Title: Skateboarding - sport or lifestyle Objectives: The aim of the thesis is to examine connections, relationships and results, why are skateboarders prefering this activity and to describe them objectively within the majority culture to understand their thoughts. We will try to describe, what are the main differences between them and the rest of the society and how it is important to their own identity. Methods: We gained needed quantity of information from 6 skateboarders, with the aid of qualitative method - semi-structured interview. The data picking was taking place from April to July 2015. From the gained information we analysed behaviour patterns, motives, motivation and thought of the skateboarders. Results: Skateboarders never think about definitions, have no interest in somehow categorizing skateboarding. Some skateboarders immediately identify with the fact that skateboarding is their lifestyle, some of them gradually realize that skateboarding lifestyle can be for their way of life considered, others argue that they would skateboarding lifestyle imagine more intensive than how they do it. Nevertheless they admit, that their life can probably be closer to something that could be called the lifestyle of skateboarders. So that a man could confess lifestyle, activity must be operated...

This thesis details the production process of a video documentary that describes the coming out processes of gay men who identify with the Bear subculture of the gay community and some of the conflicts and consequences that they face due to this action. The aim of this production was to portray with dignity and compassion the recorded feelings and personal histories of the subjects interviewed. Chapters are devoted to the development, pre-production, production and post-production phased of this documentary. A detailed script, transcripts, shot list, and other examples and illustrations are included to give a better understanding of the entire production. This thesis also includes other necessary documentation such as a detailed budget and copies of performance releas

Ethnographic in approach, this dissertation examines trolling, an online subculture devoted to meme creation and social disruption. Rather than framing trolling behaviors as fundamentally aberrant, I argue that trolls are agents of cultural digestion; they scour the landscape, repurpose the most exploitable material, then shove the resulting monstrosities into the faces of an unsuspecting populace. Within the political and social context of the United States, the region to which I have restricted my focus, I argue that trolls on 4chan/b/ and Facebook perform a grotesque pantomime of a number of pervasive cultural logics, including masculine domination and white privilege. Additionally, I argue that the rhetorical and behavioral tactics used by trolls, including sensationalism, spectacle, and emotional exploitation, are homologous to tactics routinely deployed by American corporate media outlets. In short, trolling operates within existing systems, not in contrast to them, immediately complicating knee-jerk condemnations of trolling behaviors. / 10000-01-01

by Li Shing Sun. / Thesis (M.A.Ed.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1987. / Bibliography: leaves 111-113.

Virtual Angel is an independent e-zine publication that attempts to frame an emerging canon of self-made, women musicians that work in the margins of Los Angeles’ music and culture industries.

It's about living It's about feeling incomplete It's about nostalgia It's about culture It's about joy It's about how life flashes before our lives It's about sorrow It's about what's hidden under the rug It's about fitting in It's about getting away It's about a journey It's about language It's about class It's about how something clean can leave a stain It's about goodbyes It's about fiction It's about place It's about blame It's about obsession It's about feeling stranded It's about itching a scratch It's about holding on It's about being found It's about how we all settle eventually It's about desire It's about conflict It's about you It's about me It's about future It's about community It's about failure It's about wondering which one of us is next It's about the American dream It's about right now It's about the people we will become It's about the search It's about routine It's about finding It's about change It's about living

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<p>Youth culture and social problems associated with youth groups have existed for decades. We have chosen an explorative case study design to highlight young people's revolt against parents and society and how society has dealt with social problems of youth and how those were perceived. “Raggare” were considered a major social problem in society. The material in the study comes from eight qualitative interviews and literature of previous research of the current youth culture. The material also comes from a document study, which shows the social problems in connection with the youth cultures celebration of the midsummer festival in Öland. We have analyzed and clarified the image of “Raggare” past and present and found mechanisms that changed the “Raggare” culture from being a major social problem to the accepted as a pastime today. Our theoretical framework builds on previous research of the current youth culture, subcultures, deviant, symbols and symbolic interaktionism. We assume that theorist Zygmunt Baumans discussion of "we" and "them", Stanley Cohens term "moral panic" and Erving Goffmans dramaturgical perspective reflect our study in an informative approach.</p>

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Bowling Green State University, 2007. / Document formatted into pages; contains viii, 345 p. : ill. Includes bibliographical references.

Ce mémoire porte sur le podcasting indépendant. La pratique du podcasting est ici prise dans le contexte général des usages contributifs du Web participatif qui formeraient une culture participative. Nous répondons à la question suivante: dans le contexte des usages contributifs, quelles sont les caractéristiques spécifiques du podcasting indépendant et quel est le sens de son style? Pour répondre à cette question en deux volets, nous mobilisons un cadre théorique constitué de quatre approches: la sociologie des usages, la déclinaison des media studies et l'approche stylistique des sous-cultures des cultural studies, de même que le modèle expressiviste. Le terrain est approché par une posture en grounded theory à laquelle nous avons jointe une recherche une observation participante auprès des acteurs sur une période de trois ans. Nos résultats montrent la spécificité de la pratique du podcasting indépendant et exposent comment se constitue le sens de son style qui s'inscrit en réaction au modèle médiatique traditionnel. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Internet, Usage, Usage contributif, Culture participative, Style, Sous-culture, Podcasting, Podcasting indépendant.