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Rowe, Rochelle. "Imagining Caribbean Womanhood : Racialised Femininities, Colour-blind Nationalisms and Beauty Contests." Thesis, University of Essex, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.520113.
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Thompson, Elisabeth Blumer. "Trailer park royalty Southern child beauty pageants, girlhood and power /." Click here to access dissertation, 2007. http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/archive/spring2007/elisabeth_b_thompson/thompson_elisabeth_b_200708_edd.pdf.
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Thesis (Ed.D.)--Georgia Southern University, 2007."A dissertation submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Georgia Southern University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Education." Curriculum Studies, under the direction of William M. Reynolds. ETD. Electronic version approved: December 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-228) and appendices.
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Gentile, Patrizia. "Searching for "Miss Civil Service" and "Mr. Civil Service"; gender anxiety, beauty contests and fruit machines in the Canadian civil service, 1950-1973." Ottawa, 1996.
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Williams, Heather A. "Miss Homegrown the performance of food, festival, and femininity in local queen pageants /." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1245452161.
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Lin, Pei-Ta. "Strategic uncertainty in capital markets." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2017. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/104122/1/Pei-Ta_Lin_Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis advances our understanding of financial markets from a game-theoretical perspective. Using tools from auction theory (mechanism design), I show how financial market anomalies arise from the strategic interactions between market speculators in the IPO and short selling markets. In doing so, I highlight how seemingly irrational market phenomena have rational microeconomic foundations and highlight how market designs can inadvertently promote speculative trading behaviours.
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Banks, Micaela Choo. "White beauty : a content analysis of the portrayals of minorities in teen beauty magazines /." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2005. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd1128.pdf.
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Banks, Micaela Choo. "White Beauty: The Portrayal of Minorities in Teen Beauty Magazines." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2005. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/811.
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This content analysis examines the representations of minorities in the two most popular teen beauty magazines: Seventeen and YM. Nine issues for 2003 constituted the sample frame yielding a total of 620 advertisements containing human models. After setting up a theoretical framework of the new racism and White beauty, this study investigates the portrayals of minority models. Overall, when compared with earlier studies the number of minority models used in mainstream magazine advertising rose and the portrayals of minority models in prominent roles increased. Yet, the subtle nature of the new racism was reinforced in the following findings: Prominent models were more likely to be light skin than medium skin or dark skin; Black and Hispanic models appeared in more expensive advertisements than Asians and Whites; minority models were less likely to be seen in the workplace than whites but more likely to be portrayed in leisure places and school than whites. Chi-square analysis (p< .000) revealed a significant difference between a model's skin tone and body exposure. A textual analysis reinforced the findings of the new racism in teen magazine advertising. It also led to additional perspective on racial hierarchy, long standing stereotypes in the mass media and the White standard of beauty. Although a content analysis cannot be used to determine media effects, this study adds to the body of research on the portrayals of minorities in advertising, White beauty and the new racism. It suggests a number of further issues to examine.
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Simisic, Pasic Lamila. "Justify Beauty, Architectural Sensorium." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/586174.
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The thesis traces architecture intertwined with its environment, and what could be a possible organ that is part of such communication. It is giving an articulation, towards Architectural Sensorium. Powerful and differences of symbiosis between environment and architecture is stressed by nation of Beauty. Obsession of the Beauty on the beginning of the 21st century, parallel to similar obsession on a beginning of 20th, might bring us some novel understandings and insights in our creative doctrine. Intentionally thesis studied, nation of Beauty rather than aesthetics. It is exploring kind of new, wild and brave Beauty. Similar to relation in-between art and culture, sits relation in-between aesthetics and Beauty. While culture a contrary to art, expresses continuity and coherence, art posses singularity of a wildness and surprising nature.
This thesis attempts to address question, whether architecture could be build out of nothing. Although it is important for architecture to be recognized and to recognize in its discourse the convergences of science, technology, biology computation or philosophy, this research still has more concern towards searching niche for or of possible architecture, somewhere which does not belong nether to any particular domain.
Part of this research focuses on how Beauty is inscribe possible life, that starving for merge between human and human, within artificial realm, and finally to be displaced elsewhere. It analyzes procedure and methods of decomposition of body of Beauty, to make it eligible to become part of possible world. Examinations of, literal and artistic creations, are relied on brave, unconventional and wild examples, rather than on architectural masterpieces.
Question to be answer is; can we Justify Beauty and is there any relevance in its justification and implications; is it important to create architecture with sensorium; and what sits out of relation between Beauty and sensorium? This has created a framework for further contributions, besides of rethinking of power of Beauty, to give an importance of Architectural Sensorium towards Global Sensorium.
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Jones, Kristen. "When Beauty is More Than Skin Deep: A Content Analysis of Popular Beauty YouTubers’ Video Strategies." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2020. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3716.
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The beauty community on YouTube is a popular outlet for influencer generated video content. Beauty YouTubers provide their viewers with makeup-related videos from tutorials to the latest trends on the platform. As a result, the influencers have gained high subscriber counts that generate revenue through advertisements and brand partnerships. The influencers create relationships with their subscribers that lead to loyalty in the form of video views and merchandise purchasing. This study provides a content analysis of common characteristics within 10 popular beauty YouTubers’ videos examining the strategies used by the influencers. The top five videos from each beauty YouTuber were selected resulting in a total of 50 videos analyzed. Parasocial Interaction and Framing theories were the theoretical frameworks for this study. The results of this study indicated a series of commonly used characteristics within the most popular videos posted by the top beauty influencers on YouTube.
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Adkins, Olivia C. "Beauty in Snowflakes: Complexity and Visual Aesthetics." TopSCHOLAR®, 2016. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1561.
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Experimental aesthetics research has been conducted since the nineteenth century. Interestingly, however, few studies have examined the perceived beauty of naturally shaped objects. In the current experiment, 204 participants were presented with a set of ten snowflake silhouettes that varied in complexity (perimeter relative to area); they were similarly presented with ten randomly-shaped, computer-generated, solid objects that also varied in complexity. For each stimulus set, the participants selected the single snowflake or object that was the most beautiful (Fechner’s method of choice). The results for the solid objects replicated the findings of earlier research: the most and least complex objects were chosen as the most beautiful. Moderately complex objects were rarely selected. The results for the snowflakes were different. For these visual stimuli, the least complex snowflakes were almost never chosen; only the complex snowflakes were perceived to be most beautiful, with the aesthetic preference increasing with increases in complexity.
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Kashner, Daniel. "Cognitive Ability in a Team-Play Beauty Contest Game: An Experiment Proposal." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1397827427.
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Welin, Erik. "A Comparison between the Swedish 3G Beauty Contest and the UK 3G Auction." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Management and Economics, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-7186.
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This thesis compares the two different version of public franchise bidding for awarding 3G licenses used in Sweden and the UK, respectively a beauty contest and an auction. The fact is that the Swedish beauty contest has failed to tackle many of the problems discussed in connection with public franchise bidding in an effective way. Sweden has first of all had problems with enforcing the ambitious coverage criteria. The UK has on the other hand succeeded in tackling the problems and raised governmental revenue of £22.5bn through the auction.
The conclusion is that this thesis confirms the existing literatures’ critique of the Swedish beauty contest. However, this thesis also provides a new perspective to the existing literature. The main conclusion is that the auction has locked the prices at a high level and externalised negative price and investments effects through the international operators’ behaviour onto consumers in other countries.
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Nouis, Meagan. "Manufactured Authenticity: How Beauty Brands UseConsumers' Content to Communicate Branding Messages." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-86683.
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While beauty brands are often known to set industry trends, the consumers pave the way forbranding communications on social media. Companies have adapted their marketing strategies tobuild interactivity into their branding outreach. Therefore, this study answers the question, “Howdo beauty brands utilize consumer posts to convey branding messages?” To answer this, acontent analysis was performed using two sets of data: brand posts (n=314) from July 2019 andJanuary 2020, and consumer posts (n=100) which tagged the beauty brands. Using consumerculture theory, the study examines several themes, including branding messages, consumerengagement, and brand authenticity. Results reveal that beauty brands typically use consumerproducedcontent to convey experiential or user-centered branding messages, while companyproducedcontent most often includes informative and emotional messages. Further discussed isthe inclusion of Calls-to-Action (CTAs) which brands use to encourage user engagement. Thisstudy found a significant correlation between posts with CTAs and increased numbers in Likesand comments; however, these numbers are often misleading and represent manufacturedengagement. At the same time, users were found to engage more with the brands whenincentives or self-promotion opportunities were available.
