2022
Masters Theses
1.
Jørgensen, Kari
Børns trivsel - de voksnes ansvar Masters Thesis
Aalborg Universitets, 2022.
@mastersthesis{Jørgensen2022,
title = {Børns trivsel - de voksnes ansvar},
author = {Kari Jørgensen},
url = {https://projekter.aau.dk/projekter/files/472529249/MDO_masteropgave_250522.pdf
https://projekter.aau.dk/projekter/da/studentthesis/boerns-trivsel--de-voksnes-ansvar(749840ef-dcfe-4d27-9f19-5574635a4853).html},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-05-25},
urldate = {2022-05-25},
school = {Aalborg Universitets},
abstract = {Purpose
This study is based on the 117 free text responses from 7th Grade students' identification of ‘ambiance’ as essential for their well-being at Helsingør School. My interest in investigating their well-being stems from the very small fluctuations seen in the results of the National Well-being Survey. This led to a study using Natural Language Processing (NLP), unsupervised text analysis, performed on essays written by the students, where ‘ambiance’ was designated as a focus area from a student perspective. In my master’s project and on this background, I have investigated whether the assumption that ‘mood’ and ‘ambiance’ have an impact on the students' well-being at Helsingør School is simply a school leader's assumption, or if there is an experience among staff and managers at the school that this is significant. My contribution to the existing (Danish) research in the field is partly the chosen method in relation to data from the employees (free texts), partly a suggested definition and impact of the concepts ‘mood’ and ‘ambiance’ when seen in a school context.
Method
With the wish to give the teachers and educators the opportunity to contribute their experience and position to the meaning of ‘mood’ and ‘ambiance’ in relation to student well-being, the choice of method fell on datafication of the free texts written by the staff about these concepts using NLP, unsupervised text analysis. This method has not been used before, offering teachers and educators the possibility to write their opinion, in their own words. This method was also used in connection with the study of the students' well-being, a result on which this dissertation is based.
Focus group interview was chosen as a method in relation to uncovering the managers’ positions to these concepts, as well as how the managers’ roles are in relation to these. The focus group interview uncovered a number of themes in relation to ‘mood’ and ‘ambiance’ that the managers are interested in. School researcher Louise Klinge was interviewed in an attempt to get closer to the description of an evocative classroom, a definition of the concepts of ‘mood’ and ‘ambiance’ and an answer to the question: What is the definition of ‘basic ambiance’?
Results/Conclusions
In the focus group interview, the managers reflected on their own practice and shed light on behaviors and practices, that they previously were not aware of. The focus group interview took on 4 the character of action research in practice, where reflection on one's own practice as well as budding insights in relation to significant actions with a view to students' well-being were articulated and described. The research indicates that it is the adult's responsibility to create a constructive and learning-promoting atmosphere in the classroom or in the community around the students.
Limitation
The biggest limitation has been a poor response rate on the free text survey as I only managed to get 16 free texts from potentially more than 200 teachers and educators regarding their position on and experience with ‘mood’ and ‘ambiance’ as significant factors of the students’ well-being at Helsingør School. These free texts were intended to be the primary data source, but too few responded. Why so few responded despite postponing the deadline three times and sending many reminders to write a free text is identified as an interesting subject for further investigation.
Perspectives
There are several interesting perspectives that it will make sense to examine further. First and foremost, it will make sense to challenge the existing social construction in relation to what the primary task of teachers and educators is. They have not been heard in a way in which they could unreservedly describe their experiences and attitudes in relation to the significance of ‘mood’ and ‘ambiance’ for the well-being of students. Perhaps it will be possible to involve these professional groups in another future design e.g., a data sprint. Another phenomenon that is worth investigating further is the attitude towards and communication of the National Well-being Survey. Do we believe in the data collected? Do we use data for the benefit of the students' well-being, or is it just considered as 'completed' of another work assignment?},
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Purpose
This study is based on the 117 free text responses from 7th Grade students' identification of ‘ambiance’ as essential for their well-being at Helsingør School. My interest in investigating their well-being stems from the very small fluctuations seen in the results of the National Well-being Survey. This led to a study using Natural Language Processing (NLP), unsupervised text analysis, performed on essays written by the students, where ‘ambiance’ was designated as a focus area from a student perspective. In my master’s project and on this background, I have investigated whether the assumption that ‘mood’ and ‘ambiance’ have an impact on the students' well-being at Helsingør School is simply a school leader's assumption, or if there is an experience among staff and managers at the school that this is significant. My contribution to the existing (Danish) research in the field is partly the chosen method in relation to data from the employees (free texts), partly a suggested definition and impact of the concepts ‘mood’ and ‘ambiance’ when seen in a school context.
Method
With the wish to give the teachers and educators the opportunity to contribute their experience and position to the meaning of ‘mood’ and ‘ambiance’ in relation to student well-being, the choice of method fell on datafication of the free texts written by the staff about these concepts using NLP, unsupervised text analysis. This method has not been used before, offering teachers and educators the possibility to write their opinion, in their own words. This method was also used in connection with the study of the students' well-being, a result on which this dissertation is based.
Focus group interview was chosen as a method in relation to uncovering the managers’ positions to these concepts, as well as how the managers’ roles are in relation to these. The focus group interview uncovered a number of themes in relation to ‘mood’ and ‘ambiance’ that the managers are interested in. School researcher Louise Klinge was interviewed in an attempt to get closer to the description of an evocative classroom, a definition of the concepts of ‘mood’ and ‘ambiance’ and an answer to the question: What is the definition of ‘basic ambiance’?
Results/Conclusions
In the focus group interview, the managers reflected on their own practice and shed light on behaviors and practices, that they previously were not aware of. The focus group interview took on 4 the character of action research in practice, where reflection on one's own practice as well as budding insights in relation to significant actions with a view to students' well-being were articulated and described. The research indicates that it is the adult's responsibility to create a constructive and learning-promoting atmosphere in the classroom or in the community around the students.
