[pt] A presente tese, Telenovelas: A construção de personagens transexuais na Rede Globo, apresenta uma discussão aprofundada sobre quem são os personagens transexuais em telenovelas da emissora, bem como foram construídos esses personagens. Para tanto, a pesquisa oferece um levantamento inédito sobre os personagens LGBTs existentes em telenovelas da TV Globo desde 1965 – inauguração da empresa – até o ano de 2017, onde foi possível mapear os personagens transexuais, foco deste trabalho. Desta forma, para compreender a construção dos personagens transexuais, foram escutados, a partir da utilização do método de entrevista em profundidade, 16 profissionais da empresa, entre atores, autores, diretores e gestores que estiveram diretamente ligados a criação dos três personagens transexuais existentes na dramaturgia da Rede Globo no período especificado: Ramona, uma mulher trans, na novela As Filhas da Mãe de 2001, Dorothy, mulher trans, na novela Geração Brasil de 2014 e Ivan, homens trans, na novela A Força do Querer de 2017. Com a coleta realizada, foi possível fazer um cruzamento das falas dos entrevistados onde se consegue identificar os recursos utilizados pelos profissionais envolvidos na construção da identidade e das mensagens proferidas por cada um dos personagens estudados ao longo das respectivas tramas. Para analisar o modo de construção dos personagens trans, recorreu-se a referências bibliográficas sobre gênero, sobre a temática da transgeneridade contemporânea e pesquisas sobre a importância da televisão e das telenovelas nos debates sociais no Brasil. Por fim, o presente estudo expõe – também de forma inédita – reflexões sobre os rumos do assunto dentro da dramaturgia, o que poderia ter sido feito e não foi e os caminhos para que a discussão desta temática seja tratada, cada vez mais, com responsabilidade e relevância em telenovelas brasileiras. / [en] The present thesis, Brazilian Soap Operas: The construction of transgender characters on Globo TV, presents a deep discussion about who are the transgender characters on the soap operas, as well as how these characters were built. The research offers an unprecedented survey on LGBTs characters existing in the Globo TV soap operas since 1965 – inauguration of the company – until the year 2017, where it was possible to map the transsexual characters, focus of this work. In this way, to understand the construction of transgender characters, 16 professionals of the company were listened to - among actors, authors, directors and managers - who were directly linked to the creation of the three transsexual characters existing in the dramaturgy of Globo TV in the specified period: Ramona, a trans woman, in the soap opera As Filhas da Mãe, in 2001, Dorothy, trans woman, in the soap opera Geração Brasil, in 2014 and Ivan, man trans, in the soap opera A Força do Querer, de 2017. We can identify the resources used by the professionals involved in the construction of the identity and messages delivered by each of the characters studied along the respective plots. In order to analyze the way in which trans characters were constructed, bibliographical references on gender and the theme of contemporary transgenerity were used, as well as research on the importance of television and telenovelas in social debates in Brazil. Finally, this study exposes – in an unprecedented way – reflections on the subject directions within the dramaturgy, what could have been done and was not and the ways for the discussion of this theme to be treated, increasingly, with responsibility and relevance in Brazilian soap operas.

This research is about the spectatorship of Brazilian and Portuguese soap operas in Portugal. The Grounded Theory approach was employed to derive a “SOAP OPERAS SPECTATORSHIP MODEL” firmly rooted in the perspectives of 49 soap operas viewers. The resulting model reveals three groups of motives for viewing soap operas: a) mood management, b) habit, and c) social integration/ learning. Within the model, each motivation group is associated with a particular strategy and level of exposure to soap operas, as well as predominant choices about the soap opera’s national or foreign origin. With regard to Portuguese soap operas, particular attention is paid to the receptor´s social integration and learning, the latter allowing him/her to use the contents in his/her personal context: The receptor is being counseled in the taking of decisions, given the opportunity to evaluate feelings and behaviors, and to confirm or adjust attitudes, styles and behaviors. With regard to Brazilian soap operas, the motive of mood management is highlighted, though not excluding the other above mentioned groups of motives. Establishing the relationships between the concepts identified in the research, the study presents the viewers´ experiences with soap operas in Portugal. / Assistir às telenovelas brasileiras/portuguesas em Portugal é o tema investigado neste trabalho. A abordagem da “teoria fundamentada em dados” foi empregada na investigação para prover um “MODELO DA AUDIÊNCIA DAS TELENOVELAS” firmemente enraizado na perspectiva de quarenta e nove receptores entrevistados. O modelo resultante revela três grupos de motivos para a audiência: a) Gerenciamento do humor, b) hábito e c) Aprendizagem/Integração social. Cada grupo de motivos no modelo se associa a particular estratégia e intensidade de exposição às telenovelas, como também se associa as escolhas preponderantes das telenovelas por sua origem, se nacional e/ou estrangeira. Em destaque para a seleção das telenovelas portuguesas é identificado o uso dos seus conteúdos para integração social e aprendizagem/aconselhamento, este último permitindo ao receptor verificar a validade de sentimentos e comportamentos, aconselhamento para tomada de decisões, reforço/ajuste de atitudes, estilos e condutas para incremento da credibilidade e posição pessoal. Em destaque para a seleção das telenovelas brasileiras é identificado os motivos de Gerenciamento de Humor, muito embora de forma não excludente às outras categorias de motivos mencionadas. Com o estabelecimento das relações entre os conceitos surgidos na pesquisa indutiva, o estudo representa as experiências dos receptores das telenovelas em Portugal. / Lisboa

Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2015. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this study I analyse the 1994 episodes of the popular soap opera Egoli: Place of Gold that coincide with the so-called ‘birth’ of the New South Africa. This moment in media history is characterised by a heightened sense of anticipation surrounding Egoli as the first local soap opera created by Franz Marx at the pinnacle of his career for the relatively new – and only – independent broadcaster in the country, M-Net. Because of the reliance of this genre on perceived realism, Egoli offers a historically significant televisual mediation of the widespread social and political changes that mark this particular period. I argue that the soap opera elicits a non-critical passive spectatorship and should therefore be regarded as a ‘readerly’ medium that transmits a form of pre-negotiated textual hegemony directly into the intimacy of the domestic viewing space. While acknowledging an awareness of the pivotal role played by white Afrikaans men in the safeguarding of cultural hegemony up until this historical juncture, my study diverges from the wealth of research on soap opera as a women’s medium and approaches Egoli with an interest in the programme’s construction of masculinities. An analysis of three contrasting male characters investigates Egoli’s formulation of a social matrix that reflects not only the programme’s attitude towards gender, but also to social power, class and race. I conclude that this specific soap opera lacks the ability to produce or reflect radical change. Egoli merely serves to reiterate the affirmation of the hegemony of an established order of Afrikaner patriarchy on a superficial level. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: In hierdie studie analiseer ek die 1994 episodes van die populêre sepie Egoli: Plek van Goud wat afspeel tydens die sogenaamde ‘geboorte’ van die Nuwe Suid-Afrika. Hierdie oomblik in media-geskiedenis is gekarakteriseer deur ‘n verhoogde gevoel van antisipasie rondom Egoli as die eerste plaaslike sepie, vervaardig deur Franz Marx tydens die toppunt van sy loopbaansukses vir die relatief nuwe, en enigste onafhanklike uitsaaidiens in die land, M-Net. Vanweë hierdie medium se afhanklikheid op skynbare realisme, bied Egoli ‘n waardevolle historiese televisuele vertolking van die verrykende sosiale en politiese veranderinge van hierdie tydperk. Ek argumenteer dat die sepie ‘n passiewe kritiekloosheid in kykers uitlok en daarom as ‘n ‘leeslike’ teks benader moet word, wat ‘n reeds-onderhandelde hegemonie direk in die intimiteit van die huishouding oordra. As gevolg van die bewustheid van die kritieke rol wat deur blanke Afrikaanse mans vervul is in die beveiliging van kulturele hegemonie tot en met hierdie historiese moment, wyk my studie af van die veelvuldige navorsing oor die sepie as ‘n vroue-medium en benader ek Egoli met ‘n fokus op die konstruering van manlikheid. ‘n Analise van drie kontrasterende manlike karakters ondersoek Egoli se formulering van ‘n sosiale matriks wat nie alleenlik die program se benadering tot geslag blootlê nie, maar so ook tot sosiale mag, klas en ras. Ek sluit af met die bevinding dat dié sepie ontbreek in die vermoë om radikale verandering aan te spoor of te weerspieël. Egoli slaag slegs daarin om op ‘n oppervlakkige wyse die hegemonie van ‘n gevestigde Afrikaner patriargale orde te bevestig en te reproduseer.

