This qualitative inquiry explores and describes the Refugees Welcome movement in Sweden from 2015 to 2020 by exploring how people became volunteers, their motivation and experience while at the same time describing events, sceneries, and context with the help of their stories. The empirical material consists of 25 interviews with 20 interviewees, the theoretical perspectives come from the fields of volunteering, civil society, and social movements. A thematic analysis is the method used and the results are presented as part 1 Refugees Welcome to Malmö during the refugee crisis in the fall of 2015, and part 2 with the post-2015 Refugees Welcome initiatives separated by the establishment of checkpoints. The volunteers paint a picture of civil society handling an international issue in a globalized world, and what happens when that globalized world closes. The conclusion is that when the states of Europe introduced checkpoints it drastically changed the context of the opportunities to help refugees, cutting off networks of solidarity from the Mediterranean Sea to Malmö Central Station, and when the local authorities took over the responsibility for the refugee reception they cut off civil society and killing the engagement of the volunteers.

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Research from higher education and social psychology has recognized feelings of belonging and perceptions of inclusion as important factors within the university student experience. Yet little research has examined the extent to which interracial contact may correspond with belonging and inclusion in the university setting. In the present study, I conduct secondary analyses of a 2016 campus climate survey of undergraduate students to examine the associations between interracial contact and three indicators of belonging and inclusion (e.g., feeling a sense of belonging, perceiving the campus to be welcoming, perceived university commitment to inclusion) among undergraduate students from different racial and ethnic backgrounds, and among racial and ethnic minority students (ALANA students) regarded as international students and as U.S. residents. Results indicate, overall, White students tend to report greater feelings of belonging and perceptions of inclusions compared to their ALANA peers. Greater interracial contact was generally associated with greater feelings of belonging and greater perceived institutional commitment to inclusion, yet these effects tended to be stronger among ALANA students than among White students. Black students tended to report lower feelings of belonging in comparison to other ALANA students; at the same time, no significant interactions were observed between interracial contact and racial/ethnic status among ALANA students from Asian, Black, Latino/a, or multiracial backgrounds. In addition, international ALANA students tended to report lower levels of belonging as compared to ALANA students regarded as U.S. residents. However, there were no significant interaction effects of interracial contact and international ALANA status in predicting students’ feelings of belonging and inclusion perceptions. The present study highlights how students’ racial/ethnic status can shape belonging and inclusion perceptions on the university campus, and how associations between interracial contact and key indicators of inclusion may vary among students whose racial and ethnic groups occupy different status positions in U.S. society.

Denna uppsats undersöker samarbetet mellan varumärkena Wrexham AFC, Ryan Reynolds, Rob McElhenney, Disneykoncernen, FX och TikTok i TV-serien Välkommen till Wrexham. Målet är att analysera hur varumärkessamarbetet bland de olika varumärkena integreras i narrativet utan att påverka tittaren negativt. Genom att tillämpa Robert Plutchiks teorier om emotioner analyseras strategierna som TV-serien använder för att sammankoppla de olika varumärkena i narrativet för att rättfärdiga varumärkeskollaborationerna. Vidare granskas hur TV-serien använder transmediala berättarmöjligheter genom samarbetet med huvudsponsorn TikTok. Analysen visar att integrationen av TikTok som plattform, för att vidga Wrexham AFC:s narrativ, tar vara på många men inte alla av Henry Jenkins principer för transmedialt berättande. TV-serien använder därtill ett tydligt emotionsbaserat berättande samt Reynolds och McElhenney för att överbrygga potentiella konflikter mellan de involverade varumärkenas värderingar. Reynolds och McElhenney mänskliga och kommersiella varumärken tillåter även TV-serien att använda en mer Hollywood-inspirerad stil trots det dokumentära formatet, vilket kan bidra till att den integrerade reklamen accepteras. Studien kan därmed bidra till en fördjupad förståelse för hur varumärken och produktionsbolag kan samarbeta för lyckade TV-produktioner med varumärkeskollaborationer.