Limitation
The biggest limitation has been a poor response rate on the free text survey as I only managed to get 16 free texts from potentially more than 200 teachers and educators regarding their position on and experience with ‘mood’ and ‘ambiance’ as significant factors of the students’ well-being at Helsingør School. These free texts were intended to be the primary data source, but too few responded. Why so few responded despite postponing the deadline three times and sending many reminders to write a free text is identified as an interesting subject for further investigation.
Perspectives
There are several interesting perspectives that it will make sense to examine further. First and foremost, it will make sense to challenge the existing social construction in relation to what the primary task of teachers and educators is. They have not been heard in a way in which they could unreservedly describe their experiences and attitudes in relation to the significance of ‘mood’ and ‘ambiance’ for the well-being of students. Perhaps it will be possible to involve these professional groups in another future design e.g., a data sprint. Another phenomenon that is worth investigating further is the attitude towards and communication of the National Well-being Survey. Do we believe in the data collected? Do we use data for the benefit of the students' well-being, or is it just considered as 'completed' of another work assignment?
This study is based on the 117 free text responses from 7th Grade students' identification of ‘ambiance’ as essential for their well-being at Helsingør School. My interest in investigating their well-being stems from the very small fluctuations seen in the results of the National Well-being Survey. This led to a study using Natural Language Processing (NLP), unsupervised text analysis, performed on essays written by the students, where ‘ambiance’ was designated as a focus area from a student perspective. In my master’s project and on this background, I have investigated whether the assumption that ‘mood’ and ‘ambiance’ have an impact on the students' well-being at Helsingør School is simply a school leader's assumption, or if there is an experience among staff and managers at the school that this is significant. My contribution to the existing (Danish) research in the field is partly the chosen method in relation to data from the employees (free texts), partly a suggested definition and impact of the concepts ‘mood’ and ‘ambiance’ when seen in a school context.
Method
With the wish to give the teachers and educators the opportunity to contribute their experience and position to the meaning of ‘mood’ and ‘ambiance’ in relation to student well-being, the choice of method fell on datafication of the free texts written by the staff about these concepts using NLP, unsupervised text analysis. This method has not been used before, offering teachers and educators the possibility to write their opinion, in their own words. This method was also used in connection with the study of the students' well-being, a result on which this dissertation is based.
Focus group interview was chosen as a method in relation to uncovering the managers’ positions to these concepts, as well as how the managers’ roles are in relation to these. The focus group interview uncovered a number of themes in relation to ‘mood’ and ‘ambiance’ that the managers are interested in. School researcher Louise Klinge was interviewed in an attempt to get closer to the description of an evocative classroom, a definition of the concepts of ‘mood’ and ‘ambiance’ and an answer to the question: What is the definition of ‘basic ambiance’?
Results/Conclusions
In the focus group interview, the managers reflected on their own practice and shed light on behaviors and practices, that they previously were not aware of. The focus group interview took on 4 the character of action research in practice, where reflection on one's own practice as well as budding insights in relation to significant actions with a view to students' well-being were articulated and described. The research indicates that it is the adult's responsibility to create a constructive and learning-promoting atmosphere in the classroom or in the community around the students.
Limitation
The biggest limitation has been a poor response rate on the free text survey as I only managed to get 16 free texts from potentially more than 200 teachers and educators regarding their position on and experience with ‘mood’ and ‘ambiance’ as significant factors of the students’ well-being at Helsingør School. These free texts were intended to be the primary data source, but too few responded. Why so few responded despite postponing the deadline three times and sending many reminders to write a free text is identified as an interesting subject for further investigation.
Perspectives
There are several interesting perspectives that it will make sense to examine further. First and foremost, it will make sense to challenge the existing social construction in relation to what the primary task of teachers and educators is. They have not been heard in a way in which they could unreservedly describe their experiences and attitudes in relation to the significance of ‘mood’ and ‘ambiance’ for the well-being of students. Perhaps it will be possible to involve these professional groups in another future design e.g., a data sprint. Another phenomenon that is worth investigating further is the attitude towards and communication of the National Well-being Survey. Do we believe in the data collected? Do we use data for the benefit of the students' well-being, or is it just considered as 'completed' of another work assignment?
2.
Engell, Jeppe
Transfer, aktion og data! Masters Thesis
Aalborg Universitet, 2022.
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title = {Transfer, aktion og data!},
author = {Jeppe Engell},
url = {https://projekter.aau.dk/projekter/da/studentthesis/transfer-aktion-og-data(d4e54e2e-f2da-444a-98e8-a8eaa8024322).html
https://projekter.aau.dk/projekter/files/472529472/master_opgave_mdo_final_version.pdf},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-05-25},
school = {Aalborg Universitet},
abstract = {In HK, academy subjects, diploma subjects, master's subjects are completed every year, students write subject tests and trainees write assignments. In the assignments, based on well-considered problem formulations, important knowledge and data for HK are produced, concluded and reflected on. That knowledge is not collected, analyzed and converted into new workflows and this means that continuing education is not followed up on and thus can only be considered as personal development. The real issues that HK has in many areas are not combined with the employees who take subjects as continuing education.
New inputs from conferences, networks and journalism are not discussed and converted into issues that can be investigated in subjects at several levels. There is no requirement that knowledge and data that the employees produce be disseminated. The above is not unique to HK, as is the case in the vast majority of workplaces in Denmark. In fact, research shows that up to 85 percent of learning efforts are wasted. But if, on the other hand, students could be taught to become better at acting, the picture would look completely different. To act, based on what one has learned, is called 'Transfer'. "
Therefore, under this task seeks: How can HK through data workshops with employees examine its approach to continuing education and adjust it so that there is a transfer of knowledge from the tasks from the employees to the company and the experience of follow-up is increased?
