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Cecchinato, Marta E. "Communicating in a multi-role, multi-device, multi-channel world : how knowledge workers manage work-home boundaries". Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2018. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10051253/.
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Technology keeps us connected through multiple devices, on several communication channels, and with our many daily roles. Being able to better manage one’s availability and thus have more control over work-home boundaries can potentially reduce interferences and ultimately stress. However, little is known about the practical implications of communication technologies and their role in boundary and availability management. Taking a bottom-up approach, we conducted four exploratory qualitative studies to understand how current communication technologies support and challenge work-home boundaries for knowledge workers. First, we compared email practices across accounts and devices, finding differences based on professional and personal preferences. Secondly, with wearables such as smartwatches becoming more popular, findings from our autoethnography and interview study show how device ecologies can be used to moderate notifications and one’s sense of availability. Thirdly, moving beyond just email to include multiple communication channels, our diary study and focus group showed how awareness and availability are managed and interpreted differently between senders and receivers. Together, these studies portray how current communication technologies challenge boundary management and how users rely on strategies – that we define as microboundaries – to mitigate boundary cross-overs, boundary interruptions, and expectations of availability. Finally, to understand the extent to which microboundaries can be useful boundary management strategies, we took a multiple-case study approach to evaluate how they are used over time and found that, although context-dependent, microboundaries help increase participants’ boundary control and reduce stress. This thesis’ primary contribution is a taxonomy of microboundary strategies that deepens our current understanding of boundary management in the digital age. By feeling in control, users experience fewer unwanted boundary cross-overs and ultimately feel less stressed. This work leads to our secondary contribution to individual and organisational practice. Finally, we draw a set of implications for the design of interactions and cross-device experiences.
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Stoltenow, Petersen Kelsi K. "YouTube beauty vlogs: How social media blurs social boundaries". The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1523368597591707.
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Radley, Diane. "Redefining boundaries". Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2005. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-12072005-141431.
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O’Sullivan, Alan. "Commercializing complex products : conflict, cooperation, and communication across multiple boundaries". Thesis, McGill University, 2000. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=121007.
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This study examines the impact of technological complexity on the commercialization objectives of cost, time to market, and rate of new product introductions in the jet aircraft industry. It shows how technological complexity interacts with other dimensions of the technology, namely maturity and a high need for reliability, to generate distinctive product-development challenges. The study also shows how one firm - the lead firm - has overcome the challenges posed by these three technological characteristics through managing a decentralized design-build network composed of suppliers who have significant levels of design responsibility.Cette étude examine, pour l'industrie des avions à réaction, l'impact de la complexité technologique sur les objectifs de commercialisation que sont le coût de production, le temps requis pour atteindre le marché, et la fréquence d'introduction de nouveaux produits. Elle démontre comment la complexité interagit avec d'autres dimensions de la technologie, notamment la maturité et le grand besoin de fiabilité, pour créer des défis de développement de produits particuliers. Cette étude démontre aussi comment une comment une entreprise leader a réussi à relever ces trois défis technologiques par la gestion d'un réseau décentralisé de conception-développement-production composé de fournisseurs qui ont une responsabilité importante au niveau de la conception et du développement.
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Tyrawski, Jennifer. "Expanding the Boundaries of Effective Social Support: Advancing the Narrative Support Model". The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1436441855.
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Taylor, Damon. "Design art furniture and the boundaries of function : communicative objects, performative things". Thesis, University of the Arts London, 2011. http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/5658/.
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Over the last two decades a category of artefact has appeared that has come to be termed 'design art': highly expressive furniture and domestic products that are created as self-initiated, often limited edition designs, sold through galleries, exhibited in museums and collected in the manner traditionally ascribed to art. To date no in-depth theoretical analysis of the growth of such design has been conducted and key protagonists such as Droog Design have received little critical attention, as those involved have been largely left to write their own history. Consequently, the aim of this thesis is to account for the development of these objects as the products of particular cultural and historical conditions and ask what the implications of the rise of these particular practices of making, distribution and use may be. This thesis proposes that close analysis of the objects, their form and functional potential, reveals their dialectical qualities, in that in their materiality the tensions and conflicts of the period of their development can be discerned. Through an account of the development of the market for such goods it examines the way in which these things can be studied as commodities, in that they can clearly be understood as status symbols or a form of cultural capital. It is also asserted that by regarding such design as having the potential to impact upon everyday life, and not just as existing as something to be consumed by an elite, such practices illuminate broader problems of the ethics of design in a wider sense. In this way it is argued that these communicative objects, in their ambiguous form and problematic relationship to function, can give an insight into the way we live with performative things: the ideological products of modernity that act upon us as we use them and which contain in their being the protocols and disciplinary forces of their time. The intention therefore is to ask whether design art can be seen as a politically radical practice that suggests ways in which both makers and users can assert a new relationship to the things with which we live.
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Williams, Charles Henry. "Challenging the boundaries of academic discourse". CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2000. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1835.
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This thesis suggests other ways of helping students resist blind submission to the discourse of the university. The primary objective is to discuss meaningful ways of transforming composition classrooms into counter hegemonic cultural environments where students can critically examine the complications of cultural dynamics and power relations within the communication process.
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Kaufmann, Renee Monique. "TEACHER DISCLOSURE: DEVELOPING PRIVACY RULES, MANAGING BOUNDARIES AND BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS". UKnowledge, 2011. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/gradschool_theses/154.
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The roles and responsibilities of middle school teachers are never ending. From instructing students on state-mandated curriculum to the enrichment of character and inquiry, teachers make daily decisions about how and what to disclose to their students. The current study reexamines Hosek and Thompson’s (2009) study on how teachers develop privacy rules and coordinate boundaries using Petronio’s Communication Privacy Management as the theoretical framework. Studying middle school teachers, in lieu of college instructors, allows for a better understanding of how privacy rules and boundaries are constructed and used within the middle school. This provides a better understanding of the important factors that influence teachers’ communicative decision making within the classroom.
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Norton, Aaron Michael. "Internet boundaries for social networking: impact of trust and satisfaction". Thesis, Kansas State University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/13163.
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Master of ScienceFamily Studies and Human Services
Joyce Baptist
The present study examined whether married individuals hold boundaries for online social networking and the relationship between these boundaries and relational trust and satisfaction. Participants included 205 married individuals who had been married for an average of 27 years. Five specific boundaries were identified and tested using group comparison (by sex) structural equation modeling. Confirmatory factor analysis revealed two latent constructs for internet boundaries: Openness (3 items: Know Friends, Share Passwords and Account Access) and Fidelity (2 items: No Flirting and No Former Partners). Findings suggest that couples in long-term committed relationships have boundaries or rules for social networking. Furthermore, trusting one’s partner, but not relationship satisfaction, contributes to behaviors that reflect sharing online social networking information, and curb online flirting and relationships with former romantic partners. Trust was more strongly associated with men’s than women’s motivation to avoid flirtatious online interaction and communicating with former romantic partners online. These findings that indicate that the use of internet boundaries is highly related to marital trust support the development theory of trust.
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Wojno, Abbey E. "Voluntary Vulnerabilities: Relationships and Risk in a Volunteer-based Organization". Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1311965999.
