news-reading, social media-reading, and Kindlereading. The interviewees use the Kindle as a replacement of the physical book, which is shown in the way the interviewees list the e-ink technology and lack of backlit screens as motivations for using the device, in addition to the vast amount of niched literature available on Kindle Store. Moreover, reviews on Kindle Store are valuable to the interviewees when buying books, but the type of book changes how much validity the reviews hold. The reviews, no matter if they are being read or written by the interviewees, are viewed as helping the community of readers who use Kindle in finding ‘good’ literature.

This dissertation investigates the mediation of art on Swedish television during the 1950s and 1960s. The aim is to examine how the new medium of television was put to use in the dissemination and promotion of contemporary and modernist art during this time. The primary research question concerns the significance and consequences of television as a media form for the practices of art popularization and art education. The introduction of the new medium coincided with the post-war emergence of the welfare state and ambitions of governmental and non-governmental organizations and initiatives to make modern art an integral part of modern society. This dissertation investigates the role and significance of television in these endeavours from the point of view of Sveriges Radio/TV, by focusing on the actors involved as well as the form and content of arts programming at the time. The study makes use of mediatization theory and the concept of remediation, in order to capture and analyse the dynamics as well as the conflicts between television and art at the time. The study uses the method of media-specific genre analysis, inspired by cultural theory, asserting that arts programming is a cultural category made up of practices and processes and interwoven with ideological structures and power relationships. The dissertation is divided into three chapters investigating different aspects of the phenomenon of art on TV during the specific historical period.  The dissertation shows how the 1950s and 1960s witnessed great hopes for television as a way of disseminating art and educating the public on matters of art, aspirations closely connected to notions of art distribution as a way to achieve cultural democratization. First and foremost, however, the close study of the practices of arts programming shows how the relationship between television and art at the time was also characterized by problems and conflict. Using the terminology of mediatization theory, it is possible to speak of conflicts between distinct logics. These conflicts can further be understood on several levels, adhering to the twin logics of remediation: transparent immediacy and hypermediacy. The actors involved all shared a view of television as the great medium of the future when it came to disseminating and promoting art to the wider public. However, they also shared notions of television’s limitations when it came to the matter of ”doing justice” to a work of art when broadcast. This was first and foremost considered to be purely a matter of technical limitations, such as the lack of colour and the small screen size. It is however also evident that the actors’ view of their task and that of the medium with regard to arts programming, to represent works of art to the viewers as honestly as possible, delimited the form and content of shows and programming. On another level, the conflict between art and television was a matter of art’s supposedly critical and societal value. According to the actors, art was considered something other than regular programming, in the sense that art constituted different ways of seeing and perceiving the world. The function and importance of arts programming, then, was considered to be in the ways it differed from regular programming, making possible to educate the TV-viewing public in critical thinking towards the manipulation of media as well as providing ways of developing the form and aesthetics of the television medium.

This thesis analyses discourses on health and wellbeing in three Swedish lifestyle magazines for women, Amelia, Tara and M-magasin, and how readers of these magazines reflect on and negotiate the values and identities presented in them. The aim of the thesis is to contribute to increased knowledge about mediatized religion, directed to women by commercial women's magazines on a secular market, and how this religion is presented, perceived and used as a resource for women's wellbeing, lifestyle and identity. The study is a qualitative case study combining a content analysis of what is referred to as the wellbeing discourses of the three magazines, and a reception study. This design was selected to combine a media centred and a consumer oriented perspective. Inspired by Nancy T. Ammerman, the magazines’ and the readers’ discursive understanding of religion and spirituality was approached through the concept of everyday religion. The magazines and the readers associated religion with institutional religion and a collective experience. Spirituality was related to non-institutional religion and individually chosen meaning-making elements from both non-institutional and institutional religion. This individualistic spirituality was, thus, still connected to institutional religion. This religion can, on an individual as well as structural level, be connected to a global holistic consumption spirituality and a standardization and homogenization of contemporary religion where practises like yoga and meditation occupied a prominent position. The understanding of religion and spirituality presented through the magazines’ wellbeing discourses, can be seen as “glossy-feminism”, a feminism that grows out of a neo-liberal self-help paradigm, and a feminisation of wellbeing in contemporary western society. Wellbeing is depicted as a female concern that legitimates the reader's attention to her own body as the primary tool to achieve control over her own life and social relationships, and for gender equality in society. This strategy is connected to female caring practice in traditional gender positions. The thesis draws on theories of deregulation of religion, the mediatization and individualisation of religion, and contributes to a deeper understanding of how these shape contemporary religious change. Through focusing the understudied area of commercial women's magazines, it contributes with new knowledge to the field of research on media as a primary source of peoples’ encounter with religion. / Impact of Religion

The thesis investigates the position of Olympism in international relations. The introductory chapters deal with institutional structure of the Olympic Movement, which is headed by the International Olympic Committee. The following chapters examine Olympism in connection with selected political issues. These are political interests of states and other subjects, conflicts and cooperation among states. The question of boycotts is addressed in a separate chapter. The aim of the thesis is to evaluate the role of Olympism in international relations in a comprehensive manner. The thesis uses several historical examples that show how the Olympic Movement coped with given political challenges. From the mentioned examples and the evaluation of development, the most important factors for Olympism are finally deduced, i.e. commercialization, mediatization and politicization.

