As one of the earliest attempts to apply immersive technology in environmental communication, this design research project tries to answer the following research question: how do we communicate the connections between food-related behaviors and environmental impacts through immersive storytelling? During the project, an immersive story called "Trik’s' Party" for dome shows and a journey map of an immersive visitor experience are created. These design outcomes and this paper are built on the knowledge of scientific findings, communication methods, content creations, and service design. To support the creation process, new sketching, storyboarding and prototyping methods were developed for dome content creations. The core message of this paper is that effective environmental communication is not just about informing the public about facts and data from scientific studies. It is also about giving individuals and communities the knowledge, tools and spaces to develop a vision of their own future. Immersive storytelling is one of the methods for creating these spaces. It has a large potential to raise public empathy with other people and their future-self when the long-term and abstract impacts of the environmental problems become more visible and comprehensible in an imaginary space.

The diploma theses Visual Media in the Urban Space deals with the issue of commercial visual media in the public space and the way they are incorporated to the city centers. I am focusing on that kind of media that invade the public space with the biggest force, such as billboards, bigboards, citylights, video screens, wraps, etc. The goal of the research is to compare the placement and the quantity of the out-of-home advertisements in the center of Prague and Barcelona. The research is done from the historical, cultural and geographical point of view (I am not going to investigate the visual messages from the semiotic point of view). I have chosen these two cities because they are the economic and cultural centers of the region and they have a very long history. Since these two cities are placed in the European cultural space and there are global agencies operating on the market I suppose there will be some parallels in the placement and appearance of the visual messages. My hypothesis is that most of the advertisements will be placed in the new-built neighborhoods and the historical centers will be less "visually polluted". Another hypothesis is that the public space in Prague will be filled more with aggressive media forms than the public space in Barcelona. According to my hypothesis there is...

Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves and Audrey Niffenegger's two visual novels The Three Incestuous Sisters and The Adventuress all contain examples of manipulated paratext - paratexts being the devices involved in the presentation of the text such as titles, author names, font, introductions, illustrations, appendices, advertising, and interviews. The emphasis these authors place on these usually inconspicuous devices is an expression of the irrational themes contained within these texts. The irrational is an underlying theme of the Gothic genre and through examining the use of manipulated paratexts this thesis demonstrates how these texts make use of the irrational Gothic elements that are present within the postmodern. While Danielewski and Niffenegger both have these similar themes, the effects they create are extremely different. Niffenegger creates écriture feminine, or feminine writing as described by Hélène Cixous, by prioritising illustrations that feature marginalised bodily expression in order to convey the narrative rather than text. Danielewski, on the other hand, produces a text that is a pure pastiche of Gothic and postmodern devices in order to emulate the postmodern media in its creation of hyperreality and to reproduce the sensation of a media that possesses and changes its consumers. House of Leaves is the instigator for a number of similar texts that have been published since the turn of the millennium which will be considered an emerging literary movement.

The problem of this study was to determine the extent to which instructors perceived visual media as being valuable in achieving their classroom objectives in predominantly black, state-supported colleges and universities in the State of Louisiana. Questionnaires were mailed to 165 college and university instructors in colleges of education in predominantly black state-supported universities in Louisiana. Of the 165 questionnaires mailed, 139 were returned. All participants used in the study were teaching at least one course in education during the time the questionnaire was administered. The study is descriptive. The data were collected by means of a questionnaire, and analyzed by percentages, means, and standard deviations. One-way analysis of variance was used to test the differences in attitudes among the faculty members in the study. The level of significance was set at .05.

The increasing awareness of the opportunities and possibilities of digitization in research and industry brings increased demands on graduates. The fact that digital resources are now cumulatively playing a role in the humanities and social sciences also necessitates the networking of various specialist disciplines. Cross-disciplinary project work, however, has its own challenges due to different subject cultures, perspectives and working methods. In order to adequately prepare students for these hurdles, the TU Dresden and the HTW Dresden (University of Applied Sciences) carried out a joint teaching project called “Dresdner Stadtgeschichte 3D”. Potentials and challenges were collected and analysed in a mixed method procedure in order to subsequently formulate didactic-conceptual implications.

