<p>The role of web 2.0 technologies has become windfall for knowledge building in higher education in the entire modern world. Web 2.0 technologies (Podcasts, Wikis, and Blogs) are being explored for collaboration, innovation, and creative purposes in digital literacy. The ICT based system (Learning Management System, Student Portal, Web mail) of Växjö University lacks web 2.0 technologies (Podcasts, Blogs, and Wikis) that are important for classroom learning for knowledge building. This research intends to investigate and describe the educational importance of web 2.0 (Podcasts, Wikis, and Blogs) as a possible source to facilitate class room learning in higher education in Sweden. In this regard, role of web 2.0 in its current usage in the teaching and learning have been identified and, thereby, possible measures for more improvements have been suggested in this research. Keeping in view the potential of web 2.0 as content development and management technologies and incorporating their role in formative evaluation of students, peer assessment, collaborative content creation, and individual as well as group reflection on learning experiences, the researcher conducted a survey by asking very simple and short questions as to how far has this potential been exploited in Sweden. Based on the findings and the empirical evidences thereof a model has been proposed for maximum utility of web 2.0 technologies.</p>

Många kvinnor betraktar amning som det naturligaste sättet att ge sitt nyfödda barn föda. Mödrar får information av sjukvården att bröstmjölk innehåller all näring som det nyfödda barnet behöver samt antikroppar som skyddar barnet mot de vanligaste barnsjukdomarna. Det är inte alla kvinnor som kan amma i dagens samhälle och detta kan leda till att känslor väcks hos den nyblivna mamman som under graviditeten tänkt amma men som sedan inte kunnat göra det. Syftet med studien var att utifrån bloggtexter beskriva mödrars upplevelser av amningssvårigheter under de första sex månaderna efter barnets födelse. Studien har en kvalitativ metod med en induktiv ansats. Data samlades in genom blogginlägg samt kommentarer från femton olika bloggar och analyserades sedan med hjälp av en kvalitativ innehållsanalys. I resultatet framkom två kategorier: ”Leva upp till samhällets normer och attityder” samt ”Det professionella stödet i amningsrådgivning”. Kategorierna bildade sedan temat: ”Mödrars kamp att kunna balansera krav och förväntningar på amningen”. Utifrån denna studie kan personal som arbetar med mödrar och amningsrådgivning på olika vårdenheter, få ökad kunskap om hur mödrar upplever amningssvårigheter. Studien kan ligga till grund för ändrade vårdrutiner samt att patientsäkerheten ökas. Det i sin tur kan bidra till att mödrar upplever mindre lidande i möte med hälso- och sjukvården. / Many women consider breastfeeding as the most natural way to give their newborn child nutrition. Mothers receive information from medical staff that breast milk contains all the nutrients that the infant needs and antibodies that protect the baby against common childhood diseases. Not all women can breastfeed in today's society and that could wake feelings in mothers that during the pregnancy has been thinking to breastfeeding but who involuntarily have been unable to do so. The aim of the study was to with blog texts describe mother’s experiences of breastfeeding difficulties in the first six months following the birth. The study was based on a qualitative approach with an inductive approach. Data were collected through blog posts and comments from fifteen different blogs and then analysed using qualitative content analysis. The results are based on two categories: “Living up to the norms and attitudes” and “Professional support in breastfeeding consulting”. These categories formed a theme: “Mothers struggle to balance between the requirements and expectations of breastfeeding”. Based on this study, the staff who work with mothers and breastfeeding consulting on various health care units enhance the understanding of how mothers experiencing breastfeeding difficulties. This furthermore could contribute to mother´s experiencing less distress interaction with health and medical care.

Denna uppsats handlar om personer med neuropsykiatriska funktionsnedsättningar (NPF) som det finns en pågående samhällsdebatt kring (Lundälv 2013). Syftet med studien var att förstå hur personer med gruppen hanterar eventuella svårigheter i vardagen. Där ville vi bland annat urskilja om det fanns resultat som tydde på strategier, som personer med gruppen använder sig av för att kunna dölja eller anpassa sina funktionsnedsättningar i samhället och i sådana fall vilka. Som metod använde vi en hermeneutisk utgångspunkt där vi hämtade empiri från bloggar skrivna av personer som finns i målgruppen. Som teori använde vi oss av Lazaruz &amp; Lazarus (2006) copingstrategier. Vi tematiserade vårt resultat och analys utifrån de två olika huvudkategorierna i coping, problemfokuserad och känslofokuserad coping. Under problemfokuserad coping tematiserade vi det utifrån copingstrategierna planering, söka information, söka och finna lösningar, konfrontera, ventilera och prioritera. Under känslofokuserad coping tematiserade vi det utifrån copingstrategierna distansera, förneka, undvika, känna uppgivenhet och ventilera. Vi framställde vårt resultat och analys gemensamt efter vardera copingstrategi. Vi kom fram till att de använder sig av strategier som de i vissa fall kanske inte ens är medvetna om och att det var enkelt att koppla det till copingteorin. I slutdiskussionen kopplade vi ihop vårt resultat med den tidigare forskning där vi jämförde om tidigare forskning styrkte vårt resultat vilket den främst gjorde. Undantaget var främst att Bussing och Mehtas (2013) studie visade på existerande stigmatisering av ungdomar med ADHD vilket vi inte hittade mycket i bloggarna om. / This paper is about people with neuropsychiatric disorders, NEPRC, which we have seen is an ongoing public debate in Sweden and many other countries(Lundälv 2013). The purpose of the study is to understand how people with neuropsychiatric disabilities manage difficulties in their everyday life. We wanted to distinguish whether there were any results which suggested strategies that people with NEPRC uses to hide or adapt their disabilities in society. As method we used a hermeneutical research were we got our empirical data from blogs written by people with a NEPRC. As theory, we used Lazaruz &amp; Lazarus(2006) coping strategies. We themed our results and analysis divided in the two main categories of coping: problem-focused and emotion-focused coping. In problem-focused coping, we themed the result and analysis in the coping strategies planning, sought information, sought and found solutions, confronted, ventilated and prioritized. During emotional focused coping, we themed the coping strategies in distance, deny, avoid, feel despair and ventilate. We produced our results and analysis together by each coping strategy. We came to the conclusion that we were able to see that the people we used in our study uses strategies, which they may not be aware of in some cases, and it was easy to bind it to the theory of coping. In the discussion we connected our results with previous researches in which we compared the results of our study if it confirmed each other or not, which it mainly did. The exception was Bussing´s and Mehta´s (2013) study which showed the existing stigmatization of adolescents with ADHD, which we did not find much from the bloggers that confirmed it.

