"How to use film as an identity and meaning building tool in work with christian confirmation" exploers a model for working with film in confirmation with the help of Thomas H. Groomes theological educational model Five movements, Tomas Axelssons model for film watching Thick Viewing and Christopher Voglers narrative model The heros journey. The model explores in different ways if film in work with the christian confirmation can be a constructive tool for building a positive identity for youth and how to explore the christian narrative, narrative in films, and individual personal narratives and the awarness of how this narratives are constructed to build meaning. / <p>Christopher Voglers Modell för The Heros Journey är borttaget pga av upphovsrättsliga skäl. </p>

This thesis examines the informational requirements of customers throughoutthe customer journey within the industry for industrial facilitating goods and exploreshow to manage data to meet these requirements. The research adopts a qualitativeresearch design with a case study approach, using semi-structured interviewssupplemented with secondary survey data. Thematic analysis and descriptive andcorrelational analysis were employed to analyze data. The study identifies digitaltouchpoints as crucial areas for understanding data requirements and data exchange andhighlights the importance of data quality and searchability in enhancing customersatisfaction. The research findings simultaneously emphasize the need for a balancebetween physical and digital touchpoints and the significance of qualitative humaninteractions in generating positive customer experience. Managerial implicationsinclude the importance of updating and delivering the appropriate data sets for differentcustomer roles, investing in business web-presence to facilitate effective customerinteractions, and maintaining a balance between physical and digital touchpoints.

Although hotels have already started to implement online check-ins and digital keys in their applications, there has not been much research on the design of these prominent features. This thesis focuses on designing a digital key that is both easy to use and perceived as safe. A Research through Design approach was followed consisting of semi-structured interviews, an analysis of textual user reviews, and Lo-Fi and Hi-Fi prototyping in order to understand the needs and problems users face while receiving and using a digital key, as well as to provide further design directions for this feature. The findings showed that using a mobile phone to open a door or gate was already part of some of the participants’daily life. Still, many people do not like to rush into this digitalization. Hotel guests do not seem very worried about safety and using a digital key because the level of trust is high in the hospitality industry. The design presented in this paper serves as a starting point on how to design the receiving and using of a digital key. / Även om hotell redan har börjat implementera online check-in och digitala nycklar i sina applikationer, finns det idag inte mycket forskning kring design och utformning av dessa framträdande funktioner. Denna avhandling fokuserar på att designa en digital nyckel som både är enkel och smidig att använda, samtidigt som den av användaren skall uppfattas som säker. Ett forskning genom design tillvägagångssätt har använts, som består av semistrukturerade intervjuer, en analys av skriftliga användarrecensioner, samt Lo-Fi och Hi-Fi prototyper. Detta för att skapa förståelse kring de behov och problem som användarna upplever vid mottagande och användning av en digital nyckel, samt för att ge ytterligare vägledning kring design av denna funktion. Resultaten visade att användandet av en mobiltelefon för att öppna en dörr eller port redan var en del av vissa av deltagarnas dagliga liv. Samtidigt är det många som inte vill göra denna digitala transformation allt för snabbt. Hotellgäster verkar inte vara oroliga för säkerheten eller att använda en digital nyckel då man upplever ett starkt förtroende inom hotellindustrin. Den design som presenteras i denna avhandling utgör en startpunkt för hur mandesignar mottagandet och användandet av en digital nyckel.

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The study set out to examine how using a different type of narrative, the epiphanic structure, compares to the hero’s journey in both non-interactive as well as interactive writing. Earlier studies about different narrative structures were examined as well as reasons for how the hero’s journey has become used to such a high degree that many other structures are barely known by many people. An artifact was created that included four versions of a similar narrative. Two were interactive and the other two were not. Out of each of the two groups, one variant followed the hero’s journey and the other followed the epiphanic narrative structure. Three participants were invited to interact with the artifact and an interview/discussion was held with them each individually. All three of the participants expressed similar opinions about the four narrative variants and agreed that the epiphanic structure felt interesting and provided surprising additional insight.

Research to date has demonstrated significant relationships between the presence of outdoor drug markets and violent crime. Scholars have neglected however, to consider the role of travel distance on the drugs/violence nexus. The current study examines whether features of the distributions of travel distance to markets of drug buyers, drug sellers, or the interaction between the two distributions predicts drug market violence levels net of surrounding community demographic structure. Reuter and MacCoun's (1992) as yet untested model about the connections between drugs and violent crime, predicts that the interaction of drug seller and buyer distance distributions from varying distances more powerfully drug market violence levels than buyer and average distance averages. This suggests that how the travel patterns of the two major participants in drug markets intersect is key to understanding differences. That model is tested here. In addition, for comparison purposes, impacts of buyer and seller travel median distances are modeled separately. This work uses 5 years (2006-2010) of incident and arrest data from the Philadelphia Police Department. Reuter and MacCoun's model will be tested using the following analytical techniques. First, a methodology for locating and bounding drug markets using a nearest neighbor, hierarchical clustering technique is introduced. Using this methodology 34 drug markets are identified. Second, hierarchical linear models examining buyers and sellers separately predict travel distances to drug markets. Arrestees are nested within markets. This technique separates influences on distance arising from arrestees from drug market distance differences. Third, how market level median travel distance affects within drug market violence is considered. Specifically, the main effects of median buyer travel distance and median seller travel distance on drug market violence are captured using separate Poisson hierarchical linear models. Finally, impacts of the interaction between buyer and seller distance, Reuter and MacCoun's (1992) focus, are explored in another series of generalized hierarchical linear models. The main findings from the dissertation are as follows: 1. Results provide partial support for Reuter and MacCoun's drug market-violence model using multiple operationalizations. Public markets--those in which buyers and sellers travel from outside their own neighborhoods--are expected to be the most violent. 2. Separate raw distance measures for buyers and sellers correlate with within-drug market violence, after controlling for community demographics. 3. A negative effect of socioeconomic status and violence holds even when modeled with drug market variables. 4. As the proportion of crack cocaine sales within drug markets increases so too does within-market violence. Conceptual implications highlight the need to investigate social ties as an intervening variable in the travel distance »» drug market violence relationship. It is not clear from this research whether the travel distances of drug offenders in some way explains the amount or strength of social ties in a drug market, which in turn serves to suppress or elevate within-drug market violence. Policy implications suggest that Reuter and MacCoun's drug market types may connect with specific policing responses. Policing efforts may not receive much support from community residents because dense social networks may discourage reporting illicit activity. Markets drawing dealers and customers from farther away, and located around commercial and recreational centers may be amenable to place-based policing initiatives and coordinated intervention strategies with multiple city agencies. / Criminal Justice

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