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251	ICTs for whose development? A critical analysis of the discourses surrounding an ICT for Development Initiative for a group of microenterprise entrepreneurs operating in the Jamaican tourism industry: Towards the development of methodologies and analytical tools for understanding and explaining the ICT for Development Phenomenon Waller, Lloyd George January 2006 (has links) This is an interdiscliplinary qualitative study which uses an exploratory research design and builds on Fariclough's Critical Discourse Analysis methodology to analyze the discourses surrounding an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for livelihood development project in Jamaica, introduced by the United Nations Development Programme - the Jamaica Sustainable Development Networking Programme (JSDNP). The primary objective of this project is to provide the poor in Jamaican communities with access to, and training in ICTs. In this research, I specifically focus on the discourses surrounding the JSDNP Cybercentre Project for a group of microenterprise entrepreneurs in the Jamaican tourism industry to access the epistemological assumptions of this project. From the data collected it was found that at one level, the JSDNP Cybercentre Project encouraged specific ways of acting and organizing congruent with the configurations, processes and structures of corporate firms of industrialized countries, by representing the achievement of livelihood expansion through the use of specific ICTs in a particular way which excluded other discourses. The particular ways of acting and organizing promoted by the Cybercentre encouraged the use of non-indigenous technologies, undervalued indigenous technologies and excluded the indigenization of non-indigenous technologies. These discourses were incompatible with the operational and structural configurations of trans-temporal poor entrepretrepreneurs interviewed and were more favourable to the non-poor and spatio-temporal ones. One of the wider implications of the discourse therefore was that they play a fundamental role in perpetuating entrenched inequalities through the preservation of social practices, along with their associated systems and structures. It was also found that these modalities limited the operational processes of all microenterprise entrepreneurs who were exposed to the Cybercentre Project. These entrepreneurs have limited control over the configuration of non-indigenous technologies; their technological and creative capabilities are restricted; their ability to indigenize non-indigenous technologies impaired; and they are highly dependent on non-indigenous technologies (which themselves have a number of limitations). Lloyd George Waller Norman Girvan technology digital divide Information and Communication Technology ICT development discourse critical theory discourse analysis critical discourse analysis CDA Fairclough tourism JSCNP United Nations Development Programme UNDP Jamaica microenterprise entrepreneurs methodology ICT
252	Konstruktioner av Bofills båge : En undersökning av arkitektur och diskurs Daniel, Sjöborg January 2018 (has links) Uppsatsen undersöker diskurs kring det postmoderna byggnadskomplexet Bofills båge på Södermalm i Stockholm, som uppfördes mellan 1989 och 1992. Med utgångspunkt i teorier om kritisk diskursanalys undersöks utsagor i tre artiklar och ett TV-inslag som behandlar projektet, samt det sammanhang som utsagorna och projektet befann sig i. Allmän teoretisk utgångspunkt är Michel Foucaults iakttagelser kring diskurs. Thomas A. Markus och Deborah Camerons tillämpning för arkitekturdomänen av Norman Faircloughs teorier om kritisk diskursanalys är teoretiskt och metodologiskt ramverk för undersökningen. Uppsatsen undersöker i ett inledande kapitel sammanhanget ur både ett allmänt internationellt och specifikt svenskt perspektiv. I följande kapitel undersöks utsagor i de tre artiklarna och TV-inslaget. Artiklarna och TV-inslaget undersöks var och en till form och innehåll och med bakgrund i sammanhanget. En avslutande diskussion sammanfattar och diskuterar tidigare kapitel, samt relaterar utsagorna till varandra och till sammanhanget. Det förs en diskussion om den modernistiska arkitekturvokabulärens, den svenska traditionens och det politiska perspektivets betydelse för det sammanhang utsagorna befann sig i. diskurs kritisk diskursanalys postmodernism modernism pastisch Bofills båge Stockholm Södra station Michel Foucault Norman Fairclough Thomas A. Markus Deborah Cameron Eva Eriksson Elias Cornell Ernst Brunner Bengt Lagerkvist Art History Konstvetenskap Architecture Arkitektur
253	Vizualizace hudby v animovaném filmu / Vizualization of music in animation film Ishida, Kaoru January 2012 (has links) Purpose of this work in to find possibilities of vizualization of music, analyze masterpiece of vizual music. There are written about relationships between arts and five senses ? mostly sight and hearing, to make clear how pictures and music work differently, several experiments of visual music on history, animation films as vizual music, composer inspirated by pictures, and writer inspirated by music. Finally there is mention about meaning of expression of art works in different forms.
