Sökning: "civic imagination"

Hittade 5 uppsatser innehållade orden civic imagination.

1. 1. Conjunction of the spheres. The struggle for hegemony in the English language online reception of Netflix adaption: The Witcher.

   Magister-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper

   Författare :Sarah R. Kern; [2024-02-06]
   Nyckelord :Production reception; Hegemony; Discourse; Transmedia; Witcher; Fantasy; Polish Fantasy; Media literacy; Convergence culture; Fan-studies; Participation culture; Technical communication; Digital Role-Playing Games; Civic imagination; Netnography; ;

   Sammanfattning : This essay uses the concepts of convergence culture, transmedia and hegemony, to understand the struggles within the English language reception to Netflix Tv production “The Witcher.” In order to help the reader, the essay presents the background to the larger Witcher franchise, as well as standard debates and issues within the fantasy genre, the role-playing-game genre and convergence culture. LÄS MER

3. 2. Imagining the Metaverse Worlds : The Perspectives of Meta and Indonesians

   Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kommunikation och medier

   Författare :Hamzah Dzikri Fadliansyah; [2022]
   Nyckelord :actor-network theory; civic imagination; digital technology; Indonesia Indonesian tech workers; mediatization; Meta; metaverse; postdigital; science and technology studies; sociotechnical imaginaries; technological convergence; transmedia; Social Sciences;

   Sammanfattning : On October 28, 2021, Mark Zuckerberg announced the rebranding of Facebook to Meta through a keynote video uploaded on Meta’s official YouTube channel. The keynote video contains Meta’s new vision to build an immersive extended reality world called metaverse. However, the idea of the metaverse is contested. LÄS MER

4. 3. To Teach or Not to Teach Controversial Issues? : An Interview Study of Upper Secondary English Teachers’ Attitudes and Experiences of Teaching Controversial Issues Through Fictional Works

   Uppsats för yrkesexamina på avancerad nivå, Jönköping University/Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation

   Författare :Ida Swärd; [2021]
   Nyckelord :fiction; controversial issues; foundational values; EFL-classroom; civic mission;

   Sammanfattning : This study aims to examine how upper secondary English teachers work with foundationalvalues and controversial topics through fictional works in order to discuss the function of valuesand the civic mission in the EFL-classroom. The study was conducted using a qualitativeapproach through semi structured interviews, interviewing seven currently active uppersecondary English teachers. LÄS MER

5. 4. Emotion,Imagination and Virtue in Education

   Uppsats för yrkesexamina på avancerad nivå, Institutionen för utbildningsvetenskap (UV)

   Författare :madeleine evers; [2013]
   Nyckelord :;

   Sammanfattning : ABSTRACT This essay addresses meta-ethical concerns related to educational aims and the teaching of ethics, in part, by examining the effects of societal changes on such teaching from a philosophical point of view, and in part by suggesting that the skills of critical reasoning stipulated in the curriculum are insufficient to the task of promoting civic engagement. A theory of ethical judgment based on the emotions as cognitive judgments of value and the imagination as a productive faculty that structures moral understanding in narrative form is presented. LÄS MER

7. 5. Varför sagostund? Sagostundsverksamheten på folkbibliotek igår och idag.

   Magister-uppsats, Högskolan i Borås/Institutionen Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap / Bibliotekshögskolan

   Författare :Gunilla Brodin; [2005]
   Nyckelord :library and information science; biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : The purpose of this Masters thesis is to investigate the reasons for public libraries to have story-time today and also the reasons for story-time at the public library historically in Sweden. Why is the phenomenon of story-time still existing at public libraries today? The study is based on a questionnaire that was sent to childrens librarians in the Västra Götaland region. LÄS MER