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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"technology and culture"”.
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Connecting people not computers : information technology and culture change in environmental management
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, 1995.
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Older people, mobile technology and culture: an investigation of appropriate methods and personas in Malaysia and the UK
This research is concerned with the use of mobile technology by older people and the main focus is the appropriate methods for collecting data. There are a number of problems with conventional techniques when using older people as participants. This is due to the fact that older people have an …
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Archaeological evidence for the development of Royal Naval gunnery from 1545 – 1811; analysing change through technology and culture.
… the London, Hazardous, Invincible, Colossus, and the St George, which were apex fighting ships that represent significant periods in the development of the Navy. The guns were the raison d’être of these ships and so their design and fighting tactics developed to make best use of the guns. The …
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Firearms, technology and culture: resistance of Taiwanese indigenes to Chinese, European and Japanese encroachment in a global context circa 1860-1914
… this dissertation is to explore the adaptation and the acculturation of foreign firearms amongst the indigenous people in Taiwan and the role of these firearms in resistance against the Western, Japanese and Chinese invasions in the period of 1860-1914. I argue that through the avenues of access …
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Sustaining tradition : design for a contemporary Thai house in northern Bangkok
This thesis explores and documents the evolution of a Thai house, which has transformed drastically over the years to meet changes in social aspiration. The result of this investigation had generated the design principles for a new single family house, which can be used as a prototype for future …
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Hybridizing old downtown Suwon City: how new urban fabric may save the past
… to paradigm shifts of environmental, social and economic methods at the local and global scales, new approaches are required for creating alternative urban models which emphasize sustainability and landscape productivity. The Old Downtown of Suwon City, South Korea, which is encompassed by …
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Citizen Jane : exploring the relationship between gender and cellular phones in societies of control
… between women (as gendered subjects) and cellular phone technology is one of control. Women use cellular phones to organize, manage and otherwise control the multiplicity of tasks required of them on a daily basis. At the same time, through using cell phones, women participate in …
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That's not what I heard : synchronized sound cinema in Montreal 1926-1931
… point of departure into a study of the cultural and social dimensions of moviegoing. This research focuses on Montreal between 1926 and 1931 where the first Canadian demonstrations and exhibitions of synchronized sound cinema took place. Using film critiques, advertisements for theatres, letters …
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The Cyborg Subject: Parallax Realities, Functions of Consciousness and the Void of Subjectivity
This thesis contributes to the fields of digital technology, consciousness studies and cultural theory by reassessing the relation of the contemporary subject to physical and digital worlds. By moving beyond the materiality of these worlds, this investigation will position the subject as a cyborg: …
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Digital Storytelling: The Application of Vichian Theory
… as something archaic or something that simpler cultures engage in. However, in our sophisticated and highly technological world storytelling swirls about us though we may not always recognize it. This thesis looks at the phenomenon of digital storytelling that functions to create community on …
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Bringing Society Back into the Theory of the Firm: the Adaptation of the Mondragon Cooperative Model in Valencia and Beyond
… if the importance of cooperation based on trust and loyalty, and the ability of the firm to achieve that cooperation by influencing the social foundations of behaviour, is appreciated. Chapter 1 demonstrates that neglecting this ‘social nature’ of the firm renders the predominant theories …
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“To try the speed": adventures in the development of Massachusetts railroads, 1826-1850
… efforts of rural residents who embraced this new technology. In an era of expanding economic opportunities, men and women throughout Massachusetts related what they learned about railroads to their previous experience with mechanization and transportation improvements and took the lead in …
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Books, Homilies, and Medicine: Sogdian Christians and Christian Networks along the Silk Roads
Along the trade routes of late antique and early medieval Eurasia, Sogdian Christians stood within a confluence of networks. As Sogdians, they belonged to a people recognized for maintaining one of the most expansive and renowned trading networks in history. On these so-called Silk Roads, Sogdian …
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A practiced-informed critique of technological posthumanism and its ideologies
With the recent emergence of copious and diverse scholarship that considers the discursive valence of the term "human", posthumanism has emerged as a timely and powerful interdisciplinary discourse. This study is a critical analysis of three dominant strains of the technologically oriented segment …
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A decolonial study of indigenous teaching and learning methods of knowledge transfer in Gabon’s rural communities
… that constitutes a set of epistemological and ontological systems that can be traced back to the 15th century. Europeans, with their colonising mission, wrongly presumed that African indigenous people were ignorant and uneducated. Thus, Gabon remains one of the sub-Saharan countries where …
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A Postcolonial Critique of Industrial Design: A critical evaluation of the relationship of culture and hegemony to design practice and education since the late 20th century.
… A critical evaluation of the relationship of culture and hegemony to design practice and education since the late 20th century. This thesis specifically focuses on the professional practices and training of Western industrial designers using postcolonial theory to inform working practices in a …
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Culture and communication in global software development
… (GSD) is a growing sector in Mauritius and South Africa. With a constantly increasing number of IT investors, both countries are gradually being recognised as IT hubs in the Southern African region. They offer advantages like cheap and highly skilled labour, and a good IT infrastructure …
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Improving instruments: equatoria, astrolabes, and the practices of monastic astronomy in late medieval England
… to light a rich textual tradition, of treatises and tables composed and computed, transmitted and translated across Europe and beyond. These have been supplemented by fruitful inquiry into the material culture of astronomy, especially the instruments that served as models of the heavens, for …