The 5 data workshops made in this assignment on transfer of knowledge from education to workplaces, clearly show that it is possible to achieve practical knowledge sharing and competence development around the subject and thus come up with a new practice around transfer that will also increase the experience of follow-up among employees.
Data workshops show that advanced technology to produce data, if used and presented in the right way, can create a premise and the driver that creates the understanding of the necessity of change in practice.
It is not enough just to see the necessity of the change anymore, it must also make sense in relation to own and organizational values. It showed the data workshops in full how challenged HK is when employees experience that doubts arise about HK’s values and what happens when they are clear.},
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In HK, academy subjects, diploma subjects, master's subjects are completed every year, students write subject tests and trainees write assignments. In the assignments, based on well-considered problem formulations, important knowledge and data for HK are produced, concluded and reflected on. That knowledge is not collected, analyzed and converted into new workflows and this means that continuing education is not followed up on and thus can only be considered as personal development. The real issues that HK has in many areas are not combined with the employees who take subjects as continuing education.
New inputs from conferences, networks and journalism are not discussed and converted into issues that can be investigated in subjects at several levels. There is no requirement that knowledge and data that the employees produce be disseminated. The above is not unique to HK, as is the case in the vast majority of workplaces in Denmark. In fact, research shows that up to 85 percent of learning efforts are wasted. But if, on the other hand, students could be taught to become better at acting, the picture would look completely different. To act, based on what one has learned, is called 'Transfer'. "
Therefore, under this task seeks: How can HK through data workshops with employees examine its approach to continuing education and adjust it so that there is a transfer of knowledge from the tasks from the employees to the company and the experience of follow-up is increased?
The 5 data workshops made in this assignment on transfer of knowledge from education to workplaces, clearly show that it is possible to achieve practical knowledge sharing and competence development around the subject and thus come up with a new practice around transfer that will also increase the experience of follow-up among employees.
Data workshops show that advanced technology to produce data, if used and presented in the right way, can create a premise and the driver that creates the understanding of the necessity of change in practice.
It is not enough just to see the necessity of the change anymore, it must also make sense in relation to own and organizational values. It showed the data workshops in full how challenged HK is when employees experience that doubts arise about HK’s values and what happens when they are clear.
New inputs from conferences, networks and journalism are not discussed and converted into issues that can be investigated in subjects at several levels. There is no requirement that knowledge and data that the employees produce be disseminated. The above is not unique to HK, as is the case in the vast majority of workplaces in Denmark. In fact, research shows that up to 85 percent of learning efforts are wasted. But if, on the other hand, students could be taught to become better at acting, the picture would look completely different. To act, based on what one has learned, is called 'Transfer'. "
Therefore, under this task seeks: How can HK through data workshops with employees examine its approach to continuing education and adjust it so that there is a transfer of knowledge from the tasks from the employees to the company and the experience of follow-up is increased?
The 5 data workshops made in this assignment on transfer of knowledge from education to workplaces, clearly show that it is possible to achieve practical knowledge sharing and competence development around the subject and thus come up with a new practice around transfer that will also increase the experience of follow-up among employees.
Data workshops show that advanced technology to produce data, if used and presented in the right way, can create a premise and the driver that creates the understanding of the necessity of change in practice.
It is not enough just to see the necessity of the change anymore, it must also make sense in relation to own and organizational values. It showed the data workshops in full how challenged HK is when employees experience that doubts arise about HK’s values and what happens when they are clear.
3.
Larsen, Alberte Bau
Mapping out Nature National Park Gribskov - Controversies of nature, culture and realities. Masters Thesis
Aalborg Universitet, 2022.
@mastersthesis{Larsen2022,
title = {Mapping out Nature National Park Gribskov - Controversies of nature, culture and realities.},
author = {Alberte Bau Larsen},
url = {https://projekter.aau.dk/projekter/da/studentthesis/mapping-out-nature-national-park-gribskov--controversies-of-nature-culture-and-realities(6b10c821-bcbb-4cc7-9ef5-8af847dbc4d9).html
https://projekter.aau.dk/projekter/files/461287973/Alberte_Bau_Larsen___Mapping_out_Nature_National_Park_Gribskov.pdf},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-01-18},
school = {Aalborg Universitet},
abstract = {This thesis researches public enactments of nature-cultures within the case of the new Nature National Park Gribskov. It aims at mapping out controversies that rise when an area of the Gribskov forest will change its management practices from production forest to a place with rewilding, where large herbivores and untouched forest will be the approach to management, in order to increase biodiversity in the area.
To create a map of the controversies, I analyse how publics gather around issues, and enacts different realities of purposes and usages of nature, which causes different realities to clash. Through an extensive set of data on the controversy, collected from Facebook, public hearings and interview with the local public, I identify six central objects of dispute, namely; large herbivores, fences, outdoor life, biodiversity, climate and expertise. These objects are fluid in their actions in different networks, causing clashes between practices of each object alone, as well as among the objects. An underlying factor of clashes within a majority of the objects are the enactments of wild nature, which leads to disputes over the design of the Nature National Park Gribskov.},
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This thesis researches public enactments of nature-cultures within the case of the new Nature National Park Gribskov. It aims at mapping out controversies that rise when an area of the Gribskov forest will change its management practices from production forest to a place with rewilding, where large herbivores and untouched forest will be the approach to management, in order to increase biodiversity in the area.
To create a map of the controversies, I analyse how publics gather around issues, and enacts different realities of purposes and usages of nature, which causes different realities to clash. Through an extensive set of data on the controversy, collected from Facebook, public hearings and interview with the local public, I identify six central objects of dispute, namely; large herbivores, fences, outdoor life, biodiversity, climate and expertise. These objects are fluid in their actions in different networks, causing clashes between practices of each object alone, as well as among the objects. An underlying factor of clashes within a majority of the objects are the enactments of wild nature, which leads to disputes over the design of the Nature National Park Gribskov.
