To write is, in a certain sense, to experience the immaterial thoughts of one’s mind materialize in the becoming of scripture. Nevertheless, since early modernism, the writing of poetry has rarely been perceived as an unmediated transition of language, from the interior of the self to the material surface of writing. Indeed, the tendency of modernist and subsequent postmodernist aesthetics to emphasize the density, opacity and autonomy of the poem, for example through various techniques of fragmentation, draws attention to the ways in which the materiality of writing is implicated in the production of meaning. The present thesis is a study of how meaning and materiality interrelate in two poetry collections, Skäran (2001) and Täthetsteoremet (2012), by the contemporary Swedish poet Helena Eriksson. The aim is to show that these relationships are important effects of the metapoetic discourse in Eriksson’s poetry, and how they produce a certain tension or ambiguity in the writing subject's relation to body and language, self and other. Through a reading of the diverse representation of the hand in Eriksson’s poetry as a metapoetic motif, the analysis combines a phenomenological view of embodied subjectivity, with a media theoretical conception of the writing hand, as well as a new materialist approach to agency and embodiment. The method of analysis that follows from these perspectives is a close, reparative reading, where the poetic text is seen as a situational discursive act that reaches out to the reader in a communicative gesture, offering its own body as meaning.

The information technology revolution has completely changed the world economy. This industry that has revolutionized many aspects of social life, created an incredible amount of jobs, and generated an enormous amount of wealth, has been growing exponentially fast since the beginning of this century. Billions of people all over the world tap into the various services and products that have sprung from this information technology revolution. While these products and services have undisputedly enabled incredible features that previous generations could only have dreamt of, it might be time to take a step back and analyze the various aspects of some of these products and services in terms of their societal value and business models. Many of the social media platforms that exist today promise a free access to content and information, and the world has grown so accustomed to this, that the dynamics behind this promise of free access are often overlooked. Data from users is being collected on social media platforms and sold to interested parties like advertisers, who in turn can create customized and targeted ads that will be displayed on these same social media platforms. This is the simple exchange that fuels the advertisement-based business models of many of these platforms. Awareness and understanding around the workings of this business model is growing, but it seems interesting to illustrate a better picture of what implications these business models fueled by data have on our society. Specifically, this research aimed at answering the question: What are the implications of the advertisement-based business model of YouTube in relation to the 2016 presidential elections of the United States? Through an extensive literature review, as well as a case study analysis, this research reported various implications of the business model of YouTube that were discussed both in light of their relevance to the specific political event mentioned in the research question, as well as in light of larger overarching institutions like democracy. / Informationsteknologirevolutionen har förändrat världsekonomin helt. Denna industri som har revolutionerat många aspekter av det sociala livet, skapat en otrolig mängd arbetstillfällen och genererat en enorm mängd rikedom har vuxit exponentiellt snabbt sedan början av detta århundrade. Miljarder människor över hela världen utnyttjar de olika tjänsterna och produkterna som härrör från denna informationsteknologirevolution. Även om dessa produkter och tjänster otvivelaktigt har möjliggjort otroliga funktioner som tidigare generationer bara kunde ha drömt om, kan det vara dags att ta ett steg tillbaka och analysera de olika aspekterna av vissa av dessa produkter och tjänster när det gäller deras samhällsvärde och affärsmodeller. Många av de sociala medieplattformarna som finns idag lovar en fri tillgång till innehåll och information, och världen har blivit så vana vid detta att dynamiken bakom detta löfte om fri tillgång ofta förbises. Data från användare samlas in på sociala medieplattformar och säljs till intresserade parter som annonsörer, som i sin tur kan skapa anpassade och riktade annonser som kommer att visas på samma sociala medieplattformar. Detta är det enkla utbytet som drivs av reklambaserade affärsmodeller för många av dessa plattformar. Medvetenhet och förståelse kring hur denna affärsmodell fungerar växer, men det verkar intressant att illustrera en bättre bild av vilka konsekvenser dessa affärsmodeller drivs av data har på vårt samhälle. Specifikt denna forskning syftar till att besvara frågan: Vilka är konsekvenserna av den annonsbaserade affärsmodellen för Youtube i samband med USA: s presidentval 2016? Genom en omfattande litteraturöversikt, såväl som en fallstudieanalys, rapporterade denna forskning olika implikationer av affärsmodellen på Youtube som diskuterades både mot bakgrund av deras relevans för den specifika politiska händelsen som nämns i forskningsfrågan, liksom i ljuset av större övergripande institutioner som demokrati.