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Hallak, Mahmoud Essam. "Beyond boundaries a philosophical mapping of the pre-modern city of the Levant /". Thesis, McGill University, 2010. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:8881/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=92233.
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Norton, Aaron Michael. "Technology mediated communication in intimate relationships". Diss., Kansas State University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/18126.
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Doctor of PhilosophyDepartment of Family Studies and Human Services
Joyce Baptist
Very little research has been conducted to understand how the technology revolution has changed and impacted couple relationships. The proposed study examined the impact of technology on couples in committed relationships through the lens of the couple and technology framework. Specifically, this study used data from 2,826 European couples to examine associations between online boundary crossing, online intrusion, relationship satisfaction, and partner responsiveness. The results suggest that when participants’ reported that their partner checked up on their online activities more frequently that this was linked with lower scores on relationship satisfaction and partner responsiveness. Also, decreased scores for relationship satisfaction and partner responsiveness were associated with increased acceptance for their partner using the Internet to talk with someone attractive about everyday life or pop culture, personal information, and relationship troubles or concerns. Lastly, the results suggest that men, but not women, who reported greater acceptability for online boundary crossing were more likely to have partners who reported lower relationship satisfaction in their relationships. Implications for clinicians, relationship educators, and researchers are discussed.
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Ren, Yi. "Knowledge Translation Across Boundaries: Converting Scholarly Knowledge to Research Highlights for Management Practitioners". Thesis, Boston College, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:108639.
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Thesis advisor: Jean M. BartunekThis dissertation examines the knowledge translation from one professional community to another that has distinct priorities, values, and commutation styles: management academia to practice. More specifically, I examined knowledge translation in the form of converting peer-reviewed management research papers into practitioner-oriented research highlights. Drawing from archival and interview data, I conducted three interrelated empirical studies to investigate this phenomenon. In the first study, using the framework of Gatekeeping Theory (Lewin, 1947; Shoemaker, 1991), I examine the process and norms of how knowledge translators select from the vast amount of management research and decide which ones deserve to be translated toward practitioners. In the second study, I build on Communication Accommodation Theory (Giles, Coupland, & Coupland, 1991) to examine the processes, underlying motivations, and translation strategies of how knowledge translators conduct the knowledge conversion, especially how they manage the often conflicting demands between source knowledge producers and recipients of translated knowledge. In the third study, drawing on insights from the cross-cultural psychology literature, I examine how knowledge translators’ strategies may differ systematically when they write in two different languages toward audiences in two different cultures. This dissertation contributes to the knowledge translation literature, the academic-practitioner knowledge transfer literature, and the communication literature with insights on the micro-processes and strategies underlying knowledge translation, the generative tensions in this multi-party process, and the perceptions of and relationships between the academic and practitioner communities
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2019
Submitted to: Boston College. Carroll School of Management
Discipline: Management and Organization
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Gayle, Lauren. ""I don't hookup, I never have, but my friends, they all do": Transgressing the boundaries of college hookup culture". Kent State University Honors College / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1494156874313028.
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McKinney, Elizabeth G. "Rhetorical Technical Communication: Exploring the Gaps, Connections, and New Boundaries Between the Fields Through an Analysis of Instruction Manuals". University of Findlay / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=findlay148188814788489.
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Simmons, Nathaniel. "Negotiating Boundaries in a Globalized World: Communication Privacy Management between Foreign English Teachers and Japanese Co-workers in Japan". Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1400259896.
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Lundberg, Niklas. "How is information and knowledge communicated? : A case study on communication within and across software-provisioning team boundaries". Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för informatik, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-105089.
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Today it has become standard for organizations to rely on self-serving teams to make decisions since they are believed to provide access to bigger pools of information and knowledge than individual managers. However, while a lot of research has been focusing on how to improve information and knowledge sharing in teams to better promote the making of deliverables, not much has been said about how self-serving teams actually communicate information and knowledge. In this thesis a qualitative study was conducted with seven members of a software-provisioning team to, with particular focus on using IT when communicating, investigate how information and knowledge is communicated within and across team boundaries. Findings in this thesis suggest that there is a tension between information and knowledge sharing in teams. While the formalization of technological channels might facilitate effective information sharing in teams, it could have negative effects on knowledge sharing.
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Henderson, Janie D. "Welcome to Facebook: Changing The Boundaries of Identity, Community And Disclosure". Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1218680716.
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Boulu-Reshef, Béatrice. "Identity, Cooperation and the Boundaries of the Firm". Thesis, Lyon 2, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011LYO22023.
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Cette thèse développe la théorie de l'identité en économie en utilisant les frontières de la firme pour étudier l'effet de l'identification à la firme sur la coopération intrafirme. Nous nous appuyions sur la définition de l'identité personnelle de John B. Davis et proposons un cadre théorique qui conceptualise la relation entre l'identité et la coopération. Dans ce cadre, l'identité personnelle est le produit du management des identités sociales qu'un individu développe et maintient au travers d'effort d'investissement dans ces identités. Nous utilisons les frontières de la firme pour distinguer les identités sociales qui sont liées à l'entreprise de celles qui ne le sont pas. Nous testons les prédictions théoriques avec des expérimentations de terrain dans de vraies firmes et avec leurs employés, et nous contrôlons l'effet des différents degrés d'affiliation à la firme, notamment en étudiant la coopération entre individus de deux firmes appartenant au même groupe. En cohérence avec la théorie, nous trouvons que l'affiliation à la firme a un impact positif et progressif sur la coopération dans un jeu de contributions volontaires. De plus, une plus grande distance sociale entre les individus implique moins de coopération. Notre stratégie théorique et expérimentale permet de surmonter les nombreuses critiques des approches en termes d'identité sociale. Elle rend compte de l'hétérogénéité des stratégies individuelles dans la gestion des identités sociales, l'impact des institutions sur le comportement individuel et la coopération intrafirme. L'identité personnelle ajoute à l'étude traditionnelle de l'identification à la firme les questions de l'individuation et de l'effet des identités sociales multiples. Nous identifions la structure de cette nouvelle approche du lien entre la cognition et la motivation dans la firme. Nous expliquons comment les questions de cette théorie étendue de l'identité sont liées aux questions centrales de la nature de la firme, de l'organisation interne et des frontières de la firme. Nous analysons les implications de l'inclusion de l'analyse de l'individuation et d’identités sociales multiples sur l'analyse de la coopération. Nous étudions également les effets de l'apprentissage et de la culture d'entreprise sur les stratégies identitaires dans la firmeThis thesis develops the current theory on identity in economics to study the effect of individuals' identification with the firm on intrafirm cooperation by using the boundaries of the firm. We rely on the definition of personal identity given by John B. Davis to develop a theoretical framework that conceptualizes the relationship between identity and cooperation. In that framework, personal identity is the product of the management of the social identities that an individual develops and maintains through investment efforts in those social identities. We exploit firm boundaries to identify how social identities that are related to the firm can be distinguished from those that are not. We test the theoretical predictions by using framed field experiments involving real firms their employees, and we control the effect of different degrees of firm affiliation, notably by studying cooperation between individuals of two firms which are part of the same corporate group. We find that, consistent with theory, affiliation to firms has a positive and gradual impact on cooperation in voluntary contributions mechanism experiments. In addition, higher social distance among individuals implies less cooperation. Our theoretical and experimental strategy overcomes the numerous critiques of social identity approaches. It accounts for the heterogeneity of individual strategies as regards the management of their social identities, the impact of institutions on individual behavior as well as intrafirm cooperation. Personal identity adds to the traditional study of identification with the firm the questions of individuation and of the effect of multiple social identities. We identify the structure of this new approach to the link between cognition and motivation in the firm. We explain how the questions of this extended theory of identity are related to the central questions of the nature of the firm, of internal organization and of the boundaries of the firm. We analyze the implications of the inclusion of the analysis of individuation and multiple social identities concerning cooperation. We also study the effect of learning and corporate culture on identity strategies
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Elangovan, Saravanan, e Andrew Stuart. "Natural Boundaries in Gap Detection are Related to Categorical Perception of Stop Consonants". Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2008. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1554.
