Syftet med undersökningen är dels att undersöka språkbrukarnas uppfattningar om dödsannonsernas symbolbruk relaterat till respektive land, dels beskriva likheter och skillnader i faktiska dödsannonser publicerade i svenskspråkiga tidningar i de båda länderna. Vi har därför genomfört två delundersökningar. Den första är en enkätundersökning om svens...
The aim of this study has been to explore the different descriptions of children with school-absenteeism that has been presented in four well distributed newspapers in Sweden between 2010 and 2020. A social constructionist perspective and theories about medicalization and labeling has been used to show how written language in media has effects on h...
The case ‘Sagerska målet’ has been recognized because of how Sophie Sager by herself reported a man to the police for abuse in 1848. In her report it also became clear that she had been the victim of an attempted rape. The case then gained attention in the press. The purpose of the study is to understand why different depictions of women and men a...
The aim of this bachelor thesis was to examine how the Swedish- and American daily press portrayed the young activist Greta Thunberg in their news coverage between the period of August 2019 and October 2019. Our research questions purposely intend to define how Greta Thunberg gets depicted, and to which extent the daily press insinuate her to be th...
This dissertation examines how the art museum’s societal function has been constructed in the Swedish public debate. The dissertation shows that the cultural section of the daily press is, and has been, a forum where actors exchange opinions about art museums, and where notions on the art museums’ functions are co-produced. The specific aim of the ...
This thesis is a study of the press reception of Ebba Witt-Brattström's Århundradets kärlekskrig (2016) and Horace Engdahl's Den sista grisen (2016). The study questions comprise the following; how the critics value the novels, what the critics' expectations are, and if non-literary assessment criteria have influenced the reviews and author persona...
The aim of this Bachelor’s thesis is to increase the knowledge of how reading is described in Swedish newspapers. The subject of reading has been a source of debate for a long time but the characteristics of the discussion is changing as new reading practices evolve and as our reading habits change. How reading is portrayed in media is of relevance...
The aim of this bachelor study is to examine and analyze how climate change was reported in Finnish and Swedish press in 2019. Framing theory was used to categorize different frames when reporting on climate change, in total 214 articles were analyzed, of which 127 were from Svenska Dagbladet and 87 from Hufvudstadsbladet. The research questions ...
Den finländska arbetskraftsinvandringen till Sverige som kulminerade år 1970 ledde till att nästan 200000 finländare bosatte sig runtom i landet. Vågen av finländare etablerade sig i stor utsträckning på de svenska fabrikerna inom metallindustrin. Denna studie syftar till att undersöka hur gruppen finländare har representerats i Aftonbladet och Dag...
