This study examines how Augmented Reality (AR) visualizations can impact the collective interaction of users. This research will focus on a multiphase experience with a buildup of different levels of Virtual Reality through the use of panoramas and 3D models. The experience was created using a participatory method with multiple tests and iterations to better create an evaluable product. The result if this experiment shows that the impact AR has on users is extensive. A properly framed character can even change a pair of two users into a group of three.

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My dissertation defends a modern version of Role Ethics modeled on the functioning of human moral psychology, and proposes a novel method for identifying the institutional roles of a well-ordered collective. In particular, I defend the view that our duties are determined by the social roles we incur in the communities we inhabit. The companion project extends Role Ethics into the political domain. I argue that we can identify the well-ordered collective in roughly the same way we identify the good individual, by discerning the dispositions in the relevant agent that are conducive to its well-being. By scaling up, we shift attention from the moral dispositions of individuals to the moral dispositions of collectives -- the institutions that determine the moral character of a population. While philosophers have tended to focus on the formal institutions of the state, this research is largely concerned with the 'informal institutions' of a collective, the implicit social roles/practices constructed and enforced endogenously, such as those involved in structuring human friendships. What I call 'Collective Eudaimonism' is a kind of virtue ethics writ large, a normative theory tasked with identifying correlations between a set of informal institutions and the indicators of flourishing human collectives. / text

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In his book Twilight Memories Andreas Huyssen (1995) famously described contemporary Western culture as 'a culture of amnesia'. That concern about social memory is evident in many areas of contemporary discourse. Social memory's confabulatory, subjective, and ambiguous nature makes its analysis an arena of conflicting and diverse opinions. Drawing on Maurice Halbwachs' concept of 'collective memory', and its use in more recent sociological studies, this study uses preaching theory and practice as a way of addressing those wider memory concerns in the life of the church. In particular, the profound challenge of memory work to Christianity's insistence on remembrance as the foundation of its authenticity is examined through contemporary homiletic practice. It is argued that, alongside the familiar didactic, cognitive, epistemological and contextual categories employed in preaching practice, the current crisis of memory requires a new emphasis on memory maintenance. Sermons are presented as mnemonic events essential to the ongoing living tradition of the faith.

Vaccines famously possess positive externalities that make them susceptible to the collective action dilemma: when I get vaccinated, I protect not only myself, but also those who I might otherwise have infected. Thus, some people will have an incentive to free ride on the immunity of others. In a population of rational agents, the critical level of vaccination uptake required for herd immunity will therefore be difficult to attain in the long run, which poses difficulties for disease eradication. In this doctoral dissertation, I explore different implications of the collective action dilemma of vaccination, and different ways of ameliorating it. First: given that coercion or force could solve the dilemma, and democracies may be less likely to engage in policies that violate the physical integrity of citizens, democracies may also be at a disadvantage compared to non-democracies when securing herd immunity. In essay I, I show that this is, empirically, indeed the case. Barring the use of extensive coercion therefore necessitates other solutions. In essay II, I highlight the exception to individual rationality found in other-regarding motivations such as altruism. Our moral psychology has likely evolved to take other's welfare into account, but the extent of our prosocial motivations vary: a wider form of altruism that encompasses not just family or friends, but strangers, is likely to give way to a more narrow form when humans pair-bond and have children. This dynamic is shown to apply to the sentiments underlying vaccination behavior as well: appeals to the welfare of society of getting vaccinated have positive effects on vaccination propensity, but this effect disappears in people with families and children. On this demographic, appeals to the welfare of close loved ones instead appears to have large effects. In essay III, I investigate whether the prosocial motivations underlying vaccination behavior are liable to be affected by motivation crowding - that is, whether they are crowded out when introducing economic incentives to get vaccinated. I find that on average, economic incentives do not have adverse effects, but for a small minority of highly prosocially motivated people, they might.

