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  1. 6. 'This Game Changed my Life' : Online Stories of ‘Emersion’ about Playing Video Games during Difficult Times in Life

    Magister-uppsats, Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Författare :Sergio J. Abuin; [2023]
    Nyckelord :video games; videogames; personal crises; difficult times; immersion; netnography; stories; posts; online; offline; uses and gratifications; Reddit; Persona 5; videojocs; video jocs; temps dificils; immersió; historia; videojuegos; video juegos; crisis; tiempos difíciles; inmersión; netnografia; historias;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis aims to explore the video game medium in depth, to relate it to the stories foundon Internet communities about users’ gameplay experiences during burdensome moments inlife. To achieve that, the phenomena is explored through the lenses of Uses & Gratificationstheory by means of a netnography on the ‘/Persona 5’ official subReddit; interpreting, codingand analyzing all narratives that fit the criteria with the help of a proposed ‘USE’ system. LÄS MER

  3. 7. "Tänk så mycket hopp du kan ge till människor som känner som du" : En netnografisk text- och bildanalys om kvinnliga gemenskaper på Instagram och YouTube

    Magister-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Författare :Moa Högstedt; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Virtual Communities; Parasocial Relationships; Influencers; Doing Gender; Instagram; YouTube; Virtuella Gemenskaper; Parasociala Relationer; Influencers; Att göra kön; Instagram; YouTube;

    Sammanfattning : This study explores the functions and effects of virtual communities on Instagram and YouTube and discusses the communication process between Swedish female social media influencers and their followers. With a qualitative research design, where I analysed both the textual and visual posts on Instagram and YouTube, I found that the virtual communities can function as a place where people find like-minded people and where they can affirm their own self imagine and experiences, specifically in relation to questions regarding LGBTQIA+ and body positivity. LÄS MER

  4. 8. “If Men Acted Like Women Do, There Would Be Riots in the Streets” : Personalized and Collective Action Framing in the Incelopshere

    Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Författare :Ebba Wallin Eriksson; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Incels; Online movement; Contentious action networks; Frame analysis; Connective action; Antifeminism;

    Sammanfattning : In recent years, several high-profile acts of violence linked to the virtual incelosphere have sparked public concern and scholarly interest. Yet, scant attention has been paid to whether these perpetrators can be understood as lone-wolf attackers or as members of a collective. LÄS MER

  5. 9. Energy communities' place in society : Energy communities' economical sustainability and possibilities to create benefits for a local power grid

    Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för samhällsbyggnad och industriell teknik

    Författare :Sandra Boström; Felicia Sillén; Melker Nilsson; Karl Simander; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Energy community; tariffs; power grid;

    Sammanfattning : To hasten the transition to reliance on renewable energy sources, energy communities could be part of the solution. An energy community, in this report, is defined as several residential houses that come together and share a virtual fuse for a bigger tariff subscription to the energy grid. LÄS MER

  7. 10. Branding in the Metaverse: Exploring established brand management perspectives and the advent of decentralized branding on Web 3.0

    Magister-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Författare :Thiago Costa; Alaa Eldin Helal; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Branding; Brand Management; Metaverse; Decentralization; Blockchain; Web 3.0; NFT; DAO; Decentralized Branding; Business and Economics;

    Sammanfattning : Purpose: The purpose of this exploratory qualitative research is: First, to explore what brands understand by metaverse and how they perform branding in this new context. Second, to investigate how established constructivist approaches to branding are performed within the metaverse. LÄS MER