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Lam, Ka-yee Carrie, and 林嘉宜. "The representation of male and sexism in male beauty contest discourse in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/193556.
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Despite the huge public attention received by the male beauty contest discourse in Hong Kong as reflected in extensive local media coverage, studies on the discourse are rare. Concerning the limited literature in the male gender studies, this dissertation addressed the issue and examined the representation of and sexism against male in male beauty contest discourse in Hong Kong. Two latest publicized major male beauty contests in Hong Kong (TVB Mr. Hong Kong Contest 2011 and ATV Mr. Asia Contest 2012) were analyzed using frameworks of ‘dialectical-relational approach’ to Critical Discourse Analysis (Fairclough, 2009), the experiential metafunction of Systemic Functional Linguistics (Halliday & Christian, 2004) and a combination of sexist characteristics suggested by influential theories such as Objectification Theory (Fredrickson & Roberts, 1997). This study integrated findings across analyses of the contests in terms of their linguistics and multi-modal texts as well as culture of context. The findings showed that representations of men portrayed were seen to be degrading men. There was also clear evidence of sexism against male realized through language and visual aspects. It was concluded that the representations and sexist elements were possibly generated from the competitive rivalry between the two broadcasting companies and the change in public perception on gender characteristics. It also suggested that stricter regulating guidelines are needed to secure the professional ethics in media production in Hong Kong. This study grounded future research on the application of SFL framework as a useful quantitative analytical tool to supplement qualitative research in gender studies in media discourse.published_or_final_version
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Roedl, Sara J. "Campaigning for Real Beauty or Reinforcing Social Norms? An Analysis of the Correlation of the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty and Advertisements in Fashion Magazines." OpenSIUC, 2010. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/241.
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Since 2004, the Dove personal care product brand has received much praise for widening the definition and discussion of beauty through the use of nontraditional models in its Campaign for Real Beauty advertisements. This study examined the content of the Campaign for Real Beauty ads and the content of ads in magazines that ran Campaign for Real Beauty ads. This textual analysis of a series of five Campaign for Real Beauty billboards, commonly referred to as the Dove Vote Ads, sought to determine whether the message of the Dove Vote Ads was consistent with the Campaign for Real Beauty's stated mission of societal change and widening the societal definition of beauty. The content analysis portion of this study examined 785 female models in fashion magazine advertisements in a longitudinal analysis spanning the five years surrounding the introduction of the campaign. While the textual analysis questioned whether there were conflicting messages inherent in the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty advertisements, the content analysis sought to determine whether there was a measurable change in the appearance of stereotypical beauty ideals and gender role portrayals after the introduction of the advertising campaign. This was accomplished through an examination of the 785 female models that appeared in the September 2004 and 2008 issues of Cosmopolitan and Glamour, the highest circulation fashion magazines. This mixed-method study addressed two research questions and seven hypotheses. The manifest message of each advertisement, which encourages the audience to rethink standard notions of beauty, is contradicted by the latent themes. The five years between 2003 and 2008 saw a significant increase in diversity of the female models shown in advertisements. Additionally, women were shown as more powerful in 2008 using a variety of techniques. These shifts, if sustained over time, will serve as evidence of the social and cultural influence of advertising campaigns.
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Anderson, Edwards Jerrika M. "The Beauty Standard Trade-Off: How Ebony, Essence, and Jet Magazine Represent African American/Black Female Beauty in Advertising in 1968, 1988, and 2008." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/286.
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How do magazines that target the Black community represent Black/African American female beauty within a society that pushes a Eurocentric beauty ideal? Are these publications affected by the dominant ideal, do they resist the ideal with their own Afrocentric beauty standards, or do they find some type of compromise between the two? In this thesis, I propose that these publications present a compromise between Eurocentric and Afrocentric ideals but to the detriment of Black/African American women. To investigate my research questions, I conducted a content analysis of the advertisements in three periods of time, 1968, 1988, and 2008, in three lifestyle /news magazines that target the Black community: Jet, Essence, and Ebony. I looked at the beauty ideals represented in all three magazines by focusing on the hair type, skin color, and body shape and size of the Black/African American women portrayed. In addition I examined the historical context that supported the creation of these publications and these specific gendered and raced representations.Through a compromise between society’s dominant Eurocentric beauty ideal and an alternative Afrocentric ideal, these magazines participated in a trade-off, in which features and aesthetics of both communities were represented by Black women in advertisements. While the typical interpretation of this analysis might focus solely on the positive attributes of these representations, I argue that these representations are harmful to Black female readers because they circumscribe what constitutes Black female beauty while at the same time reinforcing negative ideas about physical attributes that are deemed “too Black” by the dominant ideals of a Eurocentric society.
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Seligman, Helen. "Beauty in the eye of the beholder: The moral appeal of ISIL to those who join." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1488.
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To many individuals, particularly to Muslims, ISIL’s social network as well as its undying, though misleading, devotion to Islam is attractive. However, with the general human tendency to avoid killing and committing acts generally deemed as heinous, this brings into question the mechanisms that are behind the choice to join ISIL, and how these recruits are able to view membership to such a group as appealing. Janoff-Bulman, Sheikh, and Hepp (2009) identified and distinguished between two constructs of morality: the approach, activation-based prescriptive morality and inhibitory, condemnatory proscriptive morality. This study evaluates the role of these two moral regulators and how they motivate people to join an organization known for its medieval, murderous tactics, hypothesizing that there is support for both prescriptive and proscriptive morality, with prescriptive motivation being the dominant morality when faced with joining ISIL. To prove this, articles with empirical evidence for both religious and social identification as variables that cause people to behave more prescriptively or prescriptively are assessed. Though most of the studies examined provide behavioral support for prescriptive morality as the stronger motive when joining ISIL, there are limitations to what we can infer from this literature review alone. Theoretical implications in both psychology and counterterrorism strategy are discussed, as well as possible ways to further study this theory empirically.
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Reil, Kate. ""Real beauty" in advertising fab or fad? : a content analysis of female images in magazine advertising /." abstract and full text PDF (free order & download UNR users only), 2006. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1438941.
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Holmes, Diane. "Older people : visibility and embodied experiences : spiritualities for a changing context." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2011. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/older-people-visibility-and-embodied-experiences-spiritualities-for-a-changing-context(17d020f9-249c-4b05-a080-cbca14898cf8).html.
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"Older people are beautiful!" "Older people are beautiful images of God!" Even though contemporary western society is powerfully shaped both by the visual and by an increasingly ageing demographic, the above statements are rare and counter-cultural. Yet they are statements totally true to my own experience as a minister with special responsibility for older people. I am drawn to wondering how the beauty of older people can be highlighted in ways that our culture will see and engage with; and therefore begin to own, and even possibly celebrate, the ageing process. In the first part of my thesis I aim to discover why our society does not see beauty in age, or even perceive age itself. I begin with a historical study of western artistic expressions of beauty, tracing a reoccurring and influential strand of classical symmetry and perfection. A social analysis of our contemporary culture of youth is followed by an overview of the church's attitudes towards ageing. All three studies reveal a picture of deeply rooted ageism in society. Alongside these discoveries, an alternative perspective and antidote to ageism is offered through an inclusive reader response to Paul's description of the Body of Christ in 1 Corinthians 12. My discoveries inform my choice of research methodology - the ways in which I endeavour to uncover new perceptions of older people and forms of expression that honour and include them. Thus embracing them as part of the Body of Christ. Participant observation, the inclusive tool favoured by social anthropology suits the aesthetic and subjective nature of my research. Older people themselves are my research participants. Group situations, where they play with clay and comment upon portraits and landscapes, enable them to express their perceptions of what is beautiful and so reflect a perceptible beauty of their own. A biblical structure allows the participants' thoughts about beauty to become expressions of their own particular spirituality. This uncovering of an embodied spirituality of older people as vital and beautiful is offered as a counterpoint to a culture that renders older people invisible. I discover that there is much that older people can offer younger generations through their laughter and tears, their interpersonal relationships and their intrepid journeying through the unknown territory of ageing itself. A search for and reflection upon theological perspectives and art images that resonate with these discoveries and illuminate older people as beautiful images of God forms the final part of my thesis.
