This study aims to investigate the representation of the region Tornedalen and tornedalians, a Swedish minority, in national news media through a critical discourse analysis. Despite being recognized as a national minority, tornedalians have reported a lack of media coverage, which can lead to feelings of invisibility and discrimination. News media...
Digitalization has made it possible to consume news through both newspapers and social media, but we rarely consider if both platforms share the same news selection. This bachelor study aims to compare which agenda Dagens Nyheter conveys through the choices in the displayed news on the front page of the newspaper and the Instagram feed. The theoret...
This thesis aims to conduct a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of news articles and tweets discussing the climate protest that occurred on October 14th, 2022, where activists threw tomato soup on Van Gogh’s “Sunflower” at the London National Museum. The purpose is to investigate the media logic and the underlying social and cultural factors of ico...
Studiens syfte är att undersöka vilka diskurser som representeras i dokumentärfilmen "Kan vi förlåta Margaux?” producerad av public service företaget SVT. Vidare undersöks den kritik som diverse nyhetsartiklar har presenterat i samband med dokumentärfilmens publicering. Kritiken som framförs innehåller bland annat uttalanden som berör public servic...
Abstract: We consider the problem of sentiment analysis in news media articles cast as a three-way classification task: negative, positive, or neutral. We show that subdividing the training corpus by topic (local news, sports, hi-tech, and others) and training separate sentiment classifiers for each sub-corpus improves classification F1 scores. We ...
This thesis has been carried out as there has been a need to expand research in men's violence against women in close relationships. This by a historical comparison to discover causal explanation and conceptions with a focus on change and continuity over time. Men's violence against women needs more research, although new interventions such as laws...
Extractive text summarization has over the years been an important research area in Natural Language Processing. Numerous methods have been proposed for extracting information from text documents. Recent works have shown great success for English summarization tasks by fine-tuning the language model BERT using large summarization datasets. However,...
The media plays a major role in today's society. What we do not experience ourselves, we can be told through the media. Seen from this, the purpose of this study is to investigate how immigrants are described in news articles in Swedish morning and evening newspapers during the period 2016-2021, with focus on the negative aspects. We will focus on ...
Published in JMIR public health and surveillance
The Netherlands, like most European countries, has a robust influenza surveillance system in primary care. However, there is a lack of real-time nationally representative data on hospital admissions for complications of influenza. Anecdotal information about hospital capacity problems during influenza epidemics can, therefore, not be substantiated....
Medias roll i samhället är stor och den spelar en viktig roll i hur samhället ska kunna få ny information om vad som sker runt om i världen. Kvällstidningar rapporterar dagligen om politiska, kulturella och även brottsliga händelser som sker och nyheterna når tusentals människor som får ta del av det. Detta gör att media har ett stort ansvar på sin...
