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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"Media theory"”.
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Soliton-like waves of nuclear burning in the neutron multiplicating media : (theory and computational approach)
The research project has dealt with a conceptual design of a model of an innovative inherently safe nuclear soliton-like fast reactor of Feoktistov type. The main findings are summarized below. The kinetics of self-stabilising fast uranium-plutonium reactor, which generates self-propagating …
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Kollaborációs-közösségi médiaelmélet. Participáció és közösségi együttműködés a késő-modern médiakörnyezetben = Collaborative - social media theory. Collaboration and participation in the late modern media environment
Munkám a médiakutatás és a médiaelmélet eszköztárának segítségével kíván teljes és átfogó leírást adni a késő-modern médiakörnyezet (kmm) meghatározó jelenségeiről. Középpontjában, hipotézisemmel összhangban a kmm online színterein megvalósuló közösségi együttműködés és participáció vizsgálata áll. …
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Wild Blue Media: Thinking Through Seawater
… of the deep sea, my dissertation, "Wild Blue Media: Thinking Through Seawater," considers how the ocean environment produces cognitively estranging conditions for conceptualizing media and media theory. Concepts in media theory have thus far exhibited what I call a "terrestrial bias," …
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Models for sound propagation in suspensions and emulsions
… approaches are identified: scattering theory, coupled phase theory and porous media theory. Coupled phase theory is extended and compared analytically and numerically to scattering and porous media theory. Important regimes of scattering theory - the lossless and viscothermal …
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Bumper to bumper: photographing across the class divide in post-apartheid South Africa. A photographic essay and analysis
… the creative research component of my M.A. in Media Theory & Practice. I chose to photograph the men (and to a lesser but nonetheless significant degree women) that we see being transported in bakkies and trucks on our roads on a daily basis, compiling a photographic essay engineered to provoke …
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Screening Architecture: Architecture, Media, and Conflict since the 1990s
… investigate its relationship to digital media. To date, this discussion has primarily focused on the algorithmic encoding of architectural form. However, the interface through which ‘the digital’ manifests and is engaged with – the screen – has received little attention. The thesis argues …
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Postwar Media Manifestations and Don DeLillo
<p>Media's influence on postwar American culture is undeniable. Don DeLillo's fiction is often a commentary on that influence. Hyperreality, Simulacra, Consumerism, and News Addiction are all regular themes in DeLillo's novels; this paper explores all of these concepts through the lens of media …
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Framing Income Inequality in the Media: Is There a Liberal or Neoliberal Bias?
… rising income inequality in the United States, media theory, framing, bias, cultural hegemony, liberal and neoliberal political trends, and social mobility precedes findings that media coverage of income inequality declined while inequality grew. Various neoliberal, liberal, and neutral frames …
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The Spirit In The Law Podcast: Testing the Democratization and Audience Behavior of New Media Broadcasting
… was informed by two theoretical frameworks: New Media theory and Situational Theory of Publics. The results, when applying both theoretical frameworks, were mixed. While podcasting did demonstrate universality, it was hindered by the complexity of traditional radio production roles. Similarly, it …
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Unhuman Encounters in Early Modern Drama
… dissertation uses contemporary posthumanist and media theory, early modern educational and literary humanist texts, and the dramatic work of Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, John Webster, and William Shakespeare to chart the variety of theatrical response to early modern ideas of “humanity” in …
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TATTOO TAG: EXAMINING WHAT WOMEN HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THEIR TATTOOS IN YOUTUBE VIDEOS
… with tattoos have been fetishized in mainstream media and seen as more masculine, unprofessional, and deviant. I conducted a textual analysis of 42 YouTube videos with a minimum of 100,000 views from 2015 to 2020 uploaded by women who display and talk about their tattoos. Guided by a feminist …
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Noise, artifact and the uncanny in large scale digital photographic practice.
… technologies delivering information via a new media, do I often experience a feeling of disquiet or estrangement? I use the example of laser-photographic printing to explore the issue through a program of practice-based research. The outcome of this line of enquiry includes an original …
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The poetics of the medium : aesthetic forms and technologies of the word in the English Middle Ages
… of this wide-angle approach--which incorporates media theory, oral tradition, and aesthetics--I reconceive literary history as the history of the relationship between language and technology. This thesis is developed over four chapters, each a case study examining the relationship between a …
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What is Ecology?
… from feminist, postcolonial, and ecosocial art, media theory, and philosophy, this thesis probes the limits of ecology under the suspicion that the point of leverage for change is to differently enact how we think, make, and do in relation to the world in, around, and constituting us.
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Allopoietics in Real Time: Unfolding Among Art, Publics, Space, and Time
… by introducing the terms Allopoietics and Liquid Media. Building on generative and participatory art, it focuses on the real-time processes among artworks, publics, spaces, and time through which meaning dynamically emerges. Drawing on the author’s artistic works—Conjunktion, Looking at the Sun, …
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An examination of positioning in editorials, business and sports commentaries in the Lesotho weekly newspaper, Public Eye
… Analysis (CDA) and selected approaches to media production so as to provide a sociopolitical and cultural context for textual analysis in the study. The study is organized into five chapters. Chapter 1 is an introduction which serves to give the background of this study with brief mention …
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Interpretations of digital exhibition. Assessing the academic pertinence of commercial and political definitions. A case study
… phenomenon¿s position within the contemporary media theory framework? Within this work Digital Exhibition is defined as: The practice of presenting moving images, either live or pre-recorded, to paying audiences, in public spaces, by means of digital distribution and projection. The majority of …
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Answering machine, auto-tune, spectrograph : queer vocality through sonic technology
… consider the ways in which a sonically inflected media theory can inform queer theory and vice versa, and to consider the particular relational dilemmas made incumbent upon subjects whose vocal trajectories are discontinuous, depart from normative pitch, and/or deemed an invitation to violence.
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Mass Media as Instruments for Political and Social Control in China: Media Role in Chinese Politics
Under the influence of Soviet media theory, Chinese media have been held under the control of the Communist Party of China ever since the Party was established in 1921. However, this practice of control was subject to change as a result of rapid economic development and many social changes brought …
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Embodied montage : reconsidering immediacy in virtual reality
… space. This approach to the medium, a form of immediacy, effaces the material reality of the medium and can obscure the ways through which a medium can offer new forms of knowledge. Virtual reality's realism is a construct, and by acknowledging this, creators can push the medium to more …
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