Nas cidades, historicamente, são realizados eventos de diversos portes em praças públicas ou locais alternativos, como vazios urbanos, estacionamentos de automóveis, descampados, campos de futebol, faixas de areia das praias, entre outros. Tais festas são categorizadas genericamente como eventos ao ar livre e muitas vezes atraem uma grande concentração de público, o que gera a necessidade de aporte de uma logística com aparatos de suporte para garantir sua boa realização. Outro suporte importante é o staff, ou seja, a equipe de realização do evento. Esta pesquisa tem por objetivo entender como se dá a relação entre o sítio de realização, a qualidade do evento e os profissionais envolvidos. / Historically, cities have held events of different sizes in squares or alternative places such as vacant terrains parking lots, open fields, sports fields, beaches etc. Those events are generically categorized as open air, and often find a high concentration of public, which creates the need of a logistic apparatus to support the event and ensure its proper execution. Another important aspect is the support staff. This research tries to understand how the professionals involved, location and quality relates to each other in such events.

The aim of this bachelor thesis is to find out how young adults experience the library and the space that they have access to. I used semi-structured interviews to find out about this and interviewed eight youths between the ages of 15 and 18 in a medium sized city in the province of Västra Götaland in Sweden. I then analyzed the material with the help of Goffman’s theory about front stage and back stage. I also did a small comparison with results from previous studies.The result showed that the youths generally liked the library and the staff but they had opinions on some issues. Several of the youths missed comfortable furniture in the adult section and enjoyed the furniture in the children and youth section. However, several of the young adults experienced that the volume of sound was disturbing in that section. All of them wanted there to be some form of youth room or youth section in the library. My analysis with Goffman’s theory showed that the youths overall saw the library as a front stage area and therefor tended to use it in that way, however, they tended to use the children and youth section more as a back stage area. The way the youths described how a youth room could be like made me realize that they wanted a place with both front and backstage qualities after their own needs. The results also had several things in common with previous studies. / Program: Bibliotekarie

This project presents the design of a theatre. The theatre site is located in Halifax, Nova Scotia and will serve as the home for the Legacy Centre for the Performing arts. A selection of theatre spaces and ritual spaces, including temples and churches are analyzed, with attention paid to performance theory research in order to interpret the shared activities within these two building types. Architectural connections between these spaces are made as well as a building language common to both. A collection of theatre buildings, including the design for the Legacy Centre, is produced. Each design exhibits the line between front of house and backstage that has been established as being similar to both theatres and ritual spaces and that will enhance the experience of going to the theatre.

Nas cidades, historicamente, são realizados eventos de diversos portes em praças públicas ou locais alternativos, como vazios urbanos, estacionamentos de automóveis, descampados, campos de futebol, faixas de areia das praias, entre outros. Tais festas são categorizadas genericamente como eventos ao ar livre e muitas vezes atraem uma grande concentração de público, o que gera a necessidade de aporte de uma logística com aparatos de suporte para garantir sua boa realização. Outro suporte importante é o staff, ou seja, a equipe de realização do evento. Esta pesquisa tem por objetivo entender como se dá a relação entre o sítio de realização, a qualidade do evento e os profissionais envolvidos. / Historically, cities have held events of different sizes in squares or alternative places such as vacant terrains parking lots, open fields, sports fields, beaches etc. Those events are generically categorized as open air, and often find a high concentration of public, which creates the need of a logistic apparatus to support the event and ensure its proper execution. Another important aspect is the support staff. This research tries to understand how the professionals involved, location and quality relates to each other in such events.

The world of theatre focuses on presentation and showmanship, but what audience never sees is often the most vital parts of the show. Behind the curtains, in the backstage of the theatre is where the real magic happens. This paper focuses on shedding some light on one aspect of the backstage. Without light, nothing would be seen. Follow along as the process of being chosen, creating, research, and production are revealed and explained to make the backstage more appreciated.

Inspired by my personal interest in the topic of dramaturgy, coupled with the continuous change programmes that Shell Oman Marketing Company (SOMC) adopts in many areas, this research attempts to explore the role of dramaturgy (Goffman 1956) in change management in SOMC. The primary question that this thesis addresses is: What is the role, impact and potential of dramaturgy in change management in SOMC? The objective is to examine the ability of dramaturgy to offer an effective method for managing change, and one that will eventually be used as an integral part of effective change management programmes in SOMC. The research consists of a case study of installing Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) system cameras in the offices of SOMC. The research was a qualitative study, conducting 22 semi-structured interviews along with unstructured observations of meetings and engagements. The research concludes that front stage performances and backstage performances are witnessed extensively in SOMC, and concludes that the boundary between front and backstage is blurred, that stories, metaphors and body language play an important role in performances, and that the audience perception of the authenticity, sincerity and genuineness of the performers is a key factor in their acceptance of the message. This research identifies a number of themes that can be added to the existing literature. The study highlighted the importance of ‘Alignment’ as a way of explaining the work that goes on in backstage and front stage performances, much part of living organisations. The term found extensively in organisational life at SOMC and many other organisations. Backstage meeting often has the goal of aligning participants to the message that has to be conveyed – the coordinated front stage performance. Therefore, alignment is a key element of the rehearsals and practices for the frontstage performances, and in bringing together the supporting team and loyalists. Another contribution of this research that is not available in other studies is that the importance of context and culture. That although metaphors and storytelling are used in many organisations across the world, they resonate particularly with Omanis because they are part of their history and culture. Hence using storytelling and metaphors in performances in SOMC can have a huge help connecting the audience with the performance.