Submitted by admin tede (tede@pucgoias.edu.br) on 2017-03-30T14:10:54Z No. of bitstreams: 1 PAULO AFONSO TAVARES.pdf: 3698076 bytes, checksum: 7fa4953ac0dacc1cf50f22f1f791005b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-03-30T14:10:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 PAULO AFONSO TAVARES.pdf: 3698076 bytes, checksum: 7fa4953ac0dacc1cf50f22f1f791005b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-12-08 / This investigation tries to analyze how the religious practices (particularly Masses and Novenas) held in the Basilica Sanctuary of the Divine Eternal Father of the municipality of Trindade in the State of Goiás are put under a process of reconfiguration by being televised. In broadcasting these religious practices, the media employed its own rules and methods (or grammars), resulting in a new form of religious practice, which might be called “mediatic”. By analyzing the media practices of the Basilica Sanctuary of Trindade, we have identified two particularities: the use of simulation and the show as an outcome. These particularities have been originated from the process of media development on religious practices, mostly through the employment of techno- symbolic devices, orchestrated by the “mediatic” ceremony, developing from in- person religious practices. During this process of development, some modifications have also taken place in the Basilica Sanctuary of the Divine Eternal Father, as well as with the religious practices held within this church, due to their transmission by television. Grouped in two orders: temporality and spatiality, these modifications go beyond the religious field and can in fact be classified as concessions to another field, since they migrate into a television media classification. The research also shows that the televised religious practices of the Basilica Shrine of the Divine Eternal Father do not take place for the faithful present but for the “tele-faithful,” that is, the consumers of these mediatic-religious practices. The faithful, as well as the entire liturgical body of these religious practices, thus become the assistants of this media construction. To accomplish this investigation, a set of theoretical, methodological and technical procedures has been used, including bibliographical and documentary research, observation, interviews and analysis of media documents. The dissertation is develped in two parts. In the first, it addresses the emergence and development of devotion to the Divine Eternal Father under three distinct different aspects: the first during the colonial period until the proclamation of the Brazilian Republic. The second examines the devotion under ecclesiastical administration – in what we have called “Romanization.” The third deals with the mediatization of this devotion, that is, the use of the media in a first moment in order to “Christianize” it and then to spread it throughout Brazil. In the second part of the dissertation, the main concepts, such as secularization, the role of media, mediatization and the mediatization of religion (with a particular focus on media‟s interaction with Catholicism) are discussed as its hard core, as well as how the religious practices of the Basilica Sanctuary of the Divine Eternal Father are modified by being televised. It has come to a conclusion that religious devotion makes concessions to the media field in the transmissions of its practices and that these concessions not only alter the liturgical formats of its practices, but indeed affect the temple itself. / A pesquisa se propõe a analisar como as práticas religiosas (Missas e Novenas) do Santuário Basílica do Divino Pai Eterno do município de Trindade no Estado de Goiás são reconfiguradas pelos dispositivos televisivos, pois ao televisionar essas práticas religiosas, o Campo Midiático impõe as suas próprias regras e gramáticas, resultando numa outra prática religiosa, a midiática. Ao analisar as práticas religiosas midiáticas do Santuário Basílica de Trindade identificamos que elas são constituídas por duas particularidades: o simulacro e a espetacularização, oriundas desse processo de construção da prática religiosa midiatizada, através do dispositivo tecno-simbólico orquestrado pelo cerimoniário midiático, a partir das práticas religiosas presenciais. Durante esse processo de construção, algumas modificações também acontecem no Santuário Basílica do Divino Pai Eterno e nas práticas religiosas presenciais desta mesma igreja, por causa de suas transmissões pela TV. Essas modificações podem ser classificadas como concessões, uma vez que perpassam do Campo Religioso ao Campo Midiático Televisivo e se agrupam em duas ordens, temporalidade e espacialidade. A pesquisa também mostra que as práticas religiosas televisionadas do Santuário Basílica do Divino Pai Eterno não são realizadas para os fiéis ali presentes, mas sim para os telefiéis, ou seja, os consumidores dessas práticas religiosas midiatizadas. Os fiéis, assim como todo o corpo litúrgico dessas práticas religiosas, são assistentes desta construção midiática. Para tanto, utilizou-se um conjunto de procedimentos teóricos, metodológicos e técnicos que inclui pesquisa bibliográfica e documental, observação, entrevistas e análises de documentos midiáticos. A dissertação está construída em três partes: na primeira, aborda o surgimento e desenvolvimento da Devoção do Divino Pai Eterno em três períodos bem distintos; o primeiro durante a vigência do padroado até a proclamação da República Brasileira; o segundo momento mostra a devoção sob a administração eclesiástica, o que denominamos por romanização; o terceiro período disserta sobre a midiatização desta devoção, a utilização dos meios de comunicação social num primeiro momento para “cristianizá-la” e, depois, para propagá-la para todo o Brasil. Na segunda parte da dissertação, discute-se os principais conceitos que norteiam a pesquisa, como de secularização, campo midiático, midiatização e midiatização da religião com foco no catolicismo midiático. Na terceira parte analisamos como as práticas religiosas do Santuário Basílica do Divino Pai Eterno são modificadas pelos dispositivos televisivos. Conclui-se que o campo religioso faz concessões ao campo midiático nas transmissões de suas práticas e que essas concessões não só alteram os formatos litúrgicos de suas práticas, como também afetam o próprio templo.