In this thesis, I will examine how I worked artistically with perspectives and subjective truths in my two short films, What I Wanted to Say and TIPS. Both films are exploring the use of first-person perspective in different ways to allow the audience to experience two different opinions of the story. This exploration is the main part of my artistic research. Through my work with perspectives, I have also added the dual perspective of working as an actor-director on both films and how that method evolved through this process. This method will also be explored as a part of this thesis. In working with perspectives, I have studied when to focus on what role, both when it comes to what character’s perspective should be in focus on the screen at what time, and when to focus on what part of the actor-director role. Searching for this balance will be the focus of my artistic research, as well as looking into the possibility of allowing both roles the focus at the same time. The first film I made, What I Wanted to Say, is a love letter to a broken relationship, a short drama that explores the difficulties of ending a relationship. For this film, I used the same visuals twice but changed the voiceovers so that the visuals of the couple being in love and then fighting with each other would be influenced by each character’s subjective thoughts. The voiceovers take the audience on a reflective journey through their thoughts as Lisa leaves her lover, Oliver at the end of the film. The second film, TIPS, is a story about the newly hired bartender, Sarah, and a group of guys celebrating their friend’s birthday. Here, I worked on changing the perspectives visually through closeups and point-of-view shots, as Sarah builds up the courage to flirt for tips. This act is misinterpreted by the guys who decide to follow her home after work in pursuit of her phone number. We move back and forth between the perspective of Sarah, who learns to stand up for herself, and the self-proclaimed leader of the friend group, Pete, who learns to apologize in the end. I will be starting my thesis with an introduction to my work on the films and the artistic research. Then, I will bring up theories from my acting background to explain why I started working with perspectives and how I work with acting, before exploring the method of working as an actor-director and how I worked with that during the two film productions. The exploration of perspectives came about as a response to the seemingly growing number of echo chambers, which I will be explaining more in-depth through the research part of this thesis. Here, I will study the structure of echo chambers and look at the possibility of having narrative films counteract them. Moving over to the discussion part I will go more in-depth on how I worked with the perspectives, both when writing the script and when acting-directing. I will also look at how I worked with and developed my method of acting-directing, before concluding the thesis with a summary and how I plan to continue my work on perspectives.

Denna studie undersöker tre romaner av författaren Aidan Chambers och korrelationen mellan hur individerna söker sin identitet med sexualitet och föräldraskap som fokus. En analys av alla tre romaner har gjorts kopplat till de frågeställningar som lade grunden för studien. Studien adresserar även litteraturanalys och boksamtal kopplat till lärarrollen. Litteraturen i studien analyseras med hjälp av metoderna nykritik, närläsning, narratologi och hermeneutik.

The purpose of this study is to examine users ́ opinions regarding the Swedish management of the covid-19 pandemic in two echo chambers, consisting of the comment fields in two ideologically different news pages on Facebook, Aftonbladet and Samtiden. Using a quantitative content analysis in different steps, the study will attempt to answer the following questions: - What opinions are expressed in two eco-chambers regarding the pandemic management in Sweden? -To what extent are these common or not between the echo chambers? The empirical material consists a total of 696 comments which will be analysed and compiled into a result. The result will then be set against two opposing theories, the theory of the Public Sphere and the theory of echo chambers, where these disagree upon whether the two different news pages lead to polarization. Depending on the outcome, the result can be said to be in agreement with one or both of the theories. The result of the study shows that the opinions of the users in the echo chambers are mainly the same which supports the theory of the Public Sphere and the idea of a need for a common consensus in order to maintain a functioning democracy. The opinions concern the subjects Sweden, the Swedish government, the Swedish state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell, the Restrictions and statistic rapports about the death toll in Sweden. The results provide information about the effects of echo chambers in an ongoing pandemic and the overall complexity around the definition of the term.