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Infanger, Valori. "Speaking Out: How Women Create Meaning from the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2009. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/1988.
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The purpose of this study was to determine whether the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty could be used to effectively expand the media-narrowed definition of beauty. This study focused on the Onslaught video and corresponding message board. The sample included 119 posts written by 85 different message board users. Both a descriptive and interpretive content analysis based on reception analysis was used to deconstruct the message posters' interpretation and construction of individual beauty. The posters used the board primarily to express themselves, attach blame to the media and arrive at consensus. Overall, the users responded positively to the campaign. Twenty themes emerged from the posts, with the most prevalent attaching blame to the media for societal problems. The findings of this study suggest that Dove effectively created an online community where women could find a voice to express themselves and share experiences. More importantly, Dove initiated a public discussion that is a preliminary step in changing social norms. As such, the campaign should be viewed as having been effective.
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Yi, Ming. "Three Essays on Dynamic Games with Incomplete Information and Strategic Complementarities." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/47917.
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This dissertation consists of three essays that adopt both theoretical and empirical methods of analysis to study certain economies in which the incomplete information and the strategic complementarities between players are important. Chapter 1 explains the topics discussed in the subsequent chapters and gives a brief survey on the literature.
In Chapter 2, I revise a traditional global game model by dividing the continuum of players into a group of speculators and a group of stakeholders. It is found that the uniqueness property remains in the new game. Then I extend the static game to a two-stage game and investigate the efficacies of certain label changing mechanisms proposed by the authority to stabilize the regime in the dynamic context. It is shown that a label changing mechanism allowing for downward social mobility may not work, whereas a label changing mechanism allowing for upward social mobility generally makes the regime more stable.
In Chapter 3, I add a speculator and an authority to a bank-run model to investigate how the speculator endangers a business or an economy, and what the authority can do about it. In particular, I show that the speculator can increase the financial system's vulnerability by serving as a coordinating device for the investors and thus triggering the crisis. It is further shown that deterring the speculator may not undo the speculator's impact because of multiplicity problem; rewarding holding investors is useless; and eliminating the preemption motives among investors works given enough effort. A discussion of the 1997 Asian financial crisis and the IMF's role in it is also included.
Chapter 4 develops a repeated beauty-contest game to investigate the effect of previous winners' actions on the spread of subsequent players' actions. I first characterize the unique equilibrium of the game. Then I focus on the equilibrium dynamics of several variances depicting different forms of action variability. It is found that whether or not a specific variance diminishes over time depends on the relative precision of public and private signals. To illustrate the theoretical results, I conduct an empirical study on the Miss Korea contest. It is found that the contestants' faces have been converging to the ``true beauty'' overall, but diverging from each other over the last 20 years. Chapter 5 concludes.Ph. D.
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Brännström, Andrea. ""Kvinnan ska eftersträva skönhet enligt rådande ideal" : En analys av myter i VeckoRevyns frågespalter." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för kultur och lärande, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-19488.
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This essay is an analysis of mythologies in the Swedish women´s magazine VeckoRevyn. The magazine’s own explicit purpose is to break down the unhealthy opinion of what beauty is in their industry today. By content and linguistic analysis the results of this study are interconnected to the beauty myth as it was established by Naomi Wolf in 1991. The goal is to pinpoint how VeckoRevyn’s question and answer columns construct relationships to their readers, and the mythologies that they maintain. The columns mostly focus on the readers’ physical appearance, and the beauty myth is clearly an inevitable influence. The main conclusion that can be drawn from this is that the beauty myth is hard-wired into our society’s subconscious. VeckoRevyn is working to prevent this, and even though they have not fully succeeded, they are a part of bringing the phenomenon to the surface of society.
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Hervieux, René André. "Le rôle de l'orientation sexuelle, la similitude et la beauté physique dans différents contextes d'attirance interpersonnelle." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/29243.
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Balatková, Táňa. "Obsahová analýza prvků body image v mezinárodním srovnání." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-124903.
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The content of the Diploma is the introduction and analysis of body image including historical development, cultural and social impacts and the differences of men's and women's images. The marketing view of this problems and the introduction of interesting campaigns in the body image is important as well. In the next part of Diploma I compare two lifestyle magazines from two different countries -- the Czech Republic and Sweden -- with the help of comparative analysis. The aim of the analysis is to compare the meaningful differences between the body images in both countries, which will appear during the research of the magazines. Thanks to evaluation of a lot of categories the very interesting results developed. The most important of them is the fact that a wide range of multinational advertisements appeared in both magazines. In spite of it some cultural and anthropological differences were discovered.
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Berry, Andrea. "A Look into Ladies Home Journal: Tracking the trends and changes of strategy, themes and messaging in women's health and beauty products advertising from 1970 to 2009." Wittenberg University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wuhonors1338483568.
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Horanage, Chathushee Purnima Jayamila, and Miia-Riikka Hautala. "Does The Content Format Matter? : A study of how Social Media Micro-Influencers’ content format persuades the followers’ information processing route in the Engagement and Purchase Intention." Thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Institutionen för ekonomi, teknik och samhälle, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-85963.
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The increased importance of social media influencers in marketing activities has been evident in recent years. The purpose of the thesis was to understand the cognitive processing of social media micro influencers’ content and the resultant behavioral outcome of follower engagement and purchase intention. Specifically, it has aimed to evaluate if the format of the content had an impact on cognitive processing and ascertains the resultant outcomes of engagement and purchase intention. Elaboration likelihood model (ELM) adapted to social media, was used, and adopted in the study in order to understand and evaluate the purpose as well as the information process of individuals. The research was narrowed down to the micro-influencers in the fashion and beauty industry sharing content, as the industry's high usage of influencer marketing and disseminating persuasive messages on Instagram. The research was conducted by using the Experimental Vignette Methodology (EVM) in a quantitative experiment. By doing so, it enabled the research to examine the participants' response to natural stimuli with quantitative results. A questionnaire together with exposure to three stimuli were used as instrumental in the collection of data. The sample was collected through social media platforms, mainly Instagram and Facebook, and via email to the students of LTU. The collected data was later analyzed, through SPSS, in two levels: impact and hypothesis testing. The impact measurement was analyzed by using repeated measures ANOVA and later the multilinear regression analysis to test the independent variables of content format relation to the dependent variables of engagement (comment and like) and purchase intention (tendency and likelihood). The findings indicated a support to the existing theory of ELM, by confirming the importance of the argument quality in the persuasive message. High lighting in the importance of text content format,in both engagement via commenting and purchase intention, when the information is processed through the more long-lasting central route. The results contributed to current literature in micro influencer and social media influencer marketing by extending the literature in persuasive messaging in relation to the content format. The research provided practical implications with insights into the cognitive processing of content and its implications in consumer engagement and purchase intention to both managers as well as to the content providers, social media influencers. The study presented relative information for content creation, communication and opened possibilities for further research in persuasive messaging in the micro media influencer segment.
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Goulart, Isabella Regina Oliveira. "A ilusão da imagem: o sonho do estrelismo brasileiro em Hollywood." Universidade de São Paulo, 2013. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/27/27161/tde-06052014-104345/.
