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Geller, Peter. "Making Blackness, Making Policy." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10463.
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Too often the acknowledgment that race is a social construction ignores exactly how this construction occurs. By illuminating the way in which the category of blackness and black individuals are made, we can better see how race matters in America. Antidiscrimination policy, social science research, and the state's support of its citizens can all be improved by an accurate and concrete definition of blackness. Making Blackness, Making Policy argues that blackness and black people are literally made rather than discovered. The social construction of blackness involves the naming of individuals as black, and the subsequent interaction between this naming and racial projects. The process of naming involves an intersubjective dialogue in which racial self-identification and ascription by others lead to a consensus on an individual's race. These third parties include an individual's community, the media, and, crucially, the state. Following Ian Hacking, this process is most properly termed the dynamic nominalism of blackness. My dissertation uses analytic philosophy, qualitative and quantitative research, and historical analysis to defend this conception. The dynamic nominalist process is illustrated through the media's contribution to the making of Barack Obama's blackness, and the state's creation and maintenance of racial categories through law, policy, and enumeration. I then argue that the state's dominant role in creating blackness, and the vital role that a black identity plays in millions' sense of self, requires the United States Government to support a politics of recognition. The state's antidiscrimination efforts would also improve through the adoption of a dynamic nominalism of blackness. Replacing the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission's inconsistent and contradictory definitions of race with the dynamic nominalism of blackness would clarify when and how racial discrimination occurs.African and African American Studies
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MacLachlan, Lynne. "Making rules, making tools : how can shape grammar support creative making?" Thesis, Open University, 2018. http://oro.open.ac.uk/53917/.
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Design theory has previously studied the practices of architects, industrial designers and engineers. Designer-makers, designers who work independently, designing and making objects with close attention to tools and materials, have not been similarly studied. A renewed interest in craft and making, in part catalysed by new computational and digital fabrication tools at designer’s disposal, strengthens the case for studying successful design-through-making processes. An analogy between rules transforming shapes and tools transforming material provided the initial indication that concepts from shape grammar could be aligned with making processes, to potentially support creative making and deliver new theoretical and applied knowledge for both spheres. The first part of the thesis examines shape grammar theory as a method of modelling designer-maker creative episodes, to inform designer practice. Evidence was gathered from interviews with designer-makers, observations from a design process carried out by the author and other literature on designer-makers. This evidence was analysed in the context of shape grammar and established creativity literature in order to seek formal descriptions of creative episodes. It was found that designer-makers used tools to define personal and shared design worlds and focussed on and undertook specific activities relating to tools which have been classified; tool selection, tool combination and tool transformation, all of which have creative potential. Tool transformation was found to have further scope for definition and it was found that designers can perform parametric, functional and reformatting transformations on tools to produce new and useful design outcomes. Shape grammar schemas were found to provide useful descriptors for the operations performed by designer-makers on tools. The second part of the thesis inquires if shape grammar as a design method can support creative computational making, by specifically exploring the use of shape grammar weights, a way of modelling material properties alongside shape operations, as a tool for generating designs for multi-material 3D printing. A number of design reasoning and computational making experiments were carried out and the process and results reported and considered. The outcome is a range of specified weights systems and a general schema for defining and using weights as tool for managing material properties for multi-material 3D printing that can be used and transformed by computational makers. The general weights schema also extends previous theoretical definitions of shape grammar weights. This part of the thesis also demonstrated the importance of tool development and transformation as a basis for creative episodes in design-through-making processes.
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Blakeney, Alda Marcia. "Making Meaning, Out of Meaning Making." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2009. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/msit_diss/62.
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Abstract Making Meaning, Out of Meaning Making by Alda M. Blakeney This study examines the ways in which three elementary teachers appropriated and implemented a defined literacy curriculum in their classrooms. The overarching question guiding the study is, “What are the social and cultural patterns of meaning making in the literacy practices of three elementary teachers?” The study is framed by sociocultural perspectives of learning (Bourdieu, 1986; Gee, n.d; Vygotsky, 1978). Literacy practices involve the cultural, social, political, and historical ways of interacting and making sense of the world. Therefore, to study literacy practices of three elementary teachers means to study the social and cultural contexts in which they occur. Field notes, interviews, and teacher-produced artifacts were analyzed using emergent coding schemes (Spradley, 1979; LeCompte and Schensul, 1999). Findings from the study revealed that the literacy practices of these three teachers were standards driven, emphasizing a foundational approach to literacy development. Additionally, the teachers focused on transforming Spanish speakers into English readers. These findings suggest that the social and cultural patterns of meaning making between and among teachers and learners are not equally represented in the curriculum. Moreover, the teachers did not disrupt commonly held beliefs and practices about literacy, thereby maintaining the status quo. Implications for this study including equipping teachers, both pre-service and in-service with knowledge of critical theory and literacy, with a goal of increased engagement in literacy practices and a democratized production of knowledge.
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Surak, Kristin Marie. "Nation-work making tea, making Japanese /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1997614301&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Lysowski, Mark Robert. "Groundbreaking: art-making life; life-making art." The Ohio State University, 1987. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1303231854.
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Coy, Joshua A. "Making Places or Making Waves: Cultural District Policy Making Considerations for the Public Good." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1440356497.
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Tahko, Tuuli. "Making sense of dance-making : interaction and organisation in contemporary choreographic processes." Thesis, University of Roehampton, 2016. https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/studentthesis/making-sense-of-dance-making(aeac116c-62e1-4ca6-b3b2-6c258a084128).html.