The spread of the Covid-19 pandemic has been since its early beginnings accompanied by the spread of the so called 'infodemic' of misinformation and conspiracy theories about the virus in the media. This infodemic swiftly started to present a matter of significant concern especially in the dynamic landscape of digital media which due to an ease of sharing and content contribution allowed for Covid-19 conspiracy theories to continue to gain momentum. Because of the severe implications that the potential ill-informed actions of conspiracy theory believers could have on the public health, it is necessary to gain a better understanding of the conspiracy theory believers and the way that they spread Covid-19 conspiracy theories. With this in mind, this thesis through the use of qualitative interviews probed into the worldviews of Covid-19 conspiracy theory believers in the Czech Republic. The analytical scrutiny of the interviews through the lens of the theories of network society, context collapse and echo chambers provided important insights into how Czech Covid-19 conspiracy theory believers use digital media in order to learn about and disseminate Covid-19 conspiracy theories. Additionally, this thesis provides an understanding of how the way the conspiracy theory believers navigate context collapse on Facebook drives them to seek echo chambers on e-mail which strengthen their beliefs in Covid-19 conspiracy theories. Moreover, my thesis also sheds light onto how the echo chambers are instrumental in the individuals' distrust in traditional media.

MicroBooNE is a liquid argon time projection chamber that collected neutrino data at Fermilab's Booster Neutrino Beam from 2015 to 2020. One of its primary goals is to investigate the “Low Energy Excess” of neutrino events observed by the MiniBooNE experiment, for which candidate photon-like interpretations include an underestimation of neutrino neutral current (NC) resonant Δ production with subsequent radiative decay or another anomalous source of single photon production in neutrino interactions. In particular, NC Δ radiative decay is poorly constrained background process to electron neutrino measurements and could be a sizable contribution to the “Low Energy Excess.” This thesis will present the analysis developed to search for NC Δ → N𝛾 events in MicroBooNE, consisting of a boosted decision tree based event selection with an NC neutral pion background constraint, using data from the first three years of operations corresponding to 6.9 × 10²⁰ POT.

This study examines the relationship between media use and support/hesitancy towards the COVID-19 vaccine. The purpose of this study is to analyze the relationship between social media and traditional media use and support/hesitancy attitudes towards the COVID-19 vaccine. We want to analyse how social and traditional media use as a news source is related to support and hesitancy attitudes. Furthermore, we want to see if media use as a news source has any relation to the trade-off attitude towards the COVID-19 vaccine. We have found a research gap in the COVID-19 pandemic and connection between social and traditional media use as a news source and support, hesitancy, and trade-off attitudes towards the COVID-19 vaccine. RQ 1: What is the relationship between social media use as a news source and support/hesitancy towards the COVID-19 vaccine? RQ 2: What is the relationship between traditional media use as a news source and support/hesitancy towards the COVID-19 vaccine? The method of this study is a quantitative survey regarding media use before and during the COVID-19 pandemic and support, hesitancy, and trade-off attitudes towards the COVID-19 vaccine. The population size is 201 Swedish citizens between the ages of 18-65. The sample was collected through a snowball sample. The study provides a theoretical framework consisting of crisis communication, misinformation, echo chambers, public opinion, and social amplification of risk. Furthermore, the study presents previous research which is similar to the study. The previous research presents some key findings such as social media use tends to increase during crises, how echo chambers can be increased by the feeling of fear, and research on attitudes towards vaccines. Previous research also presents how misinformation is being spread on social media and how the anti-vaccination movement takes advantage of the postmodern health paradigm which makes people turn to the internet with their medical problems. The study concludes that in some instances traditional media can have a positive relation to supportive attitudes and social media connects to some of the hesitant opinions towards COVID-19. / Denna studie undersöker förhållandet mellan medieanvändning och förespråkande/tveksamhet mot COVID-19-vaccinet. Syftet med denna studie är att analysera förhållandet mellan sociala medier och traditionell medieanvändning och attityder till förespråkande/tveksamhet gentemot COVID-19-vaccinet. Vi vill analysera hur de sociala och traditionella medierna som nyhetskälla är relaterade till förespråkande och tveksamhet. Vidare vill vi se om medieanvändning som nyhetskälla har något samband med avvägningsinställningen till COVID-19. Vi har hittat ett forsknings hål i COVID-19-pandemin och sambandet mellan social och traditionell medieanvändning som nyhetskälla och förespråkande, tveksamhet och avvägningsattityder till COVID-19-vaccinet. RQ 1: Vad är förhållandet mellan användning av sociala medier som nyhetskälla och förespråkande/tveksamhet mot COVID-19-vaccinet? RQ 2: Vad är förhållandet mellan traditionell medieanvändning som nyhetskälla och förespråkande/tveksamhet mot COVID-19-vaccinet? Metoden för denna studie är en kvantitativ undersökning om medieanvändning före och under COVID-19-pandemin och förespråkande, tveksamhet och avvägning av attityder till COVID-19-vaccinet. Befolkningsstorleken är 201 svenska medborgare i åldrarna 18-65. Urvalet samlades in genom ett snowball sample. Studien har ett teoretiskt ramverk som består av kriskommunikation, misinformation, ekokammare, attityder och social förstärkning av risk. Dessutom presenterar studien tidigare forskning som liknar studien. Den tidigare forskningen presenterar några viktiga resultat, såsom användningen av sociala medier tenderar att öka under kriser, hur ekokammare kan ökas av känslan av rädsla och forskning om attityder till vacciner. Tidigare forskning presenterar också hur misinformation sprids på sociala medier och hur antivaccinationsrörelsen utnyttjar det postmodern health paradigm som får människor att vända sig till internet med sina medicinska problem. Studien drar slutsatsen att traditionella medier i vissa fall kan ha en positiv relation till stödjande attityder och att sociala medier ansluter till några av de tveksamma åsikterna mot COVID-19.

