<p>Media is one of the most important gateways to the world beyond for most people. Every day we are presented with images of distant places and peoples and the events they are a part of. During the years the way these news events have been presented to the public has changed but still they create images within us of these distant places and peoples.</p><p>This paper discusses how the journalistic narrative is built up based on some theories describing media and how is used and/or uses the society it is a part of. The paper tries to answer questions on how the image of the distant places and peoples is built up, based on these theories and discussions within the journalistic community.</p><p>The process from source to print is complex. Several part takers have an interest in putting out their view of the world to the public. This creates a complex web of dependencies between the media and different groups in society. In the end the image presented is a side effect of how the journalistic text is built up, where the narrative has to be firmly rooted with individuals and places to gain acceptance with the public, and where people and places described often become artifacts, rooted in very specific events.</p>

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I denna uppsats undersöks hur begreppet ”vi och dem” manifesteras i tre romaner med utgångspunkt i en samhällskontext. I studien används Franco Morettis (Elektronisk källa: 8.10.2012) analysmetod, ”distant reading”, vilket innebär att man bortser från detaljer och istället fokuserar på helheten. Syftet har således varit att belysa begreppet ”vi och dem” i romanerna Om jag kunde drömma (Meyer, 2005), Hungerspelen (Collins, 2008) samt Ett öga rött (Khemiri, 2003). I samspel med metoden ”distant reading” har även Illman och Nynäs (2005) tanke om att texter alltid läses och tolkas utifrån individers tidigare erfarenheter samt den omgivande kontexten varit till hjälp. Illman och Nynäs (2005) beskriver begreppen ”grupperingar”, ”fördom” och ”gränsöverskridande möten” som används i analyskapitlet. Dessa begrepp belyses sedan ur ett samhällsperspektiv med utgångspunkt i begreppet ”vi och dem” där en diskussion förs kopplat till tidigare forskning, romananalyserna och egna reflektioner. Resultatet åskådliggör att delar ur dessa romaner kan gestalta olika förhållanden där förutfattade meningar samt grupperingar av olika slag kan leda till fördom och hur dessa kan motverkas genom gränsöverskridande möten.

Human activity recognition is one of the intensively studied areas in computer vision. Most existing works do not assume video resolution to be a problem due to general applications of interests. However, with continuous concerns about global security and emerging needs for intelligent video analysis tools, activity recognition from low-resolution and low-quality videos has become a crucial topic for further research. In this dissertation, We present a series of approaches which are developed specifically to address the related issues regarding low-level image preprocessing, single person activity recognition, and human-vehicle interaction reasoning from low-resolution surveillance videos. Human cast shadows are one of the major issues which adversely effect the performance of an activity recognition system. This is because human shadow direction varies depending on the time of the day and the date of the year. To better resolve this problem, we propose a shadow removal technique which effectively eliminates a human shadow cast from a light source of unknown direction. A multi-cue shadow descriptor is employed to characterize the distinctive properties of shadows. Our approach detects, segments, and then removes shadows. We propose two different methods to recognize single person actions and activities from low-resolution surveillance videos. The first approach adopts a joint feature histogram based representation, which is the concatenation of subspace projected gradient and optical flow features in time. However, in this problem, the use of low-resolution, coarse, pixel-level features alone limits the recognition accuracy. Therefore, in the second work, we contributed a novel mid-level descriptor, which converts an activity sequence into simultaneous temporal signals at body parts. With our representation, activities are recognized through both the local video content and the short-time spectral properties of body parts' movements. We draw the analogies between activity and speech recognition and show that our speech-like representation and recognition scheme improves recognition performance in several low-resolution datasets. To complete the research on this subject, we also tackle the challenging problem of recognizing human-vehicle interactions from low-resolution aerial videos. We present a temporal logic based approach which does not require training from event examples. At the low-level, we employ dynamic programming to perform fast model fitting between the tracked vehicle and the rendered 3-D vehicle models. At the semantic-level, given the localized event region of interest (ROI), we verify the time series of human-vehicle spatial relationships with the pre-specified event definitions in a piecewise fashion. Our framework can be generalized to recognize any type of human-vehicle interaction from aerial videos. / text

Media is one of the most important gateways to the world beyond for most people. Every day we are presented with images of distant places and peoples and the events they are a part of. During the years the way these news events have been presented to the public has changed but still they create images within us of these distant places and peoples. This paper discusses how the journalistic narrative is built up based on some theories describing media and how is used and/or uses the society it is a part of. The paper tries to answer questions on how the image of the distant places and peoples is built up, based on these theories and discussions within the journalistic community. The process from source to print is complex. Several part takers have an interest in putting out their view of the world to the public. This creates a complex web of dependencies between the media and different groups in society. In the end the image presented is a side effect of how the journalistic text is built up, where the narrative has to be firmly rooted with individuals and places to gain acceptance with the public, and where people and places described often become artifacts, rooted in very specific events.