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The relationship between dancers and choreographers has often been described as problematic, with the dancer as the silent victim of the powerful choreographer. On the other hand, contemporary choreography has been presented as an inherently collaborative process in which the dancer participates in the creation of movement material, even if she is not credited as a co-author. My thesis explores what we can learn about the social organisation of contemporary choreographic practices by shifting our methodological focus from dance studies to the study of organisational behaviour and interaction. This interdisciplinary approach is based on an understanding of professional dance companies as work organisations with goals to achieve and resources to manage. Professional dance-making is a work activity, and therefore dance companies must be to some extent comparable with other organisations functioning in the same cultural and societal framework. I suggest that by using theories of organisational behaviour to contextualise dancers’ and choreographers’ work relationships we can better understand how their professional identities are implicated in choreographic practices. The data for this research come from two ethnographic case studies of professional contemporary dance companies in the process of making new work. Thematic analysis has been combined with close readings of communicative events to shed light on how choreographic processes are socially constructed and organised through multimodal embodied interaction between the participants. The study shows that in order to understand the dancer’s agency and sensemaking in a choreographic process it is crucial to understand that communication encompasses all aspects of behaviour, not just verbal activity, and that the choreographer’s leadership is dependent on the dancers’ cooperative followership. Organisational concepts such as sensemaking and communities of practice, and theories of leadership, followership and communication, were found to be in many ways applicable to contemporary choreographic processes, suggesting that this perspective could be useful for dance practitioners and scholars alike.
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Dempsey, Jessica Anne. "Making markets, making biodiversity : understanding global biodiversity politics." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/39284.
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Pricing and market exchange, we are now often told, are the only routes through which biological diversity can be saved. The objective of this dissertation is to examine the material-semiotic processes and networks by which a kind of ‘economized’, and even at times, ‘entrepreneurial nature’ comes to be. I ask: how did biodiversity become entangled in economic rationalities and market calculations? What are the circuits of knowledge and power producing biodiversity in this way? What calculative devices, methodologies and policies are created, or envisioned as necessary to make biodiversity conservation economic? And what are the implications, especially for the kinds of nature produced? To answer these questions, I study several ‘circuits of power and knowledge’ through which biodiversity is rendered visible, legible and especially economically calculable within global environmental governance. Not taking the subject of my thesis for granted, I begin by examining the rise of biodiversity in the 1980s, and its entanglements in notions of human security and as a source of exchange value, especially for biotechnology related applications. With this foundation, I go on to examine the Beijer Institute biodiversity programme, where, in the early 1990s, leading economists and ecologists met and developed a consensus on ‘the problem of biodiversity’, a consensus that is steeped in economic rationalities and methodologies. The rest of the dissertation focuses on very contemporary ‘circuits’ wherein ecologists, economists, NGOs, international institutions, and private firms attempt to render biodiversity economic, and, in some cases, profitable. This includes an examination of the rise of ecosystem service frameworks and models focused on weighing ‘trade-offs’ between different environmental management policies, attempts to produce biodiversity loss as a ‘material risk’ (meaning impacts on the bottom line calculations of firms), debates over how to make biodiversity markets, and intergovernmental negotiations focused on developing regulated market-like mechanisms that could finally achieve ‘green development’. In each of these cases I focus on how biodiversity is made visible and legible for governance, which means focusing on the conceptual apparatus, but also the calculative devices that quantify and value biodiversity and ecosystem changes.
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Dinkin, David. "'Meta-strategising' : the making of formalised strategy-making." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.496441.
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O'Shea, Catherine Mary. "Making meaning, making a home: students watching Generations." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002934.
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This thesis is a reception analysis using qualitative interviews to investigate black students' watching of a South African soap opera, Generations, taking into account the context of a largely white South African university campus. The findings of this study are that students find pleasure in talking about Generations and hold seemingly contradictory views on whether it is 'realistic' or not. The analysis concludes that watching Generations does serve to affirm these students' black identity, since there is a particular need to do so on a campus where black students witness and experience racial discrimination.
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Alptekin, Ali Haydar. "Making The." Master's thesis, METU, 2010. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12612826/index.pdf.
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This thesis aims to analyze the role of railways and railway stations in the construction of the capital city of an industrial empire with reference to the concept of &ldquoterritorialization.&rdquo
The main case is Russia, where the geographical factors are prominent in the creation of the economic, political, social and cultural structure of the country
and the focus of analysis is the city of Moscow, which acted as the center of this structure as connected to its territory by a developed system of railways. The continuous processes of &ldquo
territorialization&rdquo
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deterritorialization&rdquo
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reterritorialization&rdquo
of the Eurasian continent by Russians and the associated nations form the basic spatial backstage of this study. The built environment as basically materialized in the capital city, which serves as the control center of territoriality, and the way how human territoriality in the country and within the capital city are interrelated, are the key issues to be investigated. In this context railways emerged as new media for territorialization in the age of industry. In this study the Russian railways and the Moscow railway stations are analyzed in their positions in the territorial configuration of industrial Russia form the mid-nineteenth century onwards. Moscow as a leading industrial as well as historical and cultural center, was not the capital city when the country introduced the rapid construction of railway network and station buildings. In this study it is claimed that the rise of Moscow to become the capital city is, thus, related with its becoming the center of the Russian railway network.
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Cerqueira, Carla Alexandra Barbosa Afonso. "Making amends." Master's thesis, Instituições portuguesas -- UCP-Universidade Católica Portuguesa -- -Escola das Artes (C.R. do Porto), 2002. http://dited.bn.pt:80/30153.
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Foote, Jonathan David. "On Making." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33700.
