This thesis examines case studies and historical accounts taken from different periods of the history of recording technology, and addresses questions concerning the impact of mediatization, manipulation, and mediation on listeners' and performers' approaches to music. The project considers the development of the idea of "copies without originals," and of the ideological frameworks that have been used to describe and classify recorded sound. The first case study covers the early days of the phonograph and its development in Victorian society, then contrasts the values and motivations of those early years with modern-day rock performance and its own value systems. Moving into the mid-twentieth century, a chapter of this thesis is devoted to the work of Glenn Gould, and the possibilities for tape manipulation that the Canadian pianist explored during the period of his career that was focused on the recording studio. Lastly, this project examines the innovative, user-driven methods of music-making that are gaining momentum today, including Bjork's "Biophilia" app album, and the emergence of a new genre of popular music in Asia that uses vocal synthesizers in place of live performers. By exploring these case studies alongside the works of scholars in musicology, media studies, sound theory, film and television, and popular music studies, this thesis demonstrates how cultural need, individual innovation, and social involvement interact to direct the development and application of emerging media technologies.

This thesis examines the behavior of bargaining parties under a statutory scheme of compulsory conciliation. The statutory scheme used in the study is the basic pattern of conciliation effective in British Columbia from 1947 to 1968. Its general function is explained in a summarization of published criticisms of the process. A particular bargaining relationship -- that of the coast forest industry negotiations -- is examined on a historical and institutional basis to discover specific characteristics which would influence behavior under a conciliation process. Using this predicted pattern of interaction, a model of party behavior is constructed for the parties involved in actual negotiations. This is tested against a summarized chronology of the actual bargaining that occurred from 1947 to 1968. The model reveals the important sections within a system of compulsory conciliation which influence the behavior of the parties during negotiations. It also emphasizes the importance of the apparent fairness of the recommendation stage of conciliation and its value to the union as a tactical "watershed" for continued bargaining. The development of the dynamic process of party interaction in the coast forest industry emphasizes the importance of union internal or intra-organizational difficulties. It suggests the existence of a limit to the effectiveness of any bargaining system which does not control the desires of the union rank and file. With the dynamic process in mind, the analysis examines some of the influences that changing the statutory process would have upon the behavior of the parties. On this basis the actual significance or effectiveness of some past changes is analyzed and new changes are proposed. Too, the basic limits inherent in the compulsory conciliation system as a control over party behavior are emphasized. / Arts, Faculty of / Vancouver School of Economics / Graduate

L’engouement pour les œuvres d’origine japonaise sur le territoire français est à l’origine de notre questionnement de départ. Cette recherche en Sciences de l’Information et de la Communication propose d'étudier le processus de légitimation et de médiation du manga en France. Dans leur pays d’origine, les mangas sont issus de techniques picturales et graphiques ancestrales mais ne prennent véritablement leur forme contemporaine qu’au lendemain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, grâce à un mangaka : Osamu Tezuka. S’ils sont parfaitement intégrés dans les pratiques culturelles japonaises, la situation est tout autre dans notre pays. Ainsi, nous nous proposons de revenir sur la construction du processus de légitimation du manga en France par l’étude du discours d’un corpus de deux titres de presse. L’approche diachronique nous permet de revenir sur les différentes étapes de l’introduction des mangas depuis l’arrivée de l’un des premiers dessins animés à la télévision hertzienne en 1978 : Goldorak. C’est ensuite aux lecteurs que nous donnons la parole grâce à une étude qualitative des pratiques. L’enquête de réception nous donne alors les moyens de mieux comprendre la diversité des pratiques, le processus de construction de sens opéré par les lecteurs et l’appropriation de l’objet au fil du temps. Loin de la représentation d’un lecteur enfermé sur lui-même, notre recherche témoigne de la diversité d’engagement et des modes de faire des lecteurs et de l’importance de la dimension sociale qui accompagne la lecture. Un regard qui met en lumière les mécanismes de médiation du manga tant sur un plan intime que social. / The keen interest in Japanese works in France triggered our questioning. Through this research in science of information and communication, we propose to study the process of legitimization and mediation of the manga in France. In their country of origin, mangas come from remote pictorial and graphic techniques, but only take their current form after World War II, thanks to one mangaka: Osamu Tezuka. Even though mangas are perfectly integrated in Japanese culture, the situation is quite different in our country. Thus, we will come back on the building of the process of legitimization of the manga in France through a study of the publications from two selected periodicals. The diachronic approach enables us to come back on the different steps of the manga introduction in France, since the arrival of one of the first cartoons on television in 1978: Goldorak. We will then put the emphasis on the readers’ practises, through a qualitative study. The reception survey gives us a better understanding of the diversity of the practices, the process of constructing meaning by the readers, and how they made manga their own over time. Far from the representation of a withdrawn reader, our study demonstrates that there is diversity in the involvement and practices of the readers, as well as a social dimension associated to the reading. This approach highlights the mechanisms of manga mediation, from a personal as well as from a social point of view.