To create a map of the controversies, I analyse how publics gather around issues, and enacts different realities of purposes and usages of nature, which causes different realities to clash. Through an extensive set of data on the controversy, collected from Facebook, public hearings and interview with the local public, I identify six central objects of dispute, namely; large herbivores, fences, outdoor life, biodiversity, climate and expertise. These objects are fluid in their actions in different networks, causing clashes between practices of each object alone, as well as among the objects. An underlying factor of clashes within a majority of the objects are the enactments of wild nature, which leads to disputes over the design of the Nature National Park Gribskov.
2021
Masters Theses
4.
González, Yuri Shirley Saldarriaga
The co-creation of antagonism : a lexical analysis of legal mobilizations over abortion in Colombia Masters Thesis
SÉNECA - Universidad de los Andes, 2021.
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title = {The co-creation of antagonism : a lexical analysis of legal mobilizations over abortion in Colombia},
author = {Yuri Shirley Saldarriaga González},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1992/53535
https://repositorio.uniandes.edu.co/bitstream/handle/1992/53535/24514.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y},
year = {2021},
date = {2021-11-03},
pages = {202143},
school = {SÉNECA - Universidad de los Andes},
abstract = {Pro-life and pro-choice movements seemingly pursue drastically different objectives in the debate over abortion. Using the case of the legal mobilization before the Colombian Constitutional Court, I ask what happens when these two movements meet in the same institutional arena. To answer this question, I use an original dataset of legal files and apply to it distant reading techniques. Content and temporal analysis of judicial arguments over abortion reveals several counter-intuitive results. Contrary to a common assumption in the literature on antagonistic social movements, I show that the interaction between the two movements was not simply reactive. Instead, it led to the accidental co-creation of a common set of concepts, which gradually allowed each movement to position itself more clearly with respect to its rival.
Los movimientos pro-vida y pro-elección aparentemente persiguen objetivos drásticamente diferentes en el debate sobre el aborto. Utilizando el caso de la movilización judicial ante la Corte Constitucional de Colombia, pregunto qué sucede cuando estos dos movimientos se encuentran en un mismo escenario institucional. Para responder a esta pregunta, utilizo un conjunto de datos original de archivos legales y le aplico técnicas de lectura a distancia. El análisis temporal y de contenido de los argumentos judiciales sobre el aborto revela varios resultados contrarios a la intuición. Contrariamente a una suposición común en la literatura sobre movimientos sociales antagónicos, muestro que la interacción entre los dos movimientos no fue simplemente reactiva. En cambio, condujo a la co-creación accidental de un conjunto común de conceptos, lo que gradualmente permitió que cada movimiento se posicionara más claramente con respecto a su rival.},
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Pro-life and pro-choice movements seemingly pursue drastically different objectives in the debate over abortion. Using the case of the legal mobilization before the Colombian Constitutional Court, I ask what happens when these two movements meet in the same institutional arena. To answer this question, I use an original dataset of legal files and apply to it distant reading techniques. Content and temporal analysis of judicial arguments over abortion reveals several counter-intuitive results. Contrary to a common assumption in the literature on antagonistic social movements, I show that the interaction between the two movements was not simply reactive. Instead, it led to the accidental co-creation of a common set of concepts, which gradually allowed each movement to position itself more clearly with respect to its rival.
Los movimientos pro-vida y pro-elección aparentemente persiguen objetivos drásticamente diferentes en el debate sobre el aborto. Utilizando el caso de la movilización judicial ante la Corte Constitucional de Colombia, pregunto qué sucede cuando estos dos movimientos se encuentran en un mismo escenario institucional. Para responder a esta pregunta, utilizo un conjunto de datos original de archivos legales y le aplico técnicas de lectura a distancia. El análisis temporal y de contenido de los argumentos judiciales sobre el aborto revela varios resultados contrarios a la intuición. Contrariamente a una suposición común en la literatura sobre movimientos sociales antagónicos, muestro que la interacción entre los dos movimientos no fue simplemente reactiva. En cambio, condujo a la co-creación accidental de un conjunto común de conceptos, lo que gradualmente permitió que cada movimiento se posicionara más claramente con respecto a su rival.
Los movimientos pro-vida y pro-elección aparentemente persiguen objetivos drásticamente diferentes en el debate sobre el aborto. Utilizando el caso de la movilización judicial ante la Corte Constitucional de Colombia, pregunto qué sucede cuando estos dos movimientos se encuentran en un mismo escenario institucional. Para responder a esta pregunta, utilizo un conjunto de datos original de archivos legales y le aplico técnicas de lectura a distancia. El análisis temporal y de contenido de los argumentos judiciales sobre el aborto revela varios resultados contrarios a la intuición. Contrariamente a una suposición común en la literatura sobre movimientos sociales antagónicos, muestro que la interacción entre los dos movimientos no fue simplemente reactiva. En cambio, condujo a la co-creación accidental de un conjunto común de conceptos, lo que gradualmente permitió que cada movimiento se posicionara más claramente con respecto a su rival.
5.
Søltoft, Johan Irving
The Pandemic Turn? A case study of The Digitalizing of Everyday Life Masters Thesis
Aalborg University Copenhagen, 2021.
@mastersthesis{Søltoft2021,
title = {The Pandemic Turn? A case study of The Digitalizing of Everyday Life},
author = {Johan Irving Søltoft},
url = {https://projekter.aau.dk/projekter/files/415131424/_The_Pandemic_Turn____A_Case_Study_of__The_Digitalization_of_Everyday_Life__.pdf
https://projekter.aau.dk/projekter/da/studentthesis/the-pandemic-turn-a-case-study-of-the-digitalizing-of-everyday-life(ea7b4e42-9c56-46c0-8a8e-1cbbbffe6df3).html},
year = {2021},
date = {2021-06-19},
urldate = {2021-06-19},
school = {Aalborg University Copenhagen},
abstract = {This dissertation will be a study of how Corona has affected social science practices. To investigate this, the Danish “Digitalization of Everyday Life” project initiated during the first Covid-19 lockdown in Denmark, will serve as a case study, inspired by Bent Flybjerg and analysed with theoretical inspiration from Bruno Latour and ANT as a way of studying “science in the making”.