Current global business competition has resulted in significant challenges for manufacturing and production sectors focused on shorter product lifecyc1es, more diverse and customized products as well as cost pressures from competitors and customers. To remain competitive, manufacturers, particularly in automotive industry, require the next generation of manufacturing paradigms supporting flexible and reconfigurable production systems that allow quick system changeovers for various types of products. In addition, closer integration of shop floor and business systems is required as indicated by the research efforts in investigating "Agile and Collaborative Manufacturing Systems" in supporting the production unit throughout the manufacturing lifecycles. The integration of a business enterprise with its shop-floor and lifecycle supply partners is currently only achieved through complex proprietary solutions due to differences in technology, particularly between automation and business systems. The situation is further complicated by the diverse types of automation control devices employed. Recently, the emerging technology of Service Oriented Architecture's (SOA's) and Web Services (WS) has been demonstrated and proved successful in linking business applications. The adoption of this Web Services approach at the automation level, that would enable a seamless integration of business enterprise and a shop-floor system, is an active research topic within the automotive domain. If successful, reconfigurable automation systems formed by a network of collaborative autonomous and open control platform in distributed, loosely coupled manufacturing environment can be realized through a unifying platform of WS interfaces for devices communication. The adoption of SOA- Web Services on embedded automation devices can be achieved employing Device Profile for Web Services (DPWS) protocols which encapsulate device control functionality as provided services (e.g. device I/O operation, device state notification, device discovery) and business application interfaces into physical control components of machining automation. This novel approach supports the possibility of integrating pervasive enterprise applications through unifying Web Services interfaces and neutral Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) message communication between control systems and business applications over standard Ethernet-Local Area Networks (LAN's). In addition, the re-configurability of the automation system is enhanced via the utilisation of Web Services throughout an automated control, build, installation, test, maintenance and reuse system lifecycle via device self-discovery provided by the DPWS protocol.

The main goal of this thesis was an investigation into the ways in which whiteness is constructed and positioned in the South African soap opera, 7de Laan, and the Flemish soap opera, Thuis, with the emphasis on the possible implications of these constructions for local as well as global discourses on whiteness in the media. In conjunction with the above, this thesis endeavoured to answer a number of subquestions relating to the origin and history of the construct of “whiteness” and Critical Whiteness Studies (CWS) as a theoretical approach and its relevance in the South African and Flemish contexts, specifically as it pertains to the analysis of mass media texts like 7de Laan and Thuis. It, moreover, sought to explore if and how whiteness functions as an organising principle in the narratives and representations of these soap operas with the emphasis on potential similarities, differences and the kinds of whiteness constructed in these texts. Finally, the goal was to draw conclusions on the possible implications of these differences and similarities in the wider context of the way in which whiteness functions in the media. To that end I conducted a controlled case comparison of a sample from these two community soap opera texts, which was informed by a literature review and deep description of each context as part of the qualitative approach I chose to take. Despite a number of similarities between the two contexts, they still differ significantly, and this afforded me an opportunity to highlight both the consistencies and particularities in the ideological patterning of representations of whiteness, across seemingly unrelated domains, to illustrate its pervasiveness. Added to the emergence of three shared rhetorical devices perpetuating whiteness in both texts, I was also able to draw conclusions about the unique way in which whiteness functions in 7de Laan in particular, since South Africa remains the primary context of the study. / Communication Science / D. Litt. et Phil.(Communication)

Approved for public release, distribution is unlimited / In 1991, shortly after the combat portion of the Gulf War, key military and government leaders identified an urgent requirement for an accurate on-site tool for analysis of chemical, biological, and nuclear hazards. Defense Nuclear Agency (now Defense Threat Reduction Agency, DTRA) was tasked with the responsibility to develop a software tool to address the requirement. Based on extensive technical background, DTRA developed the Hazard Prediction Assessment Capability (HPAC). For over a decade HPAC addressed the users requirements through on-site training, exercise support and operational reachback. During this period the HPAC code was iteratively improved, but the basic architecture remained constant until 2002. In 2002, when the core requirements of the users started to evolve into more net-centric applications, DTRA began to investigate the potential of modifying their core capability into a new design architecture. This thesis documents the requirements, analysis, and architectural design of the newly prototyped architecture, Integrated Weapons of Mass Destruction Toolset (IWMDT). The primary goal of the IWMDT effort is to provide accessible, visible and shared data through shared information resources and tem plated assessments of CBRNE scenarios. This effort integrates a collection of computational capabilities as server components accessible through a web interface. Using the results from this thesis, DTRA developed a prototype of the IWMDT software. Lessons learned from the prototype and suggestions for follow-on work are presented in the thesis. / Major, United States Army

Master thesis The Media Image of Nurses in Czech TV Series discusses the ways of depicting nurses in Czech TV series shot from 2003 to 2014, particularly in Rose Garden Surgery 2, Hospital at Town Outskirts 20 Years Later, Hospital at Town Outskirts - New Fates and Doctors from Počátky. The goal of the thesis is to explore how the nurses are presented in the series and how the medial image of the nurses is perceived by medical staff themselves. The first part of the study describes the environment of current health care system, it presents an overview of health care professions and also the roles of doctors, nurses and patients. Attention is paid also to professional associations of health care staff. The second part introduces the environment of media in relation to TV series, specifically the terms genre (with focus to medical drama and soap opera genres), TV series, a character, representation and stereotypes. Chapter no. 3, the practical part of the thesis, deals with the research methodology followed by analysis of the individual series, more specifically by description of the plot of the selected episodes, by analysis of characters of the nurses, by analysis of reception of the nurses' characters by the audience and by a conclusion. For the first series - Rose Garden Surgery 2, where the...

