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1	With arms wide open to a new millennium preaching and worship in the digital age / Burns, James Stephen. January 2004 (has links) Project (D. Min.)--Iliff School of Theology, 2004. / Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 138-144 ).
2	With arms wide open to a new millennium preaching and worship in the digital age / Burns, James Stephen. January 2004 (has links) Project (D. Min.)--Iliff School of Theology, 2004. / Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 138-144 ).
3	Självledarskap och organisationsutveckling / Self-leadership and Organizational Progress Moore, Anna January 2019 (has links) Abstract Title: Self-leadership and Organizational Progress Author: Anna Moore Background: Within the school system, as well as throughout the broader part of society, change is brought on more rapidly. Organizations must be inclined and able to change past practices. The organization within the school system is, however, very traditional depicted by how it is organized and by the conservative attitudes such as how professions within the school system interact with each other. It can therefore be difficult to change obsolete traditions that are associated with the teacher’s role. Self-leadership as a method has been found to have a positive effect on individuals as well as on groups and organizations. However, self-leadership in relation to organizational change has not yet been widely researched. This report is carried out through a pilot project conducted at the educational administration within a Swedish municipality. Purpose: The purpose of this report is to investigate and analyse organizational progress in relation to self-leadership within school environment through the perspective of school-leaders. Question at issue: Throughout the implementation of a change process, which factors can be identified as successful, in relation to the process. In what way can self-leadership help school-leaders accomplish a change process? Theoretical framework: Relevant theoretical framework was identified in order to analyse the empirical data. Three different fields where presented: affiliation and culture, organizational progress and communication throughout the change process. Method: This report is a case study carried out with a qualitative method. The empirical data was gathered through semi-structured interviews with five respondents from three different schools as well as one respondent from the control group. The researcher’s paradigm can be identified as constructivism. A hermeneutic process was applied in order to interpret the empirical data. Conclusions: In relation to the pilot project being studied a series of success factors were identified: A change tendency as well as a more daring approach towards leading change will allow further organizational change. The need for change needs to come from within the organization. Take advantage of the prevailing affiliation and culture. Leaders must have good knowledge of the field they operate in as well of the particular unit they work at. With reason being able to adapt and adjust the course of actions as well as the chosen methods. Self-leadership strategies are found to have a positive effect on the change process throughout different steps of the way, individually as well as in relation to the group process. Further research in relation to self-leadership and organizational change is recommended. Especially in relation to determining a method to measure the extent and effect of self-leadership. Sociology Sociologi
4	Communication and the Construction of the Ideal in the West Dragomir, Adriana 15 November 2013 (has links) This dissertation examines the conceptualization of the ideal society in Western culture in relation to changes in communication modes. The utopian discourse is defined by a concern with the relationship between language and reality. I explore this concern as a reflection of the theoretical disposition invited by changes in communication modes, which are perceived as crises of representation. Plato and Thomas More’s enlightened communities in the Republic and Utopia reflect comparable idealistic perspectives on education. In my view, this optimism stems from the social reality of growing literacies with the advent of the alphabet and printing, respectively. I contend that these writers are animated by an ethical impulse to teach their readers that language is representation. From the vantage point of this knowledge, each individual may employ language symbolically in order to create and perpetuate a moral and spiritual mode of thought. I argue that the discourse of the ideal is the symbolic expression of humanity’s engagement with death, the ultimate existential concern made acute by the aspect of historical discontinuity in the crisis of representation. Plato and More exhibit comparable efforts to open to their readers the superior space of critical reflexivity which they themselves inhabit. From this conceptual, pre-representational space of conscious choice, language is subjected to achieving spiritual progress. I introduce the concept of post-utopia, which describes a pragmatic moment when the relationship between author and the ideal society is brought into the foreground and reinforced as a way of addressing concerns with textual authority. I examine these developments in Augustine’s De Civitate Dei, François Rabelais’s episode of the Abbaye de Thélème in Gargantua, and Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis. These authors draw on the ideologies of representation inherent in utopian discourse, and position the authorial figure as link between scriptural teleology and history, ensuring spiritual and societal betterment in the textual cultures of late antiquity and early modernity. The figure of the author emerges as a symbol of history and of man’s ability to assume the limits of the mind and of language. utopian literature utopian thought communication change ideal society symbolic thought literacy Plato Thomas More St.Augustine Francois Rabelais Francis Bacon 0295 0708 0422
5	Communication and the Construction of the Ideal in the West Dragomir, Adriana 15 November 2013 (has links) This dissertation examines the conceptualization of the ideal society in Western culture in relation to changes in communication modes. The utopian discourse is defined by a concern with the relationship between language and reality. I explore this concern as a reflection of the theoretical disposition invited by changes in communication modes, which are perceived as crises of representation. Plato and Thomas More’s enlightened communities in the Republic and Utopia reflect comparable idealistic perspectives on education. In my view, this optimism stems from the social reality of growing literacies with the advent of the alphabet and printing, respectively. I contend that these writers are animated by an ethical impulse to teach their readers that language is representation. From the vantage point of this knowledge, each individual may employ language symbolically in order to create and perpetuate a moral and spiritual mode of thought. I argue that the discourse of the ideal is the symbolic expression of humanity’s engagement with death, the ultimate existential concern made acute by the aspect of historical discontinuity in the crisis of