Sökning: "Sociotechnical Imaginaries"

Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 19 uppsatser innehållade orden Sociotechnical Imaginaries.

  1. 6. Transcending Power: Investigating the European Union as a Mouthpiece for Transhumanist Thought

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Författare :Amos Strömberg; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Foucauldian discourse analysis; transhumanism; the European Union; sociotechnical imaginaries; Social Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : This study arises from an existential concern that there is an obliviousness in academia with regards to the recent eruption of the transhumanist movement–an ideological force imbued with potentially calamitous socioecological consequences. With the support from recent claims that the transhumanist ideology exerts powerful influence on Western politics, this study seeks to investigate how the transhumanist ideology has become diluted into parts of the European Union and why this should be a concern from a human ecology lens. LÄS MER

  3. 7. SOCIOTECHNICAL IMAGINARIES OF LOCAL ENERGY TRANSITION:CO-PRODUCING LOCK-INS IN THE STUDY OF ENERGY COMMUNITY ON GOTLAND

    Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Författare :Orlando Loy; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Sociotechnical imaginaries; energy transition; energy community; Gotland; co-production; framework analysis; diffractive reading;

    Sammanfattning : The emergence of energy communities entails the development of alternative energy systems, where consumers become active participants in the complex networks of material and semiotic actors. This paper looks at how local sociotechnical imaginaries are performed on island of Gotland, in Sweden. LÄS MER

  4. 8. Framtidens män(niskor) : En bild- och diskursanalys av Ex Machina utifrån kritiska framtidsstudier

    Kandidat-uppsats, Södertörns högskola/Idéhistoria

    Författare :Cäcilia Li; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Critical Future Studies; sociotechnical imaginaries; Ex Machina; artificial intelligence; cyborg; intersectionality.;

    Sammanfattning : This essay examines visions of the future in Alex Garlands 2015 film Ex Machinausing critical futures studies and posthumanist theories. The aim is to make visible howfutures are constructed and how artificial bodies are coded based on ideas of the future. LÄS MER

  5. 9. Critical Raw Material supply chains - the Key to a Twin Transition?

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Författare :Alexander Dürr; Eliza Dreiska; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Critical Raw Material Supply Chain Vulnerability; Import Dependency Geopolitics; Twin Transition; Critical Materials Extraction Impact; European Critical Raw Materials Act.; Law and Political Science;

    Sammanfattning : The thesis investigates how the problem of Critical Raw Material supply chains is represented within the European Critical Raw Materials Act of 2023. Bacchi’s ‘What's Problem Represented To Be’ approach has been adapted and utilised to explore what aspects of these supply chains are problematised. LÄS MER

  7. 10. IDENTITY & TECHNO-UTOPIANISM. A Critical Discourse Analysis of Marketing Material and their Sociotechnical Imaginaries.

    Master-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för journalistik, medier och kommunikation

    Författare :Albin Åberg; [2022-02-10]
    Nyckelord :Discourse Analysis; Sociotechnical Imaginaries; Marketing Technology; MarTech; Critical Studies; Identity; Techno- Utopianism;

    Sammanfattning : This research paper sets out to investigate the messaging present in a corpus of texts gathered from Acxiom’s, an American data-analysis and ‘Identity Solutions’-company, website. The paper applies a framework of Critical Discourse Analysis informed by Theo van Leeuwen’s theory of ‘legitimations’ and analyses the findings through the theoretical framework of ‘Sociotechnical Imaginaries’. LÄS MER