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This is a project about making, or what it fundamentally means to take part in what seems like such a natural, yet remarkable, human trait: the ability to make. There are countless different types of makers in the world, but it seems that of all of them, the architect occupies a unique position. It occurs to me that, with a few exceptions, the professional architect is one of the only makers who has the handicap of not working directly with the object of his making. A painter or sculptor works without the hindrance of having to translate that which is in his mind to others. Changes can be made without consult, refinement is sought at every movement of the hand, and, in the end, perfection is the only acceptable conclusion.Master of Architecture
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Moulton, Marc. "Making sculpture." The Ohio State University, 1987. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1303236154.
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To, Angie Yan Yeuk. "Making objects." The Ohio State University, 1997. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1328553962.
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Coffey, Christine. "Making Time." VCU Scholars Compass, 2008. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1595.
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We are living in an age where the quantity of information has exceeded its quality. No doubt the digital and information revolutions have provided the world with countless positive improvements, but they have also increased the speed at which we live and work to the detriment of the heath of our world. This project explores ways in which designers can aid in an effort to slow down in order to reinvigorate a more sustainable graphic design product.
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Patton, Kamau Amu. "Making meaning /." May be available electronically:, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTU1MTUmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=12498.
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Rodriguez, Cristhian Fernando Caje. "Making on." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFSC, 2015. https://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/180877.
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Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia Social, Florianópolis, 2015.Made available in DSpace on 2017-11-14T03:09:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 349149.pdf: 2783079 bytes, checksum: 75af323aef83a41897489709741c0afc (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015
Este trabalho apresenta uma etnografia dos bastidores da Mostra Audiovisual Curta o Gênero, realizada na cidade de Fortaleza, capital do Ceará, estado localizado no nordeste brasileiro, durante o mês de abril de 2014. A análise aqui proposta coloca-se na interseção entre dois campos: o primeiro dos estudos da performance, com base nas teorias dos rituais; e o segundo dos estudos da representação no campo da antropologia visual, através de uma etnografia da tela de um filme escolhido pela curadoria do evento. Busca a reflexão acerca das possibilidades e limites na relação entre imagem e a produção do campo político de gênero e sexualidade, construindo um recorte descritivo e histórico da estrutura da ONG responsável pela produção. Levamos em consideração a programação, os filmes, as platéias, as salas de exibição, os catálogos e as campanhas publicitárias. Desvendamos, assim, os bastidores como um espaço social, que abriga um coletivo particular dedicado a produzir políticas por meio de eventos e imagens. A produção desta mostra se torna possível pelas crenças compartilhadas, pelo fluxo de informações e ações rituais organizadas em rede.
Abstract : This work presents an ethnography of the Mostra Audiovisual Curta o Gênero?s, an audiovisual festival dedicated to gender related short films which takes place in Fortaleza, capital of the Ceará state, in the Northeast of Brazil. The field research took place in April 2014 and focused in the event?s backstage. The analysis here developed is situated at the intersection of two fields: Performance studies, based on ritual theories; and on representations studies within the Visual Anthropology area, through the screen ethnography of a movie selected by the festival trusteeship. We investigate the possibilities and limits in the relation between image and production within the gender and sexuality political Field by describing the structure and the history of the NGO responsible for the festival. We took into consideration the event?s programming, movies, audiences, exhibition rooms, catalogues and advertising campaigns. Thereby we have unveiled the backstage as a social space which gathers a particular collective dedicated to produce politics through events and images. This festival production is made possible by the shared beliefs, the information flow and by the ritual actions arranged in networks.
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Sandberg, Joakim. "The ethics of investing : Making money or making difference? /." Göteborg : Univ. of Gothenburg, 2008. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0805/2008422806.html.
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Cantone, Cleo. "The making and re-making of mosques in Senegal." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.440511.
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Wanderer, Emily Mannix. "Making biosecurity, making Mexico : an ethnography of biological invasion." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/93811.
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Thesis: Ph. D. in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society (HASTS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Science, Technology and Society, 2014.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-274).
This dissertation tracks what happens when biology, that is, both life forms and knowledge about them, becomes the object of security. While increasing global traffic has led to a greater degree of movement of people, animals, plants, and microbes, biosecurity measures are concerned with regulating circulation and seek to work against such possibly homogenizing forces by both documenting and maintaining the distinctiveness of life forms in different places. Through ethnographic research in Mexico, I track the social logics, scientific practices, and institutional forms that underwrite biosecurity in three areas: invasive species control, emerging infectious disease research, and the use of transgenic organisms. I examine how conservationists working in Mexican settings - particularly on islands - alternately protect or exterminate the various life forms they encounter; how microbiologists and immunologists studying infectious diseases in Mexico make claims about the relationships between environments, bodies, and viral ecologies; and how ecologists regulate the use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and turn them into bureaucratic objects. All these projects entail defining "native" life forms and establishing what is unique and valuable about Mexican biology. By bringing together this assortment of interlocutors and research sites I map how biosecurity projects establish the ways that a shared biological substantiality connects the nation and how human and non-human life forms are incorporated into political identities. Through these projects scientists produce knowledge about Mexican biology (including who or what is included or excluded in these populations). As this knowledge in turn informs political efforts to improve human and ecological health, biosecurity projects become ways in which science and the nation in Mexico are coconstituted. I address the production of biosecurity in two canonical places of science, the lab and the field, and I argue for the importance of a third scientific space, the office, a space where scientists engaged with bureaucratic processes and shaped the administration of Mexican ecosystems. Further, I argue that in Mexico biopolitics and biosecurity are no longer only about the regulation of human life, but have been extended beyond the human to encompass animal, plant, and microbial worlds. Mexican biopolitics have become multispecies projects.
by Emily Mannix Wanderer.
Ph. D. in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society (HASTS)
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Merrill, John Bryce. "Making it, not making it: Creating music in everyday life." Connect to online resource, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3337133.