Développer un système de rendu distant pour terminaux légers et mobiles traitant d'objets multimédias et de leur sémantique consiste à (1) offrir une véritable expérience multimédia collaborative au niveau du terminal, (2) assurer la compatibilité avec les contraintes liées au réseau (bande passante, erreurs et latence variables en temps) et au terminal (ressources de calcul et de mémoire réduites) et (3) s'affranchir des types de terminaux et des spécificités des communautés.Cette thèse traite de ces enjeux et se positionne en rupture avec l'état de l'art en développant une architecture support fondée sur la gestion sémantique du contenu multimédia. Le principe consiste à convertir en temps réel le contenu graphique généré par l'application en un graphe de scène multimédia et à le gérer en fonction de la sémantique de ses composantes.L'optimisation de la bande passante est assurée par la compression adaptative du graphe de scène et par la compression sans perte des messages de collaboration. Les deux méthodes développées sont caractérisées respectivement par la création d'un unique graphe de scène intrinsèquement adaptable au réseau/terminal et par la mise à jour dynamique du dictionnaire de codage en fonction des messages générés par les utilisateurs. Elles sont brevetées.Les fonctionnalités collaboratives interviennent directement au niveau du contenu grâce à l'enrichissement du graphe de scène par un nouveau type de nœud, dont la normalisation ISO est en cours.Le démonstrateur logiciel sous-jacent, dénommé MASC (Multimedia Adaptive Semantic Collaboration), permet de comparer objectivement cette nouvelle architecture aux solutions actuellement déployées par des acteurs majeurs du domaine (VNC RBF ou Microsoft RDP). Deux types d'application ont été considérés : l'édition du texte et la navigation sur Internet. Les évaluations quantitatives montrent: (1) un impact limité des artéfacts visuels de conversion (PSNR compris entre 30 et 42 dB et SSIM supérieur à 0,9999), (2) consommation de la bande passante downlink (resp. uplink) réduite d'un facteur de 2 à 60 (resp. de 3 à 10), (3) latence dans la transmission des événements générés par l'utilisateur réduite d'un facteur de 4 à 6, (4) consommation des ressources de calcul côté client réduite d'un facteur 1,5 par rapport à VNC RFB.

Summary Distant Learning (DL) in Lithuania is rapidly developing, various Virtual Learning Environments (VLE) emerge. The most popular of them are WebCT, Moodle, Atutor. Therefore I have decided to analyse Moodle Virtual Learning Environment as it is widely used by many institutions of high and secondary education. Purpose of the paper To analyse the tools of virtual learning environments, in order to select those that could be added to Moodle environment and help achieve efficient usage of Moodle in creating and providing DL courses. Objectives: a) Analyse the concept and functions of VLE. b) Provide general analysis of VLE. c) Provide a comparative analysis of Moodle, File3, WebCT environments. d) Determine which functions should be added to VLE Moodle. e) Integrate the selected tools to Moodle environment. f) Prepare methodical material of Moodle environment for teachers and students. Methods of the study: a) Search and systemization of information. b) Analysis and generalization of scientific and informational material. c) Data processing. d) Comparative data analysis. In order to achieve the set objective I have compared Moodle and WebCT, which have proven to be the most popular VLE, as well as File3 – an average level VLE created in Finland. By comparing these VLE becomes apparent that Moodle VLE contains a number of various teaching and handling tools however the distributed versions of this program are short of some tools: they have no internal e-mail, which is... [to full text]

This project examines the corpus of novels that have been nominated for the Man Booker Prize and, using the prize as a creator of a contemporary literary canon, attempts to develop a model of a contemporary best text. Using the distant reading techniques proposed by digital humanities scholar Franco Moretti to track and graph a variety of formal and structural variables across the corpus of nominees, it becomes apparent that the kind of novel that typically wins the Booker Prize and thus the kind of novel that qualifies as a contemporary best text fits a distinct mold. These novels are solemn, serious texts written by British or Irish men, and the stories they tell concern young British or Irish men struggling, often alone, in pain, and under the threat of impending age, through a brutal, violent, and amoral world.