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A dissertação investiga o concurso de beleza fotogênica realizado pela Fox Film no Brasil em 1926-1927, com o fim de levar um casal de atores para Hollywood. A pesquisa tem como fonte jornais e revistas de grande circulação à época e documentos do Acervo Pedro Lima. Consideramos o contexto histórico-social, relações étnicas e de gênero, a incorporação de padrões de beleza ligados à modernidade e a constância de concursos femininos, bem como o estrelismo. Ponderamos a negociação entre nossa imprensa e o star system durante o concurso.This dissertation investigates the photogenic beauty contest held by Fox Film in Brazil in 1926-1927, in order to choose a couple to integrate the studio\'s casting in Hollywood. The research has as a source mass circulation newspapers and magazines at the time and Pedro Lima Collection documents. We consider the historical and social context, ethnic and gender relations, the incorporation of beauty standards linked to modernity and the constancy of women\'s beauty contests, as well as the stardom. We take into account the negotiation between Brazilian press and the star system during the contest
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de, Windt Jassir. "Will Beauty Save the World? A historical context study of the Miss Venezuela pageant as a conceivable contributor to communication for development." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22325.
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In recent years, old-hand development scholars, in the category of Dan Brockington, have expressed their concern over academia’s neglect of the significance of celebrities in the field. As has been the case of an outturn hereof, namely beauty pageants. In the last six decades, Venezuela has positioned itself not only as one of the world's largest exporters of oil but also as one of the leading engenderers of titleholders in international pageantry. The latter, which has resulted in Venezuelans regarding the pageant as a fundamental cultural undercurrent in their collective identity, seems to be a ceaseless manifestation in spite of the country’s worrisome current socio-economic status. Rather than adopting a condescending paradigm towards the Miss Venezuela pageant, it is precisely this vertex of ambiguity that opens the avenue for an interesting development question. After all, if celebrity beauty queens from Venezuela are deemed as part of the nation’s identity, could the pageant, in the same breath, be deemed as a contributor to communication for development? While espousing historical context as an analysing method and in pursuit of David Hulme’s Celebrity-Development nexus and Elizabeth McCall’s four strands of communication for development, this paper presents a qualitative study in which hands-on experts are given a platform. The findings show the evolution of a beauty pageant from a, nearly, nationalist device into a system that is grounded in the Millennium Development Goals and that aims to forge socially responsible beauty representatives that are competent enough to herald purposeful messages.
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Ostergaard, Tyler Edward. "The beast within : the contested image of the railroad in French visual culture, 1837-1877." Diss., University of Iowa, 2014. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/2128.
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Between 1837, when the first railraod were authorized by the July Monarchy, through the 1870s there were vociferous public debates on the utility of the train, large scale government funding for rail infrastructure, and notable depictions of the train in print, photography and literature. During this period there was also a notable - if currently unrecognized - dearth of painted depictions. This absence suggests that the Impressionists' paintings of the railroad in the 1870s were more than novel images of modern life, and provide evidence of the contested perception of the railroad, industrialization and aspects of modernization in the aftermath of l'année terrible that so far have been unaddressed by art historians and scholars of the nineteenth century.
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Feng, Sha. "L’Art Ailleurs : la Recherche Anthropologique sur les Artistes Contemporains Chinois des Beaux-arts Vivant en France." Thesis, Lyon 3, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012LYO30043/document.
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Depuis le début du vingtième siècle, les artistes chinois ont commencé à poursuivre leurs rêves artistiques en France. Cent ans plus tard, bien que l’art français ne soit plus le centre absolu du monde artistique, son histoire glorieuse en fait un symbole au statut inébranlable. La France d’autrefois, avec son orientation politique culturelle a attiré des artistes du monde entier, qui sont devenus une partie importante du patrimoine artistique et culturel des Français; en même temps, la « culture française », dans son ensemble, perpétue le mythe de capitale culturelle.Compte tenu de la structure du discours prévalent sur « la Chine et l’Occident », la place des artistes chinois en France est un peu spéciale. Pour les artistes chinois, la France est, dans une large mesure, « le monde occidental ». Ces artistes chinois intègrent leur expérience à l’étranger dans un contexte transculturel tout en restant conscients de leurs propres expériences et sentiments, ce qui mène à une innovation permanente dans leurs propres techniques de création. De même qu’il est difficile de trouver une raison collective pour la venue en France des artistes chinois, leur création ne se présente pas sous une forme de système ou d'aspiration unifiée. Comme c’est le cas pour l’imaginaire chinois de la France, nous imaginons que les artistes chinois en France suivent un parcours « uniforme ».Cette thèse commence par l’exposition biennale de Lyon en 2009, à laquelle j’ai participé et grâce à laquelle j'ai pu progresser dans ma connaissance du fond culturel, historique et social local. À partir de ce groupe particulier d’«artistes d’outre-mer» et selon les textes existants et les déclarations des artistes rencontrés, je discute tout d’abord de l’imaginaire et de la réalité de l'« étranger » en France, puis j’analyse la structure narrative des textes de l’histoire de l’art et des médias de masse sur les « artistes étrangers ». J’interprète alors certaines œuvres et pratiques des artistes, en évoquant leur compréhension de la structure narrative. Ensuite, je discute du marché de l’art et de l’expérience des artistes en son sein. Enfin, j’essaye de comparer l’expérience de l’artiste et les idées sociales et culturelles, et de réfléchir à mes propres recherches et réflexionsSince the twentieth century, Chinese artists have voyaged to France in pursuit of their dream of art. Even though France is no longer the only art capital in the world today, it glorious history has made its status unshakeable as a symbol which attracted artists eager for opportunities for free creation and diverse forms of inspiration. These artists’ works became an important part of French culture and art, while “French culture and art” as a whole perpetuates the myth of cultural capital.Given the structure of the prevalent discourse concerning « China and the West », the place of Chinese artists in France is somewhat special. These Chinese artists integrate their experience abroad in a transcultural context while remaining conscious of their own experience and feelings; in terms of their own creative techniques they innovate permanently. It is difficult to find a collective reason for Chinese artists’ coming to France; similarly, their work does not constitute a unitary system or ambition. As is the case of the Chinese imaginary concerning France, it is imagined that Chinese artists in France follow a uniform trajectory.This thesis starts with the Lyon biennale exhibition of 2009 which I attended and thanks to which I was able to expand my acquaintance with local social, cultural and historical contexts. Based on this particular group of “overseas artists” and referring to the existing texts and statements of the artists encountered, the imagined experience and the lived experience of the “foreigner” in France are discussed, and then narrative structure of history of art and mass media texts about “foreign artists” are analyzed. Evoking their understanding of this narrative structure, certain artists’ works and practices are then interpreted. There follows a discussion of the art market and the experience of artists within it. Finally there is an attempt to compare the artist’s experience with socio-cultural ideas, and a reflection on the findings of this thesis
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Barbini, Matteo. "Au-delà du dilemme de Calhoun : prémisses pour le dépassement conceptuel de la souveraineté dans le contexte de l'unification politique européenne." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Montpellier 3, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019MON30114.