Through the “Digitalization of Everyday Life” project, it will be described how the Covid-19 pandemic led to new methods being developed and how earlier methods are being re-thought, such as the archive. This process can be described by documenting how different actors allied themselves by forming new networks, both on a macro as well as a micro scale.
To investigate how the Covid-19 pandemic has led to various topics within social science that were previously “black boxed” to suddenly become re-opened. This dissertation will therefore examine whether a paradigmatic shift in social science has occurred, a pandemic turn?},
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This dissertation will be a study of how Corona has affected social science practices. To investigate this, the Danish “Digitalization of Everyday Life” project initiated during the first Covid-19 lockdown in Denmark, will serve as a case study, inspired by Bent Flybjerg and analysed with theoretical inspiration from Bruno Latour and ANT as a way of studying “science in the making”.
Through the “Digitalization of Everyday Life” project, it will be described how the Covid-19 pandemic led to new methods being developed and how earlier methods are being re-thought, such as the archive. This process can be described by documenting how different actors allied themselves by forming new networks, both on a macro as well as a micro scale.
To investigate how the Covid-19 pandemic has led to various topics within social science that were previously “black boxed” to suddenly become re-opened. This dissertation will therefore examine whether a paradigmatic shift in social science has occurred, a pandemic turn?
Through the “Digitalization of Everyday Life” project, it will be described how the Covid-19 pandemic led to new methods being developed and how earlier methods are being re-thought, such as the archive. This process can be described by documenting how different actors allied themselves by forming new networks, both on a macro as well as a micro scale.
To investigate how the Covid-19 pandemic has led to various topics within social science that were previously “black boxed” to suddenly become re-opened. This dissertation will therefore examine whether a paradigmatic shift in social science has occurred, a pandemic turn?
6.
Béchet, Nathalie
#IamNotaVirus: text mining analysis of the blame phenomenon and anti-asian racism on Twitter amid the Covid-19 pandemic Observation of the narrative diversity generated by hashtag activism in France Masters Thesis
2021.
@mastersthesis{Béchet2021,
title = {#IamNotaVirus: text mining analysis of the blame phenomenon and anti-asian racism on Twitter amid the Covid-19 pandemic Observation of the narrative diversity generated by hashtag activism in France},
author = {Nathalie Béchet},
url = {https://www.researchgate.net/publication/349883313_IamNotaVirus_text_mining_analysis_of_the_blame_phenomenon_and_anti-asian_racism_on_Twitter_amid_the_Covid-19_pandemic_Observation_of_the_narrative_diversity_generated_by_hashtag_activism_in_France},
doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.14680.21761},
year = {2021},
date = {2021-05-01},
abstract = {The hashtag #JeNeSuisPasUnVirus (#IamNotAVirus) was coined in January 2020 during the outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19) in China as anti-Asian racist incidents gained visibility nourished by the idea that if the pandemic originated in Asia, Asian people were infected and responsible for the spread of the virus. This hashtag reached a peak on January 28th before decreasing, following the shifting curve of the blame phenomenon (Atlani-Duault et al., 2020). Certainly anti-Asian racism is not a new phenomenon, but the Covid-19 pandemic came as an enhancer for xenophobic acts and hate speeches. As Asian communities informally got together online via hashtag activism to denounce persecutions they face, we could observe how the recurring blame process amid health crises, has been worded around ethnic and cultural stigmata. The many comparisons Twitter users from our corpus tended to make with anti-Muslim sentiments in France showed just how the phenomenon at stake here is the one of using a nation's minorities as a scapegoat for local issues. This 2020 epidemic and its associated Twitter hashtag #JeNeSuisPasUnVirus, are just a salience that ought to be grasped by researchers to scrutinize the plurality of narratives around anti-Asian racism and observe how the blame phenomenon works. The present study aims to do so by applying text mining methods to thousands of tweets containing this precise hashtag from the end of January to the end of March 2020.
The present article stands for a Master Thesis presented in order to obtain a M.A. in Data Sciences and Digital Sociology from Gustave Eiffel University under the supervision of Digital Sociology associate professor Bilel Benbouzid. It hasn't been published.},
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The hashtag #JeNeSuisPasUnVirus (#IamNotAVirus) was coined in January 2020 during the outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19) in China as anti-Asian racist incidents gained visibility nourished by the idea that if the pandemic originated in Asia, Asian people were infected and responsible for the spread of the virus. This hashtag reached a peak on January 28th before decreasing, following the shifting curve of the blame phenomenon (Atlani-Duault et al., 2020). Certainly anti-Asian racism is not a new phenomenon, but the Covid-19 pandemic came as an enhancer for xenophobic acts and hate speeches. As Asian communities informally got together online via hashtag activism to denounce persecutions they face, we could observe how the recurring blame process amid health crises, has been worded around ethnic and cultural stigmata. The many comparisons Twitter users from our corpus tended to make with anti-Muslim sentiments in France showed just how the phenomenon at stake here is the one of using a nation's minorities as a scapegoat for local issues. This 2020 epidemic and its associated Twitter hashtag #JeNeSuisPasUnVirus, are just a salience that ought to be grasped by researchers to scrutinize the plurality of narratives around anti-Asian racism and observe how the blame phenomenon works. The present study aims to do so by applying text mining methods to thousands of tweets containing this precise hashtag from the end of January to the end of March 2020.