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Mason, Miranda Eve. "Making love/making work : the sculpture practice of Sarah Bernhardt." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2007. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/4710/.
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The question this thesis asks is: What does it mean to make the statement 'Sarah Bernhardt, sculptor' based on a massive archive of text and image on one of the nineteenth and early twentieth century's most famous actresses whose sculpture practice has often been dismissed as the work of a part-time amateur? In undertaking to answer this question, I have focussed entirely on what was required for Bernhardt to become a sculptor, to be a sculptor, and to remain a sculptor from c. 1869 until her death in 1923. I examine all these forms of evidence, together with the works Bernhardt produced, under the terms of sculpture history, and not those of biography or visual culture analysis, the usual rubric under which Bernhardt is considered. As such, the thesis aims to distil a substantive analysis and history of one practice of sculpture in nineteenth-century France. The thesis is constructed by asking a series of seemingly simple questions: Did Bernhardt make work? Did she have a dedicated place in which to make work? How was she trained to make work? Did she exhibit and sell or otherwise distribute her work? These questions are answered by paying close attention, in turn, to: one work, the Bust if Louise Abbema (1878, musee d'Orsay, Paris); Bernhardt's studios and homes and the particular function these had as spaces of work and shared, creative and intimate same-sex SOciality; and Bernhardt's training and daily practice as a sculptor, her oeuvre, and exhibiting and sales strategies. Fundamental to Bernhardt's artistic practice was her relationship with the painter Louise Abbema. I consider how the making of Abbema's bust and the reciprocal character of these artists' relationship can be read for, and with, difference in a tripartite configuration of 'living, loving, and working'. The method I use, scholarly lesbian desire, is informed by feminist art history and theory, the social history of art, and queer studies. This method seeks to explore the archive with, and for, desire in an effort to find new ways to research and write that are at once historically and theoretically rigorous and acknowledge the important cultural contribution that 'lesbian' makes to the histories of art.
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Lenhard, Johannes Felix. "Making better lives : home making among homeless people in Paris." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/274609.
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How do homeless people make homes on the street? Over two years of fieldwork in Paris, I observed the daily practices and routines of people who are sleeping rough. How do they earn money through begging? What factors do they consider when finding and making shelters? I followed people through different institutional settings – a homeless day centre, a needle exchange, a centre for people with alcohol problems and ultimately also a homeless shelter – on their way away from the street always documenting the conflicts between their short term – drugs and alcohol – and long term hopes. I observed the ways which they were supported by assistants socials and other institutional actors in their struggle to create spaces of reflective freedom. I argue that their efforts were about home making and as such about making a better life first on and then away from the street.
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Byun, Kunjoon. "Bayesian Mind: Making Sense of Probability-Based Decision Making Strategies." W&M ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1477068454.
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Bayesian probability problems are notoriously difficult for people to solve accurately. Base rate neglect refers to the hypothesis that people ignore base rate information in preference for individuating information when making these probability judgments (Kahneman & Tversky, 1973). Correct answers to base rate neglect problems often require complex Bayesian calculations involving probability information embedded within realistic event descriptions. The past research emphasis on base rate neglect responses for such problems has overlooked the fact that responses can actually vary widely across participants and within participants from one problem to the next. The verbal protocol analyses of participants’ decision making processes found in the current study revealed that participants use a variety of cognitive strategies to solve such problems. The between-participant and within-participant variability can result from simple miscalculations to difficulties with translating probability statements into numerical calculations. This translation process can be further complicated by idiosyncratic subjective interpretations of the event descriptions and a basic misunderstanding of objective probability information. The results of the current study highlight that improving an individual’s Bayesian reasoning requires the instructional procedure to be tailored to their sources of difficulties, and that individual protocol analyses could help define these instructional procedures.
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Kalantari, Amir. "Making the movie." Thesis, University of Skövde, School of Humanities and Informatics, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-3868.
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Macintyre, Stuart Dunlop, and n/a. "Burglar decision Making." Griffith University. School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, 2001. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20050916.165104.
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This thesis examines how burglars select a target and carry out a crime. The four research questions addressed by the two studies conducted for this thesis are: 1. What are the processes used by burglars to select a target, break in, steal, and distribute the proceeds? 2. What are the crucial decision making cues used to select a target? 3. What is the impact of various cues, cue alternatives, cue order and combinations selected on target attractiveness in a controlled situation? 4. Does age or experience interact with the effect of any cues? The results furnish discussion and increase the understanding and prevention of break and enter (B&E). The research for this thesis was conducted in two studies. For Study One interviews were conducted with fifty persons who attend a methadone clinic. Participants were past heroin users who financed their drug use through the commission of break and enter. Semi-structured interviews were conducted that covered their drug use and criminal involvement. From these interviews a list of seventeen cues was developed - cue 1 (dog), cue 2 (lighting), cue 3 (alarm), cue 4 (occupancy - lights/tv/radio), cue 5 (occupancy - car in driveway), cue 6 (affluence), cue 7 (doors/windows), cue 8 (locks), cue 9 (garage), cue 10 (fence), cue 11 (garden), cue 12 (location), cue 13 (people in the street), cue 14 (neighbourhood watch), cue 15 (weather), cue 16 (inside information) and cue 17 (street type). Participants used these seventeen cues to determine the vulnerability of a target. For Study Two a computer program was developed, in which these seventeen cues were arranged in various combinations, across twenty