The aim of this research was to make recommendations how parents and educators can select and use audio-visual media for supporting learners with behavioural problems (LBP). A literature study was conducted on behavioural problems and on the use of audio-visual media to address these. Thereafter an empirical investigation was done by means of a case study design. A purposive sample was chosen from Grades 10 and 12 learners in Pietermaritzburg. Websites were also selected for addressing a variety of topics. The most important findings were that audio-visual media can be selected by means of five criteria related to content accuracy and appropriateness, diversity and quality. The findings indicate that visual media can stimulate cognitive skills (including problem solving and critical thinking) and reflection about the acceptance of responsibility, positive attitudes and respect for authority, among others. It is concluded that audio-visual media can be used by educators to support LBP. / Educational Studies / M.Ed. (Specialisation in Psychology of Education)

Desviando das interpretações tradicionais da obra de Franz Kafka que a tratam sob o aspecto do labirinto, caos, absurdo e burocracia, este trabalho propõe analisar os influxos da tecnologia e media óticos tanto em seus textos biográficos quanto ficcionais. Referente à tecnologia, será trabalhado o aspecto da vida profissional de Kafka, que regularmente é visto unicamente dentro do contexto do trabalho burocrático no escritório da companhia seguradora. Essa parcialidade normalmente negligencia o fato de Kafka ter sido um perito em máquinas e ter como uma de suas principais funções a de fiscalizar os níveis de periculosidade em diversas fábricas. O pressuposto é que esse aspecto não deixou de se infiltrar em sua obra. No sentido das inovações emergentes da época, o trabalho se ocupa, além do aspecto das máquinas, também com as novas formas perceptivas geradas pela experiência urbana. No ponto de vista do trabalho essa experiência urbana se sedimenta nos textos de maneira fortemente visual. Tanto a experiência dos carros e bondes quanto do cinema e Kaiserpanorama geram uma escrita fortemente visual. Assim, se aborda uma possível influência provinda dos media óticos. Quanto a este aspecto se trabalha inicialmente o cinema já que Kafka deixou registros de visitas ao cinematógrafo em muitas de suas anotações, tanto em diários quanto em cartas. O trabalho mostra o quanto esse medium não figurava simplesmente como um divertimento secundário para o autor, mas sim que ele deixou de diversas formas traços em sua escrita. Tais traços são verificados tanto através de temas utilizados pelo cinema mudo quanto na aplicação de técnicas cinematográficas emprestadas à narrativa literária. O segundo medium ótico analisado é o Kaiserpanorama, dispositivo bastante popular no início do século XX, que através de um dispositivo binocular permite assistir uma sequência de fotografias estereoscópicas estáticas com efeito tridimensional. Em seus escritos Kafka deixou manifestações bastante entusiásticas a respeito desse aparelho. A intenção de aproximar a obra kafkiana desses dois media essencialmente tão divergentes entre si, aponta assim uma particularidade de seus textos, ou seja, uma oscilação entre elementos dinâmicos (cinematográficos) e estáticos (fotográficos). / Deviating from traditional interpretations of the works of Franz Kafka that deal with them in terms of the labyrinth, chaos, absurdity and bureaucracy, the purpose of this work is to consider the introduction of technology and visual media on both his fictional and biographical texts. In relation to technology, this work will consider Kafka’s working life, which is usually only seen in the context of his bureaucratic functions with the insurance company. This bias often causes one to overlook the fact that Kafka was an expert in machines and that one of his main functions was to monitor the risk levels in several factories. The present analysis assumes that this part of his life also permeated the substance of his works. This work also considers new perspective forms resulting from the urban experience that manifest themselves in a markedly visual way in his texts. The descriptions of both his experience with cars and trams and that with cinema and Kaiserpanorama generate strong visual images. Records of Kafka’s encounters with cinematographers, in his diaries and letters, support the view that the visual media must be considered as a possible influence on Kafka’s work. This work shows how these media did not simply appear incidentally, but influenced his writing in many ways. Such influences are manifested in the themes of silent movies and in the application of cinematographic techniques borrowed from literary narrative. This work also considers the influence of Kaiserpanorama, a very popular early twentieth century optical medium. In his writings Kafka expresses great enthusiasm for this binocular device which permits a viewer to watch a series of still stereoscopic photographs providing a three-dimensional optical effect. In summary, the intention of this work is to analyze the convergence and combination of dynamic cinematographic influences and static photographic influences on some particular qualities of Kafka’s writings.