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Le projet politique de l’Union européenne apparaît encagé dans le dilemme entre État fédéral ou Confédération d’États. Dans un cas, il s’agit de reconnaître une souveraineté, avec une Constitution et une représentation. Dans l’autre, il s’agit de conserver une pluralité de corps souverains unis par la formule du Traité. La recherche d’une synthèse entre ces deux perspectives semble niée à la racine. À y regarder de plus près, toutefois, ce dilemme subsiste à l’intérieur d’un horizon politique spécifique. Comme l’a récemment signalé Olivier Beaud, auteur de La Puissance de l’État (1994), le choix entre État fédéral et Confédération d’États présuppose le partage de la théorie moderne de la souveraineté. D’où l’exigence, avancée par le juriste français dans la Théorie de la Fédération (2007), d’ouvrir le débat politique sur l’Union européenne à une réflexion plus générale, ayant pour objectif la proposition d’un projet fédératif excédant l’alternative « état-centrique » entre État fédéral et Confédération d’États. Autrement dit, l’ambition de Beaud est de concevoir la Fédération comme ordre politique anti-souverain. Nous partageons cette initiative. D’autre part, nous proposons une conception fédérative différente de celle du juriste français. Cette distance théorique dépend, à son tour, d’une définition différente de la souveraineté moderne. Pour Beaud, cette dernière s’affirme avec Jean Bodin, théoricien de la monopolisation de la prérogative législative de la part de la puissance publique. Pour nous, en revanche, la souveraineté moderne est contresignée par cette logique qui, sur la base de l’accord volontaire de tous les individus impliqués, parvient à fonder un pouvoir absolu et représentatif de la totalité. De notre point de vue, il s’ensuit que la Fédération, entendue comme ordre politique alternatif à la Souveraineté, doit être pensée au-delà de ce mécanisme d’autorisation « démocratique » du pouvoir dont Thomas Hobbes est le père théoriqueThe political project of the European Union appears to be divided between the Federal state and the Confederation of states. On the one hand, it is fundamental to guarantee sovereignty through both a Constitution and by giving citizens representation. On the other, the goal is to preserve multiple sovereign institutions under the formula of a Treaty. Therefore, the attempt to combine these 2 perspectives turns out to be key. At a closer look, this dilemma can be identified within a specific political scenario. As recently mentioned by Olivier Beaud, author of the book La puissance de l’Etat (1994), the choice between the Federal State and the Confederation of States presupposes the sharing of the modern theory of sovereignty. Hence the need, highlighted by the French jurist in the Théorie de la Federation (2007), to open the political debate on the European Union to a more general reflexion which goal is the proposition of a federal project exceeding the alternative between Federal state and Confederation of States. In other words, Beaud’s plan consists of a Federation conceived as an anti-sovereign political organization. We approve this initiative. On the other hand, we suggest a different federal conception to the one of the French jurist. This difference is based on an alternative definition of the concept of modern sovereignty. In fact, according to Beaud, the concept of modern sovereignty is the one claimed by Jean Bodin, theorist of Les six Livres de la Republique. As far as we are concerned, modern sovereignty is based on the mutual agreement of all the individuals and forms an absolute power which is representative of everyone. In our view, the Federation seen as an alternative option to the Sovereignty has to be thought beyond the Thomas Hobbes’s concept of democratic authorisation
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Kigundu-Touré, Ivy. "Act local, think global – The aesthetics of success: race and Beauty in the global south: a reflection on South African women content creators' online performances on YouTube and Instagram." Master's thesis, Faculty of Humanities, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32245.
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This media creative project explores the experiences of South African women on social media platforms. The idea for this project stems from my personal experiences as an avid consumer and viewer of online content generated by these women. My engagement with YouTube began about ten years ago, when I started to consistently watch YouTube videos. Later, I would go on to consume Instagram posts by digital content creators. However, these consumption choices of mine were not functions of random videos or pictures promoted on these platforms. Rather my consumption was driven by a desire to see women who looked like me - black women. From 2009 onward black diasporic women, and women on the African continent, were suddenly, it seemed, putting out content related to black women's experiences in the world, with themes relating to education, hair, beauty and all other sorts of lifestyle-related topics. I would be lying if I did not mention how the women on YouTube talking about their natural hair drove me to explore a hair routine away from chemicals. Straightening our natural hair and being 'presentable' according to Eurocentric standards were for a long time, a burden into my life. I began consuming their videos whereby the content creators were encouraging the viewers to own their natural hair and most importantly, own whatever hairstyle they seemed to 3 fit. The choice of how we present ourselves seemed to come back to us, and the space in which it was performed felt like a safe, communal one. Six years ago, a black youtuber called Chizi Duru, had cut all her hair to start all over again without any chemicals. The act of cutting off all your hair within the community was labeled 'The Big Chop': an act of rebirth, renewal and resistance for black women. I went along and did the same, following her journey and exploring my own.
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Bordeleau, Lilianne. "Le blanchiment de l'apparence : enjeux identitaires et pratiques corporelles dans un contexte contemporain : étude chez des femmes d'origine haïtienne de Montréal." Thesis, Université Laval, 2012. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2012/29069/29069.pdf.
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López, Rafael. "Essays on individual choice." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/289624.
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This thesis can be divided into two (unrelated) parts. The main part (Chapters 1 and 2)
focus on addiction models that entail departures from the classical discounting utility
model of Individual Intertemporal Choice: Habit-Formation and Self-Control problems.
The other part (Chapter 3) studies the famous p-Beauty Contest Game when we restrict
the individual’s choices to integer numbers.
In the first part, habit formation is the key feature for a product being addictive: a habit
is created when past consumption of the product increases current desire for
consumption. An addiction can be either beneficial (when past consumption increases
current utility, e.g. jogging) or harmful (when past consumption decreases current
utility, e.g. drug consumption). In general one could conceive of harmful addictions as
habit-forming activities that imply an immediate reward but generate future costs
(negative internalities) whereas beneficial addictions imply an immediate cost but
generate future rewards (positive internalities). Self-control problems are understood in
terms of time inconsistency: they arise when the individual cannot keep up with an
intended intertemporal plan of consumption.
In Chapter 1 we analyse a (harmful) addiction model proposed by O'Donoghue and
Rabin (O&R) for which they obtain a counterintuitive result: full awareness of selfcontrol
problems may exacerbate over-consumption. We show that this result arises
from their particular equilibrium selection for the induced intrapersonal game. We
provide dominating Markov Perfect equilibria where the paradox vanishes and that
seem more ''natural'' since they capture behaviours often observed in the realm of
addiction. We also address the issue of why a person could decide to start consuming
and possibly develop an addiction: contrary to O&R, and according to the common
intuition, we show that naiveté is at the essence.
In Chapter 2 we obtain an isomorphism between harmful and beneficial addictions in a
discrete-time binary choice context (the model of the first chapter being a particular
case of this context). The equivalence thus established allows us to study both
phenomena (harmful and beneficial addictions) as two sides of the same coin. Besides
the theoretical insight it provides, this dualism is also useful: in particular, it permits to
readily translate the results obtained in the first chapter to the domain of beneficial
addictions. Once the dualism is established, we analyse addictions under both timeconsistent
and time-inconsistent preferences.
In Chapter 3, we provide a full characterization of the pure-strategy Nash Equilibria for
the p-Beauty Contest Game when we restrict individual's choices to integer numbers.
Opposed to the case of real number choices, equilibrium uniqueness may be lost
depending on the value of p and the number of players: in particular, as p approaches 1
any symmetric profile constitutes a Nash Equilibrium. We also show that any
experimental p-Beauty Contest Game can be associated to a game with the integer
restriction and thus multiplicity of equilibria becomes an issue. Finally, we show that in
these games the iterated deletion of weakly dominated strategies may not lead to a
single outcome while the iterated best-reply process always does (though the outcome
obtained depends on the initial conditions).
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Rocha-Mourthé, Claudia. "Référentiel sur le goût esthétique et la diversité culturelle : par la prise en considération du rationnel et de l'émotionnel de l'individu." Compiègne, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008COMP1780.