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Objectives: The hypothesis that a natural auditory psychophysical discontinuity contributes to a perceptual category boundary between voiced and voiceless English stop consonants was examined.
Design: The relationships between voice onset time (VOT) phonetic boundary and gap-detection thresholds for conditions in which the sounds delimiting the gap were acoustically identical or different were examined in 18 native young adult English speakers. It was specifically hypothesized that between-channel gap-detection thresholds, in contrast to within-channel gap thresholds, would be better predictors of categorical VOT values for listeners. The stimuli used in the between-channel gap-detection task were designed such that dissimilar leading and trailing markers of the gap approximated a stop burst and a following vowel, both in terms of temporal and spectral relationships, while being devoid of phonetic identity. The stimuli used to examine the VOT measure were synthesized bilabial stop syllables in a continuum ranging from /ba/ to /pa/.
Results: Statistically significant larger gap thresholds were found for the between-channel conditions than for the within-channel condition (p < 0.05). The center frequency of the trailing marker affected the between-channel gap thresholds with the thresholds improving as the center frequency increased (p < 0.05). Statistically significant positive correlations and predictive linear relations were found between VOT phonetic boundaries and between-channel gap thresholds (p < 0.05) but not within-channel gap thresholds (p > 0.05).
Conclusions: A relationship between the phonetic boundary of voiced–voiceless speech sounds and the auditory temporal resolution task of detecting gaps placed within dissimilar markers, regardless of the center frequency of the trailing marker noise burst, was demonstrated. Detection of gaps between different nonspeech acoustic markers and categorical perception of VOT seems to share the same underlying perceptual timing mechanisms in native English speakers.
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Yardi, Sarita Ann. "Social media at the boundaries: supporting parents in managing youth's social media use". Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/45746.
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This dissertation investigates ways of supporting parents in managing youth's social media use. I present empirical evidence of the challenges parents face in managing youth technology use. I then translate these results into the design and deployment of ParentNet, a community-based online social network for middle school parents to keep up with changes in technology. This dissertation provides new insights into the opportunities and challenges in conducting HCC research with a particular demographic, parents and youth. The contributions of this research are: (1) empirical studies of challenges parents face in managing youth technology use; (2) the design and deployment of a community-based online social network called ParentNet; (3) limitations and design considerations for deploying technological interventions for different social groups; and (4) reflection on emerging themes around overuse and disconnection in daily life.
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Wang, Qinqin. "The Understanding of Absolute Right to Freedom of Expression in the Case of Hate Speech". Scholar Commons, 2018. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7240.
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The purpose of this paper is to explore whether there is an absolute right to freedom of expression with regard to hate speech, and more specifically, whether tolerance should be exercised toward speech even in circumstances where this speech presents a clear and present danger to the public. The author will use legal research methods to analyze this question. The paper will delve into four major Supreme Court cases in the case of hate speech, as well as the decision by the Virginia Court that allowed the rally in Charlottesville which ended with the death of 32-year old woman. The aim is to determine how the Supreme Court has looked at hateful expression over the years and the status of hate speech in America today. The four major cases are Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969), National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie (1977), R.A.V v. City of St. Paul (1992), and Virginia v. Black (2003). Although the case of Kessler v. Charlottesville (2017) is not a Supreme Court case, its significance in relation to the right to freedom of expression is no less than those precedent four cases. This incident and related legal cases bring the concerns about hate speech and the constitutional right to freedom of expression directly into the public discourse.
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Heap, Marion. "Crossing social boundaries and dispersing social identity : tracing deaf networks from Cape Town". Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/53339.
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Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2003.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The conciliatory discourse of the South African Deaf social movement claims a commonality across South Africa's historical divides on the basis of a 'Deaf culture'. This claim in view of South Africa's deeply entrenched 'racial' divisions triggered this study. The study investigates the construction of Deaf identity and emphasizes the crossing of social boundaries in Cape Town, a society with a long history of discriminatory boundaries based on race. The study was carried out among adults who became deaf as children, the group for whom deafness, commonly viewed as both sensory and social deficit, is said to pose considerable linguistic, social and cultural challenges. It focused on strategies that deal with being deaf in a predominantly hearing world. To identify strategies, for this population without a geographical base, the study traced networks of social relationships. Fieldwork was carried out from September 1995 to December 2001. Between September 1995 and December 1997 research included systematic participant observation and informal interviews. Between January 1998 and December 2001 , continuing with participant observation and informal interviews, the study added formal interviews with a sample population of 94 deaf people across Cape Town, collected by the snowball method. The profile of this sample shows a relatively heterogeneous population on the basis of demographic factors and residential area but similarity on the basis of first language, Sign. The study demonstrates that history imposed boundaries. It categorized the Deaf as different from the hearing and in addition, in South Africa, produced further differentiation on the basis of apartheid category, age, Deaf school attended, method of education and spoken language. In this historical context the study identified a key strategy, 'Signing spaces'. A Signing space, identifiable on the basis of Sign-based communication, is a set of networks that extends from the deaf individual to include deaf and hearing people. On analysis it comprises a Sign-hear and a Sign-Q.e.gfspace. In Sign-~ networks, hearing people predominate. Relationships are domestic and near neighbourhood. In Sign-~ networks, deaf people predominate. Relationships are sociable and marked by familiarity. The study found that via the Signing space, the Deaf subvert deafness as deficit to recoup a social identity that is multi-faceted and dispersed across context. Boundaries crossed also vary by context and by networks. Sign-~ networks address the hearing boundary. Limits could be identified in the public arena, when barriers to communication and a poor supply of professional Sign language interpreters again rendered deafness as deficit. The boundaries of the Sign-deaf networks were difficult to determine and suggest the potential, facilitated by Sign language, to transcend South Africa's spoken languages and the related historical divisions. Sign-~ networks also suggest the additional potential, in sociable contexts, to transcend spoken language, trans-nationally. But mutual intelligibility of Sign language and the familiarity, communality and commonality it offered did not deny an awareness of historical differentiation and discrimination, as a case of leadership succession presented as a 'social drama' shows. However, the process of the 'social drama' also demonstrates that conflict, crises, and a discourse that reflects South Africa's historical divisions need not threaten a broader commonality.