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This study examines how self-tracking technologies are repurposed within the creative practice of GPS art, focusing on how meaning is produced when tools designed for optimization and behavioral regulation are redirected toward expressive and communicative ends. The motivation for this inquiry lies in the need to understand the relationship between humans and machines beyond deterministic accounts
Global plastic waste production has more than doubled in the past two decades, with plastic packaging accounting for 40% in 2019. Due to low recycling rates, pollution and limited fossil resources, increasing circularity in the plastic industry has become increasingly important. Chemical recycling through pyrolysis, unlike mechanical recycling, can treat contaminated, mixed plastic waste and incre
The Thesis examines how political news satire functions within Armenia's hybrid political regime by analysing ArmComedy, a well-known satirical show. Current scholarship on political satire mostly focuses on Western, developed democracies and examines effect-based questions of knowledge, mobilisation, engagement, and participation, leaving a gap in understanding how political satire functions
What can monuments do as communicative and imaginative media? This thesis exemplifies how counter-monuments present an entry point for Media and Communication scholars to re- conceptualise traditional monuments, shifting the focus from a noun to a processual verb based on conviviality. Accordingly, using a case-study methodology informed by Flyvbjerg’s (2001) and Dewey’s (1934) pragmatic understan
The number and complexity of modern software systems have increased substantially since their inception. This unrelenting growth is making manual code review more difficult year by year, and the gap between the amount of code and security verification creates a critical need for automated tools that can assist developers in detecting vulnerabilities. A possible solution to this is large language m
Background: The shift from product based to service oriented economies has transformed business strategies, particularily in B2B contexts, where value creation increasingly relies on integrated service offerings. Digitalization, especially through cloud based infrastructure models such as CPaaS, has accelerated this transition, by enabling scalable real time solutions. As a result, companies face
On Rednote, a social media platform for lifestyle and interests in China, users often describe some public comment sections as having 活人感 (huó rén gǎn, liveliness), a feeling that someone has personally invested effort and left perceivable traces in what is said. Voice comments have become a visible component of this interactional environment. I explored how asynchronous voice comments are used in
The focus of this thesis is to examine how the civic identity of the second-generation migrants in Italy is constructed through media representations of migration, citizenship, and national belonging. Previous studies focused on migrants’ integration, which was based on their socio-economic situation, mobility, and assimilation process. I argue that these approaches are insufficient to explain how
Despite its rapid growth within sustainable finance, ESG has faced criticism for functioning primarily as a risk management tool, failing to capture holistic conceptions of value beyond those that are financially material. This paper explores the Holistic Value Addition (HVA) framework as an alternative to ESG in Australia, paying attention to First Nations perspectives and intergenerational respo
Efforts to criminalize ecocide have gained renewed political momentum amid escalating environmental crisis. A key development in this context is the 2024 reform of the Belgian Penal Code, which introduced the crime of ecocide in Article 94. This thesis examines the legal and political process leading to this reform through key informant interviews and library research. It identifies key moments du
The task of matching fixed-order event generation with the parton shower is physically non-trivial and closely related to an efficiency bottleneck of event generators. In this thesis, we examine and implement two novel matching schemes in KrkNLO and MAcNLOPS for the LHC process p p > Z Z. As both schemes generate positive-definite event samples, they can be interesting alternatives to MC@NLO. The
Economics education continues to reproduce an economics paradigm divorced from the material reality of climate change and environmental degradation. This thesis investigated the inclusion of ecological economics as an alternative paradigm in the Czech undergraduate economics curricula by employing a mixed methods approach. The content analysis revealed that the chosen programmes do not integrate e
Food can be transformed into data, but it is never only data. This thesis takes the Chinese health and weight management app Boohee as a case study to examine the tension behind its dietary tracking functionality. Rather than evaluating Boohee’ s effectiveness as a health technology, this study frames it as a digital media environment that enables users to record, compare, and self-evaluate dietar
In the dual pursuit of expanding non-fossil fuel electricity capacity and becoming a ‘developed’ nation, India’s development trajectory drives the rapid expansion of large-scale solar photovoltaics (PV). In Jaisalmer, however, this expansion encounters complex socio-ecological landscapes marked by questions of (in)justice and uneven development. Drawing on energy geographies and energy justice, th
Sweden’s drained peatlands produce around one-fifth of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions, and although rewetting is widely recognised as an important mitigation measure, progress has remained slow. This thesis characterises Sweden’s drained peatlands as a multi-level socio-ecological-technical system (ML-SETS) and analyses why the drainage-based regime persists. Using a mixed-methods design g
This thesis explores audience engagement within the dark romance genre, using the Cat and Mouse Duet as a case study. Through discussions with readers, we aimed to explore underlying motivations for engagement and dive deeper into the genre as a whole. As dark romance has only recently solidified its position as a subgenre, previous research has mostly focused on regular romance. In the past decad
What happens when the infrastructure designed to connect a city ends up dividing it instead? This thesis investigates the relationship between urban mobility and spatial justice, examining how roads, railways, and transit corridors generate barriers that are not only physical but social and cultural: separating communities, limiting access to opportunity, and reinforcing patterns of inequality ins
The thesis argues that the crisis communication framework used by Boeing in the Boeing 737 MAX crisis has limitations. Because the platform public is no longer just passive recipients of crisis information, and regulatory agencies in other countries are not just backgrounds in crisis contexts. In transnational crises, the definition of safety is not determined by a single entity, but rather a proc
SLAMF6 is an immunoregulatory molecule studied in cancer research as a possible target for immunotherapy in acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). The absence of SLAMF6 has been shown to elevate T cell activation and improve anti-tumour responses (1). The regulatory mechanism of SLAMF6 is not fully understood. The aim of this thesis was to investigate the effect of SLAMF6 on T cell signalling using fluore