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Le but de cette recherche est de construire un référentiel en Design Industriel afin de situer le goût esthétique des individus face aux produits, en prenant en compte l'influence culturelle. Elle aboutit à un modèle de représentation et de compréhension assorti d'une base théorique explicative et d'outils de mise en pratique pour la collecte de données. La finalité conceptuelle est de comprendre la demande de l'individu face au jugement esthétique ou utilitaire/fonctionnel des objets de différentes origines culturelles. D'un point de vue pratique ce travail cherche à combler un vide existant en terme de connaissances, de méthodes et d'outils et a pour ambition de rendre plus objective et plus transparente la conception sur cette question du goût esthétique – du rationnel et de l'émotionnel – qui sont laissés, pour l'instant, au domaine subjectif, voire aux décisions arbitraires. La première partie de la thèse est un état de l'art qui définit les concepts nécessaires pour une modélisation systémique en permettant ainsi l'intelligibilité du goût de l'individu, de la culture et de leurs interrelations. La deuxième partie comprend une recherche sur le terrain qui a conduit à la collecte de données à travers trois pays culturellement très différents : la Thaïlande, la Tunisie et le Brésil. La troisième partie s'articule autour de la construction d'une nouvelle expérimentation pour faire apparaître les contrastes et la diversité en matière de goût esthétique entre des individus appartenant à des contextes culturels distincts. Les différences et les contradictions qui peuvent apparaître ainsi fournissent des pistes précieuses sur la démarche individuelle à propos du goût esthétique et sur l'importance de la culture dans le jugement esthétique. Notre travail s'inscrit donc dans une démarche de qualité industrielle visant à objectiver, voire rendre mesurable, ce qui jusqu'alors était prudemment rangé dans le domaine du subjectifThis thesis explores the development of an aesthetics framework that aims to provide designers with parameters to understand emotion, taste, and aesthetic judgement under their own cultural influence. This framework will equip designers with tangible criteria for judging cultural influences impacting industrial design while preventing them from subjective options or “trendy followers. ” To address the complexity of the topic, we adopt a systemic approach so to be able to capture its several elements. Therefore, the aesthetics framework adopts a systemic approach, which allows us to compare its constituents and identify the interplay or “links” between these different elements. In the first part, we begin by conducting a literature review, we identify the basic elements we will focus this study on. We then broaden our references by using other authors. Once the framework is built, we will determine its validity by conducting empirical research. The second part is a research with data acquisition in three countries with different cultural dimensions: Thailand, Tunisia and Brazil. The third part is an experimentation to reveal contrasts and diversity of the aesthetic taste between individuals from different cultural contexts
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Diener, Amandine. "L'enseignement de l'architecture à l'Ecole des beaux-arts au XXe siècle : une lecture des règlements et de la pédagogie (1863-1968)." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017STRAG012.
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La thèse interroge la formation des architectes à l’Ecole des beaux-arts au vingtième siècle en privilégiant deux orientations qui fondent une histoire réglementaire et une histoire de la pédagogie. D’un côté, les archives de l’Ecole des beaux-arts et ses règlements font émerger les moments de réforme et de débats comme les phases de stabilité. D’un autre côté, l’enseignement de la théorie de l’architecture éclaire certaines pratiques pédagogiques, notamment à l’articulation entre les cours et les concours d’émulation. Ce regard croisé entre histoire règlementaire et pédagogique traduit l’évolution et les continuités d’un enseignement. Ainsi sont évaluées les capacités de l’institution à se réformer et à questionner ses traditions académiques au fil du temps. Du berceau parisien aux antennes provinciales, des enjeux scolaires à ceux de la profession, des cours aux concours, est ici proposée une lecture inédite de certains traits de l’enseignement de l’architecture à l’Ecole de beaux-arts au XXe siècleThis PHd thesis is focused on the architect’s formation at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts during the Twentyth century. It is focused on the history of both regulations and pedagogy. Archives of the Ecole de Beaux-Arts and texts of regulations show reformes and period of stability along the century. The teaching of Architectural Theory, expecially the articulation between courses and contests, shows some pedagogical practices. By using a double perspective, continuities and evolutions have been highlighted. Moreover the abilities of the institution to let its academic traditions evolve has been explored. From Paris to provincial schools, from academical contest to professional one, from courses to contests, an innovative way of understanding teaching at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts during the Twentyth century is proposed
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Nikolajeva, Maria. "Maj Asplund Carlsson, The Doorkeeper and the Beast. The Experience of Literary Narratives in Educational Contexts. (Skrifter utgivna av Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen vid Göteborgs universitet, 33). Göteborg 1998." Uppsala : Svenska Litteratursällskapet, 1999. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-200732.
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Barrozo, Maria Regiane da Silva Lopes. "Ethnical beat: o ritmo negro da música pop internacional-globalizada. Um estudo de cartografias sonoro-musicais híbridas como memória, agenciamento e performance das identificações afro americanas em contextos diaspóricos." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2009. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/4904.
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Is surprising the challenge of the to question and to have the possibility to answer with music. Of the music to question and other sensibility to answer her. The sound doesn't just belong to the music, the music is not only composed of sounds. The life that sounds receives the care historical of the emotional existence, and this experience receives the musical components as indicators of the intertextual reading. The African diáspora offers the rhythm of the pop music that, for your time, she takes charge of being the habitat of the AfroAmerican memory. The sound memory of the diáspora is interpreted by the rhythmic beat of the pop music, an ethnic beat that is causing black reinventions in the musical performances in global contexts. To approach the pop musical expression as phenomenon of reinvention of the black identity, the memory African cultural scored the black identification in the AfroAmerican musical head offices traveled by the rhythmic transformations of the gospel, blues, jazz, swing, rhythm and blues, soul, freejazz, rock, funk, pop and rap. The social rhythm that accompany those gender it is centralized in the freejazz for the development of the research, from where they follow analyses and comments on the process of construction of the pop beat addressed in a social slope of racial protest and in the musical agency of black domain. The ethnic revival of the decade of 1960 is the scenario for the presented musiciansocial dialogues in way to map responsible relationships for the rhythmic development that consolidated the beat of the pop music as an ethnic beat. The reflection around the pop gender renounces academic precepts and formalist of the European musical tradition to present a possibility of musical analysis where the procedure is given by the content to be received from the object. This way the pop music can be questioned before the suffered social context by the agents of your creation. The followed road is updated by those musical agents, that give us elucidation answers if we look for the music as a resulting art of human negotiations.
Surpreendente o desafio de questionar e ter a possibilidade de responder com música. De a música questionar e outra sensibilidade respondêla. O som não pertence apenas à música, a música não é composta somente de sons. A vida que soa recebe o cuidado histórico da existência emocional, e esta experiência recebe os elementos compositivos musicais como indicadores da leitura intertextual. A diáspora africana oferece o ritmo da música pop que, por sua vez, se encarrega de ser o habitat da memória afroamericana. A memória sonora da diáspora é interpretada pelo beat rítmico da música pop, um ethnic beat que está provocando reinvenções negras nas performances musicais em contextos globais. Para abordar a expressão musical pop como fenômeno de reinvenção da identidade negra, a memória cultural africana instrumentalizou a identificação negra nas matrizes musicais afroamericanas percorridas pelas transformações rítmicas do gospel, blues, jazz, swing, rhythm and blues, soul, freejazz, rock, funk, pop e rap. O ritmo social que acompanha esses gêneros é centralizado no freejazz para o desenvolvimento da pesquisa, de onde partem análises e comentários sobre o processo de construção do beat pop direcionado numa vertente social de protesto racial e na agência musical de domínio negro. O revival étnico da década de 1960 é o cenário para as interlocuções músicosociais apresentadas de modo a mapear relações responsáveis pelo desenvolvimento rítmico que consolidou a batida da música pop como um beat étnico. A reflexão em torno do gênero pop renuncia preceitos acadêmicos e formalistas da tradição musical européia para apresentar uma possibilidade de análise musical onde o procedimento é dado pelo conteúdo a ser recebido do objeto. Desse modo a música pop pode ser questionada diante do contexto social sofrido pelos agentes de sua criação. O caminho seguido é atualizado por esses agentes musicais, que nos dão respostas esclarecedoras se olharmos para a música como uma arte resultante de negociações humanas.
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Sedghi, Mona. "VeckoRevyn – din bästa vän i vått och torrt? : En kvalitativ undersökning om innehåll och tilltalssätt i VeckoRevyn." Thesis, Linnaeus University, School of Social Sciences, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-6274.
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“VeckoRevyn – your best friend in good times and bad?” is a BA thesis based on a weekly lifestyle magazine, VeckoRevyn, with a female demographic aged 18-25. Issues of the magazine, published in 2009 and on, is analyzed and dissected to better understand and be able to get answers for the questions of issue. What is said in the magazine, and how does the message reach the audience? Furthermore, the message, as well as the tone used to convey it, is reviewed as part of the discussion about consequence. The goal of this study is to show how, based on the material analyzed, a woman is spoken to in the magazine, and what kind of consequences this might have.
VeckoRevyn claims it desires tobea close friend to its readers, a friend who enlightens and guides. But the fact is that in every case studied, there is an underlying message on how the readers have the chance to reach something better and more desirable based on her looks and appearance. How is this possible when in fact the magazine creates an artificial reality filled with unattainable ideals? This results in more stress in the lives of women, who constantly long to be “good enough”. The idea of beauty, which is a common theme throughout the issues of the magazine, is unfortunately based on a myth. This in turn results in mental exhaustion, a twisted self- image, low self esteem, anorexia and bulimia among its young female audience.
