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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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The Sex Pistols and the London mob

Kitson, Michael E., University of Western Sydney, College of Arts, School of Communication Arts January 2008 (has links)
This thesis concerns the invention, improvisation, and right to ownership of the punk patent and questions the contention, put by the band’s manager, Malcolm McLaren, and other commentators, that the Sex Pistols and English punk were a Situationist prank. This challenge to what, in the majority of punk literature, has become an ‘accepted truth’ was first raised by McLaren’s nemesis, the band’s lead singer, John Lydon. McLaren and Lydon did agree that the London punk movement took its inspiration from the anarchic and chaotic energies of the eighteenth–century London mob. This common crowd could switch instantly and unpredictably from a passive state to an anarchic, violent and destructive mob, or ‘King Mob’: one that turned all authority on its head in concerted, but undirected, acts of misrule. Through his own improvisation with punk tropes, Lydon came to embody English punk and functioned, on the one hand, as a natural mob leader; and on the other, as a focus for the mob’s anger. I argue that, in following McLaren’s reduction of the Sex Pistols to a Situationistinspired prank, one of the earliest and most influential analyses of the punk phenomenon, Greil Marcus’s Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century, misunderstood how fundamental the culture and semiotics of the London mob was to McLaren, Lydon, the Sex Pistols and the performance of London punk. I take seriously, then, the idea that the cultural signifiers the Sex Pistols drew upon to make their punk performances, and which accounted in no small way for their ability to ‘outrage’, were exclusively British and unique to London’s cultural topography and the culture of the London crowd. After the implosion of the Sex Pistols on their 1978 American tour, with Lydon quitting in disgust, McLaren attempted to take ownership of the punk legacy: both actually, through attempting to assert his copyright over the Sex Pistols’ brand; and symbolically through re-writing the Sex Pistols’ story in his 1980 movie The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle. Curiously, and most notably, the mob is foregrounded in the film through its opening sequence, which draws heavily from the events of the Gordon Riots in 1780. This thesis contests the paradigm put in place by McLaren’s version of events as portrayed in The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle and reconsiders punk as a cultural object trouve. In particular, I consider literary influences on its protagonists: Graham Greene on John Lydon and Charles Dickens and J. M. Barrie on Malcolm McLaren. / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Mobile technologies and public spaces

Mani, Sanaz 05 1900 (has links)
Mobile technologies are the latest technologies in the realm of communication media. They have the potential to flatten the world by making it a place where gender, age, class, race and nationality can no longer hold us back from being heard and being informed. We have learned that these technologies can help to liberate and empower us, and they can lead to a collective cognition as much as they can distract us from what we need to know about the world we live in. In Greece thousands of years ago, a selected number of Greeks had a public space called the Agora to discuss the issues that concerned the public, meaning each and every citizen. They were the first to be able to create the space and place were the word “democracy” could be brought into language; the very word that was used to start a new war in the era of a communication revolution in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. There are still issues that concern the public today such as wars, global warming, homelessness or human rights which are all matters of our collective cognition. However, today in an age of information revolution the public life of people and their collective cognition is being exercised mostly in the virtual spaces of the Internet. Simultaneously, some physical spaces are being abandoned by people. This thesis investigates the possibility of having physical public spaces that are enriched with communication media and not weakened by it. If architects rethink their designs based on a new understanding of the networked society it might be possible to turn this “networked individualism” into a networked collectivism. However, most designed public spaces fail to offer new possibilities that can transform space for the new generation of users. Here, the aim is to understand a new generation of users. Who have they become as a result of new communication media? And how can architects design in a way that responds to this new subject in architecture?
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Mobile technologies and public spaces

Mani, Sanaz 05 1900 (has links)
Mobile technologies are the latest technologies in the realm of communication media. They have the potential to flatten the world by making it a place where gender, age, class, race and nationality can no longer hold us back from being heard and being informed. We have learned that these technologies can help to liberate and empower us, and they can lead to a collective cognition as much as they can distract us from what we need to know about the world we live in. In Greece thousands of years ago, a selected number of Greeks had a public space called the Agora to discuss the issues that concerned the public, meaning each and every citizen. They were the first to be able to create the space and place were the word “democracy” could be brought into language; the very word that was used to start a new war in the era of a communication revolution in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. There are still issues that concern the public today such as wars, global warming, homelessness or human rights which are all matters of our collective cognition. However, today in an age of information revolution the public life of people and their collective cognition is being exercised mostly in the virtual spaces of the Internet. Simultaneously, some physical spaces are being abandoned by people. This thesis investigates the possibility of having physical public spaces that are enriched with communication media and not weakened by it. If architects rethink their designs based on a new understanding of the networked society it might be possible to turn this “networked individualism” into a networked collectivism. However, most designed public spaces fail to offer new possibilities that can transform space for the new generation of users. Here, the aim is to understand a new generation of users. Who have they become as a result of new communication media? And how can architects design in a way that responds to this new subject in architecture?
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The Sex Pistols and the London mob

