<p>Savremeni diskurs amaterske pornografije na internetu izmiče tradicionalnim interpretativnim shemama koje i &ldquo;kućne&rdquo; seks snimke povezuju sa delovanjem seks-industrije.<br />Predmet istraživanja su internet stranice na kojima su dostupni pornografski sadržaji amaterske produkcije. U centru naučne pažnje rada nalaze se pornografski materijali i prakse &ldquo;običnih ljudi&rdquo; u virtuelnom domenu kiberprostora.<br />Istraživanje polazi od stanovi&scaron;ta da je amaterska pornografija specifičan seksualni diskurs. Pornografija predstavlja gotovo dominantni način zapadnog govora o seksu koji ga u isto vreme i inauguri&scaron;e, a specifična istraživačka pažnja pridaje se amaterskoj reartikulaciji pornografskog režima pri čemu se amaterizam određuje kao dru&scaron;tveni registar svakodnevnih praksi baziranih na delovanju &ldquo;iz ljubavi&rdquo;.<br />Internet predstavlja najpoznatiji kompjuterski mrežni sistem, to jest medijsku tehnologiju mrežne, decentralizovane, dehijerarhizovane i relativno slobodne komunikacije na globalnom nivou. U pitanju je tehnosocijalna platforma &ldquo;kreativne aproprijacije&rdquo; pornografskog diskursa od strane &ldquo;običnih ljudi&rdquo;, te transfera amaterske pornografije u dru&scaron;tvenu pojavu globalnih razmera. Dru&scaron;tvena upotreba Web 2.0 predstavlja sredi&scaron;nji uslov mogućnosti, proliferacije i globalizacije amaterskog porno-diskursa.<br />Centralna hipoteza rada glasi da amaterska pornografija na internetu predstavlja relativno novi način govora o seksu i seksualnosti. Istraživanje je okrenuto dokazivanju kako pornografske prakse &ldquo;običnih ljudi&rdquo; nisu finansijske, nego seksualne prirode, i u tom se smislu problemsko klupko istraživanja ogleda u specifikaciji amaterske pornografije kao diskurzivnog diskontinuiteta, to jest dru&scaron;tvene činjenice da se u okviru postmoderne kulture za relativno kratko vreme prestalo o pornografiji razmi&scaron;ljati isključivo na prethodne načine.<br />Istraživanje ukazuje na socijalni značaj koji aktuelno preoblikovanje reprezentacione politike seksa povlači po pitanju seksualnih interakcija i seksualnih identiteta njenih praktikanata i/li protagonista, i u tom smislu polazi i potvrđuje osnovnu teorijsku pretpostavku o dru&scaron;tvenoj prirodi seksualnosti, sociokulturnom ustrojstvu sveta &ldquo;prirode&rdquo;. Jedan od centralnih istraživačkih problema mogao bi se formulisati pitanjem da li amaterski produktivizam uživanja fabrikuje seksualne subjekte poput seks industrije ili alternativni modus diskurzivnih postupaka imenovanja &ldquo;realnog&rdquo; seksa legitimi&scaron;e i nove procedure identitetskog samoblikovanja, te neposrednog delovanja ispovednih &ldquo;tehnologija sopstva&rdquo;.<br />Ispitivanje sociokulturnih aspekata amaterske pornografije na internetu strukturisano je na nekoliko interpretativnih nivoa i vr&scaron;i se kroz analitiku konteksta pojave, materijalno-afektivne ravni praktikanata i korisnika, pornografskih reprezentacija, potro&scaron;ačkog ustrojstva kiberprostora, rodne simetrije u okviru reprezentacija i korisničkih grupa, virtuelnog komunitarizma pornografskih praktikanata i identitetske politike seksualne ispovesti.<br />7<br />Analitičko de&scaron;ifrovanje složenih veza između pornografskih praksi &ldquo;običnih ljudi&rdquo; i složene strukture &ldquo;umreženog dru&scaron;tva&rdquo; polazi od epistemičkog polja sociokonstrukcionistički orijentisane sociologije seksualnosti, dok se na užem metodolo&scaron;kom planu predmetnog specifikuma istraživanja izdvaja upotreba kritičke diskurzivne analize.<br />&nbsp;</p> / <p>Contemporary discourse of amateur pornography on the Internet eludes traditional interpretative schemes that associate &quot;home&quot; sex videos with the sex industry business. This research is based on web sites with available amateur pornographic production. In the heart of the scientific interest of the work are pornographic materials and practices of &ldquo;ordinary people&rdquo; in the virtual domain of cyberspace.<br />The research is based upon the premise that the amateur pornography is specific sexual discourse. Pornography is seen as almost predominant mode of western inaugurating narrative on sex. At the same time specific research attention is given to amateur rearticulating of pornographic regime, whereby amateurism is defined as a social register of daily practices based on the act &quot;of love&quot;.<br />Internet is the best-known computer network system, decentralized and relatively free media technology network of communication, without hierarchy on a global level. It is a techno-social platform of &quot;creative appropriation&quot; of pornographic discourse by &quot;ordinary people&quot;, as well as transfer of amateur pornography into the social phenomenon of global proportions. Social use of Web 2.0 is the core condition of possibility of amateur porn discourse proliferation and globalization.<br />The central hypothesis of this work is that amateur pornography on the Internet is a relatively new type of narrative on sex and sexuality. The research points out that &ldquo;ordinary people&rdquo; pornographic practice is not of financial but rather of a sexual nature. Following this sense problem of the research is reflected in the specification of amateur pornography as a discursive discontinuity, a social fact that within the framework of postmodern culture in a relatively short time, pornography has not being considered exclusively in prior way.<br />The research points to the social importance that current remodeling of representational politics of sex entails in terms of sexual interactions and sexual identity of its practitioners and / or protagonists and in this sense starts with the main theoretical assumption on the social nature of sexuality, socio-cultural conformation of the world of &quot;nature&quot;. One of the central research problems could be formulated as a dilemma whether amateur productivism of enjoyment fabricate sexual entities, such as sex industry, or the alternative mode of discursive designation procedures of &quot;real&quot; sex also legitimize new procedures of identity self-formation and direct action of confessional &quot;technologies of the self&quot;.<br />Examination of amateur pornography socio-cultural aspects on the Internet is structured on several interpretative levels and is done through analytics of phenomena context, materially-affective level of practitioners and users, pornographic representations, consumer conformation of cyberspace, gender symmetry within the framework of representations and user groups, virtual communitarianism among pornographic practitioners and identity policy of sexual confession.</p>