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die oorsteek van maatskaplike grense en verbreiding van maatskaplike identiteit: die nagaan van netwerke vir Dowes van Kaapstad Die bemiddelende diskoers van die Suid-Afrikaanse maatskaplike beweging vir Dowes maak op grond van 'n 'Dowe kultuur' aanspraak op 'n algemeenheid wat oor Suid-Afrika se geskiedkundige verdeeldhede heen strek. Hierdie aanspraak het, in die lig van Suid- Afrika se diepgewortelde 'rasseverdelings' , tot hierdie navorsing aanleiding gegee. Die navorsing ondersoek die vorming van 'n Dowe identiteit en beklemtoon die oorsteek van maatskaplike grense in Kaapstad, 'n gemeenskap met 'n lang verlede van diskriminerende grense wat op ras gebaseer is. Die navorsing is gedoen onder volwassenes wat as kinders doof geword het. Vir hierdie groep, waar dit gewoonlik as 'n sensoriese en sosiale gebrek beskou word, hou doofheid aansienlike linguistiese, sosiale en kulturele uitdagings in. Die navorsing fokus op strategieë wat te make het met doof wees in 'n oorheersend horende wêreld. Om vir hierdie bevolking sonder 'n geografiese basis strategieë te identifiseer, het die navorsing maatskaplike verhoudingsnetwerke nagegaan. Veldwerk is tussen September 1995 en Desember 2001 gedoen. Tussen September 1995 en Desember 1997 het die navorsing stelselmatige waarneming van die deelnemers en informele onderhoude met hulle behels. Hierdie waarneming en informele onderhoude is tussen Januarie 1998 en Desember 2001 voortgesit, maar die navorsing het nou ook formele onderhoude met 'n steekproefbevolking van 94 dowe mense van regoor Kaapstad ingesluit. Hiervoor is van die sneeubalmetode gebruik gemaak. Die profiel van hierdie steekproef toon 'n relatief heterogene bevolking op grond van demografiese faktore en woongebied, maar ooreenkoms op grond van eerste taal, naamlik Gebaretaal. Die navorsing toon aan dat grense deur die geskiedenis opgelê is. Dit het Dowes as verskillend van horendes gekategoriseer, en het daardeur in Suid-Afrika tot verdere differensiasie op grond van die apartheidskategorie, ouderdom, watter doweskool bygewoon is, wyse van onderrig en gesproke taal aanleiding gegee. In hierdie geskiedkundige konteks het die navorsing 'n belangrike strategie, 'Gebare-ruimtes', geïdentifiseer. 'n Gebare-ruimte wat uitgeken kan word op grond van Gebaar-gebaseerde kommunikasie, is 'n stel netwerke wat van die dowe individu af uitbrei om dowe en horende mense in te sluit. Uit 'n analise blyk dit dat dit 'n Gebaar-horende en Gebaar-dowe ruimte behels. In Gebaar-horende netwerke oorheers horende mense. Verhoudinge word in die huis en met die naaste bure aangegaan. In Gebaar-dowe netwerke oorheers dowe mense. Verhoudings is gesellig van aard en word deur ongedwongenheid gekenmerk. Die navorsing het bevind dat die Dowe doofheid as gebrek deur middel van die Gebaarruimte omkeer om 'n veelvlakkige maatskaplike identiteit wat dwarsoor die konteks versprei is, te behels. Grense wat oorgesteek word, varieer ook in konteks en ten opsigte van netwerke. Gebaar-horende netwerke fokus op die horende grens. Beperkinge kon in die openbare arena geïdentifiseer word in gevalle waar hindernisse ten opsigte van kommunikasie en gebrekkige voorsiening van Gebaretaal-tolke weer doofheid as 'n gebrek voorgestel het. Dit was moeilik om die grense van die Gebaar- ~ netwerke te bepaal en dit suggereer die potensiaalom, gefasiliteer deur Gebaretaal, Suid-Afrikaanse tale en die gepaardgaande geskiedkundige verdelings te transendeer. Gebaar-dowe netwerke suggereer ook die addisionele potensiaal om gesproke taal, in gesellige kontekste trans-nasionaal te transendeer. Maar onderlinge verstaanbaarheid van Gebaretaal en die ongedwongenheid, gemeenskaplikheid en algemeenheid wat dit gebied het, het nie 'n bewustheid van geskiedkundige differensiasie en diskriminasie ontken nie, soos 'n geval van opvolging van leierskap, wat as 'n 'sosiale drama' aangebied is, getoon het. Die proses van die 'sosiale drama' toon ook dat konflik, krisisse en 'n diskoers wat Suid-Afrika se geskiedkundige verdelings weerspieël, nie 'n wyer algemeenheid hoef te bedreig nie.
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Van, 'T Hof Marcus Daniel. "Digital boundaries: A study into how mobile devices and information + communication technologies can influence the social programming, spatial conditions and construction of public architecture". Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27988.
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DIGITAL BOUNDARIES explores the notion of how ICTs and mobile devices can influence the social programming, spatial conditions and construction of public architecture. This topic is derived from the study of Urban Informatics which looks at three key actors: people, place and technology. This can be seen in South Africa where many young individuals inhabit public buildings in the urban environment purely to be connected to wireless internet through their mobile devices. This is done so that they are able to do research for studies, look for job opportunities or socialise. This digital infrastructure then becomes an important aspect of the public realm, not only for personal benefit and need, but for attracting people to place. Situated in the Nyanga Junction precinct south of Gugulethu, the architectural proposition looks at adding digital infrastructure to this complex precinct in the informal area of Cape Town through three scales of architecture; small, medium and large. The small scale is that of Wi-Fi hotspots at street level embedded within the informal market at ten strategically located sites. The medium scale interventions are upgrades to four existing trade posts elevated above at first floor level. Lastly the large scale which is of catalytic and institutional architecture at two proposed sites, of which one is the main architectural focus of the design dissertation and explored further. The architectural programme provides spaces for: IT learning and skills development to help individuals seek employment, collaborative hubs for those developing new entrepreneurial ideas, and youth hubs for students to study and socialise. These three scales and their locality have been informed by social thresholds developed through the theory and technology studies that have been influential in the urban strategy of the design dissertation. It has created a framework for digital infrastructure to be implemented that will help enhance the public realm for a safer and more conducive urban environment.
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Neff, Skylee Simmons. "Brain Mapping of the Mismatch Negativity and the P300 Response in Speech and Nonspeech Stimulus Processing". BYU ScholarsArchive, 2010. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2254.
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Previous studies have found that behavioral and P300 responses to speech are influenced by linguistic cues in the stimuli. Research has found conflicting data regarding the influence of phonemic characteristics of stimuli in the mismatch negativity (MMN) response. The current investigation is a replication of the study designed by Tampas et al. (2005), which studied the effects of linguistic cues on the MMN response. This current study was designed to determine whether the MMN response is influenced by phonetic or purely acoustic stimuli, and to expand our knowledge of the scalp distribution of processing responses to within- and across-category speech and nonspeech stimuli. The stimuli used in this study consisted of within-category synthetic speech stimuli and corresponding nonspeech frequency glides. Participants consisted of 21 (11 male and 10 female) adults between the ages of 18 and 30 years. A same/different discrimination task was administered to all participants. Data from behavioral responses and event-related potentials (MMN and P300) were recorded. Results provided additional evidence that the MMN response is influenced by linguistic information. MMN responses elicited by the nonspeech contrasts had more negative peak amplitudes and longer latencies than MMN responses elicited by speech contrasts. Brain maps of t scores for speech vs. nonspeech contrasts showed significant differences in areas of cognitive processing for all contrast pairs over the left hemisphere near the temporal and parietal areas. The present investigation confirms that there are significant differences in the cortical processing of speech sounds vs. nonspeech sounds.