Kitson, Michael E. January 2008 (has links)
Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Western Sydney, 2008. / A thesis presented to the University of Western Sydney, College of Arts, School of Communication Arts, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Includes bibliography.
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Flash mob : práticas midiáticas e a intervenção urbana em tempos de cibercultura

Martins, Fernando Gil Paiva 05 April 2013 (has links)
Submitted by Valquíria Barbieri (kikibarbi@hotmail.com) on 2018-02-02T20:27:32Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DISS_2013_Fernando Gil Paiva Martins.pdf: 2644326 bytes, checksum: 6fa0cf335a368d6524042db8e044c368 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Jordan (jordanbiblio@gmail.com) on 2018-02-03T13:15:09Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 DISS_2013_Fernando Gil Paiva Martins.pdf: 2644326 bytes, checksum: 6fa0cf335a368d6524042db8e044c368 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-02-03T13:15:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DISS_2013_Fernando Gil Paiva Martins.pdf: 2644326 bytes, checksum: 6fa0cf335a368d6524042db8e044c368 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-04-05 / CAPES / Por meio da perspectiva da comunicação como ciência da cultura (LIMA, 2011), esta pesquisa evidencia, no início do século XXI, a dimensão midiática de flash mobs no uso do ciberespaço e na atualização de multidões organizadas para um acontecimento que faz diferença no cotidiano da experiência urbana globalizada. Flash mobs são entendidos como agrupamentos e dispersões instantâneos em praças, parques, estações, etc. com mobilização prévia em redes sociais. Para localizar flash mobs como intervenções contemporâneas, sete casos relevantes de vídeos (registros) do YouTube foram selecionados para compor um panorama descritivo de flash mobs, bem como a comparação a outros exemplos, como os happenings, nos anos 1960, cuja mobilização era anterior à internet. Os casos selecionados, no Brasil e em metrópoles do mundo, contribuem para formar um conceito de flash mob, situado desde sua criação, em 2003, Nova York, pelo jornalista Bill Wasik. Com isso, esta pesquisa interdisciplinar se constrói aportada pela comunicação, a partir de conceitos como: a cidade (Sennett); a performance (Schechner); a cibercultura (Lemos; Lévy); o não-lugar, o lugar e o entre-lugar (Augé; Serpa; Castrogiovanni; e Tuan); as trocas e a dádiva (Mauss; Simmel; e Lévi-Strauss); o espaço, o tempo e a pausa (Tuan); a globalização (Ianni), e outros. / Based on the perspective of communication as Science of Culture (LIMA, 2011), this research clarifies, in the beginning of the 21st century, the media dimension of flash mobs in the use of cyberspace and in the actualization of organized multitudes for something that makes difference in the daily urban globalized experience. Flash mobs can be understood as instantaneous gatherings and spreads in squares, parks, stations, etc. with a previous mobilization through social networks. To localize flash mobs as contemporary interventions, seven relevant cases of videos (registers) have been selected from YouTube to compose a descriptive panorama of flash mobs, as well as the comparison to other examples, as the happenings in the 1960‟s, which mobilization was pre-internet. The selected cases, in Brazil and some metropolises in the world, contribute to conceptualize flash mobs, situated since its creation, in New York, 2003, by journalist Bill Wasik. Furthermore, this interdisciplinary research, supported by communication, reunites some concepts like: the city (Sennett); the performance (Schechner); Cyberculture (Lemos; and Lévy); non-place, place and in-between (Augé; Serpa; Castrogiovanni; and Tuan); changes and gifts (Mauss; Simmel; and Lévi-Strauss); space, time and pause (Tuan); globalization (Octavio Ianni); etc.
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Mobile technologies and public spaces