I denna studie undersökts hur Eric Forsgren gestaltade den norrbottniska befolkningen i visuell media under 1950 och 1960-talen. I studien genomförs en kvalitativ innehållsanalys, som kopplas till tidigare forskning och teorier om gestaltning och representation. Resultatet av denna undersökning visar på att Eric Forsgren har gestaltat den norrbottniska befolkningen och dess vardagsliv som ett väglöst land, med många naturnära yrken, såsom renskötsel och säljakt. Vidare visar resultatet på att många fördomar om Norrbotten och dess befolkning förstärks via filmatiseringen. Dessa fördomar innefattar problem med en tvåspråkig kultur (Heith, 2017), marginalisering av minoriteter såsom tornedalingar och samer. Vidare får man även en inblick i det exotiska (Eriksson, 2010) inom rennäringen, där nomadliv är en del av vardagen. Det framkommer även viss utflyttningsproblematik (Eriksson, 2010) i länet, då arbetstillfällena inom rennäringen inte är tillfredsställande för många unga samer i norr. / In this study Eric Forsgrens framing of the people living in Norrbotten in visual media during the period of 1950- to 1960 is analyzed. This study is based on a qualitative content analysis. This is connected through theories about framing and representation. The results from this study shows that Forsgren framed the people living in Norrbotten as a community with bad communication, with a lot of nature friendly working habits. Such as the care of reindeers and the hunt for seals. It is also clear that many of the prejudice about the people in Norrbotten is amplified by the adaption. The prejudice of the people are the struggle of a bilingual people in a unilingual society. But also the marginalization of a minority such as the sami people and the people tornedalingar who lives in the north of Norrbotten. The sami people are framed as something exotich in their way of living. And the problem of the exodus of the people in Norrbotten is captured.

本研究以文本分析方法，剖析現今台灣兒童英語影視媒介教材，如何運用媒介特性、針對兒童閱聽人呈現英語教學的元素及互動性；並以深度訪談方法，探究兒童英語影視媒介教材產製之發展團隊分工與角色、發展策略、製作流程等面向。進一步剖陳在不同互動層次媒介之產製概念重點、差異、與影響因素，以期瞭解台灣兒童英語影視媒介教材之產製現況，為未來兒童英語教學教材製作之參考與依據。 本研究發現兒童英語影視媒介教材之定位為英語輔助教材，目標對象多未明確界定，產製上亦多以製作者面向思考、缺乏使用者觀點。媒介特性為兒童英語影視媒介教材呈現方式、及產製重點之主要考量；市場因素則為兒童英語影視媒介教材在教學設計與發展上的重要障礙。在發展團隊方面，兒童英語影視媒介教材之產製，需結合不同專業人才、不同執行單位，因而強而有力的品質管控者不可或缺；發展團隊的組成、運作、及角色分工，則受該團隊既有產製思維之影響甚深。評估兒童英語影視媒介教材之產製模式，普遍缺乏分析及總結性評鑑階段，亦需應加強製作階段之形成性評鑑、及評鑑後修正之落實。

The aim of this research was to make recommendations how parents and educators can select and use audio-visual media for supporting learners with behavioural problems (LBP). A literature study was conducted on behavioural problems and on the use of audio-visual media to address these. Thereafter an empirical investigation was done by means of a case study design. A purposive sample was chosen from Grades 10 and 12 learners in Pietermaritzburg. Websites were also selected for addressing a variety of topics. The most important findings were that audio-visual media can be selected by means of five criteria related to content accuracy and appropriateness, diversity and quality. The findings indicate that visual media can stimulate cognitive skills (including problem solving and critical thinking) and reflection about the acceptance of responsibility, positive attitudes and respect for authority, among others. It is concluded that audio-visual media can be used by educators to support LBP. / Educational Studies / M.Ed. (Specialisation in Psychology of Education)