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Buchbach, Jacinta M. "Social media policies and work: Reconciling personal autonomy interests and employer risk". Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2017. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/112184/1/Jacinta_Buchbach_Thesis.pdf.
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The thesis provides an analysis of the boundary shifting which social media creates between the public/private dimensions of employees and the regulation of social media and work. The thesis analyses the legal complexities of corporate control over personal social media use and the challenges in both managing corporate risk and preserving personal autonomy interests of identity, participation and speech in online spaces. The research outlines what is wrong with social media policies and highlights uncertainties in the law from an individual autonomy perspective. It proposes an innovative model for constructing social media policies through the lens of communicative tenets of Corporate Social Responsibility.
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Geijer, Lena. "Samtal för samverkan : En studie av transprofessionell kommunikation och kompetensutveckling om läs- och skrivsvårigheter/dyslexi". Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för didaktik och pedagogiskt arbete, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-13251.
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The purpose of the present thesis is to study whether and how professionals from such different areas as medicine, preschool and school develop and reorganize, through inter-disciplinary focus group discussions, their competence regarding reading-and-writing difficulties/dyslexia. The theoretical framework is based on sociocultural theory of mediated action, focusing on notions such as alterity, intersubjectivity, dialogicality, mastery, appropriation, practical consciousness and discursive consciousness. The data consists of participant field observations, seven individual interviews and fifteen focus group interviews, as well as narratives and written documents concerning collaboration between pre-schools and schools. The method relates to ethnographic and action research. The data is collected over three years. The interviews are audio-recorded and transcribed as close to oral language as possible. The data is analysed with regard to alterity, intersubjectivity, dialogicality, mastery and appropriation, and with regard to professional languages, professional boundaries and domains of responsibility as well as competencies. The results from the individual interviews show that each participant’s conception of dyslexia is closely attached to her or his own field of pracitice. The focus group results show that, over time, the participants changed their conception of dyslexia, and their way of communicating about dyslexia. And, that they thereby deepened their competence on the issue. The written documents show a similar development during the focus group discussions. From hastily scrawled notes they developed into computerised, and well-structured plans of actions for supporting children of special needs. Both the spoken and written data show that inter-disciplinary co-operation leads to the development of inter-disciplinary competence, and a change in organising reading and writing for children of preschool and school.
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Light, Mark D. "Exploring the Adaptability of Ohio State University Extension County 4-H Professionals to an All-Digital Setting During the COVID-19 Remote Work Period Based on Selected Variables and Their Relationship to Change Style Preferences". The Ohio State University, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu161895890913408.
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El, Wafi Wafa. "Perméabilité des frontières vies « personnelle et professionnelle » et usage des TIC : modèles d’articulation". Thesis, Université de Lorraine, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016LORR0317/document.
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Plusieurs études ont montré que l’usage croissant des Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication (TIC) dans la vie professionnelle et personnelle a largement contribué au brouillage des frontières entre ces deux sphères. La perméabilité reflète le degré auquel l’individu peut être psychologiquement et/ou comportementalement engagé dans un domaine, mais physiquement et temporellement présent dans un autre. Notre objectif est d’identifier les déterminants de la perméabilité des frontières ainsi que les différents modèles d’articulation entre ces deux domaines de vie, basés sur l’usage des TIC. La méthodologie utilisée est mixte, qualitative et quantitative. Les résultats de la première étude réalisée sur la base d’un questionnaire auprès 241 personnes, confirment, d’une part, que les frontières personnelles sont les plus perméables et qu’elles dépendent de plusieurs variables organisationnelles ainsi que des caractéristiques de travail, d’autre part, que la perméabilité des frontières professionnelles ne dépend que de la flexibilité du travail. Quatre modèles d’articulation ont été identifiés: la segmentation, le débordement, l’intégration et l’hybridation. La deuxième étude conduite selon la méthode des scénarios, a permis de restituer les modèles d’articulation dans une perspective dynamique et évolutive. Les individus changent de manières de gérer leurs frontières de vie, en fonction de leur âge, des changements de leur situation familiale et professionnelle et du climat organisationnel. L’ensemble des résultats sont discutés d’un point de vue théorique, méthodologique et pratiqueSeveral studies has shown that the increased use of information and communications technology (ICT) in professional and personal life has largely contributed to the blurring of the boundaries between these two spheres. The resultant permeability reflects the degree to which the individual can be psychologically and / or behaviorally engaged in one area, but physically and temporally present in another. Our goal is to identify the determinants of porous personal and professional borders and the different models of articulation between these two areas of life, based on the use of information and communications technology. We used a mixed, qualitative and quantitative methodology. The results of the first study made by a questionnaire survey on 241 people confirm, firstly, that personal boundaries are more permeable and that they depend on several organizational variables and work characteristics, secondly, that the permeability of professional boundaries depends only on work flexibility. Four articulation models were identified: segmentation, spillover, integration and hybridization.The second study conducted according to the scenario method, set the articulation patterns in a dynamic and evolutionary perspective. Individuals change the ways of managing their life boundaries, depending on their age, the changes in their family and work situation and the organizational climate. All the results are discussed from a theoretical, methodological and practical point of view
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Solbreck, Kristina. "Framgång i virtuella team : Hur chefer kan motivera sina medarbetare på distans". Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskap, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-16363.
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The work place is becoming more flexible and an increasing number of employees report to a leader in another location or country. The borders between different countries, work places and cultures are diminished to a greater extent than before. Working from a distance means new opportunities in terms of competence development, flexibility in working hours, tasks and resources, a larger platform for various career opportunities and an expanded network. The purpose with this study is to examine how leaders can create a successful virtual team and motivate remotely. The qualitative study is carried out through interviews with leaders and employees within Nielsen Nordic. The result shows that the distance leader needs to be clear in terms of communication, responsibilities and expectations and allow the employees to “lead themselves”. The leader should encourage knowledge sharing and interaction in the team. Regular physical meetings are crucial for creating good relationships and effective cooperation. To create a motivated team the leader should e.g. involve the employees in decisions, work with feedback and understand the individual motivational factors.Arbetsplatsen blir i högre utsträckning mer flexibel och fler och fler har en chef på annan ort eller i annat land. Gränserna mellan olika länder, arbetsplatser och kulturer suddas ut i större utsträckning än tidigare. Att arbeta på distans innebär bl.a. nya möjligheter vad gäller kompetensutveckling, större flexibilitet i arbetstid, arbetsuppgifter och resurser, en större plattform för olika karriärmöjligheter och ett utvidgat nätverk. Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur chefer kan skapa ett framgångsrikt virtuellt team och motivera på distans. Studien är kvalitativ och har utförts genom intervjuer med chefer och medarbetare på Nielsen i Norden. Resultatet visar att distanschefen måste vara tydlig vad gäller kommunikation, ansvar och förväntningar samt till stor del låta medarbetarna ”leda sig själva”. Chefen bör även uppmuntra kunskapsutbyte och interaktion i teamet. Regelbundna fysiska möten är avgörande för att skapa en god relation och ett effektivt samarbete. För att skapa ett motiverat team bör cheferna bl.a. involvera medarbetarna i beslut, arbeta mycket med feedback samt sätta sig in i medarbetarnas individuella drivkrafter.