The present article stands for a Master Thesis presented in order to obtain a M.A. in Data Sciences and Digital Sociology from Gustave Eiffel University under the supervision of Digital Sociology associate professor Bilel Benbouzid. It hasn't been published.
The present article stands for a Master Thesis presented in order to obtain a M.A. in Data Sciences and Digital Sociology from Gustave Eiffel University under the supervision of Digital Sociology associate professor Bilel Benbouzid. It hasn't been published.
7.
Schüler, Jimmy
De l’innovation pour le profit, aux profits sans innovation : une monographie de l’entreprise pharmaceutique Novartis Masters Thesis
Université de Genève, 2021.
@mastersthesis{Schüler2021,
title = {De l’innovation pour le profit, aux profits sans innovation : une monographie de l’entreprise pharmaceutique Novartis},
author = {Jimmy Schüler},
editor = {Cédric Michel Durand},
url = {https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:148424
https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:148424/ATTACHMENT01},
year = {2021},
date = {2021-01-01},
school = {Université de Genève},
abstract = { Notre travail propose une analyse détaillée des politiques de profit chez Novartis. Nous revenons sur ses différents modèles de production : du modèle des blockbusters à celui des traitements de niche. Nous analysons les mécanismes qui structurent la production de son innovations tels que l’externalisation de phases cliniques ou l’acquisition tardive de traitements issus de sa périphérie. Un processus de monopolisation de l’innovation permise par la position dominante du groupe au sein du secteur pharmaceutique.},
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Notre travail propose une analyse détaillée des politiques de profit chez Novartis. Nous revenons sur ses différents modèles de production : du modèle des blockbusters à celui des traitements de niche. Nous analysons les mécanismes qui structurent la production de son innovations tels que l’externalisation de phases cliniques ou l’acquisition tardive de traitements issus de sa périphérie. Un processus de monopolisation de l’innovation permise par la position dominante du groupe au sein du secteur pharmaceutique.
2020
Masters Theses
8.
de Macedo, Marlene Ascensão
Ementas e Nomes de Restaurantesem Zona Turística do Funchal e de Santa Cruz de TenerifeUm olhar sobre a paisagem linguística Masters Thesis
Universidade da Madeir, 2020.
@mastersthesis{deMacedo2020,
title = {Ementas e Nomes de Restaurantesem Zona Turística do Funchal e de Santa Cruz de TenerifeUm olhar sobre a paisagem linguística},
author = {Marlene Ascensão de Macedo},
url = {https://digituma.uma.pt/handle/10400.13/3076
https://digituma.uma.pt/bitstream/10400.13/3076/1/Disserta%c3%a7%c3%a3o%20Trabalhada%20%c3%baltima%20revis%c3%a3o_24jun2020_VFINAL.pdf},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-12-01},
school = {Universidade da Madeir},
abstract = {The present report is the result of a case study inspired on names of restaurants and their menus in two different touristic areas: Funchal (rua de Santa Maria and Largo do Corpo Santo) in Madeira Archipelago and Santa Cruz de Tenerife (avenida Anaga and rua Bethencourt de Alfonso) in the Canary Islands. The aim is to characterize the linguistic landscape of both zones through the names of the restaurants and its menus, comparing the two linguistic landscapes in order to establish similarities and differences between them. This work is constituted by a linguistic analysis and a sociological study of the mentioned corpora linguistics, identifying determinant reasons for these expressions of symbolic mediation. The islands (Madeira and Tenerife) preserve a remarkable tourist tradition and great promotion at the international level (see, among other means of dissemination, catalogs of travel agencies, guides sold annually before the high season, tourism fairs’ folds, social networks and others). The places with the highest flow of foreign tourists in August and September were compared both in the cities of Funchal and Santa Cruz de Tenerife. The study compares these two linguistic landscapes, where both consumers have similar profiles (generation, origin, tastes for food and beverages, etc.) according to a preparatory research done by verbal consultation of the professionals of these establishments and the contemplated period of the day was the dinner time and the moments of the festivity that follows it, being this presentation based on sociological foundations that structure knowledge in the area. The methodological approach adopted followed the hypothetical-deductive method, based on a specific question: considering Madeira and Tenerife two different islands in Macaronesia with long tourist tradition, can the linguistic landscape of Funchal and Santa Cruz de Tenerife have similarities regarding the names of restaurants and their outdoor menus?},
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The present report is the result of a case study inspired on names of restaurants and their menus in two different touristic areas: Funchal (rua de Santa Maria and Largo do Corpo Santo) in Madeira Archipelago and Santa Cruz de Tenerife (avenida Anaga and rua Bethencourt de Alfonso) in the Canary Islands. The aim is to characterize the linguistic landscape of both zones through the names of the restaurants and its menus, comparing the two linguistic landscapes in order to establish similarities and differences between them. This work is constituted by a linguistic analysis and a sociological study of the mentioned corpora linguistics, identifying determinant reasons for these expressions of symbolic mediation. The islands (Madeira and Tenerife) preserve a remarkable tourist tradition and great promotion at the international level (see, among other means of dissemination, catalogs of travel agencies, guides sold annually before the high season, tourism fairs’ folds, social networks and others). The places with the highest flow of foreign tourists in August and September were compared both in the cities of Funchal and Santa Cruz de Tenerife. The study compares these two linguistic landscapes, where both consumers have similar profiles (generation, origin, tastes for food and beverages, etc.) according to a preparatory research done by verbal consultation of the professionals of these establishments and the contemplated period of the day was the dinner time and the moments of the festivity that follows it, being this presentation based on sociological foundations that structure knowledge in the area. The methodological approach adopted followed the hypothetical-deductive method, based on a specific question: considering Madeira and Tenerife two different islands in Macaronesia with long tourist tradition, can the linguistic landscape of Funchal and Santa Cruz de Tenerife have similarities regarding the names of restaurants and their outdoor menus?
