Moderna företag inom nyhetsindustrin samlar stora mängder data för att evaluera effektiviteten av sin dagliga verksamhet, förbättra kundvärdet och fatta långsiktiga, strategiska beslut. Multimedia och datormolnets framfart under de senaste åren har lett till stora omvandlingar av hela nyhetsindustrin, men de ledande affärsmodellerna har varit långsamma på att anpassa sig till de nya förhållandena. En fallstudie har utförts hos ett digitalt nyhetsmedieföretag med säte i Stockholm. Vi har utvecklat ett verksamhetsutvecklingsverktyg i Java som samlar stora mängder mätdata och sammanställer detta i en databas. Det ska gå att visualisera och plotta data som en användare väljer genom att kommunicera med databasen. Vi använder vårt verktyg för att skapa och utveckla affärsmodeller som håller givet de förhållanden som råder inom industrin. Vi ger förslag på hur de strategiska målen kan nås genom att skapa ett balanserat styrkort med nyckeltal vi sammanställer från vårt verktyg. Våra resultat indikerar på att mått på användarbehållande, värde till användare och nyhetsleverantörer, och bidrag till välgörenhetsorganisationer som agerar via företaget är några av de viktigare nyckeltalen för att tillfredsställa de nuvarande strategiska målen. Vi ger råd om hur de strategiska målen för företaget ska nås genom att skapa ett balanserat styrkort med nyckeltal som vi bygger med hjälp av vår applikation. Våra resultat tyder på att företaget ska fokusera på att behålla befintliga användare och tydliggöra värdeskapandet till användare, nyhetsleverantörer och annonsörer. För att uppnå detta föreslår vi nya typer av tjänster som företaget ska tillhandahålla. / Modern companies in the news industry gather large quantities of data in order to evaluate the efficiency of their daily operations, to enhance customer value and make long-term, strategic decisions. With the rise of multimedia and cloud computing, the industry itself has transformed over the years, but the leading business models are slow to adapt to this change. At the same time, with technology becoming more of a commodity, companies are putting less emphasis on leveraging technology to a competetive edge, instead opting for stronger, more complex business models to create superior value. This thesis aims to link together valuable data measured by companies, with the creation of strong business models and strategic goals. A case study was performed at a Swedish digital news media startup based in Stockholm. We develop a business intelligence tool in Java that gathers large amounts of raw data, compiles the data into a database, and enables visualisation and plotting of selected data by performing query runs on the database. We use this application to develop and enhance business models that is viable in the current state of the industry. We give advise on how to reach the strategic goals of the company by creating a balanced scorecard with key performance indicators that we develop using our application. Our results indicate that the company should focus on user retention and increase its value proposition to users, news providers and advertisers. We will propose new types of services that the company should provide in order to accomplish this.

Rezension des Tagebuches des deutschen Komponisten Edwin Geist

The purpose of the present study is to ascertain the principles of poetry to which Robinson adhers, to determine his position in relation to the imagists, and to discuss in some detail the technical qualities of his shorter poems.

It is the purpose of this study to explore several of Edwin Arlington Robinson’s poems in order to show the poet’s force of language and prosody and to reveal as much as possible his total poetic artistry. The poems are representative of his familiar, shorter Tilbury Town portraits and are taken from his early, middle, and late periods. An honest appraisal will be made to determine the true worth of the poetry, and an attempt will be made to show that Edwin Arlington Robinson deserves a respected position in modern American letters.

The purpose of this dissertation is to analyze the six special military units which were authorized and created by the War Department under the direction of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. In relating the military history of such special units the study determines what contributions and significance they made to the Union war effort.

No description available.

No description available.