representation. Plato and More exhibit comparable efforts to open to their readers the superior space of critical reflexivity which they themselves inhabit. From this conceptual, pre-representational space of conscious choice, language is subjected to achieving spiritual progress. I introduce the concept of post-utopia, which describes a pragmatic moment when the relationship between author and the ideal society is brought into the foreground and reinforced as a way of addressing concerns with textual authority. I examine these developments in Augustine’s De Civitate Dei, François Rabelais’s episode of the Abbaye de Thélème in Gargantua, and Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis. These authors draw on the ideologies of representation inherent in utopian discourse, and position the authorial figure as link between scriptural teleology and history, ensuring spiritual and societal betterment in the textual cultures of late antiquity and early modernity. The figure of the author emerges as a symbol of history and of man’s ability to assume the limits of the mind and of language. utopian literature utopian thought communication change ideal society symbolic thought literacy Plato Thomas More St.Augustine Francois Rabelais Francis Bacon 0295 0708 0422
6	Kollegor genom en skärm : En kvalitativ studie om att gå från fysisk till digital kommunikation på ett IT-företag under pandemin / Colleagues through a screen : A qualitative study about going from physical to digital communication at an IT company during the pandemic Johansson, Sanna, Wretfors, Sakina January 2021 (has links) Because of covid-19, everyone has to follow the public health authority's recommendations to work from home. It's not only people's daily routines that have changed, it's also the workplaces. This has led to companies having to work more digitally than they did before. For some people this has been a big difference and for others it has not, depending on how digital the company worked before the start of the pandemic. People's way of communicating has changed due to the pandemic. With this background, this essay will examine how people at an IT company have experienced the change from physical communication to digital communication at their workplace due to covid-19. We are also interested in seeing whether the relationship and communication with colleagues has changed or not. We have used a qualitative method and conducted interviews with ten people at an IT company. The communication at the IT company has changed in some areas while it has not changed in others. To summarize the internal and external communication, the internal has changed a lot because the employees only communicate digitally with each other. External communication, on the other hand, has not changed much as the employees communicated largely digitally with their customers even before the pandemic, as they have customers all over Sweden and in the world. The biggest change that can be identified is that the employees themselves have had to take great personal responsibility in the work and meeting process. The pandemic has affected the communication between employees in a way that many feel more alone when they cannot have the same contact with their colleagues as they previously had. There has been a big difference in digital communication as it is much more difficult to see body language through a screen than it is when employees can meet physically. Organizational Communication Organizational change IT Companies Communication Change Digital Communication Covid-19 Organisationskommunikation Organisationsförändring IT-företag Kommunikationsförändring Digital kommunikation Covid-19 Media and Communications Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap
7	Nová a tradiční média: kam kráčí? : Směry vývoje zpravodajských serverů v době webu 2.0 / New and traditional media: what they lead to? : Possibilities of news sites development in the time of web 2.0 Chour, Jakub January 2011 (has links) The dissertation analyzes current potential and possible future development of new and traditional media. The main purpose of this paper is to find and describe the possibilities of news sites development in the near future.. After theoretical analysis of traditional and new media, I propose three dominant influences for nowadays media: participatory culture, news content changes and technologies. Based on these particular influences, 2-dimensional model of nowadays media system potential is built. From this model, I derive premises and possible future risks for media, with emphasis on news sites.
8	Making a hybrid of Fraktur and Helvetica : Investigating typography's connection to power, from a historical perspective in a contemporary context Bager, Freja January 2018 (has links) Throughout history and in today’s society, typography has been and still is without doubt a great part of communication. Behrens, an important designer from the modernist movement, believed that after architecture, typography provided “…the most characteristic picture of a period” and “…development of people”. Typography carries meaning and associations, built on the contexts and the design it is used in, that finally creates a typographic image. The Blackletter style Fraktur, and Helvetica were born to serve a purpose connected to power. Important for this research is to understand in detail, the origin of that power and its position: Blackletter portrays features of the Gothic architecture, expressing religious emotions and civic pride, intended for effective writing, and was predominant in religious and educational contexts. This improvement of writing was a necessity for the development of the society during the medieval times; for both educational and financial reasons. As Fraktur became a symbol of Germany, the today’s connotations towards oppression and Nazism were inevitable as the Third Reich continued to use it until it was banned in 1941. Meanwhile, the post war modernism in the 20th Century, sought objectivity, simplicity and readability in their design, to erase any carried meaning or associations that could have a misleading effect on the information. This period of time paved way for a corporate culture, with approaches towards rationalist and functionalist methods, that expresses authority and reliability. Achieving brand recognition for a wide range of products and contexts was required by the graphic designers. Through workshops that document people’s associations and comments on the shapes and typographic images that both Helvetica and Fraktur create, and visual research made in forms of sketching and adding Fraktur features to signs of institutions and public sectors, I have investigated Fraktur’s tainted image of oppression and political sentiments with the help of Helvetica as the contemporary norm. Power Typography Fraktur Blackletter Textura Helvetica Grotesque Type Design Typeface Communication Graphic Design Design Type History Calligraphy Font Font Design Gothic Typographic Communication Propaganda Visual Communication Visual Communication + Change Change Change Agent Agent of Change +Change Art Fine Arts Makt Typografi Gotik Typsnitt Typsnittsdesign Typografihistoria Kommunikation Grafisk kommunikation Visuell Kommunikation Formgivning Kalligrafi Typografisk Kommunikation Konst Design Design

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