2019
Masters Theses
9.
Aumüller-Wagner, Sophia; Læarsson, Bartal; Agar, Muhammed; Mituzaite, Kristina; Münz, Janina; Malnača, Linda
Dominant and silent voices in the discourse on Health Smart Homes for the Elderly on Twitter and Scopus Masters Thesis
IT-University of Copenhagen, 2019.
@mastersthesis{Aumüller-Wagner2019,
title = {Dominant and silent voices in the discourse on Health Smart Homes for the Elderly on Twitter and Scopus},
author = {Sophia Aumüller-Wagner and Bartal Læarsson and Muhammed Agar and Kristina Mituzaite and Janina Münz and Linda Malnača},
url = {https://www.dasts.dk/wp-content/uploads/ESPS_Health-smart-home-for-the-elderly.pdf},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-09-01},
school = {IT-University of Copenhagen},
abstract = {Living in a world of demographic change means that aging societies will to a higher extend deal with mobility issues, chronic illnesses, and fall risks. Smart home technologies are increasingly considered in healthcare and could help alleviate the dilemma of people wanting to remain autonomous and independent while growing older. Under the lens of Clarke’s Situational Analysis, this paper explores how health smart homes for the elderly are co-constructed on the platforms of Scopus and Twitter. Using both Big Data and Thick Data, silent voices in the discourse around this technology are uncovered in order to understand how far the innovation of smart homes is aligned with the needs of its users. The main finding of this research paper shows that the field around health smart homes for the elderly is still in its early stages and the needs and concerns of elderly people are not yet considered enough. In order to design smart health homes for the elderly, the researchers propose a requirement pyramid that can aid the design of these future technologies. },
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Living in a world of demographic change means that aging societies will to a higher extend deal with mobility issues, chronic illnesses, and fall risks. Smart home technologies are increasingly considered in healthcare and could help alleviate the dilemma of people wanting to remain autonomous and independent while growing older. Under the lens of Clarke’s Situational Analysis, this paper explores how health smart homes for the elderly are co-constructed on the platforms of Scopus and Twitter. Using both Big Data and Thick Data, silent voices in the discourse around this technology are uncovered in order to understand how far the innovation of smart homes is aligned with the needs of its users. The main finding of this research paper shows that the field around health smart homes for the elderly is still in its early stages and the needs and concerns of elderly people are not yet considered enough. In order to design smart health homes for the elderly, the researchers propose a requirement pyramid that can aid the design of these future technologies.
2018
Masters Theses
10.
Pan, Ying-Ling
Understanding the message functions in health communication, promotion and pubic engagement on Twitter: An exploratory analysis of the SunSmart campaign Masters Thesis
University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands, 2018.
@mastersthesis{Pan2018,
title = {Understanding the message functions in health communication, promotion and pubic engagement on Twitter: An exploratory analysis of the SunSmart campaign},
author = {Ying-Ling Pan},
url = {https://essay.utwente.nl/76515/1/Pan_BA_faculty.pdf},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-08-31},
address = {Enschede, the Netherlands},
school = {University of Twente},
abstract = {Background. As the mortality of skin cancer has risen rapidly over the recent decades, skin health organisations largely use social media as a communication tool to promote health campaigns and encourage participation. However, little is known about the specific approach to foster engagement via tweets as a form of health communication and promote health campaigns to engage the public. By focusing on the SunSmart skin health campaign on Twitter, this study aims to investigate how the communication during the campaign is characterised in terms of the functions of messages, to what extent the use of these messages can create public engagement, and how message contents play out among the functions. Methodology. By focusing on the SunSmart health campaign on Twitter, this study adopts a multi-method approach. First, a descriptive statistical analysis is used to understand whether levels of engagement among types of usersand message functions differ. Second, Natural Language Processing(NLP) is adopted for developing a codebook in which four message functions manifested from the SunSmart data are identified. Third, content analysis is used to manually classify each tweet to different user types and message functions. Last, by using Natural Language Processing(NLP) and the hashtag visualisation the matic analysis, we further explore whether the composition of content (i.e., keywords & thematic topics) among message functions differ. Results. Using the 2014 SunSmart health campaign on Twitter as an empirical context and on the basis of comparison between individuals and organisations(i.e.,the public), results show that individual users are more engaged in the SunSmart campaign on Twitter than organisations did. In addition, we find the levels of engagement among the four main message functions between individuals and organisations differ. At the content level, results show that utilisation of keywords and thematic topics among different message functions generally differ among individuals and organisations. Contributions. This study offers contributions to research on media studies, health communication, and health campaign marketing. Practically, the results provides with insight on strategic health communication and marketing campaigns.},
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Background. As the mortality of skin cancer has risen rapidly over the recent decades, skin health organisations largely use social media as a communication tool to promote health campaigns and encourage participation. However, little is known about the specific approach to foster engagement via tweets as a form of health communication and promote health campaigns to engage the public. By focusing on the SunSmart skin health campaign on Twitter, this study aims to investigate how the communication during the campaign is characterised in terms of the functions of messages, to what extent the use of these messages can create public engagement, and how message contents play out among the functions. Methodology. By focusing on the SunSmart health campaign on Twitter, this study adopts a multi-method approach. First, a descriptive statistical analysis is used to understand whether levels of engagement among types of usersand message functions differ. Second, Natural Language Processing(NLP) is adopted for developing a codebook in which four message functions manifested from the SunSmart data are identified. Third, content analysis is used to manually classify each tweet to different user types and message functions. Last, by using Natural Language Processing(NLP) and the hashtag visualisation the matic analysis, we further explore whether the composition of content (i.e., keywords & thematic topics) among message functions differ. Results. Using the 2014 SunSmart health campaign on Twitter as an empirical context and on the basis of comparison between individuals and organisations(i.e.,the public), results show that individual users are more engaged in the SunSmart campaign on Twitter than organisations did. In addition, we find the levels of engagement among the four main message functions between individuals and organisations differ. At the content level, results show that utilisation of keywords and thematic topics among different message functions generally differ among individuals and organisations. Contributions. This study offers contributions to research on media studies, health communication, and health campaign marketing. Practically, the results provides with insight on strategic health communication and marketing campaigns.