Doctor of Philosophy / Department Not Listed / Kenneth F. Hughey / As higher education continues to integrate technology, the counselor education field has evolved and recognized the importance of graduate students’ attitudes towards technology acceptance of a wide array of technology in their training programs (Burt, Gonzalez, Swank, Ascher, & Cunningham, 2011; Kennedy, 2011; Orr, 2011; Sabella, Poynton, & Isaacs, 2010; Tyler & Sabella, 2004). This study examined the attitudes of counselor education graduate students in CACREP-accredited program towards technology acceptance using the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) as the theoretical framework for the study. In particular, the purpose of this study was to better understand counselor education graduate students’ attitudes towards technology acceptance as it relates to perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, technology self-efficacy, and technology anxiety. Participants in the study were 107 graduate students who were enrolled in Fall 2018 at 10 Midwest CACREP-accredited counselor education programs. Data were gathered by an online survey consisting of a demographic questionnaire and four instruments (Technology Acceptance Model Scales, Media and Technology Usage and Attitudes Scale, Technology Self-efficacy Scale, and Technology Anxiety Scale). The results of the hierarchical regression analysis for each of the research questions revealed several significant findings regarding graduate students’ attitudes towards use of technology. For the first research question, perceived ease of use was predicted by technology self-efficacy and technology anxiety. The results indicated perceived ease of use was influenced positively by technology self-efficacy and negatively by technology anxiety. For the second research question, perceived usefulness was predicted by technology self-efficacy and technology anxiety. The results indicated perceived usefulness was influenced positively by technology self-efficacy and negatively by technology anxiety. For the third research question, counselor education graduate students’ attitudes towards the use of technology was predicted by perceived usefulness. In addition, this study found a strong positive relationship between perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness likely due to multicollinearity. Technology plays an increasing role in counselor education programs. Findings from this study provide important information for counselor education programs to consider regarding graduate students’ attitudes towards the use of technology.

Thesis (M. Ed.)--University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 66-72).

Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 66-72). Also available in print.

Thesis (Ph.D. (Curriculum Studies))-University of Pretoria, 2005. / Abstract in English. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [235]-260). Available on the Internet via the World Wide Web.

This study explores the social approval of internet dating through the ranking of vignette scenarios. The scenarios are manipulated by the conditions of face-to-face interaction, presence of mutual acquaintance, and use of internet technology. Measures of legitimacy, predicted longevity, and social perception test for changes in attitudes of the varied ways in which a hypothetical couple meets. One of seven randomly distributed scenarios was ranked by a total of 346 undergraduates to disentangle the above conditions and test for an effect on social approval. Situated in the framework of cultural adaptation, script theory and the saturated self, support is found for low cultural approval of internet dating. Conditions of face-to-face interaction, issues of trust, and affinity to the internet demonstrate clear effects on the approval of relationships formed through internet dating.

