This essay deals with ruins from the perspective of their cultural values ??and the impact of add-ons, protective add-ons and caring actions affect these values. The issues in the essay are; What are the cultural values of a ruin?  How have ruins been used?  How are ruins treated today?Initially the definition of the concept ?ruin? is discussed, what is a ruin? A building has an architectural biography: the creation, destruction, change and the decay. The concept of ruin is considered to be a state of this decay, rather than a dead building.

Vi möts av mängder med bilder av teknik och vetenskap i populärkulturens verk. Dessa bilder kan ses som representationer av vår verklighet och bidrar också till att skapa våra uppfattningar om världen.Denna uppsats fokuserar på att studera just de populärvetenskapliga bilderna av teknik och vetenskap som finns representerade samt hur dessa bilder är en del av sin kontext. Genom att närmare studera filmerna Demolition Man och Sunshine, utifrån frågor om tekniken skildras som ond, god eller neutral, hur vetenskapsmannen gestaltas samt hur förhållandet mellan människa och maskin ser ut, nystar denna uppsats fram de bilder av teknik och vetenskap som återfinns i dessa två verk..

The foundation for this thesis lies in whether or not, and how, the body representation in printed commercials, specific products directed to the body (shampoo, body lotion etc.), has changed during the last fifty years. Four years have been chosen because of the changes in society that we believe might have had an impact. The commercials that have been picked out are the ones that best represent the general view of the body. We have found that the changes when it comes to body presentation has followed the social development to a certain degree, but it is difficult to say how much the society has had an affect on the body ideal in advertising. Representations of the male body is something that has escalated since the early 70?s, fifteen years earlier few commercials was made with male models, and the few there were, never showed more than the face.

The goal with our research has been to describe how often and in what way female athletes are represented in the sport section in Sweden?s biggest evening newspaper Aftonbladet. The material we?ve used are the newspapers that we collected during two weeks in 2008, the 3rd of November to the 9th of November and the 11th of November to the 17th of November. We?ve conduced two qualitative researches ? a text analysis and an image analysis ? and one quantitative analysis on our material.

The study examines medias impact on every day racism through Agenda Setting and Framing. Prior studies on the subject are either conducted from an American perspective, or are several years of age. In this study we highlight how todays media depicts our society and how it affects the concept of the world on an individual level. The study is a content analysis of the case study on the news stories ?The hunt for the unregistered immigrants?, which have been analyzed through critical discourse analysis.

Titel:              Media som arena för provocerande konst- en diskursanalytisk studie om konstfackdebatten Kurs:             C-uppsats 15p Journalistikvetenskap JKAND Ht11 Institution:    Institutionen för journalistik, medier och kommunikation, JMKStockholms Universitet Framlagd:      20 jan. 2012 Författare:     Charlotte Råsbrant - Bergström Handledare: Andreas Widholm Uppsatsen behandlar media som arena för provocerande konst? en diskursanalytisk studie om konstfackdebatten Bakgrund: Studiens syfte är att utifrån ideologikritisk diskursanalys undersöka konstfackdebattens konstruktion och representation i Dagens Nyheter, Svenska Dagbladet, Expressen och Aftonbladet under år 2009.  Ett delsyfte är att med utgångspunkt från två konstfackelevers examensarbeten; Anna Odells Okänd, kvinna 2009-349701 och NUGs Territorial pissing, belysa likheter och skillnader avseende medierapporteringen inom olika genremässiga strukturer. Frågeställningar:Hur konstruerades konstfackdebatten och representation av Anna Odell respektive Magnus ?NUG? Gustafsson och deras konstprojekt i svensk storstadspress år 2009?Delfrågor är: Vad publicerades, när, var (i vilka medier), av vem och hur?a)      Vad skrevs om händelserna? Vilka diskursteman uttrycktes?b)      När och var (i vilka medier) publicerades materialet? Hur utvecklades medierapporteringen över tid?c)      Vem uttalade sig och hur gestaltades händelserna inom ramen för kultur- respektive nyhetsjournalistik? Vilka fokusområden och flöden mellan genres kan urskiljas?  Metod: Uppsatsen är kvalitativ, deskriptiv i sin karaktär där diskursanalys använts för att granska mediepublicitet i förhållande till ett socialt sammanhang. Resultat: Studien behandlar Konstfack, konst och kontrovers. Incidenter kring de analyserade projekten av Anna Odell och NUG, gav upphov till mest publicitet i februari och maj 2009. Debatt och redaktionell text handlade i huvudsak om konst, ansvar, samhällsekonomi och juridik.Inom nyhetsgenren baserades rapporteringen på händelsen, brottsaspekten och de ekonomiska konsekvenserna, där dagspressen främst inriktade sig på Konstfack och juridiskt ansvar.

