Virtual reality has as a new mediaform dramatically changed how we look at interactive digital experiences. With this there is also a subsequent change in how we look at designing these experiences. Can we use our already established methods and design principles to create content for this new mediaform? This paper aims to explore if our more classical design principles and methods of designing digital experiences is applicable to the virtual reality. Along with this i will also create a better understanding of what defines immersion in digital mediums and virtual realities as well as how we can deconstruct the term “immersion”. All of this is then used in conjunction with the creation of a VR* game and the design method “Zen Game Design (2007)” to give a better picture of how a complete design method and process could look like for VR* games.

This thesis examines the everyday activities of Indian youth on the MTV India Facebook fan page. The two-phase research design included a period of participant observation, combined with conducting online interviews, and a visit to New Delhi, India to conduct offline interviews. The thesis analyzes several aspects of identity performance (e.g. online identity performance, relation between online and offline identity, ideal presentation of an online identity) in relation to Goffman’s (1959) presentation of self in everyday life, and argues that the MTV India Facebook fan page has become a site for identity performance. Since such identity performance is bounded by participants’ everyday activities, the fan page can also be identified as a particular ‘place’. I use Tuan’s (1977) idea of ‘place-making’ and illustrate how the MTV India Facebook fan page has become a meaningful and familiar ‘place’ overtime through performance of routine activities and everyday practices (Seamon, 1979). These activities can be identified as articulating ‘Youngistan’ (voice of Indian youth) and performing Indian-ness, suggesting that fans have appropriated the fan page for performing specific activities that are particular to them. In addition, the thesis takes the local-global character into consideration and argues that local-global combine together to form separate, unique cultures such as MTV India, which safeguard ‘locality’ within the global product and help in ‘place-making’ activities.

Digital media and networks occupy an increasing central position within contemporary societies. This position does not simply involve communicational forms. From the turn of the millennium, phenomena of on- line activism have regularly emerged, bringing novel political forms of resistance to the fore. In academic literature, such phenomena are defined as ‘hacktivism’, putting hacker culture in contact with the politically motivated use of networked media by social movements. However, these scholarly perspectives often fail to deal sufficiently with the original forms of mediation that are at stake in hacktivist ‘deployments’ of media apparatuses. Finding inspiration especially in the work of Félix Guattari, I propose a ‘machinic’ methodology able to deal with the relations and processes with which the act of researching is inescapably involved, overcoming the distances that epistemologically separate the subject from its objects of research. Hence, I originate a ‘method assemblage’ by combining emergent theories in the field of media and culture, and advancing a critical questioning on the same researching procedures. Linking media ecologies and archaeologies, the resulting creative method allows an approach to the case study of ‘Anonymous’ through a novel critical compass. The original creation of the method aims to study without foreclosing the heterogeneous forms of active resistance actualised through media technologies. I suggest that the short-term, transient character of contemporary forms of resistance does not lack political efficacy. Rather hacktivism has to be reconsidered in vital terms beyond representation, within a field that is ‘micro-political’ and materially involves novel processes of subjectivation and disruptiveness.

Denna uppsats, ”Den som flyr har inget val, ingen människa är illegal” -En kritisk diskursanalys över framställningen av flyktingar i politik och media, handlar om hur begreppet flyktingar konstruerats i den flyktingpolitiska diskursen i regering/riksdag och hur Dagens Nyheter konstruerat begreppet flyktingar i den flyktingpolitiska diskursen under två olika perioder. Som teori och metod används en kritisk diskursanalys för att ta reda på om flyktingar framställts som en belastning eller en resurs och i så fall hur och vem som belastas eller de blir en resurs för. Analysen visar att synen på flyktingar i riksdagen och regeringen är att de i störst utsträckning är belastning för Sverige och den svenska befolkningen under båda perioderna. Flyktingar har framställts som ett hot både ekonomiskt och socialt. Under den senare av de två perioderna framställdes de även som ett hot mot landets och folkets säkerhet.  Den framställningen som fanns i riksdagen återspeglades under båda perioderna i Dagens Nyheters artiklar. / This paper, " There is nothing illegal about a person, being forced to flee " - A critical discourse analysis of how the construction of refugee concepts in politics and media has changed over time deals with how refugees as concept have been construced in the refugee political discourse in government / parliament and how Dagens Nyheter makes refugees in it Refugee policy discourse for two different periods. As a theory and method, a critical discourse analysis is used to find out whether refugees are presented as a load or resource, and if so, how and who are charged or they become a resource. The analysis shows that the view of refugees in the parliament is that they are to a large extent the burden for Sweden and the Swedish population during both periods. Refugees have been produced as a threat both economically and socially. During the latter of the two periods, they were also produced as a threat to the country and the people's security. The petition that existed in the goverment and the parliament was reflected in Dagens Nyheter's articles in both periods.