Cette thèse examine comment en l'espace de quelques années, des collectifs sont créés au Liban, en tant qu'«espaces de passage» politiques pour des acteurs à la recherche de ressources permettant une reconversion d'un capital militant engrangé. Ce qui nous a amené à un double questionnement: que nous dit ce «moment» de l'altermondialisme au Liban de l'altermondialisme en général? Et de l'espace du militantisme au Liban? Comment le label altermondialiste est revendiqué dans un contexte particulièrement verrouillé d'une part par le système politique dont les acteurs dominants disposent de ressources importantes pour entraver les mobilisations protestataires, d'autre part par un système partisan et associatif dont les militants altermondialistes s'évertuent de se distinguer. Nous avons aussi examiné les «bricolages singuliers» de cadres de références altermondialistes, pour proposer une «analyse localisée» de l'altermondialisme : si la mouvance s'inscrit dans un horizon idéologique et langagier «international», elle s'organise, se comprend, s'énonce, se transforme avant tout dans un système de contraintes mais aussi un «dialecte» tout libanais. Plutôt que de proposer une analyse en termes d'importation de la cause, nous nous sommes penchés sur l'idée d'une greffe de la cause à saisir dans les interactions possibles entre son énonciation locale et ses avatars globaux, mais aussi entre les innovations militantes que l'altermondialisme libanais comprend et les formes de reproductions locales qui le travaillent. Basant la démonstration sur quatre collectifs, cette thèse vise à apporter un éclairage sur les politiques protestataires au Liban en combinant, aux différentes étapes de l'enquête et de la démonstration, une approche mésosociologique (au niveau des collectifs) et microsociologique (au niveau des acteurs). Nous tenterons ainsi de comprendre comment et pourquoi le militantisme altermondialiste a constitué un militantisme de «passage» au Liban. / This thesis explores how in the space of few years, we have witnessed the formation of collectives in Lebanon as "political pathways" for actors searching for resources to allow the reconversion of accumulated militant capital, which raises a two-folded question: What does this moment of "alternative-globalization" tell us about alternative globalization in general? And what does it tell us about the militant and activist space in Lebanon? How was the label of "alternative-globalization" reclaimed facing a context which from the one hand, important and significant resources are being employed by the Lebanese political system, and its dominant actors to haIt and hinder mobilizations and protests, while on the other, facing a partisan and associative system, which the alternative globalization militants and activists are striving to distinguish themselves from it. Throughout this thesis, we will be examining particular and specific "bricolages" of the alternative globalization's frame of reference to be able to propose a "localized analysis" of alternative globalization: Although the alternative globalization movement is of an international ideological and linguistic frame and context, yet it is organized, understood and transformed within a local system of constraints, and then voiced in a Lebanese "dialect". lnstead of proposing an analysis of importing the cause, we are examining the idea of adapting and reclaiming the cause between the existing and possible interactions between local limitations and manifestations and its global actors (avatars), but also, between the Lebanese activist innovations of alternative globalization and its reproduced local forms. Basing our analysis on four collectives, this thesis aims to shed the light on protest politics adopted in Lebanon, while combining, at different stages of our study, the meso-sociological (on the level of the collectives) and the micro-sociological (on the level of actors). By doing so, we are trying to understand how and why the alternative globalization constituted an activist/militant space of passage for the movement in Lebanon.

The purpose of the thesis is to analyse the collective administration of copyright and neighbouring and relating rights, as the very title suggests. Based on the yearlong Erasmus stay in Paris, I decided to compare the Czech legislation with the legal system of France. Following after the opening, the second chapter is meant to be informative and should provide an explanation of basic concepts which the reader encounters at work. Third chapter, by a relatively brief section, describes the legal anchoring of collective administration in both jurisdictions. The fourth chapter, which is structured thematically rather than chronologically, introduces readers to the historical development of the Institute of collective management. The concept of collective administrator and analysis of its origin and status of the legal system are to be found in the fifth chapter. Chapters six and seven have an identical theme - control. The main focus is on the different types of external and internal statutory control of collective administrators. First of all, it is an external control exercised by the Ministry of Culture. The same principle of control is also applied in the French legislation, but there is a possibility of a much wider control mechanisms. Chapter eight concentrates on the core object of collective...

- Collective administration of copyright and neighbouring and relating rights Key words: collective administration; copyright This thesis is focused on collective management of copyright and related rights carried out in accordance with copyright law and EU law. The aim of the manuscript is to explain this topic and to provide a review of collective management and its modification in accordance to European law. The thesis is divided into eight chapters each containing a specific aspect of collective management of copyright and related laws. First chapter is dedicated to the basic definition and concept of collective management and the anchoring and adjustment in the Czech legal order. Moreover, there are discussed the purpose and effectiveness of the institute of collective management, the conditions imposed on the collective administrator and how collective administrator authorization is declare and finally, progress and possibilities of supervision over collective management. Second chapter is focused on the activities of collective administrator. The most important work obligations of collective administrator are analyzed e.g. blanket and collective licenses and also the management of revenues from collective management. Third chapter deals with the object of collective management and...

In our present image-laden environment that only seems to keep growing, the nature of how we see and interpret this visual information becomes highly relevant for me in my art. Spectacle, nostalgia, notions of portraiture, theatricality and other visual reflections of our present culture industry, are all elements that I address in my work. It is with these ideas in mind that I construct visual fields where disparate forms and images coexist, forming new narratives aside from their individual isolated implications; incorporating art production methods that construct an evolving dichotomy that contains a sense of play, tension, and irony while evoking references to our current social experiences. Keywords: spectacle, nostalgia, portraiture, collective consciousness, culture industry