Keywords: weekly magazine, VeckoRevyn, content, tone, the beauty myth, ideals, consequences
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Gregores, Megan Kesler. "Discoveries for a Community." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/103326.
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This thesis investigates the design of a new, private residential community on the undeveloped island, Thatch Cay, in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Architectural issues explored include the use of load bearing walls versus free standing columns for the primary structure of the individual buildings as a means of ordering space and a way to frame the context of the Caribbean.
Architectural decisions involve how to make openings in the walls, how much of the walls remain, and how the remaining portions of the walls are articulated, as best suited for the specific building type, a prototype residence, in this particular setting in the tropics.Master of Architecture
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Wikström, Mikaela. "Kroppsaktivism i svenska nyhetsmedier : En studie om diskurser och inramning av kroppsaktivism." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-160697.
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From 2015 to 2018 many Swedish news media were publishing articles about the same topic; body activism. The purpose of this study is to examine how Swedish news media linguistically uses the term body activism, how they define the term and if discursive themes and patterns can be identified when it comes to how the news media report about body activism. The study relies on a theoretical framework with ideas about media logic, news values and framing; theories about social movements and the media; theories about beauty standards, norms and the consumer society; and also studies about body activism, fat activism and body positivity. The method used is a connected content analysis of a material consisting of 676 texts published in Swedish news media. The connected content analysis was achieved by the use of Textometrica which is a tool for examining frequency and correlation of words used in texts. To further analyse the results a discourse analysis has been used. The study shows that body activism in Swedish news media gets framed and defined as something that is about opposition and wanting change, something that is about size and weight, something that often gets told through individual stories and experiences, something that takes place on social media, and as an activism that is performed by women for the sake of women. Furthermore, the results of the study show interesting thematic patterns not only in how body activism gets defined but also in how the news media report about body activism. When it comes to the question of how the texts about body activism get told there is a pattern in that a few female activists become main profiles in the texts, which raises questions about representation and power structures. About the framing of the message of the activism, there is a discussion of beauty and looks, self-acceptance and liberation of ideals and norms of beauty. About the framing of the response to the activism there is a discussion about meeting symbolic violence and the risk of facing hate as a body activist. When it comes to the framing of the tool for spreading the activism, I discuss consumerism on social media and the interesting divergence between wanting to oppose how consumerism works to reproduce ideals and norms of beauty with activism on platforms closely linked to commercials and consumerism.
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Ritchie, Rebecca Helen. "Acute haemodynamic effects of three cardioactive agents: metoprolol, sotalol and milrinone : influence of myocardial content and systolic interval /." Title page, table of contents and summary only, 1994. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phr611.pdf.
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Witt, Katarzyna. "Pochodne β-diketonów w roli przenośników jonów metali w polimerowych membranach inkluzyjnych (PIM)." Rozprawa doktorska, Uniwersytet Technologiczno-Przyrodniczy w Bydgoszczy, 2016. http://dlibra.utp.edu.pl/Content/935.
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Bougenies, Fanny. "Expérience de visite muséale for all : visite augmentée et construction de sens : le cas d'enfants avec et sans handicaps au Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille." Thesis, Valenciennes, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015VALE0042.
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A l’heure où la plupart des musées investissent dans des sites Internet qui rendent souvent une grande partie de leurs collections accessibles à distance, la mission du musée en tant que lieu physique d’accès aux œuvres est remise en question. Le rapport aux publics doit être repensé : la nature de sa relation aux œuvres est transformée, et l'émergence du concept de visite augmentée introduit des dispositifs renouvelés de médiation au sein même de l’espace muséal. Cette thèse rend compte d’une expérimentation de terrain autour de Muséo+, outil de médiation de contenus muséographiques au moyen de dispositifs techno-pragmatiques interactifs. L’ensemble des contenus numériques est accessible, via l’application, sur une tablette tactile. Le dispositif et l’application qu’il supporte ont été conçus pour accompagner et guider la découverte du Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, in situ, au cours d’une expérience de visite physique dans les lieux. Ils s’adressent à tous les enfants de 6 à 12 ans, sans et avec handicap divers (surdité, autisme, déficience intellectuelle, précocité) : ce travail s’inscrit ainsi dans une réflexion sur le Design for all (aussi appelée conception universelle). La question de l'accessibilité intellectuelle et sensible est au cœur de ce travail, qui propose un retour d’expérience sur l’appropriation de contenus culturels. Le point de vue adopté consiste à observer et à qualifier une expérience de visite physique avec accompagnement numérique, et les mécanismes de construction de sens mobilisésAt a time when most museums invest in websites that often make much of their collections accessible from a distance, the museum's mission as a physical place where people can access the works is in question. The relationship to the public must be reconsidered : the nature of the relationship to the works is thus transformed, and the emergence of the concept of enhanced tours has introduced devices which should renew mediation within the museum space. This thesis reports a field experiment around Muséo +, a mediation tool which makes museum content available through interactive techno-oriented devices. All the content is accessible via the application, on a digital tablet. The tablet and the application have been designed to support and guide the discovery of the Palais des Beaux-Arts of Lille, in situ, during a physical tour. It is available for all children from age 6 to 12, with and without disabilities (deafness, autism, developmental disabilities, Precocity) : this work is thus part of a reflection on the Design for All (also called Universal Design). The issue of intellectual and sensitive accessibility is central in this work, offering feedback on the appropriation of cultural content. The approach taken is to observe and describe a physical visit experience with digital assistance and the processus used for the construction of meaning
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Nyh, Johan. "From Snow White to Frozen : An evaluation of popular gender representation indicators applied to Disney’s princess films." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för geografi, medier och kommunikation, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-36877.
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Simple content analysis methods, such as the Bechdel test and measuring percentage of female talk time or characters, have seen a surge of attention from mainstream media and in social media the last couple of years. Underlying assumptions are generally shared with the gender role socialization model and consequently, an importance is stated, due to a high degree to which impressions from media shape in particular young children’s identification processes. For young girls, the Disney Princesses franchise (with Frozen included) stands out as the number one player commercially as well as in customer awareness. The vertical lineup of Disney princesses spans from the passive and domestic working Snow White in 1937 to independent and super-power wielding princess Elsa in 2013, which makes the line of films an optimal test subject in evaluating above-mentioned simple content analysis methods. As a control, a meta-study has been conducted on previous academic studies on the same range of films. The sampled research, within fields spanning from qualitative content analysis and semiotics to coded content analysis, all come to the same conclusions regarding the general changes over time in representations of female characters. The objective of this thesis is to answer whether or not there is a correlation between these changes and those indicated by the simple content analysis methods, i.e. whether or not the simple popular methods are in general coherence with the more intricate academic methods.Betyg VG (skala IG-VG)
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黃琬君. "Herding behavior in commodity futures market－the application of Keynes beauty contests." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/63693007764458065926.
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碩士國立政治大學
國際經營與貿易研究所
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This paper primary follows the methods derived by Allen, Morris, and Shin (2003), using a contaminated, or with a supply shock, rational expectation model to build the linear relationship for commodity futures price. In this way, the price could not fully reflect the true information in commodity futures price. Besides, we also use the notion of iterated expectation in our futures price model, and try to figure out whether the price is influences mainly by the public information, but no the true information in the market. Thus, we can imply form this that when participants excessively depend on public information to make decisions, it may cause the futures price to deviate from its true information and thus its fundamental value. From the derivation of our model, we can have identical conclusion as Allen, Morris and Shin (2003) put it－when participants in the market doing expectations about the market’s average to guess other participants’ opinions, their expectation may be influenced mostly by public information in the market but not the true, or private, information they possess, which may result in futures prices dominating by the public information.
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"Legitimizing televised beauty pageants: an organizational study of cultural marketing." 1998. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5889572.
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by Maria Chen.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves [81-85]).
Abstract also in Chinese.