[pt] O objetivo desta Dissertação é compreender o enfrentamento dos refugiados na cidade de São Paulo no que se relaciona ao acesso à moradia. Partindo das experiências ocorridas em São Paulo para o esforço de acolhida aos refugiados de diferentes nacionalidades, a moradia ainda não é uma questão de política pública, com lacunas para a garantia do seu acesso. Procurou-se analisar as estratégias de refugiados para garantir o acesso à moradia. Foram realizadas quatro entrevistas nos Centros de Acolhida e Casa de Passagem instaladas em São Paulo, assim como três entrevistas com dois indivíduos com o status de refugiado e um filho de um casal palestino, que articula a moradia em uma ocupação, no centro da cidade. Foi possível identificar os limites e possibilidades dos serviços de acolhimento a partir das falas dos entrevistados. As buscas individuais e a mobilização exercida pela rede de solidariedade construída entre os refugiados integram o cenário da dificuldade do direito de morar, marcada por um deslocamento forçado ocorrido no processo migratório. / [en] The goal of this dissertation is to understand the confrontation of refugees in Sao Paulo s city in which relates to access to housing. Starting from the experiences that occurred in Sao Paulo for the effort of welcome for refugees of different nationalities, housing have not been a matter of public policy yet, with gaps for the guarantee of access. For this, it is necessary to identify the refugee s experiences in individual and collective models. Four interviews were carried out in the Reception centers and halfway house located in São Paulo and three interviews with two individuals with refugee status and a son of a Palestinian couple who articulates the residences in an occupation in the city center. It was possible to identify the limits and possibilities of the host services by the interviews. The individual searches and the mobilization network of solidarity built among the refugees make up the difficulty setting of the right to housing, marked by a forced displacement occurred in the migration process.

This thesis explores French philosopher Jacques Derrida’s ’hauntology’ through the lens of digital monsters and feminist theory. Hauntology – a pun on ‘ontology’ and ‘haunting’ – offers an ethics based on responsibility towards that which cannot be said to fully exist, yet has an effect on our everyday lives nonetheless. Like the figure of the ghost, such undecidable existences are neither absent nor present, here nor gone, of the past or the future. In other words: they haunt. By engaging with hauntology through contemporary stories of digital monsters – such as The Curious Case of Smile.jpg, Welcome to Night Vale and Mushroom Land TV - the thesis discusses how such troubling hauntings might be imagined, and what it means to think an ethics based on responsibility towards the undecidable. In this way, the thesis brings together hauntology and digital media, arguing that thinking with and through the figure of the ghost as well as the digital monster may lead to different and critical ways of imagining both the world and ethics. In short, drawing upon feminist theory and creative writing, the thesis maps out a relational ethics of hauntings and internet story-telling. / Denna avhandling utforskar den franske filosofen Jacques Derridas ’hauntologi’ genom digitala monster och feministisk teori. Hauntologi - en ordlek på ontology och haunting - erbjuder en etik som bygger på ansvar gentemot det som inte kan sägas helt existera, men ändå har en effekt på vårt dagliga liv. Liksom figuren ’spöket’ är sådana obestämbara existenser varken frånvarande eller närvarande, här eller borta, i det förflutna eller framtiden. Med andra ord: de hemsöker. Genom analyser av samtida berättelser om digitala monster - som The Curious Case of Smile.jpg, Welcome to Night Vale och Mushroom Land TV - diskuterar avhandlingen hur sådan oroande hemsökelser kan bli föreställda, och vad det innebär att tänka en etik baserad på ansvar gentemot det obestämbara. På detta sätt sammanför avhandlingen hauntologi och digitala medier ihop för att argumentera att akten att tänka med och genom spöket som figur och det digitala monstret kan leda till annorlunda och kritiska sätt att föreställa sig både världen och etik på. Avhandlingen bygger på feministisk teori och kreativt skrivande för att utforska en relationell etik baserad på hemsökelser och internet-berättelser.