Grove and Fisk ¡]1983¡^ had used the noun and idea of drama performance in the theater to compare the offering of service, such attendants as known as performer, customers as known as audience, and separate the front and back stage of service encounter clearly. At the same time, they offer the structure to easily understand the process of the wholly service contact and to help estimate the influence of each important link of service contact. So, this research focused on ¡§perceived value¡¨ of customer experiences through which, the ¡§visualized service backstage¡¨ in the service contact promotes the interaction of consumers and suppliers. Moreover, this study used the involvement of the back stage information and attention of attendants¡¦ appearance to moderate consumer experiences. The results showed that ¡§visualized service backstage¡¨ has positive influence on ¡§perceived value¡¨ with different levels, and customers have more consciousness on ¡§experience value¡¨. Actually the service with ¡§visualized service backstage¡¨ can really improve customers¡¦ perceived value. It not only can strengthen consumers¡¦ experience value, but also promote other different values of consumers. In fact, if service providers can use this advantage to create more perfect service performance by which the front stage and the back stage fully support. And it could bring to people more different service value than others. In addition, through the analysis of this study and real practices, it can help the service providers understand which value is the key factor to be attention for offering visualized service backstage.

To be a football supporter can today mean very different things depending om who you ask. It can mean anything from being a dedicated follower of a football team or maybe a troublemaker who enjoys fighting. It can archive great things and cause tremendous problems. This thesis will try to clear up what it means to be a supporter and how one become one. What being on an arena or on a supporter bus does to the individual in terms of acting and how the individual goes into a roll of being a supporter.  I also bring up how media affect the supporter culture and how it, through its way of reporting about matches, create an exclusion of women in supporter culture. I have conducted an observation where I followed along on a supporter bus on its way to an away game. With this I have also done 5 interviews with supporters from the same team as the observation. With this empirical data that I have collected, I have used Erving Goffmans theory on frontstage and backstage in terms of getting an understanding on how the individual goes into a roll. The result shows how the scenery around the football game have an impact on how the individuals transform into the role of the supporter. How media affects this role and how it, though its way of reporting about football matches and supporters, create an exclusion of women.

[pt] Análise e levantamento de questões relativas à infância contemporânea brasileira e sua relação com a mídia (mais especificamente a televisão), a partir de experiência como psicóloga com crianças que trabalham na TV. / [en] Analysis and study of questions related to Brazilian contemporary childhood and its relation to the media (more specifically to television), based on experience as a psychologist with children who work on television.

Den här studien handlar om universitetsstudenters av andra generationens invandrare och deras upplevelser av tillhörighet. Det övergripande syftet är att beskriva upplevelser av tillhörighet hos universitetsstudenter av andra generationens invandrare med ursprung från Mellanöstern och Somalia, detta görs genom beskrivning av studenters upplevelser av olika relationer och emotioner i interaktionen med olika grupper på universitetet. För att besvara syftet kommer jag ta hjälp av följande frågeställningar: Hur upplever studenterna interaktionen tillsammans med kurskamrater i olika sammanhang/situationer, hur upplever studenterna sitt emotionella agerande i relationerna till de studenter med utländsk bakgrund och till de etnisk svenska studenterna. Metoden som används är en kvalitativ metod i form av intervjuer med fem universitetsstudenter av andra generationens invandrare som läser ett program på Karlstad Universitet. Informanternas utsagor och berättelser har sedan analyserats med hjälp av den teoretiska referensramen jag använt mig av. Jag har utgått från emotionssociologi och det dramaturgiska perspektivet. Resultatet visar att informanterna upplever tillhörighet genom sina sociala roller och emotioner i relationerna och interaktionerna tillsammans med etniskt svenska studenter och studenter med utländsk bakgrund. Studenterna intar olika roller i interaktionerna beroende på vilken etnicitet kurskamraterna har och beroende på vilken plats de befinner sig. Studenterna använde sig även av specifika emotionella agerande i relationerna gentemot respektive grupp, där det lärt sig vilka emotioner som är acceptabla. Studenterna både visar, håller tillbaka, dämpar och kontrollerar sina känslor. Rollerna och emotionerna blir en del av tillhörigheten.