The Holt Social Studies Curriculum and The Americans were social studies textbooks edited by Edwin Fenton, John M. Good, and others at the Carnegie-Mellon Center for Project Social Studies. These textbooks were an effort by Fenton and his associates to meet the demands for change in social studies curriculum and related instructional materials. Being produced during an era of social change, revolts, and an unpopular war, the textbooks reflected on controversial issues of that era which eventually led to restrictions on their purchase in Georgia. These restrictions, however, raised issues which made this study possible. The Georgia State Board of Education in 1972 rejected the recommendations of its Professional Textbook Selection Committee to include the social studies textbooks edited, authored, or contributed to by Edwin Fenton on the state's approved textbook list. Only the textbooks on the state’s approved list could be purchased with state funds. This study is an investigation of the Georgia State Board of Education’s ban on the social studies textbooks from the state’s approved textbook list and the subsequent effects of the State Board 1s action on future textbook selection policies in the state. This was the first time in twenty years that members of the Georgia State Board of Education had acted to remove approved textbooks from the Georgia public schools. This study is also significant because the State Board's wording of its action leaves the impression that they were opposed to the author, regardless of his works. This study describes a step by step account of the events which eventually led to the ban on the textbooks. It also describes the subsequent events which led to a change in the state’s textbook selection policies. While parents did not participate in the controversy, policy changes made their participation more likely for textbook controversies in the future. Although the Fenton social studies textbooks were not adopted by the State Board, the approaches used in them are widely used in other social studies textbooks in Georgia today. For future textbook controversies in Georgia, the writer recommends that the lay representatives on the State’s Textbook Selection Committee be given voting power. The writer believes the controversy reported in this study uncovered an inconsistency between the social science educators in Georgia and the State Board of Education on the goals of the state’s social studies curriculum. Therefore, the writer recommends that the social studies educators develop a clear set of objectives for the social studies curriculum and present them to the State Board of Education for approval. These objectives should be made available to the general public for scrutiny before they become the set goals for the state. Further, the State Board of Education should keep the lines of communication open with the educators of the state. Finally, the writer recommends further study of the uniformity of Georgia's goals in education across the state, especially the social studies goals. Recently, the state has adopted a series of criterion referenced tests which are administered all over the state. A uniform testing system should dictate a uniform set of objectives. / Ed. D.

Beginning band directors appear to prioritize notation-based practices in their programs and rehearsals despite cognitive research indicating the necessity of audiation for musical comprehension and success. During rehearsals, directors oversee musical success and cognition suggesting the potentiality to improve upon traditional forms of teaching in order to prioritize audiation and encourage its systematic improvement. Using Edwin Gordon’s work on audiation and applications from cognitive research as my theoretical framework, I surveyed, observed, and interviewed beginning band directors regarding their prioritization of audiation during rehearsals. In this mixed methods study in which I used an explanatory sequential, multiple case study design, beginning band directors from select institutions and Gordon Institute of Music Learning certificate holders (N = 20) were asked to complete an online survey answering Likert-scaled and open-ended questions regarding rehearsal activities and students’ musical success. After survey completion, each volunteer director (n = 4) was observed twice, interviewed individually, and interviewed collectively in a focus group. Following the transcription of observations and interviews, open-ended survey responses, observations, and interviews were coded and major themes generated. Three implications for band directors and music educators included, first, valuing an unlimited pedagogy with a de-emphasis on decoding and repertoire and a reemphasis on ear playing and informal learning. Second, preparatory experiences are important for comprehensive success in beginning instrumental study. Third, a beginning band curriculum that is intentionally seeking to create comprehensive musicianship among beginners may be best achieved by balancing traditional pedagogy, Music Learning Theory, and informal music learning approaches. Future research might examine directors’ teaching inclusions and pedagogy over a more extensive period of time or as a single case study. Future research could also document audiation instruction from the student perspective.

This master thesis explores ideas, values, virtues, and masculinities within The Raw Man, a Swedish men’s group active since 2012, in the context of Swedish gender equality politics. The material used for this study is the The Raw Man’s website (with an array of persuasive texts and pictures), YouTube-videos, a podcast, and the group’s participation in a Swedish television program. The theoretical framework draws from tools and theories from the fields of rhetoric, philosophy and gender studies. First, I analyse the movement’s argumentation and sort their arguments within different rhetorical topoi. Then, with a similar method, I explore which virtues constitute an ideal man within the movement’s discourse. This analysis builds on Aristotle’s understanding of topoi and virtues and takes further help through texts of the modern rhetorical scholar Janne Lindqvist. To further investigate the movement and what kind of masculinities it reproduces, I take inspiration from Edwin Black’s theory of The Second Persona. The most commonly used topoi and virtues are used to form a second persona, the implicit reader of The Raw Man’s arguments and therefore, the embodiment of the movement’s ideas, values, and ideals. This second persona is then gazed through perspectives from men’s studies. The results show that The Raw Man is greatly inspired by the so called Mythopoetic Men’s Movement, and employs ideas from Robert Bly, Carl G. Jung, and adheres to traditional notions including essentialism, polarity between the sexes, men’s destiny as leaders and women’s as nurturers. It also shows that The Raw Man in fact considers Swedish gender equality politics as somewhat of a threat, and feminists as enemies. The type of masculinity that is being reproduced within the movement can best be described as sticky, a term used in men’s studies for describing conservative and misogynistic values that stick to men’s bodies and are difficult to shake off. The results also indicate that the movement’s discourse is rather contradictory, for example it shows ideals of being vulnerable and grounded while at the same time being a strong leader with traditional manly qualities. This implies some difficulties in fully defining their ideology and ideals, hence the second persona lacks some ideological consistency. Finally, the study shows that the use of rhetorical theories and perspectives can be useful tools when exploring men’s groups, and social movements as a whole.