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This study takes a closer look at the screenplay of the 2019 coming-of-age film, Booksmart. Using critical discourse analysis, and Fairclough’s three-dimensional method, it examines the way girls are portrayed based on the screenplay and its audience reviews. The main theories used in order to find the right perspective for this analysis, are Steiner’s (2014) feminist media theory. Gendered Language theories are also taken into account in order to find the right components in the text, such as word choices in the dialogue. Previous studies used to guide this study include Henesy (2020), Yue (2019), Shapiro (2017), Edwards (2016) and Nairn et. al. (2014). Using gendered language, performed gender and feminist values to decode the screenplay, the findings of this study show that the choices made in the screenplay of Booksmart (2019) are to distinguish the difference between the two female protagonists. The main component being how they deliver their dialogue and how certain characteristics in both conversation and personality can change the power dynamic between the two protagonists. The film also manages to split its audience into two groups: the ones who hate it, and the ones who love it.

Cette thèse est une enquête épistémologique qui s’interroge sur la persistance de « l’éther » dans le champ de la technologie. De façon générale, le mot « éther » évoque un modèle conceptuel de la physique pré-einsteinienne, celui d’un milieu invisible permettant la propagation de la lumière et des ondes électromagnétiques. Or, ce n’est là qu’une des figures de l’éther. Dans plusieurs mythologies et cosmogonies anciennes, le nom « éther » désignait le feu originel contenu dans les plus hautes régions célestes. Aristote nommait « éther », par exemple, le « cinquième être », ou « cinquième élément ». La chimie a aussi sa propre figure de l’éther où il donne son nom à un composé chimique, le C4H10O, qui a été utilisé comme premier anesthésiant général à la fin du XIXe siècle. L’apparition soutenue dans l’histoire de ces figures disparates de l’éther, qui a priori ne semblent pas entretenir de relation entre elles, est pour nous la marque de la persistance de l’éther. Nous défendons ici l’argument selon lequel cette persistance ne se résume pas à la constance de l’attribution d’un mot ou d’un nom à différents phénomènes dans l’histoire, mais à l’actualisation d’une même signature, éthérogène. À l’invitation d’Agamben et en nous inspirant des travaux de Nietzsche et Foucault sur l’histoire-généalogie et ceux de Derrida sur la déconstruction, notre thèse amorce une enquête historique motivée par un approfondissement d’une telle théorisation de la signature. Pour y parvenir, nous proposons de placer l’éther, ou plutôt la signature-éther, au cœur de différentes enquêtes historiques préoccupées par le problème de la technologie. En abordant sous cet angle des enjeux disparates – la légitimation des savoirs narratifs, la suspension des sens, la pseudoscience et la magie, les révolutions de l’information, l’obsession pour le sans-fil, l’économie du corps, la virtualisation de la communication, etc. –, nous proposons dans cette thèse autant d’amorces pour une histoire autre, une contre-histoire. / This dissertation stands as an epistemological inquiry into the persistence of the notion of ether within technology’s discursive field. Most often, the word “ether” is understood as a conceptual model in pre-einsteinian physics which designates the medium responsible for the propagation of electromagnetic waves and light. However, this proves to be only one of the many figures of ether. In multiple mythologies and cosmogonies, ether was also the name employed to refer to a sublime and pure fire filling the highest spaces of the universe. Aristotle, for example, named “ether” what he considered to be the “fifth being,” or the “fifth element.” Chemistry also makes use of ether, where the name denominates the compound C4H10O, used as the first general anaesthetic agent at the end of the nineteenth century. From our point of view, the sustained occurrences of ether in these different figures, so disparate indeed that they appear unrelated, marks the manifestation of its persistence. We argue that this persistence should not be narrowed down to a constant attribution of a “word” or a “name” to several historical phenomenons, but rather should be viewed as the actualization of a same etherogeneous “signature.” Responding to an invitation by Italian philosopher Agamben, and building on Nietzsche’s and Foucault’s history-genealogy as well as on Derrida’s deconstruction, our dissertation proposes an historical program oriented towards a theorization of the signature. To do so, we suggest locating the ether, or rather the ether-signature, at the heart of several historical inquiries concerned with the contemporary problem with technology. Approaching some of theses issues –the legitimating of narrative knowledge, the suspension of the senses, pseudoscience and mysticism, information and industrial revolutions, wireless obsessions, body and corporeality, virtualization of communication, etc. –, our dissertation aims at locating and articulating as many baits towards an-other history, a counter-history.