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Kroné, Nelly, e Oscar Gauffin. "”Jag jobbar inte hemma, men jag svarar ju på mail” : En kvalitativ studie om det gränslösa arbetets påverkan på arbetstagaren". Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Sociologi, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-37369.
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The purpose of this study is to examine how white-collar workers are affected by working borderless, that is, work that is flexible in relation to time, space, and organizational borders. The research questions address the workers experience of the boundless work, how it affects their relationship between working life and private life, and how it affects their organizational and social work environment. The study is qualitative. Semi-structured interviews have been conducted with eight individuals working in white collar work with the possibility to work in other spatial forms than at their specific workplace. The theoretical framework chosen as a tool for analyzing the results is; Sennetts (2000) theory about flexibility, Karasek and Theorells (1990) Demand-Control-Support-model and parts of Goffmans (2014[1959]) dramaturgical perspective. The results show that the borderless work has both pros and cons for the employee, the benefits being that it can contribute to a better balance between working life and private life for the employee. The disadvantages mainly concern the prolongation of working hours and the fact that, with the new information and communication technology development, it may be difficult for the employee to distance himself from work. The results also show that within the borderless work there may be lack of clear requirements as well as control of the employee. When combined with a borderless working time, that can lead to a pressured situation for the employee.Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur individer inom tjänstemannasektorn påverkas av att arbeta gränslöst, det vill säga arbete som är flexibelt i förhållande till tidsmässiga, rumsliga och organisatoriska gränser. Frågeställningarna behandlar individernas upplevelse av det gränslösa arbetet, hur det påverkar deras relation mellan arbetsliv och privatliv samt hur det påverkar deras organisatoriska och sociala arbetsmiljö. Studien har en kvalitativ ansats. Semistrukturerade intervjuer har genomförts med åtta individer som arbetar inom tjänstemannasektor och har möjlighet att arbeta i andra rumsliga former än på sin specifika arbetsplats. Det teoretiska ramverk som valts ut som verktyg för att analysera resultatet är; Sennetts (2000) teori om flexibilitet, Karasek och Theorells (1990) krav/kontroll/stöd-modell samt delar av Goffmans (2014[1959]) dramaturgiska analysmodell. Resultaten visar att det gränslösa arbetet har både för- och nackdelar för arbetstagaren. En fördel är att det kan bidra till en bättre balans mellan arbetsliv och privatliv för arbetstagaren. Nackdelarna rör främst att arbetstiden ofta förlängs samt att det i och med den nya informations- och kommunikationsteknologiska utvecklingen kan vara svårt för arbetstagaren att distansera sig från arbetet. Resultaten visar även att det inom det gränslösa arbetet kan råda brist på tydliga krav samt kontroll på arbetstagaren, när detta kombineras med en gränslös arbetstid kan det leda till en pressad situation för arbetstagaren.
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Trey, Baptiste. "Existence et régularité des formes optimales pour des problèmes d'optimisation spectrale Free boundary regularity for a multiphase shape optimization problem. Communications in Partial Dfferential Equations Regularity of optimal sets for some functional involving eigenvalues of an operator in divergence form Existence and regularity of optimal shapes for elliptic operators with drift. Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations". Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020GRALM019.
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Dans cette thèse, on étudie l'existence et la régularité des formes optimales pour certains problèmes d'optimisation spectrale qui font intervenir un opérateur elliptique avec condition de Dirichlet.On s'intéresse d'abord au problème de la minimisation de la valeur propre principale d'un opérateur avec un terme de transport borné.Que le terme de transport soit fixé ou non, ce problème admet une solution parmi les quasi-ouverts, et si le terme de transport est en outre le gradient d'une fonction Lipschitzienne, alors les solutions sont des ouverts localement de classe C^{1,alpha} en dehors de points exceptionnels.On étudie ensuite en dimension deux la régularité des solutions à un problème d'optimisation à plusieurs phases pour la première valeur propre du Laplacien de Dirichlet.Enfin, on s'intéresse aux ensembles optimaux pour la somme des k premières valeurs propres d'un opérateur elliptique sous forme divergence. On montre que les k premières fonctions propres sur un ensemble optimal sont lipschitziennes de sorte que les ensembles optimaux sont ouverts, et on étudie ensuite la régularité de la frontière des ensembles optimauxIn this thesis, we study the existence and the regularity of optimal shapes for some spectral optimization problems involving an elliptic operator with Dirichlet boundary condition.First of all, we consider the problem of minimizing the principal eigenvalue of an operator with bounded drift under inclusion and volume constraints.Whether the drift is fixed or not, this problem admits solutions among the class of quasi-open sets, and if the drift is furthermore the gradient of a Lipschitz continuous function, then the solutions are open sets and C^{1,alpha}-regular except on a set of exceptional points.Next, we study in dimension two the regularity of the solutions to a multi-phase optimization problem for the first eigenvalue of the Dirichlet Laplacian.Finally, we focus on the optimal sets for the sum of the first k eigenvalues of an operator in divergence form. We prove that the first k eigenfunctions on an optimal set are Lipschitz continuous so that the optimal sets are open sets, and we then study the regularity of the boundary of the optimal sets
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Boivin, Rémi. "À l'écoute de La Plaine. Écologie urbaine d’une scène musicale à Marseille". Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020EHES0047.
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Ce travail de thèse prend le parti d’envisager les musiques par la ville, comme agencées à leur milieu perceptif et insérées dans une vie sociale au niveau local. Privilégiant une approche écologique et situationnelle de l’expérience musicale à partir d’un espace matériel, contingent et pragmatique, l’enjeu consiste d’abord à éviter au maximum de rabattre l’analyse des musiques sur un périmètre purement médiatique. L’enquête ethnographique rend compte en effet d’un mouvement depuis une expérience du lieu vers une expérience des musiques à l’intérieur d’un même environnement urbain : le dit quartier de La Plaine à Marseille. Car cette localité qui constitue l’une des centralités de la ville n’a pas d’existence administrative mais émerge aux yeux de l’observateur comme un espace densément vécu et en tant que scène culturelle urbaine. Elle est marquée depuis la moitié des années 1980 par de nombreux engagements culturels, elle concentre un grand nombre d’espaces de diffusion musicale et voit depuis le début des années 2010 la mise en œuvre d’un projet substantiel de transformation urbaine visant un renouvellement de sa population. Les nombreux événements et micro-événements organisés régulièrement dans ce quartier, inscrits dans des occasions sociales très diverses et souvent réalisés hors du « temps institutionnel », donnent à voir un large spectre de formes et de configurations aux niveaux perceptif, culturel et social. En nous intéressant au rôle des musiques dans l’institution progressive d’une culture commune à La Plaine et à sa constitution progressive comme un « lieu propre » à Marseille, l’enquête a permis d’interroger l’épreuve que constitue un projet urbain à la forme spécifique de lien social stabiliséThe aim of this dissertation is to consider music through the city, as being arranged in its perceptive environment and integrated into social life at a local level. Along with an ecological and situational approach of the musical experience from a material, contingent and pragmatic space, the challenge firstly consists in avoiding, as much as possible, restricting the analysis of music in a purely media space. The ethnographic survey reflects a movement from an experience of the place to an experience of music within the same urban environment: the so-called La Plaine district in the city centre of Marseille, France. This local area which constitutes one of the central hubs of the city has no formal existence at an administrative level but appears to the observer as a living place and an urban cultural scene. Since the mid-1980s, the area has been marked by many cultural developments; there is a large concentration of musical venues and since 2010 is the subject of a substantial urban project seeking to renew its population. The amount of regular and micro events here, arranged for social occasions and often taking place outside the "institutional time", reveals a wide spectrum of forms and configurations at perceptual, cultural and social levels. Focusing on the role of music in the gradual institution of a common and shared culture in La Plaine and its construction as a special location or a "proper place" in Marseille, the survey has enabled to question the challenge that constitutes an urban project to the specific form of social bond stabilized by this place
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Seger, Janina, e Hanna Tolstrup. "Gränsöverskridande interaktion i en Engineer to order-kontext : En studie om hur boundary object kan underlätta gränsöverskridande interaktion". Thesis, Tekniska Högskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, JTH, Industriell organisation och produktion, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-41441.