Chapter Ch. 1 --- Introduction --- p.1
Chapter 1. --- The tension of the double goals in media organization --- p.2
Chapter 2. --- Research question --- p.3
Chapter 3. --- Significance --- p.3
Chapter Ch. 2 --- Beauty pageants and television --- p.5
Chapter 1. --- History --- p.5
Chapter (A) --- "Miss USA, Miss Universe" --- p.5
Chapter (B) --- Increasing popularity of beauty pageants in Hong Kong… --- p.5
Chapter 2. --- Formats of beauty pageants --- p.8
Chapter (A) --- TVB --- p.8
Chapter (B) --- ATV --- p.9
Chapter 3. --- Why beauty pageants? --- p.10
Chapter (A) --- A popular TV program --- p.10
Chapter (B) --- Controversial media product --- p.11
Chapter Ch. 3 --- Corporate image and the tension between profit-making and social responsibility: a theoretical linkage --- p.15
Chapter 1. --- Theoretical tension between the two goals --- p.15
Chapter (A) --- The goal of responsibility --- p.15
Chapter (B) --- The goal of profit --- p.19
Chapter (C) --- The relationship between profit and responsibility --- p.20
Chapter (D) --- The source of tension --- p.21
Chapter (E) --- The conflict and compatibility of the double goals --- p.22
Chapter 2. --- The method of tension resolution --- p.24
Chapter (A) --- Marketing --- p.24
Chapter (B) --- Corporate Image --- p.26
Chapter (C) --- The position taken in this thesis --- p.30
Chapter Ch. 4 --- Research methods --- p.32
Chapter 1. --- Hypotheses --- p.32
Chapter 2. --- Methodology --- p.33
Chapter (A) --- In-depth interview --- p.33
Chapter (B) --- Participant observation --- p.36
Chapter (C) --- Documentation analysis --- p.36
Chapter Ch. 5 --- Results --- p.38
Chapter 1. --- TV stations and their structure in Hong Kong --- p.38
Chapter (A) --- TVB's corporate image --- p.39
Chapter (B) --- ATV's corporate image --- p.41
Chapter (C) --- TVB's image for Miss Hong Kong --- p.42
Chapter (D) --- ATV's image for Miss Asia --- p.44
Chapter 2. --- Analysis of the tensions and resolutions in beauty pageants --- p.45
Chapter (A) --- Managing external uncertainty --- p.45
Chapter (B) --- Media frameworks for beauty pageants in Hong Kong --- p.47
Chapter (C) --- Managing internal uncertainty --- p.58
Chapter Ch. 6 --- Conclusion --- p.78
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Her, Yen-Mei, and 何燕梅. "The Impact of Regional Tea Industry Regarding the Government’s Sponsoring of Tea Evaluation Contests For Example:The Oriental Beauty Tea Industry in Miaoli." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/rkzcr4.
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碩士亞太創意技術學院
茶陶創意研究所
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Oriental Beauty Tea, being one of the most famous teas in Taiwan and grown in Miaoli, is a kind of heavily fermented tea. Hand plucked, it is made with the sprouts of tea trees stung by small insects, namely green leafhoppers or Jacobiasca formosana. Carefully processed, it is pesticide free. Hand-mixed, it is possible to control its degree of fermentation. As a result, the tea gives a natural honey taste and fruit aroma, smooth and rich. No wonder it is regarded as a special tea of Miaoli with high economic values. This study examines not only the sponsoring of the tea contest by the county government but also the marketing manners in order to educate tea merchants and tea farmers to operate tea businesses. Promoting the quality of the tea, the farmers’ income will increase naturally. Moreover, it can promote local sightseeing business and help promote the development of tourism. As the Chinese tea culture prospers, passing down from generations to generations, people will be delighted in tasting the healthiest, safest and the hygienic tea in Miaoli. This is the motivation of this thesis. The research findings are summed up as follows: 1.The substantial meanings of the government’s sponsoring of the Oriental Beauty Tea Contest: (1) Achieve the goals of marketing; (2) safeguard consumers’ rights; (3) increase tea farmers’ income; (4) highlight the features; (5) promote tea industry; (6) improve tea processing technique; (7) promote tea quality; (8) packed and marketed by grades. 2.The changes of the mechanism of government’s sponsoring of tea evaluation contests: (1) Similar; (2) renting tea gardens; (3) operated by division of labor; (4) new thinking and new ideas; (5) profound studies of management and manufacturing techniques; (6) adjustment of contestants’ qualifications; (7) ferment, tea color, and taste changed; (8) food safety; and (9) adjustment of coding. 3.The impacts of the development of regional industry culture regarding the government’s sponsoring of tea evaluation contests: (1)Rooted firmly; (2) consumers’ identification; (3) promote tea trade; (4) win-win situations between the government and farmers; (5) give life force; (6) popularization of tea drinking culture; (7) catch up with the trends of the times; and (8) benefits oriented 4.The impacts on economic development regarding the government’s sponsoring of tea evaluation contests: (1)Sales improved; (2) increased consumers groups; (3) farmers’ benefits increased; (4) focus on tea garden management; (5) marketing benefits; (6) limited quantity; (7) clear classification; (8) featured; (9) brand confidence; (10) negative impacts; (11) promote economic development; (12) balance between production, manufacturing, and marketing 5.The impacts on consumers regarding the government’s sponsoring of tea evaluation contests: (1) Design standardized packing; (2) clear classification; (3) confidence in quality; (4) media campaign; (5) anti-counterfeit mechanism; (6) featured industry; (7) difficulties in brand standardization; (8) showing off; (9) too pricey; (10) limited; (11) gift oriented 6.The impacts on tourism regarding the government’s sponsoring of tea evaluation contests: (1)media campaign; (2) sponsor trade fair; (3) featured; (4) better planning of routes; (5) recreate its value; (6) addition sales of other farm produce; (7) too pricey 7.The impact of regional management of tea industry regarding the government’s sponsoring of tea evaluation contests: (1)Change in accordance with the trends; (2) capital income; (3) dedicated operation; (4) fallow of tea garden; (5) limited species; (6) certification of organic tea; (7) diverse operations; (8) integration of production, manufacturing, and marketing; (9) safety drink; (10) welcomed by consumers; (11) deriving leading function 8.The difficulties faced by the oriental beauty tea industry: (1) Shortage of tea picking labor; (2) decreasing number of tea gardens; (3) smaller green leafhoppers are difficult to prevent; (4) the legacy of tea; (5) low social status of tea artists; (6) chaotic market; (7) must have certain features.
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Kozee, Leah. "Unequal Beauty: Exploring Classism in the Western Beauty Standard." 2016. http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/sociology_theses/62.
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The Western beauty standard revolves around three main attributes: thinness, youth, and whiteness. Combined, this ideal corresponds with privilege. Past studies have explored how racism and ageism are embedded in the beauty standard, but little work has explored how classism is included in the Western beauty standard. Utilizing the classical theoretical work of Bourdieu and Simmel, I explore the ways in which the Western beauty standard is dependent upon privilege and cultural capital. Using the methodology of a content analysis, the current study examines four women’s fashion and beauty magazines. I find that the both the language and the imagery used in the magazines allows for classism to be explicitly and implicitly displayed. I also explore the intersectionality of classism, racism, and ageism to develop a clearer understanding of how the three types of privilege are sustained within the beauty standard.
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Tong, Chien-Hwa, and 董建華. "A Psychological Game of Beauty Contest for Asset Pricing." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/10666629356843585460.
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碩士國立臺灣大學
會計與管理決策組
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This work builds an explore model of human’s mental processes for their strategic interaction to earn capital gains of an asset in the situation which is liked the Beauty contest as Keynes said in his famous book “General theory”. The structure of this thesis is as below: the first chapter is an introduction, the second chapter is for literatures’ review, and also includes a case study of CML and some simulations of it. The third chapter constructs the core of this paper. I propose a two players psychological game to demonstrate how people, who has prospective utilities; regret aversion attitudes; bounded rationality and affected by emotion may behave in a Beauty contest. The last chapter contains conclusions and possible extensive studies.