254	Morality and Aspiration: Some Conditions of Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms Lynch, Sylvio, III 14 April 2020 (has links) No description available. Art Criticism American Studies Art History History America American American art Norman Rockwell Rockwell Four freedoms World War II American propaganda American visual culture 20th century America Americana American kitsch
255	Into the Fray : Norman Jacobson, the Free Speech Movement and the Clash of Commitments Gardner, Kai 17 June 2015 (has links) No description available. American History Education Philosophy History Philosophy Political Science The Free Speech Movement Norman Jacobson existentialism Albert Camus The Myth of Sisyphus authenticity commitment responsibility 1960s radical politics Mario Savio political theory University of California, Berkeley Clark Kerr multiversity
256	Historical Reconstruction and Self-Search: A Study of Thomas Pynchon's V.. John Barth's The Sot-Weed Factor. Norman Mailer's The Armies of the Nicrht. Robert Coover's The Public Burning, and E.L. Doctorow's The Book of Daniel Pak, Inchan 08 1900 (has links) A search for self through historical reconstruction constitutes a crucial concern of the American postmodern historical novels of Pynchon, Barth, Mailer, Coover, and Doctorow. This concern consists of a self-conscious dramatization, paralleled by contemporary theorists' arguments, of the constructedness of history and individual subject. A historian-character's process of historical inquiry and narrative-making foregrounded in these novels represents the efforts by the postmodern self to (re)construct identity (or identities) in a constructing context of discourse and ideology. History in literature. Pynchon, Thomas. -- V. Barth, John. -- Sot-weed factor. Mailer, Norman. -- Armies of the night. Coover, Robert. -- Public burning. historical reconstruction self-search
257	Layamon's Brut and the March of Wales: Merlin, his Prophecies, and the Lex Marchia Helbert, Daniel Glynn 18 May 2011 (has links) This study explores Layamon's engenderment of cultural unification for the explicit purposes of an Anglo-Welsh cultural resistance to the Norman overlords in the March of Wales. In essence, I examine some of the most important cultural signifiers in medieval English and Welsh culture and the methods by which the poet adapts and grafts them together to form a culturally amalgamated text—neither explicitly English nor Welsh but yet simultaneously both - and the political implications of this amalgamation. Though Laymon's methodology emanates from multiple aspects of the text, I have concentrated here on what I feel are the most explicit manifestations of this theme: Merlin, his prophecies, and the Law of the March. / Master of Arts Prophecy British History Layamon Merlin Norman Conquest "March of Wales" March Law Middle Ages Lex Marchia cultural unification Middle Welsh medieval historiography Layamon Lazamon Lawman Middle English revolution
258	“The Best Possible Time for War?” The USS Panay and American Far Eastern Policy During the Roosevelt Presidency Schnurr, Jeremy 13 December 2011 (has links) This thesis examines American Far Eastern policy from the beginning of the Franklin Roosevelt presidency through the early months of 1938. This study is chiefly concerned with the attack by Japanese aircraft on the USS Panay and its effect on the course of U.S. foreign policy. Particular attention is paid to the Anglo-American dialogue which occurred throughout the Far Eastern Crisis. Prior to the end of 1938, the U.S. administration’s position in Asia was dictated both by policies inherited from preceding administrations and by the extreme isolationism of the American people. This foundation effectively inhibited any cooperation with foreign powers. Relying on a reactive policy in the Far East, Washington remained aloof from entanglement as the President sought a plan which would permit U.S. involvement without inviting isolationist wrath. This paper traces an evolution