La thèse présente de manière générale le processus d’établissement et de fonctionnement du protectorat Français en Annam avant 1945. Le sujet principal de la thèse est d’analyser le processus de création et de fonctionnement de la Chambre des Représentants du Peuple de l’Annam dans la société vietnamienne ainsi que la politique de coopération franco-vietnamienne dans les premières années au début du XXe siècle. La thèse approfondit les recherches sur les processus d’activités de la Chambre des Représentants du Peuple de l’Annam de 1926 à 1945 dans les domaines de la politique, de la législation, de l’économie, de la culture, et de l’education. À partir de là, la thèse détermine les rôles, les contributions, les avancées ainsi que les aspects négatifs engendrés par les activités de la Chambre des Représentants du Peuple de l’Annam sur la population en Annam et dans la société vietnamienne en général. / The aims of this thesis is to examine the establishment and functioning of The Chamber of the People's Representatives in Annam before 1945. The main focus is to analyse the process of creation and existence of the Chamber of People’s Representatives in Annam in the Vietnamese society as well as the Franco-Vietnamese cooperation policy in the early years of the early twentieth century. The thesis analyses the operational process of the Chambers of People’s Representatives in Annam from 1926 to 1945 in terms of politics, law, economy, culture and education. Thence, the author figures out the role, significance, contribution as well as restrictions of these activities on the people of Annam and the Vietnamese society in general.

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Studiens syfte är att undersöka om boksamtal av skönlitterära böcker bidrar till en bättre textförståelse samt språk- och läsutveckling i modersmålsämnet. Fokuset har varit på hur arbetet med lustfyllda metoder kan ge elever möjligheten till att utveckla sitt modersmål, men även vilket intresse de visar för skönlitteratur och filmvisning av den lästa boken. Den valda metoden är kvalitativt arbete, där vi använt oss av ett interaktivt arbetssätt med skönlitteratur i form av boksamtal med användning av Chambers metod, filmvisning samt textanalys. Undersökningen genomfördes med tre elever som går i årskurs 7. Resultaten visar att arbetet med boksamtal generellt har en viktig betydelse och är en förutsättning för bättre läsförståelse hos eleverna. Filmvisningen däremot väcker elevernas fantasi och de blir säkrare med hur deras funderingar och tankar stämmer överens med verkligheten. Den utvecklar även deras förståelse och ger en bredare insikt om sagan. Vi insåg att arbetet med det interaktiva arbetssättet kan ge eleverna en ökad textförståelse samt bättre språk- och läsutveckling. Den kunde stödja och stärka inte bara elevernas språk, utan har utvidgat deras språkfärdigheter på så sätt att de kunde skaffa sig ett större ordförråd.

The purpose of this research study was to determine if there is a correlation between personality type and level of confirmation bias. Confirmation bias is the idea that people are more likely to agree with opinions already similar to their own and they will actively seek out that opinion. The NEO Five Factor Inventory was administered to determine the subjects’ levels in openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. The Confirmation Inventory was administered to determine the level of confirmation bias. It was predicted that people high in openness will score low in confirmation bias; people who score high in conscientiousness will score high in confirmation bias; high levels of agreeableness will result in low scores of confirmation bias; and the final hypothesis is people who score high in neuroticism will also score high levels of confirmation bias. It is predicted that a person's level of extraversion will not affect their level of confirmation bias. The low participant number caused non-significant results. Overall, no significant differences were found that illuminate the relationship between confirmation bias and personality. None of the comparisons were found to be significant at the .01 level.