Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 524-538).

Univ., Diss.--Mainz, 2005. / Literaturverz. und Diskogr. S. [327] - 339. Mit engl. Zsfassung.

Honors Project--Smith College, Northampton, Mass., 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 42-44).

Dissertation (Ph.D.)--The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2008. / Directed by Nancy Myers; submitted to the Dept. of English. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Aug. 11, 2009). Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-209).

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Iowa, 1999. / Supervisor: MacCann, Donnarae. Title-page, preliminaries, Certificate of approval, Table of contents, text and appendices issued in paper (ii, 17 leaves, bound ; 28 cm.). Includes bibliographical references. Also issued on CD-ROM (46 files, 3.29 megabytes).

This thesis is mainly concerned with uncovering the meanings and associations embedded in the field of popular culture production in Japanese and European sociocultural contexts, using a comparative approach to unearth the effects, materials, and paradigms of the technological and scientific discourses during the Scientific Revolution. Linking the fields of the anthropology of technology and science, popular culture, and material culture studies, the thesis offers a historical overview of the development of machines and visual technologies in the Edo period, arguing that visuality is the key to delayering the cultural history of technology and science in Japanese popular culture, animation in particular. The objective of this work, therefore, is to look at the assemblage of the scientific, technological, and philosophical discourses to unveil the cultural processes between optical regimes, scientific practices, and popular culture. In its emphasis on the interconnectedness of visual technologies and the field of popular culture production, the thesis asserts that scientific development, particularly under the influence of the Scientific Revolution and Japanese Rangaku scholarship, is closely tied with the function of entertainment in Japanese society. With the understanding of technology as a total social phenomenon that interlocks the material and the symbolic in a complex network, which produces meanings and associations, the thesis further stresses the view that intellectual history cannot be separated from material culture studies; it also grapples with a number of existing scholarships on the history of science, particularly their inattentiveness to cultural histories in their historical surveys of scientific development. Finally, this work closely examines Oshii Mamoru's Ghost in the Shell and its sequels and the anime TV series Psycho-Pass to explore the tangled responses to the ideologies of the Euro-American mode of modernity.

The purpose of this dissertation is to examine four teachers’ of English perceptions of the use of CPCE in their teaching. When reading the control documents of the Swedish school, indications pointing towards the use of CPCE texts in teaching were found. Therefore we took an interest in finding out how teachers choose to implement CPCE in their teaching. We have combined the methods of semi structured qualitative interviews and the use of a focus group to gather the data needed. Our main findings consist of how the concept of popular culture is understood by our informants. They find the concept vast as it entails such a broad variety of texts such as TV shows, film, the Internet, magazines and literature. Teachers select appropriate CPCE materials with regards to their pupils’ preferences. However, our findings of how these materials are implemented in their teaching of English vary and are to be considered limited.

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Thesis (M.A.)--The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2008. / Directed by Rebecca Adams; submitted to Dept. of Sociology. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Aug. 14, 2009). Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-143).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wollongong, 2004. / Title from PDF title page (viewed on Mar. 6, 2006). Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-323). Also issued as a print manuscript. Print manuscript includes ill. omitted from online version.