This study explores the ways in which young people orient themselves as moral/political beings to contemporary contexts. It sets out to understand the nature of these contexts, with a particular focus on the ideological challenges produced by globalisation and postmodernity. In equal measure, it sets out to examine the ways in which young people inhabit this context, drawing on a blend of Activity and Narrative Theory to expose the strategies that they employ to achieve such engagements. As such, it offers contributions which connect together existing literatures from divergent fields in a coherent way, and which place these amongst data reflecting lived experience. The research fundamentally conceptualises its subject matter as concerned with a process of learning (about oneself, and the world in which one inhabits). As such, though it is not concerned directly with the institution of schooling, or the practice of teaching, it contributes broadly to the field of education.The methodology of the research places equal emphasis on literature and empirical work, generating its key contributions by fostering interplay between the two. It operates by bringing together disparate aspects of theory, and holding these against a lived context, as represented by the perspectives of participants. Empirical data was generated this data through two waves of interview. In the first, sixteen teenage participants were asked in pairs to respond to a series of stimulus images. Follow-up interviews with three sets of these pairs sought responses to initial analysis and commentary on its data. Analysis combined content and critical discourse analysis, examining both what participants’ said of their experience in the world, whilst also interrogating the how those responses were constructed.Through this exploration, I demonstrate that the partiality, ambiguity and contradiction borne of processes of globalisation and postmodernity contort moral/political being. These trouble our moral impulses, perceptions and usual mechanisms of response. As a result, usual theoretical frameworks that attempt to describe to moral being are often unsatisfactory. In particular, these tensions problematise the sense of moral functioning as a rational response to known experience, and the modernist portrayal of development as the gradual development of the cognitive mechanisms necessary to do this. Rather, I represent moral/political existence (what I call ‘ideological being’) as a more organic and reflexive process, by which individuals must import meaning and subjectivities, in order to ‘anchor’ partial experience in something amenable to evaluation. In doing so, I draw heavily on existing work on socially mediated being (particularly that of Wertsch and Tappan), and demonstrate the useful and cogent ways in which it might be integrated with a broader ‘narrative’ turn in social theory.

D.Litt. et Phil. (Social Work) / The Commission of Enquiry in the Structure and Function of the Courts (1983) and subsequent legislation Family Court Act (Act No. 62 of 1985), Divorce Amendment Act (Act 63 of"1985) and the Mediation Divorce Proceedings Act (Act 63 of 1986) recommended and paved the way for a family court with attendant social services to be integrated with aspects of marriage dissolution in South Africa. These proposals and legislation proved both to be innovative and contentious and have occasioned much debate, and stimulated and motivated by the above, t;,e candidate in this dissertation undertakes I an examination of the parameters of the social services envisaged as regards divorce services, with particular reference to the construct of mediation, its significance, technology and feasibility. The research is formulated and structured around the research goals and objectives of acquiring information of an academic as well as a practice nature, with a view to increasing the knowledge base of such service ideology, in order to more effectively evaluate the need for the rendering of such service. The research questions formulated to-provide' both the information and the resultant answers are those that relate to the concept of mediation and the practice thereof; the range and type of social services in a divorce court service; the working of family law systems in other parts of the world and their comparison to proposals for South Africa; the integration of the social services within a court system and the professional equipment of the staff. needed to perform such services. In order to acquire the information to address the issues, the methodology embarked on by the candidate involved the undertaking of a literature study of the field of mediation and family/law courts; correspondence with social services and judico/legal bodies in the United States of America, England, Canada, Australia, New...

The current study examined whether variables that have been found to influence treatment outcome serve as mediators of a child and adolescent cognitive behavioral treatment (CBT) anxiety program at multiple time points throughout the intervention. The study also examined mediating variables measured at multiple time points during treatment to determine the time lags necessary for changes in the mediator variable to translate into changes on treatment gains. Participants were 168 youth (ages 6 to 16 years; 54% males) and their mothers who presented to the Child Anxiety and Phobia Program (CAPP) at Florida International University (FIU). Overall, results indicate that the mediators at multiple time points influenced youth anxiety in a fluctuating manner, such that a decrease in skills at one given session caused changes in youth anxiety at a later session. This dynamic between the mediator and outcome may be reflective of the process of therapeutic change and suggests that skills gained from session to session took time to exert their effect on youth anxiety. The methodology employed helps to elucidate how variables mediate treatment outcome in youth anxiety disorders.