Mani, Sanaz 05 1900 (has links)
Mobile technologies are the latest technologies in the realm of communication media. They have the potential to flatten the world by making it a place where gender, age, class, race and nationality can no longer hold us back from being heard and being informed. We have learned that these technologies can help to liberate and empower us, and they can lead to a collective cognition as much as they can distract us from what we need to know about the world we live in. In Greece thousands of years ago, a selected number of Greeks had a public space called the Agora to discuss the issues that concerned the public, meaning each and every citizen. They were the first to be able to create the space and place were the word “democracy” could be brought into language; the very word that was used to start a new war in the era of a communication revolution in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. There are still issues that concern the public today such as wars, global warming, homelessness or human rights which are all matters of our collective cognition. However, today in an age of information revolution the public life of people and their collective cognition is being exercised mostly in the virtual spaces of the Internet. Simultaneously, some physical spaces are being abandoned by people. This thesis investigates the possibility of having physical public spaces that are enriched with communication media and not weakened by it. If architects rethink their designs based on a new understanding of the networked society it might be possible to turn this “networked individualism” into a networked collectivism. However, most designed public spaces fail to offer new possibilities that can transform space for the new generation of users. Here, the aim is to understand a new generation of users. Who have they become as a result of new communication media? And how can architects design in a way that responds to this new subject in architecture? / Applied Science, Faculty of / Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), School of / Graduate
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Comparative Case Study: The history of Sundown Towns

Cain, Amyre M 07 April 2022 (has links)
Abstract Comparative Case Study: The History of Erwin: Sundown Towns Amyre Cain and Dr. Candace Forbes Bright, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN. The conception of Sundown Town is to exploit minorities from their land. This increases white spaces that allow racism and other racial issues to increase. Sundown Town originated between 1865 and the 1930s. After Blacks became free from enslavement, White fear had increased due to the loss of power. White citizens within these towns would forcefully exclude people of color and other ethnicities from their town whenever the sun went down. Specifically, Black residents were forced off of their land by White mobs. In my research, I have examined, through a qualitative case study, how Erwin has Handled and Acknowledged white supremacy and the progress of racial inequality. My methodology for this research consists of interviewing six individuals who not only have played a key role within the community but who are local historians as well. In strengthening the historical understanding of Erwin, there are possibilities for building relations between the black and white communities.
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Kolektivní inteligence a role jedince: na příkladu sociálního aktivismu online / Collective Intelligence and the Functions of Individual: Using an Example of Social Activism Online

Batrlová, Marie January 2014 (has links)
Final thesis titled Collective Intelligence and the Functions of Individual: Using an Example of Social Activism Online uses definition of collective intelligence by Pierre Lévy, and tries to verify it throught practice of social activism on the internet using a smartphone as a tool for accessing cyberspace. The theses is based on media theory works focusing in particular on a new kind of intelligence of community and the impact of new communication technologies on humans. Next part is about the topics of social activism, when considering together or independently with collective intelligence, provides the potential for direct democracy. Lastly there are few examples of social activism online or forerunners of direct democracy. As an important issue of collective intelligence in practice emerge the rules of behavior of individuals and Lévy's vision of collective intelligence as a peak of humanity.
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Narrative accounts of the involvement of victims and perpetrators in mob-justice related incidents : a Limpopo case study

Mpuru, L. P. 02 1900 (has links)
Increasing incidents of mob justice have left a trail of murders that remain unsolved in the rural areas of South Africa. As such, little attention has been given to the experiences of victims and perpetrators involved in mob justice related incidents in these areas in particular. The purpose of this study was to examine narrative accounts of the experiences of victims and perpetrators engaged in mob justice associated incidents in the Diphale village, Limpopo. Twenty participants, consisting of 14 perpetrators and 06 victims, were chosen through sampling techniques, like, convenience and snowball sampling. A qualitative approach was adopted using semi-structured interviews as the key research instrument. The semi-structured interviews were conducted with 09 perpetrators, and two focus groups involving 06 victims and 05 perpetrators. Data was analysed using thematic analysis to interpret data collected from the participants. The findings indicated that unsolved crime leads to persistent mob justice activities in the Diphale village. The findings in the study were further bolstered through the provision of recommendations aimed at preventing future mob justice activities. The recommendations highlight proper service delivery, including community development, and the reduction of corruption and bribery. / Criminology and Security Science / M.A. (Criminology)

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