Uppsatsen faller inom ämnet bildproduktion och undersöker hur människor lever sig in i film och hur den inlevelse kan gå förlorad. I studien utforskas hur avancerade kamerarörelser kan utgöra ett hinder för att följa filmens narrativ och om personer med förkunskap inom filmproduktion påverkas mer än andra. Film- och socionomstudenter, med sex deltagare från varje grupp, har intervjuats efter att ha visats fyra olika sekvenser med avancerade kamerarörelser. Studien utgår från forskning inom reception och intervjusvaren har erhållits genom ett kvalitativt tillvägagångsätt. Resultaten visar att kamerarörelser inte verkar utgöra ett hinder för att följa filmers handling eller påverka förmågan hos människor att leva sig in i den filmiska världen. Vissa kamerarörelser uppmärksammas mer än andra, beroende på om de är motiverade eller inte, utan att publiken slungas ut ur den filmiska världen. Film- och socionomstudenter uppmärksammar olika aspekter under filmtittande där filmstudenter uppmärksammar mer den tekniska aspekten medan socionomstudenter fokuserar mer på filmens miljö och karaktärer.

The purpose of this essay is to investigate whether the audience's views on ethics and moralitytend to change after watching the TV program "Förrädarna" (The Traitors). By analyzing and exploring this program, we aim to understand how viewers perceive the content. The essay examines how this entertainment program might possibly influence an individual's perception of ethical and moral issues, using qualitative methods. By employing the qualitative method off focus groups, this study explores how the audience experiences the program and how their ethics and morals have changed. The participants in the focus groups were selected from students aged 20-25. The results subsequently showed that despite the actions of the celebrities in the program, the audience's fundamental ethical and moral values did not change. The focus group discussions reveal that the audience was contradictory in their opinions about which actions were ethical and moral. They believed it is morally right to follow the rules of the game, which may involve lying, but still perceived the celebrities actions as immoral when they lied, creating a contradictory statement.

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Thesis advisor: Richard Lennan / This thesis examines issues that complicate the reception of Vatican II, proposes hermeneutical principles to engage these issues, and argues that to receive the council’s teaching on the church and episcopal conferences one has to combine sociology with the traditional sources of theology such as Scripture, patristic theology, church teaching, and church history. Chapter One studies issues that involve the reception of Vatican II through the perspectives of Walter Kasper, the delegates of the 1985 Synod of Bishops, and Joseph Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI. It shows that to engage these issues, one has to pay attention both to the historical context of Vatican II and to the documents of the council, to both ressourcement and aggiornamento, and to both elements of continuity and elements of discontinuity in the teaching of Vatican II. Chapter Two explains why one needs sociology to interpret Vatican II’s teaching on the church. It argues that for the council’s bishops the church is more than a mystery of communion promoted by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and defended by Joseph Ratzinger in his debate with Walter Kasper. The church is the sacrament of Christ or a theological and socio-historical reality. As a result, Scripture, patristic theology, church teaching, and church history are not sufficient to provide a proper understanding of the church. Sociology should be integrated into conciliar ecclesiology to study the church. Chapter Three shows how sociology can be integrated into ecclesiology to help theologians receive Vatican II’s teaching on the church. The chapter engages Neil Ormerod’s critique of Roger Haight’s two-language approach to ecclesiology to demonstrate why the relationship between the theological and the socio-historical dimension of the church complicates the integration of sociology into ecclesiology. It argues that Karl Rahner’s theology of grace and the church can provide a framework for relating sociology to ecclesiology. Chapter Four builds on this framework to examine the Vatican’s and Asian bishops’ reception of episcopal conferences. It argues that neither the Vatican’s nor the Asian bishops’ reception can offer a comprehensive understanding of episcopal conferences. To receive this teaching of the council, one has to combine sociological insights from the sociology of organizations with theological concepts from Scripture, canon law, and church teaching. / Thesis (STD) — Boston College, 2020. / Submitted to: Boston College. School of Theology and Ministry. / Discipline: Sacred Theology.

This thesis develops a mathematical framework for analyzing the average bit error rate performance of five different selection diversity combining schemes over slow, frequency non-selective Rayleigh, Nakagami-m and Ricean fading channels. Aside from the classical selection diversity, generalized selection combining and the "maximum output" selection methods, two new selection rules based on choosing the branch providing the largest magnitude of log-likelihood ratio for binary phase shift keying signals (with and without phase compensation in the selection process) are also investigated. The proposed analytical framework is sufficiently general to study the effects of dissimilar fading parameter and unequal mean received signal strengths across the independent diversity paths. The effect of branch correlation on the performance of a dual-diversity system is also studied. The accuracies of our analytical expressions have been validated by extensive Monte-Carlo simulation runs. The proposed selection schemes based on the log-likelihood ratio are attractive in the design of low-complexity rake receivers for wideband CDMA and ultra wideband communication systems. / Master of Science