Aestheticism re-carnate [Thesis].
From Lady Gaga's meat dress to the "Body Worlds" exhibition exposing human anatomy; our relationship with flesh can be disgusting or even frightening. Why does this relationship to flesh change when it is taken out of context, out of its container or put in the shape of a woman? Let's find out with Lisa Salamandra's thesis that explores the stereotypical image of women by creating hybrids and female bodies from raw meat advertisements.
Technology, what recipe for a "new normal" in education?
Technology is a powerful tool for transformation, but only under certain conditions: a common and shared vision among all the actors involved is undoubtedly a good starting point. A recent report compares different educational reforms in the digital domain and illustrates the points of convergence and the specificities of each experience. Each country has its own specific trajectories, in which technology is not the only determining factor of success.
Online behavioral influence: studies in the pressure-free submission paradigm - Thesis
The role of avatars in pressure-free submission: the anthropomorphism of the avatar has a very real importance in inter-individual interactions.
Masculinities in skirts [Thesis].
"In what way(s) do consumer practices constructed as feminine participate in the deconstruction or even the reconstruction of masculinity?" How do men in Western countries who wear skirts move the relationship to a garment that, in their home, has not always been attributed to the feminine? And, basically, how and why do we gender everyday practices?
The New Spirit of the University [Thesis].
Through the prism of research on the university in French-speaking Belgium, Céline Hoerner's thesis puts higher education and research back into their new relationship with the world. To the world of knowledge, of work, of business, of public authorities.
Indeed, the university participates today in a "new regime of knowledge where scientific questions and those of a political and social nature meet".