Os filmes de ficção e as telenovelas são modalidades mais recentes do antigo hábito de contar e ouvir histórias. O cinema clássico desenvolveu normas e estratégias para organizar as narrativas. A telenovela se aproveitou de várias delas, assimilando algumas e modificando outras. Um grupo de filmes contemporâneos brasileiros aceitou algumas das características desenvolvidas pelas telenovelas e, ao mesmo tempo, herdou outras diretamente do modelo do cinema clássico, compondo um nicho de filmes bem recebido pela crítica e pelo público. Ao analisar obras do cinema clássico, telenovelas e filmes contemporâneos, as qualidades fundamentais do modo de contar histórias foram agrupadas em: organização da narrativa, personagens e protagonistas, e tempo e espaço. / Fiction films and soap operas are modern versions of the ancient habit of hearing and telling stories. Classic cinema has developed norms and strategies to organize narratives. Soap opera took advantage of these characteristics, has assimilated some and changed others. A group of Brazilian contemporary films have accepted some of these changes developed by soap opera, and, at the same time, inherited others directly from the classic model of narration. These films form a specific group well accepted by critics and public. Based on the analysis of classic movies, soap operas and contemporary Brazilian films, the narrative features were grouped as follow: narrative organization, characters and protagonists, and time and space.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-10-13T14:10:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Livia Cretaz.pdf: 1723058 bytes, checksum: 3405e7054752de8fa1c028d1e6384d88 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-03-27 / This research aims to discuss the relation between villainy, redemption and homosexuality through the character of Félix Khoury from the soap opera Amor à vida (Rede Globo, 2013). This work took as object readings from the character under discussion by members of the LGBT (Lesbian, Gays, Bisexuals and Transgender) Community in the city of Sao Paulo. The primary objective is to understand in which dimension the relation between communication, consumption, villainy and gender issues represented on the soap opera were appropriated by the LGBT Community. In parallel, the aim is to map the representations of homoeroticism in Brazilian soap operas; identifying which readings were made based on an homosexual as villain; investigating the repercussions of the male gay kiss on the soap opera in question and, finally, identify how the homoeroticism is characterized as textual appeal. The theoretical foundation was based on the fields of Communication, Reception, Consumption, Soap opera and Queer Teory. In order to conduct the research, we adopted a qualitative methodology from conducting focus group, where selected scenes were debated with the interviewees in accordance with the deliberated profile. The empirical research enabled to identify issues such as identification of character s family conflicts by the public, like the search for family acceptance, rejection of the stereotypical characterization of homosexual characters. / Esta pesquisa tem como tema a relação entre vilania, redenção e homossexualidade tendo como base o personagem Félix Khoury da telenovela Amor à vida (Rede Globo, 2013) e tomou como objeto as leituras realizadas a partir do personagem em questão por membros da Comunidade LGBT (Lésbicas, Gays, Bissexuais, Travestis, Transgêneros e Transexuais) da cidade de São Paulo. O objetivo principal é entender de qual forma as relações entre comunicação, consumo, vilania e questões de gênero representadas na telenovela analisada foram apropriadas por integrantes desta Comunidade. Em paralelo, objetiva-se mapear as representações de homoerotismo nas telenovelas brasileiras; identificar quais leituras realizadas a partir de um personagem homossexual na posição de vilão; investigar a repercussão do beijo gay masculino em Amor à vida e, por fim, identificar como o homoerotismo se caracteriza como um apelo textual. A fundamentação teórica se ancorou nos campos da Comunicação, Recepção, Consumo, Telenovela e Teoria Queer. Para conduzir a pesquisa, foi adotada a metodologia qualitativa a partir da realização de grupos focais. Foram selecionadas cenas, as quais realizou-se apresentação e posterior debate com os entrevistados, de acordo com o perfil deliberado. A partir da pesquisa empírica, foi possível identificar questões como identificação dos conflitos familiares do personagem pelo público, a busca pela aceitação da família e a reprovação da caracterização estereotipada dos personagens homossexuais.

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