Denna studie har undersökt medialiseringen av nätverket Refugees Welcome to Gothenburg. Det har skett genom att identifiera sociala handlingar på en mesonivå för att hitta medieringsprocesser bland dem. Analysen på makronivå (i relation med samhället) har i sin tur visat vilken betydelse medieringsprocesserna har haft för Refugees Welcome to Gothenburg. Urvalet har skett på sociala medier och nätverkets webbsida. Analysen är baserad på ett ramverk av Alice Mattoni och Emiliano Treré (2014) kombinerat med medialiseringsteorier, mer specifikt, Winfried Schulzs (2004) fyra processer inom medialisering tillsammans med José van Dijck och Thomas Poells (2013) medielogik på sociala medier. En kvalitativ textanalys har använts för att kunna studera materialet. Analysen har genomförts på två nivåer, en mesonivå för att hitta de sociala handlingarna och deras medieringsprocesser, och på en makronivå, för att se medialiseringen inom Refugees Welcome to Gothenburg. Resultatet visade att Refugees Welcome to Gothenburg har en stark medialisering, men att de samtidigt är långt från helt medialiserade. Vissa sociala handlingar har inte medialiseras, men har fortfarande haft en sammanslagning (amalgamation) med andra medierade handlingar. Slutligen har studien också påvisat att sociala rörelser bör studeras ytterligare ur ett medieperspektiv, för att förstå funktioner och förändringar inom dem. / This study has examined the mediatization of the social movement Refugees Welcome to Gothenburg. By identifying social practices at a meso level within Refugees Welcome to Gothenburg, mediation processes have been found. The analysis at a macro level (in relation with the society) have then led to the understanding of the mediation processes. The material selection has been made on social media and on the website of Refugees Welcome to Gothenburg. The analysis is based on a conceptual framework by Alice Mattoni and Emiliano Treré (2014), combined with mediatization theories, and more specifically, the four processes of social change within mediatization by Winfried Schulz (2004) together with the media logics in social media by José van Dijck and Thomas Poell (2013). A qualitative text analysis was used in order to study the material. The analysis was performed at two levels, firstly, at a meso level to identify the social practices and the mediation processes, and secondly, at a macro level to find the mediatization of Refugees Welcome to Gothenburg. The results showed that Refugees Welcome to Gothenburg has a strong mediatization, but at the same time, not completely. Some social practices have not been mediated. The non-mediated social practices, however, have shown an amalgamation (joining) with the mediated social practices. Finally, the essay has also shown that social movements should be studied from a media perspective even further, to be able to understand functions and changes within them.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T14:27:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Juan Andres Hidalgo Lora.pdf: 1153660 bytes, checksum: 1f4e221bb201508e627e6cdefb1a1df9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-03-16 / This dissertation is based on the worldwide evident withdrawal of the youths from the catholic churches. The new structures and the unquestionable realities of the post-modern world, mainly the multitechnological world, demand a review of their pastoral regarding the youths, forsaking archaic structures while searching for the new evangelical. First we need to know the world of the youths, their aspirations, dreams and difficulties to reach their goals in life. The youths are innately full of emotions, open-minded and long for comradeship. Here is where religions in general have the mission to make them discover the shining path of the soul. Based on experts who have studied this crisis and supported by researches carried out in a parish of the Dominican Republic as a sample, we propose a brotherly welcome and a subsequent follow-up programme for the youths as a possible solution for this impasse. The awareness of their constituting elements and the deep study of their aggregative psychology can help the youths to ponder upon their dignity as sons of God / Esta dissertação é inspirada na constatação do universal afastamento da juventude das igrejas católicas. Novas estruturas e as incontestáveis realidades do mundo pós-moderno, sobretudo multitecnológico, exigem revisão de sua pastoral em relação ao mundo jovem, o abandono de estruturas arcaicas, em busca do novo evangélico. Para uma possível solução, é preciso conhecer antes o mundo da juventude, com suas aspirações, sonhos e dificuldades para atingir seu ideal de vida. O jovem é por natureza rico em emoções, abertura, busca de companheirismo. Ora aqui cabe a missão das religiões em geral que podem levar os jovens a descobrirem a senda luminosa do espírito. Com base em especialistas no estudo dessa crise e em pesquisa, especialmente montada para este fim, realizada numa paróquia da República Dominicana, como amostragem, são propostos a acolhida fraterna e o posterior acompanhamento dos jovens como possível solução desse impasse. Seus elementos constitutivos, o aprofundamento de sua psicologia agregacional podem ajudar os jovens a refletirem sobre sua dignidade de filhos de Deus