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Syfte – Studien syftade till att undersöka den interna interaktionen i en liten, tillverkande ETO-verksamhets kundorderprocess samt hur boundary object underlättar dess gränsöverskridande interaktion. För att uppfylla studiens syfte kommer följande frågeställningar att besvaras: Vad kännetecknar den gränsöverskridande interaktionen i en liten, tillverkande ETO-verksamhets kundorderprocess? Hur kan boundary object underlätta den gränsöverskridande interaktionen i en liten, tillverkande ETO-verksamhet? Metod – För att uppfylla studiens syfte har en fallstudie genomförts hos Premould AB. Via intervjuer och dokumentstudier har deras kundorderprocess undersökts och interaktionsobjekt i processen identifierats. Insamlad data låg sedan till grund för hur det teoretiska ramverket upprättades. Med hjälp av den empiriska insamlingen och det teoretiska ramverket har en analys genomförts som i sin tur genererat studiens resultat. Resultat – Genom att undersöka kundorderprocessen, i en ETO-verksamhet, har olika kännetecken för den gränsöverskridande interaktionen kunnat urskiljas. Interaktionsobjekt, som belyses som boundary object, har identifierats i processen. Boundary object kan underlätta den interna interaktionen om de används utefter den nivå av komplexitet av kunskapsridning som finns i gränssnitten mellan funktioner. Implikationer – Resultatet att boundary object underlättar den gränsöverskridande interaktionen ger ett praktiskt bidrag till små, tillverkande ETO-verksamheter. Genom valet av boundary object ska det gå att förenkla kunskapsspridning och genom det effektivisera arbetsprocesser. Det ges även ett teoretiskt bidrag till vidare forskning om boundary object i ETO-kontexter. Begränsningar – En av begränsningarna i studien är att det kan vara svårt att generalisera utifrån resultatet eftersom studien var av enfallsdesign. Gränsöverskridande interaktion är dessutom komplext att undersöka med strukturella metoder och det saknades därför möjlighet att djupt undersöka de identifierade interaktionsobjekten. Nyckelord – Engineer to order (ETO), gränsöverskridande interaktion, kunskapsgränser, kunskapsspridning, boundary object.Purpose – The purpose of the study was to investigate the internal interaction of a small, manufacturing ETO-business's customer order process, as well as how boundary objects facilitate its boundary-crossing interaction. In order to fulfill the purpose of the study the following questions will be answered: What characterizes boundary-crossing interaction in a small, manufacturing ETO-business's customer ordering process? How can boundary objects facilitate boundary-crossing interaction in a small, manufacturing ETO-business? Method – To fulfil the purpose of the study, a case study has been conducted at Premould AB. Through interviews and document studies, their customer order process has been investigated and interaction objects in the process been identified. The collected data then formed a base for the establishment of the theoretical framework. With the empirical collection and the theoretical framework, an analysis has been conducted which, in turn, generated the results of the study. Findings – By examining the customer ordering process, in an ETO-business, different characteristics of boundary-crossing interaction has been identified. Interaction objects, which are used according to the principles of boundary objects, have been identified in the process. Boundary objects can facilitate internal interaction if used at the proper level of complexity of knowledge sharing found in the interfaces. Implications – The result that boundary objects facilitate boundary-crossing interaction provides a practical contribution to small, manufacturing ETO-business. Through the choice of boundary object used, it is possible to simplify knowledge sharing and make more effective work processes. There is also a theoretical contribution to further research on boundary objects in ETO-contexts. Limitations – One of the limitations of the study is that it can be difficult to generalize from the result, due to the use of a single-case design. Moreover, boundary-crossing interaction is complex to investigate with structural methods, and it was therefore difficult to closely investigate the identified objects. Keywords – Engineer to order (ETO), boundary-crossing interaction, knowledge boundaries, boundary object.
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Sarkar, Sreela. "Technology and modernity at the boundaries of global Delhi". 2013. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3589164.
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This dissertation studies the promise of inclusion in the global information society for marginalized groups in India, a nation that represents a modular case for technology and modernization initiatives in the global South. There has been significant research on the problematic notion of the "digital divide," based on the premise that access to technology will ensure economic and cultural transformations. Combining approaches from the political economy of communication and from cultural studies, my research is located in the growing critical and ethnographic scholarship on technology and modernity in the global South. I examine the institutional and cultural politics of Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICTD) initiatives in rapidly globalizing Delhi through a multi-method study that includes archival research and an extended period of fieldwork at the sites of interconnected global and local institutions, markets and communities. Forms of institutions and governance, starting from the colonial period, demonstrate continuities to the evolution of digital inclusion initiatives in the 21st century. Through archival and ethnographic research, I trace the beginnings of public-private partnerships in education and the establishment of the Industrial Training Institutes to 19th century colonial India, when the British Empire sought to strengthen its rule. My ethnographic research also studies the modern, postcolonial state as it changes from the Nehruvian socialist model to a neoliberal one and increasingly becomes a deliverer of social services, enabled by ICT programs. Corporations emerge as important welfare actors through hybrid public-private partnerships. I argue that such new institutional forms renegotiate, reify and occasionally reproduce structural inequalities, especially for low-income and marginalized communities. My project connects institutional politics to the politics of culture. I study the habitus of "new middle-class," corporate professionals in India who comprise the initiators of ICTD projects. In addition, my ethnographic research follows "urban poor Muslim women" and "slum youth" from the doorsteps of the ICT center into their everyday lives to understand policy shifts from subaltern perspectives. My study unpacks concepts of the "digital divide" and "access" in the context of complex histories of gender, class, caste, religion and the politics of urban space in global Delhi.
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"Boundaries and bridges: Exploring Korean adoptees' reports of adoptive family communication during and after intrusive interactions and racial communication". UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, 2008. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3318179.
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McAloon, Erin P. "The Management of Privacy Boundaries for People with Visible Disabilities". Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/5992.