Submitted by Fabio Sobreira Campos da Costa (fabio.sobreira@ufpe.br) on 2017-07-13T14:34:02Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 811 bytes, checksum: e39d27027a6cc9cb039ad269a5db8e34 (MD5) Tese Gilvana Pessoa de Oliveira.pdf: 9127427 bytes, checksum: 9c1486b6c67e5afc0158199ca38e6d83 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-13T14:34:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 811 bytes, checksum: e39d27027a6cc9cb039ad269a5db8e34 (MD5) Tese Gilvana Pessoa de Oliveira.pdf: 9127427 bytes, checksum: 9c1486b6c67e5afc0158199ca38e6d83 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-05-31 / A análise sobre a desigualdade socioambiental e de gênero aborda questões relativas aos diferentes processos sócio- históricos de uso, produção e luta pela apropriação do território por homens e mulheres. A tese realiza estudo sobre a mediação dos movimentos sociais na produção social do território, referenciado na perspectiva histórico-dialética. Relativamente às técnicas de pesquisa, selecionou-se uma referência bibliográfica, além da documental, apoiouse ainda em dados empíricos que foram coletados por meio de entrevistas, as quais realizaramse no Assentamento Cajueiro, em Parnaíba-PI. A história do Assentamento se estrutura em paralelo à implantação de projetos agrícolas de grande porte, como aqueles, realizados no município, no âmbito do plano de desenvolvimento proposto ao território. Explora-se elementos sobre o processo de organização de homens e mulheres, desde o período de ocupação da área até a consolidação do assentamento dando ênfase à mediação dos movimentos sociais, especialmente o Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra, na contínua negociação por seus direitos, o qual, o é neste sentido, o principal mobilizador e também mediador das conquistas dos residentes no assentamento. A pesquisa apresenta questões de gênero tramadas nesse processo, considerando as demandas das mulheres e o atendimento via ações públicas. Identifica-se a dificuldade de organização dos residentes no Assentamento, que assumem as atividades internas e, ao mesmo tempo buscam outras formas de remuneração temporária, na produção de frutas do Projeto de Irrigação. A proposta de desenvolvimento rural, em curso, vem aprofundando as desigualdades através de um planejamento territorial que direciona sua produção para o mercado externo, enquanto o assentamento permanece à margem das ações do Estado. / The analysis of the environmental and gender inequality addresses issues concerning the different processes of historical socio-use, production and struggle for ownership of land by men and women. The thesis conducts study on the mediation of social movements in social production of territory, referenced in historical and dialectical perspective. With regard to research techniques, selected a literature reference, in addition to the documentary, also supported it on empirical data were collected through interviews, which took place in the Assentamento Cajueiro in Parnaíba-PI. The history of the settlement is structured in parallel to the implementation of large-scale agricultural projects, such as those carried out in the city, under the development plan proposed to the territory. It explores elements of the process of organization of men and women from the period of occupation of the area until the consolidation of the settlement walk emphasis on mediation of social movements, especially the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra in continuous trading for their rights, which, it is in this sense, the main mobiliser and also mediator of the achievements of residents in the settlement. The research presents gender concocted this process, considering the demands of women and care via public actions. Identifies the difficulty of organizing residents in the settlement, which take the internal activities and at the same time seeking other forms of temporary compensation, in fruit Irrigation Project. The proposed rural development programs in place has deepened inequalities through a territorial planning that directs its production to foreign markets, while the settlement remains on the margins of state actions.

This thesis explores the relationship between the mediation led by Kofi Annan in 2008 in Kenya, in the middle of the post-election violence that took place after the presidential elections, and the performance of the subsequent power sharing agreement. This study does so by focusing on five variables, as defined by Alexandre Raffoul, that are particularly relevant in understanding barriers to elite cooperation in power sharing settlements. By analysing problems relating to the balance of power, inside and outside spoilers, identity and political accountability problems and credible commitment problems, barriers to a successful power sharing agreement can be examined. To analyse how the mediation affected power sharing, five variables concerning the mediation are examined, namely the use of leverage, horizontal and vertical inclusivity, relationship-building and the content of the agreement. These five variables are combined one-on-one with the power sharing analysis to determine how mediation affects the performance of power sharing. This study argues that the type of mediation shapes the performance of power sharing, and that barriers to elite cooperation in the power sharing period can be addressed in the mediation phase of conflict to prevent future tensions. This knowledge can contribute to improving mediation efforts and make power sharing a more viable undertaking. By regarding mediation as an integral process to peacebuilding and to change mediation designs when applicable, conflict can be addressed in a more sustainable way that will bring long-term benefits.

This study investigated how followers' personality and self-identity moderated their leader's ability to influence organizational outcomes through management of role stressors experienced by the follower. Data was obtained through large group testing, sample size equaled 232, with performance measures being provided by supervisors (43% return rate). Results demonstrated that while Leader Member Exchange (LMX) had a linear relationship with role ambiguity and role conflict, it had a curvilinear relationship with role overload. Thus providing evidence that under certain conditions leadership can lead to negative outcomes. Furthermore, it was demonstrated that LMX indirectly influences both affective and cognitive variables through role stressors. No evidence was found to suggest that personality moderates the relationship between LMX and role stressors. This study demonstrates the need for further research into the complexities of LMX. Practical recommendations were put forth emphasizing the importance of developing high quality LMX relationships.

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