Multimedia communication arises as a theoretical issue according to the constant and fast progress in information and communication technology evolution. In relation to the process of digitalization, there are made a new instruments and possibilities of communication that integrate a lot of new and also standard approaches. Focus of the public and both the producers is directing mainly to the technologies and tools. Theoretical framework that predicts the impacts and advices effective using in society context retreated into the background of interest. It is going to start massive expansion of technological instruments without the general know-how of parameters of its using and without the importance in whole society contact. Literacy in this way is a key to effective information design which allows us to communicate the message we want to in the way we want to. This document deals with issue of analysis actual state and synthesis of the basics that are important for the development of theoretical base. Main goal of this base it to support effective production of multimedia content thru identifying elementary principles that affects the transfer of message by multimedia. In the process of multimedia communication is happening that the initiator is separated from the message and has no possibility to manipulate with it during the process. So it is very necessary to act consciously and qualified during the formulations and coding to media to avoid bad reinterpretations and so that message will be resistant to the disruptive effects.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T18:16:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Cecilia Noriko Ito Saito.pdf: 1359127 bytes, checksum: 954231d7c5e2fae3376c4dbb75d5086e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-09-26 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / The proposal of this thesis is to investigate subjects tided to primordial organizations of communications process of the body in formation, made from the body media theory. In this theoretical investigation, which relates Communications Theory Studies to Cognitive Science Studies, the thesis analyzes and assists the democratic school procedures through experiences that are being made by Lumiar Institute in São Paulo (SP). Among its subjects, the most evident is socialization without ones subjection, in opposite to disciplinary devices, together to autonomy and resistance (Singer, 1997). Lumiar School proposal in Brazil is being internationally recognized, being studied by researchers such as those of Zero Project by Harvard University and MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Links between practical-theoretical Media-Body Project bibliography and implementation participation of Lumiar Institute projects has shown efficiency while it gets up to date and gets more evidence to the links between body communications studies and survival political strategies. By this way, we intend to research a subject, which involves learning processes in children by approaching concepts such as action, perception, movement, cognition and their connections to the embodied cognition research / A proposta desta tese é investigar questões ligadas aos primórdios da organização de processos de comunicação do corpo em formação, fundadas a partir da Teoria Corpomídia. Nesta investigação teórica, que relaciona os estudos da Teoria da Comunicação e das Ciências Cognitivas, a tese acompanha e analisa os procedimentos da escola democrática, a partir das experiências que vêem sendo realizadas pelo Instituto Lumiar em São Paulo (SP). Dentre seus objetivos, destaca-se o trabalho com a socialização sem sujeição, em oposição aos dispositivos disciplinares e em parceria com a autonomia e a resistência (Singer, 1997). A proposta da Escola Lumiar no Brasil tem sido reconhecida internacionalmente, sendo estudada por pesquisadores como os integrantes do Zero Project da Universidade de Harvard e do MIT (Massachussets Institute of Technology). A ponte teórico-prática entre a bibliografia do projeto Corpomídia e a participação na implementação dos projetos do Instituto Lumiar, têm se mostrado eficiente na medida em que atualiza e destaca ainda mais, os vínculos entre o estudo da comunicação do corpo e as estratégias políticas de sobrevivência. Nesse sentido, pretende-se pesquisar questões que envolvem os processos de aprendizado na criança através da abordagem de conceitos como ação, percepção, movimento, cognição e suas conexões com as pesquisas da cognição corporificada