case studies. The computer program allowed subjects to access as much information about a case study as they needed to make a decision about its attractiveness as a burglary target. A new sample of ninety-six burglars were asked to view the twenty case studies and give each target a rating from '0' (not a B&E opportunity) to '100' (a definite B&E opportunity). Over the twenty case studies, the subjects only accessed one third of the available information to make a decision. The lower the final rating for a ease study the fewer cues were selected. Subjects were quickly deterred if the first one or two selections revealed deterrent alternatives. In contrast, if the initial selections revealed attractive alternatives the subjects were hard to deter even if subsequent cue selections revealed only deterrent alternatives. Four cues - cue 1 (dog), cue 3 (alann), cue 13 (people in the street) and cue 16 (inside information) - accounted for 91.77% of all first selections. Six cues - cue 1 (dog), 3 (alarm), cue 4 (occupancy - lights/tv/radio), cue 5 (occupancy - car in driveway), cue 13 (people in the street) and cue 16 (inside information) - accounted for 67.8% of all selections made. Clearly these six cues are very important to offenders and they should be closely examined in any prevention initiative. Results revealed that on 282 Occasions subjects viewed only one cue then made their decision based on this one piece of information. The most common single cue was reliable inside information that there was a large amount of cash inside the house or when a good alarm was present. Decision trees were developed which graphically trace the selections of subjects and the ratings given after each selection. The trees showed that subjects reached different conclusions from the same case study because they could select different cues. The selection of different cues from the same case study led to great variation in subsequent cue selections. The decision trees confirmed the earlier finding that subjects are much harder to deter when the first one or two selections had attractive alternatives even if subsequent selections had deterrent alternatives. Results of linear regressions revealed that every cue was significant as predictor of final rating at least twice, however three cues - cue 3 (alarm), cue 12 (location) and cue 16 (inside information) - were significant as predictors ten or more times. The 96 subjects were divided into four groups on the basis of age (young and old) and experience (experienced and inexperienced). The young and inexperienced group used an average of 188.3 cues across the twenty case studies, whereas the older and experienced group used an average of 43.8 cues. Older and experienced subjects were harder to deter, compared to younger and inexperienced subjects. As experience increased fewer cues were needed to reach a decision. The results showed that the variation in final rating for each case study was explained by a few cues. For example, in case study 16 the Adjusted R Square with all seventeen factors entered was .945. With only six cues as predictors the Adjusted R Square reduced slightly to .939. This shows that although cues are mentioned in the literature and were selected by subjects in this study they were often ineffectual and did not assist in explaining the final rating. The two most effective prevention measures were the deterrent alternatives for cue 3 (alarm) and cue 4 (occupancy -lights/tv/radio). The two most influential attractive alternatives were for cue 12 (location; house is located on a corner block) and cue 16 (inside information; from a reliable source you are told there could be a large amount of cash kept in the house). Overall, the linear models with interactions showed that the inexperienced subjects' decision making was more volatile and fluctuated to a greater extent than the experienced subjects' decision making. When continually attractive infonnation was received the inexperienced subjects' ratings climbed higher than did the experienced subjects. When deterrent information was received the negative effect on the inexperienced subjects' ratings was greater than the effect on experienced subjects. Experience increases burglars' skills and abilities but it also improves their capacity to weigh up information in a more reasoned manner. The results revealed that experienced subjects have probably developed a level of skill to the extent that the deterrent alternatives for many cues have become ineffectual. The experienced subjects have developed strategies to overcome many deterrents. The decision making of the experienced subjects was clearly more sophisticated and considered. The main theoretical finding of this thesis is that research will only produce incomplete findings if it concentrates on place and situation to the neglect of the offender and the antecedents and attributes they bring to a crime. The influence of age and experience on decision making is of such consequence that it must be considered to maximise the prevention of crime. Age and experience have individual and combined influences on cue selection and interpretation.
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Leutenmayr, Stephan. "Liquid decision making." Diss., Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 2015. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-181737.
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In today’s business world, decisions have to be made on different levels, including strategic, tactical, and operational levels. Decisions on the strategic level are characterized by their complexity, longevity and impact. Such decisions can benefit from the participation of a large, diverse group of people as they contribute different background knowledge, perspectives, and evaluation criteria. Typically, such decisions need to be considered over a prolonged period of time as opinions may need to be formed or may change due to the availability of new information. The goal of people in group decision making situations is typically to achieve good decisions. A mechanism is thus desirable that is capable of addressing the aforementioned challenges and of producing a good decision. For this work, a decision is thought to be good if it is predominantly based on the sincere opinions of the participants.
In this thesis, we investigate the market metaphor as a promising approach for group decision making. Markets are attributed with the capability of gathering and aggregating assessments from people in a single indicator, the price. They allow for a continued participation over a prolonged time, reversibility of one’s market position by repeated trading, and the usage of individual evaluation criteria. For investigating the application of the market metaphor to decision making, we develop LDM, a market-based approach for group decision making. There, we represent a pending decision as a market and the decision options as stocks. Participants then buy shares of their favored stocks and sell shares of the stocks they dislike. High demand leads to price increase whereas low prices are the result of low demand. The most favored decision options can be identified from the ranking of the stocks according to their prices. To support the achievement of a good decision, we model the market behavior of participants, devise design principles, identify suitable application scenarios, and determine appropriate functionalities for a market software. We furthermore devise the concept of market perturbations for uncovering the trading intentions of participants.
