This paper presents a study on the dynamics of sentiment polarisation in the active online discussion communities formed around a controversial topic—immigration. Using a collection of tweets in the Swedish language from 2012 to 2019, we track the development of the communities and their sentiment polarisation trajectories over time and in the cont...
Corporate Social Responsibility or CSR has, in step with societal development and awareness, driven companies to take several aspects into account. Issues relating to climate, sustainability, social and financial issues are some of the meanings of social responsibility and to which companies are taking into account. The knowledge about the textile ...
Old media meets new media - a case study of public service and social media. More traditional media such as public service-radio have faced challenges when digitalization allowed audiences to change platforms and use new medias. The aim of this study is therefore to analyse the way that the public service-radio in Sweden, Sveriges Radio P1 and P3, ...
Medier är något som vi dagligen interagerar med i olika sammanhang och det som vi ser i media påverkar hur vi uppfattar verkligheten och olika aspekter av den. Eftersom media har inverkan på vår verklighetsbeskrivning är det därför viktigt att det som visas i media är så objektivt och verklighetsnära som möjligt. I denna studie avser vi att undersö...
Denna studie undersöker hur en organisation försöker återuppbygga sitt rykte och förtroende när de kommunicerar direkt med sina konsumenter på deras Facebooksida. En kvalitativ textanalys har använts för att undersöka företaget Kronfågels kriskommunikation i deras kommentarsfält till två inlägg på deras Facebook. Inläggen publicerades i maj och sep...
In the fall of 2021 Swedish news media reported a maternity care crisis in Region Stockholm. Midwives resigned in protest against deficient working conditions and Region Stockholm appointed a special coordinator to solve the situation. The study aims to examine how Region Stockholm communicatively and strategically addresses problems in maternity c...
As we were writing this chapter, the 2020 election campaign in the US was entering its last week before the elections. There are probably few more news-intensive events in the world than the American presidential elections. The smallest and, in other settings, seemingly irrelevant details of a candidate’s behaviour and appearance (a slip of the ton...
The aim of the study is to investigate how femininity is depicted by the female, influential artists Madonna and Beyoncé through music videos. Besides their influence in the musical world, they have also become role models and feminist symbols for women all over the world – however not without also receiving critique. The study will identify the le...
COVID-19 hit the world causing global health, social and political problems. Exceptional misinformation about the pandemic has been circulating through social media and contributed to the public panic and confusion about how to deal with the crisis. In addition to fake news and rumors, conspiracy theories are among the most common type of COVID-19 ...
Informationssubventioner av olika typer – pressmeddelanden inkluderade – har fått ett allt större utrymme i journalistiken, inte minst till följd av ekonomiska påtryckningar där journalisterna måste skapa nyheter kostnadseffektivt. Därför använder de sig av färdigpaketerat material från externa aktörer. Kritiker i engelsktalande länder har karakte...