The purpose of this dissertation is to chart how the development of visual effects has changed popular cinema¡¯s vision of the real, producing the powerful reality effect. My investigation of the history of visual effects studies not only the industrial and economic context of visual effects, but also the aesthetic characteristics of the reality effect. In terms of methodology, this study employs a theoretical discourse which compares the parallels between visual effects and the discourse of modernity/postmodernity, utilizing close textual analysis to understand the symptomatic meanings of key texts. The transition in the techniques and meanings of creating visual effects reflects the cultural transformation from modernism to postmodernism. Visual effects have developed by adapting to the structural transformation of production systems and with the advance of technology. The studio system strongly controlled the classical Hollywood cinema by means of the modern economic production system of Fordism. Breakdown of Hollywood classicism as a production system gave rise to the creation of digital effects with the rise of the concept of the blockbuster and with the development of computer technologies. I argue that the characteristic feature of time-space compression, occurring in the process of the transition from Fordism to flexible accumulation, clearly reflects that of compression of multi-layered time and space, generated in the development process from analog visual effects, such as trick, rear and front projection, to the digital effects, such as rotoscoping and CGI animation. While the aesthetics of analog visual effects, without computing, can be compared to a Fordist production system, digital effects, which hugely rely on CGI manipulation, are examples of flexible accumulation. As a case study of the local resistance or alternative of Hollywood today, I examine the effects-oriented Korean nationalist blockbuster. The Korean nationalist blockbuster films have sought large-scale filmmaking and presentation of spectacular scenes, including heavy dependence on the use of special effects, which is frequently considered a Hollywood style. This paradoxical combination of peculiar Korean subjects and Hollywood style can be viewed as a form of cultural jujitsu, taking advantage of the force of the dominant culture in order to resist and subvert it.

Submitted by Coordenação Hotelaria (hotelaria@vm.uff.br) on 2016-05-04T18:14:19Z No. of bitstreams: 1 TCC Helena Barboza.pdf: 5775054 bytes, checksum: 34ce752f7e2be820edc7d71a4fff7b15 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-05-13T13:46:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 TCC Helena Barboza.pdf: 5775054 bytes, checksum: 34ce752f7e2be820edc7d71a4fff7b15 (MD5) / Sensações de acolhimento ou hostilidade são percebidas pelos usuários dos espaços, uma vez que estes também podem carregar em si o atributo da hospitalidade. Diagnosticar o que provoca tais sentimentos pode auxiliar na proposição de soluções para adequar os ambientes, de forma a que possam minimizar impactos causados pela vida contemporânea, caracterizada pela aglomeração de pessoas nas cidades, pela homogeneização de hábitos e costumes e pelo esvaziamento das identidades pessoais e locais. Promover o bem-estar da pessoa que utiliza determinado espaço envolve o planejamento de toda a atividade que ali ocorre, como o estudo das rotinas, a especificação e o dimensionamento de materiais e equipamentos e a disseminação de boas práticas de higiene e conservação, além de cuidados com o meio ambiente, de forma a proporcionar maior qualidade de vida. Para avaliar essas funções e sua forma de ocorrência, este estudo investiga detalhadamente o processo de qualificação de espaços sob a ótica da hospitalidade, sejam eles residenciais, comerciais ou sociais. Desenvolve um exercício de aplicação dos conceitos estudados por meio do desenho da estratégia de posicionamento empresarial, orientando diretrizes para o desenvolvimento e a implantação das atividades de uma empresa do setor – a ESPAÇO. / Users of space perceive feelings of welcome or hostility since they can also carry with themselves the attribute of hospitality. To diagnose what causes such feelings may help in proposing solutions to adapt the environment so that they can minimize impacts on contemporary life, characterized by overcrowding in the cities, homogenization of habits and customs and emptying of personal and local identities. To promote the welfare of the person who uses certain space involves planning of every activity that takes place there, such as the study of routines, the specification and design of materials and equipment and the dissemination of good hygiene and maintenance practices, besides environment stewardship, in order to provide higher quality of life. To evaluate these functions and its form of occurrence, this study investigates in detail the process of qualification of spaces from the perspective of hospitality, whether they residential, commercial or social. It is also an exercise in applying concepts learned through the design of corporate positioning strategy, giving guidelines for the development and implantation of the activities of a company in the industry - the SPACE.