We furthermore implement a web-based software prototype of LDM. It provides functionalities for decision making, market trading, user handling, information exchange, and market perturbations. Participants there trade their favored stocks using virtual play money. We test the LDM approach and its software prototype in an EU-funded project, in a lab study, in the selection of research proposals, and in a university seminar for scenario building.Entscheidungen müssen in Unternehmen auf unterschiedlichen Ebenen getroffen werden. Besonders strategische Entscheidungen sind oft komplex, langwierig und haben weitreichende Auswirkungen. Die Beteiligung einer großen, heterogenen Personengruppe kann solche Entscheidungen begünstigen, da sie unterschiedliches Hintergrundwissen sowie verschiedene Perspektiven und Bewertungskriterien beisteuern. Oft werden solche Entscheidungen über einen längeren Zeitraum getroffen, da die Beteiligten sich ihre Meinungen erst bilden müssen, oder diese sich durch neue Informationen ändern. Um dabei gute Entscheidungen zu treffen, sollte ein Ansatz dazu unter den geschilderten Umständen ein gutes Ergebnis liefern können. Als gutes Ergebnis wird in dieser Arbeit eine Entscheidung angesehen, die hauptsächlich auf der ehrlichen Meinung der Teilnehmer beruht. In dieser Arbeit untersuchen wir die Marktmetapher als vielversprechenden Ansatz für die Entscheidungsfindung. Märkten wird die Fähigkeit zugeschrieben, Informationen von verschiedenen Personen in einem einzigen Indikator, dem Preis, aggregieren zu können. Sie ermöglichen dabei eine kontinuierliche Teilnahme über einen längeren Zeitraum, eine Änderung der Meinung durch wiederholtes Handeln sowie die Anwendung von individuellen Bewertungskriterien. Für unsere Untersuchung entwickeln wir LDM, einen marktbasierten Ansatz für die Entscheidungsfindung in Gruppen. Eine anstehende Entscheidung wird darin als Markt repräsentiert und die Entscheidungsoptionen als Aktien. Die Teilnehmer kaufen Anteile ihrer favorisierten Aktien und verkaufen die Anderen mittels virtuellem Spielgeld. Eine hohe Nachfrage führt zu hohen Preisen, niedrige Nachfrage zu niedrigen Preisen. Aus der Rangfolge der Aktien nach ihren Preisen kann dann die bevorzugteste Entscheidungsoption identifiziert werden. Um eine gute Entscheidung mittels \acl{LDM} zu erreichen, erstellen wir ein Verhaltensmodell der Teilnehmer, Entwurfsprinzipien, geeignete Einsatzszenarien und geeignete Funktionalitäten für eine Software. Außerdem entwickeln wir das Konzept der Marktstörungen um Handelsintentionen der Teilnehmer in Erfahrung zu bringen. Diese Aspekte setzen wir in einer webbasierten Software um, die Funktionalitäten zur Entscheidungsfindung, zum Handeln, zur Nutzerverwaltung, zum Informationsaustausch und für Marktstörungen enthält. LDM sowie die Sofware testen wir erfolgreich in einem EU-Projekt, in einer Laborstudie, bei der Auswahl von Forschungsvorhaben und in einem Universitätsseminar zu Szenarioentwicklung.
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Vohra, Shalini. "Investor decision making." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.521574.
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The role of irrational or emotional factors in investor decision making has been well recognised (Thaler, 1999; Kahneman & Tversky, 1979; Shefrin & Statman, 1985). However, existing research fails to adequately take into account the role of corporate reputation. This thesis attempts to overcome this limitation and follows a two stage research design for the same. In the first and qualitative stage, the decision-making of groups of investors was observed by attending the monthly meetings of investment clubs as an observer. The reputation of the company was found to be the most prominent factor influencing decisions on the buying, selling and holding of shares. Prior work on such decisions has often examined investor regret (Shefrin & Statman, 1985; Kahneman & Tversky, 1979; Thaler, 1985). Consequently the second and quantitative stage of this work explores the relevance of corporate reputation to predicting investor regret, an issue that has not been tested previously. Factors identified as important for investor decision making were identified from prior work and the qualitative phase and used to construct a questionnaire administered to a convenience sample of individual investors. A model for predicting investor regret was developed using hierarchical multiple regression. Control measures included were investor's age and gender, risk taking and share price performance. Reputation was measured using a multidimensional brand personality scale. Measures of human personality were also included. Three dimensions of corporate reputation/brand personality agreeableness, enterprise and competence, were found to be significant in the prediction of investor regret. Of these Agreeableness (honest, trustworthy, supportive) had the strongest influence. Thus the significance of corporate reputation for investor decision making as suggested by the qualitative results was supported by the quantitative findings. Partial support was found for the relevance of human personality in predicting investor regret.
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Leitch, Deborah Starr. "Making visual noise." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2011. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4962.
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Focusing on the combination of multi-cultural and historical influences from my personal life experiences, my creations of odd juxtapositions of space, complex pattern and new iconography in my paintings, reveal more than merely a representational image to a viewer. Although my subjects may vary from the anonymous to media celebrity, it is their relationship to me that influences the creation of my static animation and visual noise.ID: 029808799; System requirements: World Wide Web browser and PDF reader.; Mode of access: World Wide Web.; Error in paging: p. 7 repeats.; Thesis (M.F.A.)--University of Central Florida, 2011.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 20).
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Gates, Carly. "Without Making Landfall." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2004. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/429.
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This item is only available in print in the UCF Libraries. If this is your Honors Thesis, you can help us make it available online for use by researchers around the world by following the instructions on the distribution consent form at http://library.ucf.edu/Systems/DigitalInitiatives/DigitalCollections/InternetDistributionConsentAgreementForm.pdf You may also contact the project coordinator, Kerri Bottorff, at kerri.bottorff@ucf.edu for more information.Bachelors
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Lovett, Andrew. "Making musical narratives." Thesis, City University London, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.266300.
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Raven, Paul Graham. "Making infrastructure legible." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2018. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/22772/.