in American Far Eastern policy, highlighting the Panay incident as a distinctly identifiable turning point whereby isolationism gave way to internationalism. Panay Roosevelt FDR Ladybird Far East Inter-War Anglo-American Inter-War 1937 Ludlow American Asia East Asia Policy Disarmament Washington Conference Brussels Conference London Conference isolationism internationalism Far Eastern Crisis Cordell Hull Sumner Welles Franklin Roosevelt Collective Security Norman Alley Open Door Nine-Power Nine Power 1930s Manny Koginos Hamilton Perry Galen Perras Norman Davis pre-war Yangtze U.S. Navy Ingersoll Neutrality Foreign Policy
259	“The Best Possible Time for War?” The USS Panay and American Far Eastern Policy During the Roosevelt Presidency Schnurr, Jeremy 13 December 2011 (has links) This thesis examines American Far Eastern policy from the beginning of the Franklin Roosevelt presidency through the early months of 1938. This study is chiefly concerned with the attack by Japanese aircraft on the USS Panay and its effect on the course of U.S. foreign policy. Particular attention is paid to the Anglo-American dialogue which occurred throughout the Far Eastern Crisis. Prior to the end of 1938, the U.S. administration’s position in Asia was dictated both by policies inherited from preceding administrations and by the extreme isolationism of the American people. This foundation effectively inhibited any cooperation with foreign powers. Relying on a reactive policy in the Far East, Washington remained aloof from entanglement as the President sought a plan which would permit U.S. involvement without inviting isolationist wrath. This paper traces an evolution in American Far Eastern policy, highlighting the Panay incident as a distinctly identifiable turning point whereby isolationism gave way to internationalism. Panay Roosevelt FDR Ladybird Far East Inter-War Anglo-American Inter-War 1937 Ludlow American Asia East Asia Policy Disarmament Washington Conference Brussels Conference London Conference isolationism internationalism Far Eastern Crisis Cordell Hull Sumner Welles Franklin Roosevelt Collective Security Norman Alley Open Door Nine-Power Nine Power 1930s Manny Koginos Hamilton Perry Galen Perras Norman Davis pre-war Yangtze U.S. Navy Ingersoll Neutrality Foreign Policy
260	“The Best Possible Time for War?” The USS Panay and American Far Eastern Policy During the Roosevelt Presidency Schnurr, Jeremy 13 December 2011 (has links) This thesis examines American Far Eastern policy from the beginning of the Franklin Roosevelt presidency through the early months of 1938. This study is chiefly concerned with the attack by Japanese aircraft on the USS Panay and its effect on the course of U.S. foreign policy. Particular attention is paid to the Anglo-American dialogue which occurred throughout the Far Eastern Crisis. Prior to the end of 1938, the U.S. administration’s position in Asia was dictated both by policies inherited from preceding administrations and by the extreme isolationism of the American people. This foundation effectively inhibited any cooperation with foreign powers. Relying on a reactive policy in the Far East, Washington remained aloof from entanglement as the President sought a plan which would permit U.S. involvement without inviting isolationist wrath. This paper traces an evolution in American Far Eastern policy, highlighting the Panay incident as a distinctly identifiable turning point whereby isolationism gave way to internationalism. Panay Roosevelt FDR Ladybird Far East Inter-War Anglo-American Inter-War 1937 Ludlow American Asia East Asia Policy Disarmament Washington Conference Brussels Conference London Conference isolationism internationalism Far Eastern Crisis Cordell Hull Sumner Welles Franklin Roosevelt Collective Security Norman Alley Open Door Nine-Power Nine Power 1930s Manny Koginos Hamilton Perry Galen Perras Norman Davis pre-war Yangtze U.S. Navy Ingersoll Neutrality Foreign Policy

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