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1. Linking for Peace. An affordance perspective of LinkedIn as an instrument for peace professionals to advance constructive conflict resolution and transformative efforts
Master-uppsats, Institutionen för tillämpad informationsteknologiSammanfattning : Has LinkedIn become the platform for a global community of practice for peace professionals? Does it have the potential to be? An inductive approach to Reflexive Thematic Analysis (RTA) following Braun and Clarke’s six-phase methodology was used as an analytic instrument on empirical data from 13 semi-structured interviews with professionals in peace mediation, using the theoretical lens of affordances. The participants in the study were found to use LinkedIn to create and sustain meaningful connections globally and across sectors, learn from empirical knowledge, stories and insights from others and explore economic opportunities. LÄS MER
2. Communication Professionals as the Office Factotum: A Study of Emotional Labour and Well-Being in the Communication Profession
Master-uppsats, Institutionen för tillämpad informationsteknologiSammanfattning : This thesis investigated the concept of emotional labour for communication professionals in an internal communication context. Recently, the well-being of communication professionals has caught public attention in Sweden since the communication practitioner is considered an office factotum or all-purpose servant with numerous responsibilities and activities and is frequently overwhelmed by their multifaceted work assignments. LÄS MER
3. FACEBOOK IS NOW META. Meta's corporate sociotechnical imaginary and the discursive construction of the Metaverse as the social platform of the future
Master-uppsats, Institutionen för tillämpad informationsteknologiSammanfattning : The interpretive discourse-analytic framework of the Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse is used to analyze how Meta's senior executives discursively frame the use of augmented reality and virtual reality in order to position the Metaverse as the next social platform during Connect 2021. The findings suggest five interpretive schemas that characterize the Metaverse as a social platform of the future: (a) the Metaverse as the next version of the Internet; (b) the Metaverse as a facilitator of presence and a connector of people; (c) the Metaverse as a marketplace in the Metaverse economy; (d) the Metaverse as a ubiquitous place in our daily lives; and (e) the Metaverse as a space designed in a responsible manner. LÄS MER
4. A labour-free childhood? African perspectives on international child rights policies.
Master-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik, kommunikation och lärandeSammanfattning : This paper notes that one prominent trait of Western thinking about children is that childhood should be protected and care-free. For example, if children are engaged in work, their childhood is seen as 'lost'. LÄS MER
5. Digital transformation in the healthcare sector: Drivers for adoption of digital healthcare technologies
Master-uppsats, Institutionen för tillämpad informationsteknologiSammanfattning : The study explores factors that drive the adoption of digital healthcare technologies. In venturing into this emerging domain of research the study attempts to answer the following research question: What drives the adoption of digital technologies in healthcare?. LÄS MER