Submitted by Tatiana Lima (tatianasl@ufba.br) on 2015-05-08T19:40:59Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Almeida, Lareyne Luedy Oliveira Lima Cordeiro de..pdf: 12510746 bytes, checksum: 3795fd9e83120c4efbb6a4220c4188b5 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Tatiana Lima (tatianasl@ufba.br) on 2015-05-11T19:03:05Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Almeida, Lareyne Luedy Oliveira Lima Cordeiro de..pdf: 12510746 bytes, checksum: 3795fd9e83120c4efbb6a4220c4188b5 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-11T19:03:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Almeida, Lareyne Luedy Oliveira Lima Cordeiro de..pdf: 12510746 bytes, checksum: 3795fd9e83120c4efbb6a4220c4188b5 (MD5) / Este trabalho buscou três objetivos. O primeiro de verificar vínculos que se assemelham a manifestações da dádiva no Projeto Apoio a Distância (PAD). O segundo objetivo pretendeu discutir a dádiva no conceito de Jacques Godbout e sua manifestação no Projeto Apoio a Distância. E o terceiro de demonstrar a importância da dádiva na estruturação, manutenção e sustentabilidade do projeto. O trabalho demonstra como o projeto colabora para a geração de vínculos, principal propósito da dádiva, o que pode contribuir para o aperfeiçoamento e a perpetuidade do próprio projeto. Mesmo baseando-se em uma única iniciativa, inúmeras organizações do Terceiro Setor trabalham com iniciativas semelhantes, estendendo as descoberta do trabalho a estas também. Realizado por meio de estudo de caso do projeto em Salvador (BA), volta-se para o apoiador ou padrinho, com a perspectiva de demonstrar que a ação da dádiva não é circunscrita ao apoiado, mas envolve os dois pólos da relação. O posicionamento do Brasil não mais como um país recebedor de projetos de cooperação internacional, mas como um país doador ou player, contribui para o surgimento da necessidade dos gestores de criação de estratégias de sensibilização de famílias brasileiras para a continuidade do projeto, as quais devem considerar a presença do dom. / The first will highlight that resemble the manifestations of the gift in the Distant Support Project (PAD). The second aim is discuss the gift between strangers on the concept of Jacques Godbout and its manifestation in Distance Support Project (PAD). And the third is demonstrate the importance of gift for the structuring, maintenance and stainability of PAD. The dissertation will show how the project helps to generate links which is the main proposal of the gift, possibility also contributing to improve and maintain the project itself. Even being based in an unique initiative, many third sector organizations work with similar proposals expanding the findings of the work to these as well. Based on a case-study of the project in the municipality Salvador (Bahia) it is addressed to the sponsor showing that the gift is not only forwarded to the sponsor. It is a two way relationship. The Brazilian position of a no further supported country from international cooperation projects but as a donor country or player push managements to create strategies in order to mobilize Brazilian families to continue the project that should consider the gift. The work shows invisible relationships (gifted ones) that deserve to be observed.

Orientador: Maria Aparecida Segatto Muranaka / Banca: Cesar Augusto Minto / Banca: Joyce Mary Adam de Paula e Silva / Este estudo desenvolve uma análise do processo de implementação do Projeto Veredas -Formação Superior de Professores, enquanto política pública, com o objetivo de identificar o grau de contribuição deste programa de educação a distância, para a formação dos docentes das redes estadual e municipal, em exercício, na jurisdição da 31ª Superintendência Regional de Ensino de Poços de Caldas. Analisa o Projeto no âmbito da gestão, procurando identificar sua perspectiva, cotejada às políticas de formação de professores, implantadas no Estado e no país, na década de 1990, onde por meio de processos facilitadores de acumulação capitalista, as reformas educativas postas pelas atuais políticas educacionais atribuem centralidade à formação dos docentes da educação básica. Esta definição está ligada às exigências criadas pelas mudanças econômicas e sociais resultantes da globalização, dos avanços científicos e tecnológicos e do papel que o mercado vem assumindo na esfera social. Para tanto, além de uma revisão bibliográfica em torno da temática, procedemos à análise das políticas de formação emanadas desta década, no Brasil e no Estado de Minas Gerais, procurando desenhar o panorama de ações e programas decorrentes, com destaque para o Projeto Veredas. A pesquisa de campo realizada com os professores/cursistas, secretários municipais de educação, superintendente regional de ensino, coordenadores e tutores responsáveis pela regional de Poços de Caldas buscou apreender suas concepções e expectativas e, em que medida o Veredas, enquanto política pública, cumpre com este papel. Ao recuperar a trajetória percorrida, procuramos responder às questões levantadas, bem como apontar novas inquietações e desafios. O resultado deste estudo revela que o Projeto Veredas - Formação Superior de Professores contribuiu... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / This study analyses the process of implementation of Projeto Veredas - Formação Superior de Professores, as a public policy, aiming to identify how much this long distant program contributes to the formation of professors at public schools, under the jurisdiction of the 31ª Superintedência Regional de Ensino de Poços de Caldas. It also analyses the project within the scope of administration, trying to identify its perspective linked to the formation of professors policies implemented in the state and in the country in the 1990s, in which by processes of capitalism accumulation, education reforms done by the present policies focus on the formation of teachers at basic levels. This definition is linked to the requests of the economic and social changes resulting from globalization, scientific and technological advances and the role that the job field plays in the social sphere. In order to do so, besides a reference study about the issue, the formation policies, in Brazil and in the State of Minas Gerais, at the present decade were analyzed, aiming to have an overview from the actions and programs which arose, giving special emphasis to Projeto Veredas. The field research done with professors, municipal secretaries, regional education superintendent, coordinators who are responsible for the region of Poços de Caldas, searched its conceptions and expectations, and how the project, as a public policy, plays its role. Reviewing all the aspects, we tried to answer all the questions which arose, as well as all the new ones and challenges. The result of this study reveals that Projeto Veredas - Formação Superior de Professores contributed, as a public policy, to confirm the fragility of some specific formation of professors programs which are unprovided of continuity and reafirm the urgent necessity to transform the National Professor Formation Policy in an ever lasting program, in which the effective participation of entities and educators is guarante / Mestre