Cette thèse est une enquête épistémologique qui s’interroge sur la persistance de « l’éther » dans le champ de la technologie. De façon générale, le mot « éther » évoque un modèle conceptuel de la physique pré-einsteinienne, celui d’un milieu invisible permettant la propagation de la lumière et des ondes électromagnétiques. Or, ce n’est là qu’une des figures de l’éther. Dans plusieurs mythologies et cosmogonies anciennes, le nom « éther » désignait le feu originel contenu dans les plus hautes régions célestes. Aristote nommait « éther », par exemple, le « cinquième être », ou « cinquième élément ». La chimie a aussi sa propre figure de l’éther où il donne son nom à un composé chimique, le C4H10O, qui a été utilisé comme premier anesthésiant général à la fin du XIXe siècle. L’apparition soutenue dans l’histoire de ces figures disparates de l’éther, qui a priori ne semblent pas entretenir de relation entre elles, est pour nous la marque de la persistance de l’éther. Nous défendons ici l’argument selon lequel cette persistance ne se résume pas à la constance de l’attribution d’un mot ou d’un nom à différents phénomènes dans l’histoire, mais à l’actualisation d’une même signature, éthérogène. À l’invitation d’Agamben et en nous inspirant des travaux de Nietzsche et Foucault sur l’histoire-généalogie et ceux de Derrida sur la déconstruction, notre thèse amorce une enquête historique motivée par un approfondissement d’une telle théorisation de la signature. Pour y parvenir, nous proposons de placer l’éther, ou plutôt la signature-éther, au cœur de différentes enquêtes historiques préoccupées par le problème de la technologie. En abordant sous cet angle des enjeux disparates – la légitimation des savoirs narratifs, la suspension des sens, la pseudoscience et la magie, les révolutions de l’information, l’obsession pour le sans-fil, l’économie du corps, la virtualisation de la communication, etc. –, nous proposons dans cette thèse autant d’amorces pour une histoire autre, une contre-histoire. / This dissertation stands as an epistemological inquiry into the persistence of the notion of ether within technology’s discursive field. Most often, the word “ether” is understood as a conceptual model in pre-einsteinian physics which designates the medium responsible for the propagation of electromagnetic waves and light. However, this proves to be only one of the many figures of ether. In multiple mythologies and cosmogonies, ether was also the name employed to refer to a sublime and pure fire filling the highest spaces of the universe. Aristotle, for example, named “ether” what he considered to be the “fifth being,” or the “fifth element.” Chemistry also makes use of ether, where the name denominates the compound C4H10O, used as the first general anaesthetic agent at the end of the nineteenth century. From our point of view, the sustained occurrences of ether in these different figures, so disparate indeed that they appear unrelated, marks the manifestation of its persistence. We argue that this persistence should not be narrowed down to a constant attribution of a “word” or a “name” to several historical phenomenons, but rather should be viewed as the actualization of a same etherogeneous “signature.” Responding to an invitation by Italian philosopher Agamben, and building on Nietzsche’s and Foucault’s history-genealogy as well as on Derrida’s deconstruction, our dissertation proposes an historical program oriented towards a theorization of the signature. To do so, we suggest locating the ether, or rather the ether-signature, at the heart of several historical inquiries concerned with the contemporary problem with technology. Approaching some of theses issues –the legitimating of narrative knowledge, the suspension of the senses, pseudoscience and mysticism, information and industrial revolutions, wireless obsessions, body and corporeality, virtualization of communication, etc. –, our dissertation aims at locating and articulating as many baits towards an-other history, a counter-history.

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