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This thesis represents the development and pilot application of a novel methodology for the speculative qualitative assessment (or "prototyping") of new infrastructural systems. Its core aim and guiding principle is to make infrastructure legible: to reveal and narrate its role in everyday life from a more human perspective than that of the paradigmatic technology-focussed approach. Or, more simply, the project aims to understand how infrastructures develop, how they evolve and entangle over time. The methodology is centred on a novel model of sociotechnical change, known as the infrastructural trialectic. The trialectic makes a unique relational distinction between infrastructural systems and the technologies through which infrastructural functions are accessed, traces vectors of influence between focal actors in the model, and provides a framework for mapping the articulatory institutions which are enrolled in the formation and mutation of infrastructural assemblages. The methodology has two modes of application: the historical mode, and the speculative. In the historical mode, the trialectic model becomes the lens of a situated longue duree analysis which explores the historical dynamics of sociotechnical change in the assemblages underpinning a particular everyday practice. In the speculative mode, the findings from the historical mode are used as the basis for an extrapolative and speculative analysis of a novel technological intervention into the practice previously analysed. Drawing on techniques from strategic foresight and critical design, the prospective technology is "prototyped" against the context of a suite of four divergent near-future scenarios, so as to "stress test" the plausibility of its deployment under difficult circumstances. This thesis presents and applies a novel model of sociotechnical change, and in doing so demonstrates that the shortcomings of paradigmatic models of change might be addressed through such an approach. It further demonstrates a unique hybrid method for the assessment and critique of new technologies and practices alike, which provides a more human perspective upon infrastructure (and indeed upon change itself) than prevailing approaches to assessment.
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Albin-Lackey, Christopher. "Making TANF work." Thesis, Boston University, 1998. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/27573.
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Boston University. University Professors Program Senior theses.PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.
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Alfaras, Espinàs Miquel. "Making Biosignals Available." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Jaume I, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.6035/14101.2021.763912.
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This thesis is an invitation to rethink how simplistic approaches to biosignal
processing enrich the potential of personal sensing in line with the fast development
of what have come to be undeniably ubiquitous technologies. Moreover, the
aim of taking signal processing, biomedical engineering techniques and machine
learning, “Making biosensing available” to design with, is at the core of the thesis.
Entering interaction design, pushing for mid tools that expose the affordances
of the technologies used, embracing first-person and body-centred design and
addressing how biosignal data touches sense-making, ownership and interpretation,
a disruption that makes society reflect on how sociodigital materials affect
our lives is sought.Esta tesis es una invitación a repensar cómo ciertos abordajes simplistas en procesamiento de bioseñales enriquecen el potencial de los sensores personales, en línea con el rápido desarrollo de lo que han acabado por ser tecnologías innegablemente ubicuas. Más allá de ello, el objetivo de combinar el procesamiento de señales, las técnicas de la ingeniería biomédica y aprendizaje automático, para hacer que los biosensores estén disponibles” para diseñar con ellos, constituye el núcleo central de esta tesis. Abordando el diseño de interacciones, apostando por herramientas intermedias que expongan las potencialidades de las tecnologías utilizadas, abrazando el diseño en primera-persona y centrado en el cuerpo, y analizando cómo los datos de bioseñales tienen un impacto en la construcción de significado, su posesión e interpretación, se busca una disrupción que haga a nuestra sociedad reflexionar sobre cómo los materiales sociodigitales afectan a nuestras vidas.
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King, Kathleen M. "Making diagnosis explicit." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/30357.
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What is good diagnostic practice? The answer is elusive for many medical students and equally puzzling for those trying to build effective medical decision support systems. Much of the problem lies in the difficulty of 'getting at' diagnosis. Expert diagnosticians find it difficult to introspect on their own strategies, thus making it difficult to pass on their expertise. Traditional knowledge acquisition methods are designed for gathering static domain knowledge and are inappropriate for the acquisition of knowledge about the diagnostic 'task'. More advanced knowledge acquisition methodologies, particularly those which focus on the modelling of problem-solving knowledge seem to hold more promise, but are not sufficiently practicable to allow anyone other than a knowledge engineer to operate directly. Given the difficulty experts have in accessing their own diagnostic strategies, what is needed is a tool which would enable diagnosticians themselves to directly formulate and experiment with their own methods of diagnosis. This research describes the development of a knowledge acquisition methodology geared specifically towards the exposition of medical diagnosis. The methodology is implemented as a toolkit enabling exploration and construction of medical diagnostic models and production of model-based medical diagnostic support systems. The toolkit allows someone skilled in diagnosis to articulate their diagnostic strategy so that it can be used by those with less experience.
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Tripp, Sarah. "Making people up." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/22044.
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This thesis is a process of writing characters using a cyclical methodology to turn the writer into a reader of their own work, then back into a writer again. The components of this thesis both practice and propose writing as research and develop a concept of character that is ‘relational’. Taking Donald Barthelme’s assertion, ‘Writing is a process of dealing with not-knowing, a forcing of what and how,’ this thesis is attentive to the uncertainty of process: a process that has accreted knowledge in the form of characters and methods. Making People Up is chronologically structured in order to make visible how its form was discovered through practice. The first component is a book of character studies You are of vital importance written in the first year of the PhD. This is followed by a reflective manuscript of essays which use a method of redescription to render a generative moment between the completion of one book and the beginning of the next. The third component is a second book Social Script which is a character study and a conclusion to the thesis. Building on Adam Phillips’ assertion, ‘Being misrepresented is simply being presented with a version of ourselves – an invention – that we cannot agree with. But we are daunted by other people making us up, by the number of people we seem to be,’ this thesis starts from the premise that in the everyday we make each other up and then goes on to use the form of the character study to explore unresolvable tensions around this process. Building four parallel propositions: that character is fiction; that a relational concept of character is a critique of the extent to which we can know each other; that constituting the writer as a reader of their own characters renders a generative moment and critical reflection; that oscillating the proximity to and distance from a character provokes you, the reader, to imagine character as a relationally contingent concept. The thesis will draw on key concepts by Christopher Bollas and Adam Phillips, literary discourse on character, reader-response criticism and a selection of literary and artistic works that have informed this process of writing characters. Research Questions: 1. Does a relational concept of character critique claims to ‘know’ each other? 2. Does replacing interpretation with redescription make a reflective methodology critical and generative? 3. What kind of narrative structure will constitute a ‘relational’ character study?