The following work is a feature length screenplay about Anna Morris, an 18-year-old girl who finds herself faced with a moral dilemma when her estranged father, Robert, contacts her on her 18th birthday. When she learns about Robert’s past involvement in an online child pornography ring Anna must decide if she can forgive him, or -- more importantly -- if he is worthy of forgiveness. However, as the story unfolds we find that it is not just Anna who needs to forgive. This story approaches issues of repentance, growth, and the journey into adulthood as Anna takes on each new challenge.

One of the main goals of this Master's Thesis was to characterize the process of media planning and its organization, to determine the factors influencing this process and get to know the specifics of print media planning. Diffrent sources of information were used to study the process -- available literature, available analysis of the media market in the Czech Republic and also practical experience of media planners. Another important goal was to propose a media plan Spring 2004 for the Open University Czech Republic o.p.s. The analysis shows that media planning is very complex process involving many individual steps. The starting point is a deep analysis of the company and product. The next important step is then a selection of appropriate media strategy and creation of the the most effective media mix. During the print media planning must be taken into account factors such as the creativity of advertising, its format, campaign timing and the content of communication. In the practical part the Open University media plan for print and electronic media was designed. The media type has been chosen according to the target group of the potential students. The plan is based on the real situation of the company and therefore, together with other proposals for changes of the corporate communication, in the next period feasible.

The study examines the usage of media by the Ghanaian new migrants living in Örebro Sweden. It looks at how the new migrants keep abreast with what is happening in Sweden, their home country Ghana and the rest of the world. The findings show that, the growing numbers of migrants and the kind of diasporic media have significant implications for imagining multicultural Sweden and for participating in European societies and transnational communities. What is argued here is how the new migrants will make use of the diasporic media for their benefit. This study further investigates how the diaspora use the media, it is not to show that society is different or to make impulsive statements on the role of certain media in contributing to integration per se of the new migrants in their host countries. Through qualitative interviews, the study reveals that new migrants find it difficult to make use of the Swedish public sphere. The mainstream media is aloof in everything that interests and benefits new migrants. However alternatives like the internet have tended to close the information gap that the mainstream media has created among the new migrants. Sadly the internet does not play the role that the main stream media would have for new migrants into the Swedish public sphere because the information new migrants’ access is varied and there is no motivation to help them easily get into Swedish public sphere as would have been the case with Swedish mainstream media. Information analysed from the interviews conducted in Örebro indicates that new migrants rely more on the internet than Swedish mainstream media regardless of the length of stay in Sweden. The most affected are those who have lived in Sweden for less than two years and have not acclamatized themselves with the Swedish language which would have enabled them to read Swedish publications, listen to Swedish radio broadcasts and watch Swedish television broadcasts. This, coupled with programmes that help new migrants to make use of the Swedish public sphere would have made Sweden a truly multicultural society. Finally the study suggests areas of further study and research that can be explored in order to promote multiculturalism that Sweden strives to achieve through its policy. The limitations that the study points out only help a researcher to avoid situations that could limit the benefits of the study thereby accessing information that develops and promotes multiculturalism where it is lacking currently.

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