Thesis (M.A. )--Miami University, Dept. of Educational Psychology, 2008. / Title from first page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 35-37).

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:07:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 IvoneteBS_TESE.pdf: 686223 bytes, checksum: b6f369c540e13858a6fb1f6fddf65d7e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-09-14 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / This thesis proposes a new thinking on the English teacher and their continuing education, leaving the picture emerging of a new professional, who is producing and being produced. From this perspective, I present an analysis of self writing of thirteen student-teachers, teachers on how they position themselves to be discursively constituted as subjects in the context of continuing education. As part of Applied Linguistics, the theory and method that supports the analysis of data are articulate key elements of Foucault notions, namely:The care of the self, seeking their connection with one another and care of and the self writing. In the theoretical notions of these elements are implied notions of others, such as speech, ethics, technology of the self, subject and truth. (Foucault, 1984, 1995, 2004c, 2006), and questioning the ethics of the subject. I propose to examine selected excerpts from the self writings of student teachers with a specialization in Teaching and Learning the English Language, seeking linguistic processes in the material production of subjectivities.In order to analyze the process of subjectivation, I examine the discursive statements of selected cuts, aiming to learn more specifically, the points of identification and fragments of the uniqueness of the teachers, showing how they care for themselves and reflect upon them in building their subjectivity from the technologies of the self, to occupy the position of English Language teachers. The results show that, in the exercise of self writing, the subject falls, and a practice of asceticism, discursively construct her/his subjectivity / A presente tese prop?e-se a construir um novo olhar acerca do professor de l?ngua inglesa em sua forma??o continuada, deixando emergir a figura de um novo profissional, que est? se produzindo e sendo produzido na contemporaneidade. Nessa perspectiva, apresenta-se uma an?lise das escritas de si de treze alunosprofessores, sobre como esses docentes posicionam-se discursivamente ao se constitu?rem como sujeitos em um contexto de forma??o continuada. No ?mbito da Lingu?stica Aplicada, a trama do tecido te?rico-metodol?gico que sustenta a an?lise dos dados articula elementos principais das no??es foucaultianas, tais como: o cuidado de si, buscando sua conex?o com um cuidado do outro e com a escrita de si. Nas no??es te?ricas desses elementos est?o implicadas as no??es de outros, a saber: discurso, ?tica, tecnologia do eu, e sujeito e verdade (FOUCAULT, 1984, 1995, 2004c, 2006), al?m da problematiza??o da ?tica do sujeito. Prop?e-se ainda a analisar recortes discursivos selecionados a partir das escritas dos alunosprofessores de um curso de especializa??o em Ensino e Aprendizagem de l?ngua inglesa, buscando, na materialidade lingu?stica, os processos de produ??o de suas subjetividades. Com o prop?sito de analisar o processo de subjetiva??o, examinamse enunciados fazendo recortes no intuito de apreender, mais especificamente, os pontos de identifica??o e fragmentos da singularidade dos professores, identificando como eles cuidam de si e refletem sobre si na constru??o de suas subjetividades a partir das tecnologias do eu, ao ocuparem a posi??o de professores de l?ngua inglesa. Os resultados apontam que, no exerc?cio da escrita de si, o sujeito se inscreve, e, numa pr?tica de ascese, constr?i discursivamente sua subjetividade

This dissertation applies anthropology analysis to study a specie of a tree frog, living in the northern Amazonia, called Kambo. The wax-like substance, which the frog releases upon irritation, is used for its healing potential around the world. A basic conceptual framework is used to analyse the frog from the perspective of modernity, globalisation, and diffusion of cultural dimensions. The dissertation anticipates their influences on multiple parties. The geographical scope of the dissertation is limited on Amazonia and the Czech Republic. Kambo is a host of numerous biochemical interactions; in addition, it is used in socio-material context; in rituals; for gaining, or circulation of experience; or it is part of various techniques of understanding oneself, as described in later works of Michel Foucault. Due to Kambo's alleged participation on creation of human's subjective thinking, the dissertation answers the question on the extent to which Kambo could be responsible, through ethnographic lens. The results show that for those respondents who were experienced Kambo users; using the substance as a potion for treating physiological and mental issues and who were subsequently influenced by New Age movement; Kambo stands as a milestone in their life trajectories. Through the ethnographic research,...