11.
Theel, Mandy
Digital Nomadism as an extension of new media work: Travelling between ideology and practice Masters Thesis
University of Amsterdam, 2018.
@mastersthesis{Theel2018,
title = {Digital Nomadism as an extension of new media work: Travelling between ideology and practice},
author = {Mandy Theel},
url = {https://scripties.uba.uva.nl/search?id=record_24483},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-07-28},
urldate = {2018-07-28},
school = {University of Amsterdam},
abstract = {In a world where technology intertwines increasingly with everyday life and work, the traditional career fades into the background and work how we know it is transformed. The structural organisation and subjective perception of work are moving towards new notions of freedom and nomadism while new labour forms arise. This thesis is a journey into the world of Digital Nomads, their imagination and implementation of a new kind of work practice. The research aims to examine the changing notion of work in new media industries caused by technological and societal developments. Through the lens of a mixed methods approach using digital methods in a quantitative content analysis and qualitative semi-structured interviews, the study analyses the values and practices of Digital Nomads.The movement of Digital Nomadism will be regarded from a new media perspective where it proves to extend the existing understanding of the new media work practices. The thesis provides a model based on discourse analysis that contrasts the ideology and practice of this work and lifestyle. Moreover, it contributes new insights into the changing notion of work proposing that, especially in the new media industries, work experiences an “industrialisation of nomadism”.},
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In a world where technology intertwines increasingly with everyday life and work, the traditional career fades into the background and work how we know it is transformed. The structural organisation and subjective perception of work are moving towards new notions of freedom and nomadism while new labour forms arise. This thesis is a journey into the world of Digital Nomads, their imagination and implementation of a new kind of work practice. The research aims to examine the changing notion of work in new media industries caused by technological and societal developments. Through the lens of a mixed methods approach using digital methods in a quantitative content analysis and qualitative semi-structured interviews, the study analyses the values and practices of Digital Nomads.The movement of Digital Nomadism will be regarded from a new media perspective where it proves to extend the existing understanding of the new media work practices. The thesis provides a model based on discourse analysis that contrasts the ideology and practice of this work and lifestyle. Moreover, it contributes new insights into the changing notion of work proposing that, especially in the new media industries, work experiences an “industrialisation of nomadism”.
2017
Masters Theses
12.
CMW,; D2SN,
Etude de la mèmosphère de God Emperor Trump Masters Thesis
2017.
@mastersthesis{CMW2017,
title = {Etude de la mèmosphère de God Emperor Trump},
author = {CMW and D2SN},
url = {https://lesmondesnumeriques.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/rendu-trump-sprint.pdf},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-02-01},
urldate = {2017-02-01},
abstract = {Sprint opérationnel Masters CMW et NUMI (D2SN)},
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Sprint opérationnel Masters CMW et NUMI (D2SN)
2015
Masters Theses
13.
el Jamal, Sarah
Framing Arab Poverty Knowledge Production: A Socio-bibliometric Study Masters Thesis
American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, 2015.
@mastersthesis{elJamal2015,
title = {Framing Arab Poverty Knowledge Production: A Socio-bibliometric Study},
author = {Sarah el Jamal},
url = {https://scholarworks.aub.edu.lb/bitstream/handle/10938/10615/t-6197.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=n},
year = {2015},
date = {2015-06-02},
address = {Beirut, Lebanon},
school = {American University of Beirut},
abstract = {Based on Mannheim's theory that knowledge is socially constructed, and its production process is influenced by the social context in which it occurs, this study seeks to identify and analyze the social influences and forces behind the knowledge produced and disseminated in the form of academic journal articles on the topic of poverty in the Arab World. Although the knowledge production process will not be studied in its making, certain features and elements of the final body of knowledge (the articles) will be taken as telling indicators of the process in hindsight. These will be the basis of three kinds of analyses that will be carried out: content analysis, authorship analysis, and citation analysis. In content analysis, I will scrutinize the poverty concepts used, the methodologies applied, the use of theory including theoretical frameworks of the studies, the prevailing political and epistemological paradigms, the structure of the articles, and the types of articles (critique, essay, fieldwork). In authorship analysis, I will survey the sociological markers pertaining to the authors and institutions producing the articles. In citation analysis, I will analyze the characteristics and trends of the references. Ultimately, I seek to answer the following question: What are the social factors conditioning the production of academic articles on poverty in the Arab World, and what are the observed trends thereof?},
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Based on Mannheim's theory that knowledge is socially constructed, and its production process is influenced by the social context in which it occurs, this study seeks to identify and analyze the social influences and forces behind the knowledge produced and disseminated in the form of academic journal articles on the topic of poverty in the Arab World. Although the knowledge production process will not be studied in its making, certain features and elements of the final body of knowledge (the articles) will be taken as telling indicators of the process in hindsight. These will be the basis of three kinds of analyses that will be carried out: content analysis, authorship analysis, and citation analysis. In content analysis, I will scrutinize the poverty concepts used, the methodologies applied, the use of theory including theoretical frameworks of the studies, the prevailing political and epistemological paradigms, the structure of the articles, and the types of articles (critique, essay, fieldwork). In authorship analysis, I will survey the sociological markers pertaining to the authors and institutions producing the articles. In citation analysis, I will analyze the characteristics and trends of the references. Ultimately, I seek to answer the following question: What are the social factors conditioning the production of academic articles on poverty in the Arab World, and what are the observed trends thereof?
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