The overall aim of this thesis is to examine the production and repetitiveness of gender patterns with focus on girls in the swedish tween magazine Kamratposten. This is of importance due to the non existing research on Kamratposten concerning this specific topic. The aim is also to evoke a broader discussion about the relationsship between gender representation and pedagody. The theoretical framework is based on three concepts, namly Yvonne Hirdman?s gender contract, Judith Butler?s performativity and the idea of heteronormativity.

Based on the on the assumption that the two recent Swedish poetry collections mil by Anna Hallberg and mallamerik, mallamer, malameri, mallame, amerik, mallameka, merikka, by Lars Mikael Raattamaa, are constructed with theoretical questions about identity, national identity, language hierarchy and power in mind, this study aims to investigate the ways in which these issues come to expression. Simplified, the term language-poetry, or språkmaterialism, can be used to describe a language-philosophical poetry that aims to eliminate the hierarcic structures between writer and reader in a text and invite the reader to become the co-worker of it. The study shows that by different ways of eliminating the centre of the text, the text is made democratical. But one question that this study asks is how can a nation's conventional and standardised written  language ? the language of the centre ? be used to write itself out of this centre into the margin? Stepping from a theoretical background of postcolonial theories on identity and national identity, including reflections as those given by Benedict Anderson, Madan Sarup, Timothy Brennan, Stefan Helgesson and Mia Cuoto, the analysis points out how this poetry laborates with the terms bugging, repetition, national language identity, and space as poetic material, in order to work in line with ? and contrary to - conceptions of a unified and shared language.

Denna rapport handlar om vad det är i dataspel som engagerar så många människor samt om detta engagemang går att överföra till andra slag av interaktiva informationsdesigner såsom t.ex. ett dataprogram innehållande information. Rapporten inleds med en litteraturstudie där begrepp som dataspel, interaktivitet och motivation tas upp. Sedan undersöks olika frågeställningar om vad det egentligen är som lockar i dataspel samt om det föreligger en skillnad mellan vad som engagerar kvinnor respektive män. Undersökningsmetoden är intervju- och enkätstudie.

I den här rapporten så visas hur realtidsrendering av fågelfjäder kan implementaras. Ett lindenmayersystem (L-system) används för att skapa geometri med hjälp av ett fåtal bézierkurvor. Naturliga variationer hos fjädrar modelleras genom att introducera externa krafter som ackumuleras slumpmässigt när L-systemet genererar geometrin. Bidirectional texture functions (BTF) används för färgsättning och effektiv modellering av fjäderns finstruktur. BTF är en sexdimensionell struktur som kan representera verkliga material genom att innehålla, förutom de två vanliga texturkoordinaterna, koordinater för betraktnings- och belysningsvinklar.

Since 2007 the American sitcom the Big Bang Theory has spread throughout the world. With its twenty million watchers it is one of the most popular sitcoms of our time. The starting point for this essay is that the humourus series with the more or less geeky main characters is more than just entertainment - it is a part of the mediatization of religion. This means that media is affecting the recipients? view on religion in general and the personal religion.

We chose to base our literature study on the meme phenomena. The meme is a portion of culture that is spread among us from mind to mind. Every time we learn something by copying others we use information that has been passed on from a previous person, that information can be seen as a meme. The theoretical frame for our methodology in our exam paper is founded on Forsberg och Wengström research on literature studies. Our aim is to describe to the reader in depth what a meme is and how they could be helpful in an academic and pedagogical setting. Our study will show how memes are seen predominantly as graphic designs and as artifacts for cultural representation parallel to their imagery.

På dagens operativsystem körs ett växande antal processer. Processernas representation i integrerade processhanterare är undermålig. Processernas funktionalitet beskrivs inte och gemene användare vet ofta inte vad en specifik process gör. Som lösning på problemet föreslås en programvara för att identifiera processers funktionalitet och baserat på denna information tillhandahålla gruppering av processerna. Syftet är att ge användaren kontroll över systemets processer och tre kriterier för kontroll har tagits fram.

Western scholars have long sought to grasp the essence of and explain Buddhism. Western representation of Buddhism has been in a manner that reflects their concerns and interests. In addition to this it is also known that Buddhism in Sweden is seen in a favorable way. This study tries to locate where this positive attitude toward Buddhism stems from and if it is represented in this manner in Swedish textbooks. Therefore three textbooks of upper secondary class of religion are to be examined, not only to see if there is a positive attitude towards it, but to see in what manner Buddhism is depicted in Swedish schools on the whole.

This essay is about literature instruction in the last three years of Sweden?s compulsory school from one teacher?s and six of his pupils? perspective. The research is analysed from a socio-cultural perspective on learning and literature reception.The empiric material is based on interviews with the teacher and six of his students.The research shows that there is a difference between what the pupils read on their spare time and what they read during Swedish instruction. It also shows that the pupils wants literature full of action where descriptions of people and the setting don?t slow down the reading experience.The teacher is successful in finding literature the pupils appreciate but sees the value of literature on another level ? in the processing of the reading experience.