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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)People who have disabilities that are visible often manage the boundaries around private information regarding their disability (Braithwaite, 1991) because the choice becomes how much should be revealed. The purpose of this study is to use Communication Privacy Management (CPM) theory to explore the way people who have a visible disability manage privacy boundaries in communicative interactions and also the way the boundaries around private information are managed over time. The study was conducted through in-depth interviews with seven individuals who have a visible disability about their experiences in managing private information. The individuals described experiences both among other people with a visible disability and with people do not have a disability. Results from a thematic analysis revealed the presence of five main themes and several sub-themes.
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Chatfield, Sarah E. "Managing Invisible Boundaries: How "Smart" is Smartphone Use in the Work and Home Domains?" Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/5811.
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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)The present study sought to examine the impact of technology in permeating the boundaries between individuals’ work and family domains, testing and extending the current theoretical model of boundary management. The first goal, to explore predictors of the boundary management styles (BMS) people use with respect to communication technology (CT), was accomplished by demonstrating that three factors predicted BMS for CT use: preferences for integration, identity centrality, and work/family norms. The second goal, to examine outcomes that could result from varying CT use boundary management styles, was also supported in that BMS for CT use was a predictor of work-family conflict and enrichment. However, one key component of the model was not supported in that perceived control over BMS did not moderate the relationship between BMS and outcomes. Theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed, as well as suggestions for future research on boundary theory and CT use. By exploring tangible boundary management behaviors, the present study offers interesting implications that could ultimately assist organizations in developing policies regarding CT use both at home and at work.
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Hydon, David. "A review of the boundaries of urban conservation zones in Ascot Vale and Flemington in the light of municipal restructure". Thesis, 1994. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/32989/.
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This thesis attempts to address the problem within heritage areas that has
arisen as a result of the widespread municipal amalgamations across
Victoria over recent months. The problem is one of inconsistency in the
heritage quality of buildings that come under heritage control. This
inconsistency occurs when local government boundaries are altered so
that two areas, formerly under the control of two different local
governments, are joined to be administered by the same municipality. A
situation is therefore created whereby different urban conservation zones
within the same local government area have been established at various
times, for different reasons, and as a result of contrasting conservation
studies. Taking Ascot Vale and Flemington as an example of a heritage
area where these inconsistencies have surfaced as a result of a municipal
boundary change, this problem has been tackled by following a
systematic methodology. After a visual survey of the area, detailed
identification forms, notes and maps were completed, while photographs
were taken of the built form. From this research, statements of
significance were drafted. Based on these statements, suggestions were
made to extend current urban conservation zones and to create new zones
so as to include significant precincts outside existing zones.
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Davis, Corne. "A second-order cybernetic explanation for the existence of network direct selling organisations as self-creating systems". Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/4798.
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Network Direct Selling Organisations (NDSOs) exist in more than 50 countries and have more than 74 million members. The most recent statistical information reveals that the vast majority of members do not earn significant income. Criticism of these organisations revolves around the ethicality of consumption, the commercialisation of personal relationships, and the exploitation of unrealistic expectations. This study aims to explore how communication creates networks that sustain an industry of this kind despite the improbability of its existence.
The study commences with a description of NDSOs from historical, operational, tactical, and strategic perspectives. Given the broader context created by the global presence of this industry, cybernetics has been selected as a meta-theoretical perspective for the study of communication. The more recent development of second-order cybernetics and social autopoiesis are introduced to communication theory as a field. Niklas Luhmann‟s new social theory of communication is assessed and applied in relation to existing communication theory.
New conceptual models are developed to explore communication as the unity of the synthesis of information, utterance, understanding, and expectations as selections that occur both consciously and unconsciously, intentionally and unintentionally. These models indicate the multiplexity of individual and social operationally closed, yet informationally open systems, and they are used here to provide a systemic and coherent alternative to orthodox communication approaches to the study of organisations. The study adopts a constructivist epistemological stance and propounds throughout the necessity of further interdisciplinary collaboration.
The study concludes that individuals are composite unities of self-creating systems, and they co-create social systems by self-creating and co-creating meaning. Meaning is described as the continuous virtualisation and actualisation of potentialities that in turn coordinate individual and social systems‟ actions. A communication process flow model is created to provide a theoretical explanation for the existence of NDSOs as self-creating systems. The study aims to show that communication has arguably become the most pervasive discipline as a result of the globally interactive era. It is shown that second-order cybernetics and social autopoiesis raise several further questions to be explored within communication theory as a field.Communication, first-order cybernetics, second-order cybernetics, Complexity and complex systems, autopoiesis, self-reference, recursivity, operational closure, system boundaries, Network Direct Selling Organisations
Communication
D. Litt. et Phil. (Communication)
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Shimokawa, Raku. "Triad Relationships and the Development of Junior Tennis Players". Thesis, 2022. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/44404/.
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Introduction: Sport is a domain that can promote physical, psychological, social, and cognitive development in children. There are three main factors that can influence children’s developmental outcomes: distal ecological system (e.g., community, culture, policy), sport program design (e.g., personal and social life skill building activities), and positive youth development climate created by children’s relationships with peers (e.g., teammates), adults (e.g., coaching staff), and parents. A great number of studies have investigated the influences and processes of key relationships within youth sport. However, previous studies have usually investigated those relationships in dyads (e.g., coach-athlete relationship), and not in triads (e.g., athlete-coach-parent). To further our understanding of interpersonal relationships in youth sport and their impact on youth athlete development the key relationships should be investigated as triads. This approach would provide a holistic understanding of the relationships associated in youth sport.
Research question and aim: This study was conducted based on research question: what is the nature of the athlete-parent-coach triad relationship in junior tennis? Accordingly, the aim of this study was to identify the themes and commonalities that characterise the nature of the triad relationship in junior tennis.
Methodology: The current study employed a qualitative methodology and methods to collect and analyse the data. Interpretive Description was selected as the methodological orientation in designing the study, and the collection and analysis of data. Individual semi-structured interviews were conducted to collect the data. Six competitive junior tennis players aged between 12-15, six parents, and seven coaches were invited to participate in the interview. All interviews were audio recorded and transcribed verbatim. Thematic analysis was employed to generate the common themes across interview data. Results: Three overarching themes were developed: communication, sacrifice, and boundaries, as well as, six themes specific to dyad relationships: fun, mentorship, creating a team, interactions at tournaments, tennis tips from the parent, and adjusting the involvement were identified. Conclusion: It appeared that maintaining open communication channels between each member of the triad is an important nature of the athlete-parent-coach triad relationship. Especially, non-tennis related coach-athlete communication subjects (e.g., hobbies) were identified to contribute in creating a fun climate within the coach-athlete relationship. Coaches and parents were found to establish boundaries between members of the triad to maintain appropriate closeness between the members. However, there was a gap in perceived closeness between the coach and athlete. Coaches appeared to maintain professional relationship with their players while players appeared to perceive their coach as a mentor. Coaches and parents were identified to make time and financial sacrifices in supporting the junior tennis player. The findings of current study can be included when educating sport coaches and parents regarding how to better manage relationships in youth sport.
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ČEČÁKOVÁ, Marcela. "Pedagogické a psychologické aspekty vztahu pedagoga volného času a dítěte mladšího školního věku". Master's thesis, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-49543.
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This thesis deals with relationship between a leisure time padegogue and a younger school age child from pedagogical and psychological standpoints. At the beginning the relationship is shown in relation to the philosophical and historical background. In the next stepI characterize the kdy concepts and draw attention to aspects supporting the development of the relationship.