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Ходцева, Алла Олександрівна, Алла Александровна Ходцева, and Alla Oleksandrivna Khodtseva. "Ethical Decision Making." Thesis, TESOL Ukraine, 2000. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/63589.
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Einstein, Eric Michael. "Knowledge Through Making." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/51547.
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Perhaps the quintessential project for an architect is the design of a house. This thesis takes the approach of designing a house by way of a unique construction method. Influenced by the strickbau, or woven wood, method of stacking timber most commonly seen in the Swiss chalet, the project explores materials and details to address the limitations of the strickbau method of construction. The centerpiece of the project is a robust model, which acts as an analogue to the actual construction method.Master of Architecture
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Ericsson, Malin, and Mia Paleka. "Making the story." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23424.
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Organisatoriskt inkluderingsarbeteMaking the storyMalin Ericsson, Mia PalekaBaserat på åtta semistrukturerade intervjuer har vi studerat hur ett större företag i finanssektorn pratar om och förhåller sig till mångfald och det lokala inkluderingsarbetet. Syftet med studien är därför att, med utgångspunkt i teoretiska begrepp som mångfald, inkludering, översättning, sensemaking och storytelling, beskriva och förstå förhållandet mellan ideologi (hur mångfaldsarbete presenteras) och praktik (hur mångfaldsarbete bedrivs). Analysen utmynnade i tre teman: Det paralogiska; bygga broar; viskningar. Vår slutsats är att det finns en särkoppling mellan vad man säger och vad man gör. Mångfaldsarbetet redigeras för att passa in i en rådande praktik och att inkluderingsarbetet framförallt har ett betydelsefullt symboliskt värde. När vi vänder blicken bort från talet om till vårt företag vars praktik vi studerat, ser vi en särkoppling mellan vad som sägs och vad som görs.Nyckelord: Inkludering; Hierarkier; Mångfald; Normativ styrning; Sensemaking; Storytelling; Översättning
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Strong, Richard R. "Making It Work." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1208112362.
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Cloud, Joshua D. "Making with Caution." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1306780837.
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Tagseth, Martin Edward. "Experience in making." The Ohio State University, 1994. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1316621106.
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Paquin, Garth William. "Thinking Through Making." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1242781351.
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Derry, Sean Michael. "Homofaber: Making Meaning." The Ohio State University, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392050357.
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Reese, Peter. "Maker making made." The Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1400144213.
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Miller-Fellows, Sarah. "Making Medicine Amish." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1548435040090677.
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Marquardt, Vincent. "Architecture: the making." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/52102.
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Significance in how the building is made. To celebrate the materiality, the making, of Building is to give it significance, meaning. To make Building a meaningful work there needs to be an inherent structure, order, to the work. This order must be revealed and strengthened through harmony, articulation, and rhythm.Master of Architecture
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Casey, Kathleen. "Noise making subjects /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3170240.
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Andersen, Kristina. "Making Magic Machines." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Medieteknik och interaktionsdesign, MID, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-214017.
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How can we design experiences that explore ideas and notions of the unknown? The aim of the work outlined here is to create short, intense, workshop-like experiences that generate strong commitments, and expose underlying personal desires as drivers for new ideas. I would like to propose a material practice, which uses open-ended making to engage in the imagination of new things. Informed by a concern or a longing, this exploration employs familiar yet mundane materials - such as candy and cardboard - through which several planes collide: the possible, the unknown, the feared and the desired. The process is aimed at allowing a broad range of knowledge to materialise - through ways that are less normative, and less constrained by commercial and technological concerns, and to emerge instead as far-fetched ideas that offer a kind of knowledge, which belongs to no one. The format has evolved over time, from relatively elaborate workshops for technology prototyping, towards the point where they are now focussed on the making of work that is about technology, rather than of technology.Hur kan vi iscensätta upplevelser som tillåter oss att utforska och skapa idéer för det som vi ännu inte vet något om? Genom att engagera deltagare i korta, intensiva, workshop-liknande upplevelser har jag lyckats få dem att öppna sig, uttrycka personliga drivkrafter och önskemål, vilket i sin tur gör det möjligt för dem att skapa helt nya designkoncept. Mitt bidrag är en ny materiell praktik där skapande-processen görs öppen och därmed låter deltagarna fantisera fram helt nya möjliga saker. Praktiken är grundad i deltagarnas djupt kända personliga drivkrafter och önskemål, men vi ber dem uttrycka dem i prosaiska fysiska material - såsom godis eller kartong - där motsatsförhållandet mellan dessa båda leder till att olika synsätt kan komma till ytan och ställas mot varandra: det möjliga, det okända, det fruktade och det önskade. Praktiken öppnar för att ge ett brett spektrum av kunskap fysisk form - och då vi gör det på ett icke-normativt sätt, där vi undviker att begränsas av kommersiella eller tekniska förutsättningar, skapar vi en grund för att få fram idéer bortom de självklara - idéer som egentligen inte tillhör någon av oss och samtidigt alla. Formatet har utvecklats över en lång tidsrymd, från workshops där vi skapade prototyper i tekniska material, till den form de har idag som fokuserar på att uttrycka idéer om teknik snarare än i teknik.
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