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Seit dem Artikel des Geisteswissenschaftlers Roland Reuß „Open Access: Eine heimliche technokratische Machtergreifung“ und dem Heidelberger Appell im März 2009 entstand eine heftige Debatte um Open Access und die Publikationsfreiheit. Der folgende Vortrag gibt eine kurze Einführung in Google Books und das Google Book Settlement, den Reaktionen der VG Wort und dem Aktionsbündnis für „Urheberrecht in Bildung und Wissenschaft“ sowie dem Open-Access-Prinzip. Anhand von Befürworterstimmen des Heidelberger Appells aus der Presse werden die dortigen Kernaussagen „Open Access sei kostenlos“, „Open Access sei von schlechter Qualität“ und „Open Access würde die Autor/innen ihrer Urheberrechte berauben“ diskutiert und die Undifferenziertheit dieser Aussagen aufgezeigt.

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Seit dem Artikel des Geisteswissenschaftlers Roland Reuß „Open Access: Eine heimliche technokratische Machtergreifung“ und dem Heidelberger Appell im März 2009 entstand eine heftige Debatte um Open Access und die Publikationsfreiheit. Der folgende Vortrag gibt eine kurze Einführung in Google Books und das Google Book Settlement, den Reaktionen der VG Wort und dem Aktionsbündnis für „Urheberrecht in Bildung und Wissenschaft“ sowie dem Open-Access-Prinzip. Anhand von Befürworterstimmen des Heidelberger Appells aus der Presse werden die dortigen Kernaussagen „Open Access sei kostenlos“, „Open Access sei von schlechter Qualität“ und „Open Access würde die Autor/innen ihrer Urheberrechte berauben“ diskutiert und die Undifferenziertheit dieser Aussagen aufgezeigt.

The concept of the contemporary author in case of J. K. Rowling The diploma thesis deals with the contemporary concept of the author which is examined on the specific case of Joanne Kathleen Rowling. The theoretical part of the thesis focuses on the biography of the author and the previous philosophical theories concerning the concept of the author and his/her role in the identity of the literary work. The main authors of the theories are Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, and Umberto Eco, whose concept is crucial for this thesis. The research part presents specific styles of writing which are characteristic for authors and applies this theory to the analysis of two literary works of J. K. Rowling. The conclusion of the thesis is the summary of the research and an attempt to define the concept of the contemporary author. Key words The author, authorship, literary work, pseudonym, the concept of the author, style of writing, J. K. Rowling, Robert Galbraith, Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Umberto Eco

The thesis analyzes how a theoretical framework and method can be formulated to make mental illness visible in photographs posted on social media. The aim is to create a basis for further research. The framework is built on time, conversation, and language. Based on Susan Sontag, Roland Barthes and W J T Mitchells thoughts, a timeline is drawn. On it, both emotions and bodies are constantly present. Jon Kabat-Zinns mindfulness method is used to give an insight into how emotions can be handled with inspiration from eastern meditation techniques. The typical “yoga image” is analyzed. It is characterized by a woman doing a yoga pose, often placed in the middle of the image surface in an exotic place. The body ideal is recognized from other fitness contexts. The material is from @kinoyoga which is run by the yoga profile Kino MacGregor. Examining photographs that communicate perfect health puts this thesis questions at the forefront. The study shows that photographs on social media are not static objects but are parts in an ongoing documentation where meaning is not given. Instead meaning keeps transforming and is contently renegotiated. When the boundaries between the physical and digital realities are blurred, it becomes difficult to distinguish the needs of the image from one’s own. The emotional experiences of shortcomings and desires can occur and start to interact. As Instagram's algorithms exploit these emotions, it becomes difficult to break the vicious circle. Instagram users are forced to abide by the app's rules. The responsibility for the ill health generated should be the owners of for-profit companies and political institutions with the power to legislate.

This thesis, The Self-myth: Profile Picture of Youth, show how adolescents use technologies for visual on-line self-presentation. Firstly, we describe the context of social media, the social network site Facebook and the concept of digital youth. In the next part we study construction of the profile picture and the important role of digital tools in the on-line lives of teenagers. The last part is the theory of semiotics and readers can see how youth create own self-myth.

In this dissertation, I investigate connections between French philosophy and the theory of architecture from the mid-1960s to the early 1990s. In the mid-1960s, many architects became acutely aware of the crisis of modern architecture embodied in the failings of social housing, the routinized corporate modernism of the postwar period, and the commodification of design. They questioned the principles of the Modern Movement and emphasized the “arbitrary” nature of the relationship between form and function while turning to French structuralism, semiology, and post-structuralism for potential answers. My period of study spans from the the period of political uprisings of the 1960s to the advent of digital design in the early 1990s.To date, little in-depth research has been done on the close relation between French philosophy and architecture in this period and its role in foreshadowing postmodern developments. My dissertation addresses this gap by presenting case studies of the theoretical work of six different architects: Aldo Rossi, Alan Colquhoun, Mario Gandelsonas and Diana Agrest, Bernard Tschumi, and Peter Eisenman. These case studies share a common thread: a preoccupation with structuralist and poststructuralist concerns with language. However, concepts such as “structure,” “event,” and “meaning” often have different meanings for each of these architects. Thus, my project could be described as a history and criticism of architectural theory—one that focuses specifically on the dissonances and contradictions present within the theoretical writings of these architects, while examining the polemics and discussions between them. I consider their built work only to the extent that it helps to elucidate or challenge theoretical concepts. Thus, in my case study on Aldo Rossi’s writings, I interrogate the analogy between the structuralist concern for articulating discrete and finite linguistic units and the latter’s notion of “type” and urban morphology. In the chapter on Alan Colquhoun, I discuss the influence that the work of Roland Barthes, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and Ferdinand de Saussure had on his reflections about “meaning” and “convention” in architecture. In the case study on the work of Diana Agrest and Mario Gandelsonas, I examine the extent to which their understanding of “theory” and of “ideology” is indebted to the work of Louis Althusser and trace the influence of Roland Barthes, whose seminar on S/Z they attended in Paris before moving to New York in 1971. Likewise, I analyze the role that thinkers such as Henri Lefebvre, Roland Barthes, and the Tel Quel circle in the late 1970s, and Jacques Derrida in the early 1980s had on Bernard Tschumi’s writings on the “polysemy of meaning” and on the “event.” Finally, I examine Peter Eisenman’s collaboration with Jacques Derrida in the 1980s questioning Eisenman’s eclectic appropriation of Derrida’s philosophical concepts. Besides elucidating this significant period of architecture in which many of the fundamental principles of modern architecture were overturned, in the conclusion of this study, I discuss briefly the “post-critical turn” in the architectural scholarship of the past two decades with the hope of challenging its basic assumptions. My hope is to contribute, through its critical reevaluation, to theory’s renewal.

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