Betazeta Networks S.A. es una empresa dedicada a la publicación de información mediante una red de blogs de diversas temáticas. A corto plazo, la empresa necesita visualizar cómo se distribuye el contenido actual para tomar decisiones estratégicas respecto al mercado que enmarca los contenidos que publican. En el mediano plazo, la empresa emitirá contenido generado por los usuarios, el cual debe ser revisado para mantener la calidad de cada Blog. Para esto se requiere contar con métodos automáticos de clasificación para dichos mensajes, los cuales serán revisados por periodistas expertos en diferentes áreas. El trabajo realizado en esta memoria constituye un prototipo que apunta a resolver la problemática de la empresa. Para ello se construye una plataforma de procesamiento de texto, denominada Tanalyzer, que permite manejar grandes volúmenes de información, visualizar, clasificar y hacer predicciones sobre las temáticas de nuevos documentos utilizando text-mining, sub área de la minería de datos especializada en texto, implementando el modelo de tópicos generativo Latent Dirichlet Allocation. Las pruebas realizadas al software son satisfactorias. Sobre un modelo que maneja 8 temáticas, cada una asociada a uno de los 8 blogs de la empresa que se encuentran bajo estudio, es posible predecir documentos con un 80% de precision y 64% de recall, lo que demuestra la viabilidad de la aplicación. Actualmente, la solución permite escalar tanto en velocidad como en costos. Con un tiempo de ejecución de 2.5 horas para 300.000 documentos, permite entrenar en ese tiempo un mes de publicaciones a una tasa de 1250 artículos enviados diariamente repartidos en 8 blogs, frente a la tasa actual de publicación de 12.5 artículos diarios por blog. Entrenar 10 veces un modelo de esta magnitud representa para la empresa un costo de $USD 17 utilizando los servicios de Amazon Cloud Computing. Si bien los resultados obtenidos son positivos y la memoria cumple sus objetivos a cabailidad, existen múltiples mejoras realizables a la plataforma que constituyen el trabajo futuro de esta investigación y que deben ser consideradas por la empresa para llevar a cabo una implementación en producción. Por un lado es posible mejorar aún más los tiempos de ejecución y por otra parte se debe solucionar la disminución de recall cuando la cantidad de temáticas y la especificidad de éstas aumenta.

Background: Alcohol has become ubiquitous in Swedish lifestyle blogs, as alcohol can be present in one third or one fifth of blog posts in some of Sweden’s biggest lifestyle blogs. Research suggests that exposure to media and commercial communications on alcohol increases consumption and that users and user-generated content related to alcohol and drinking may intensify social norms around alcohol consumption. This means Swedish lifestyle bloggers may be exposing alcohol and creating social normative influence that can affect blog readers’ intention to consume alcohol. Purpose: The purpose of this thesis was to explore if and how the presence of alcoholic beverages on Swedish blogs may affect young females’ intention to pursue alcohol consumption. Firstly, the study looks at to what extent and how alcoholic beverages and alcohol-related activities appear on Swedish lifestyle blogs. Secondly, the study explores if the presence of alcohol in blogs is recognised by blog readers and if they perceive this to affect their own and others' intention to consume alcohol. Method: This thesis has two different data collections to fulfil the purpose of the study. First a web content analysis is conducted on eight Swedish blogs to explore the presence of alcohol. Thereafter semi-structured interviews are conducted with nine respondents. The findings are compared to previous findings and analysed from theories on behavioural change. Conclusion: Alcohol and alcohol-related activities are depicted frequently in some of Sweden’s biggest lifestyle blogs when variation between blogs and monthly variance per blog are considered. Alcohol is put in a favourable setting through a positive or a commercial context. Blog readers perceive blog posts to contain positive alcohol content, and claim others may be affected to consume alcohol by these as bloggers have influence empowered by their social status. A majority of respondents claim they themselves are not affected by blog posts with alcohol. It is suggested this is because subjective attitude towards alcohol and a belief of personal control has stronger impact on intention to pursue alcohol-related activities. Another suggestion is that more salient and ready accessible referents such as parents, family and friends are deemed more important in affecting norms around alcohol through individuals’ perceived view of these referents’ desires and actions.

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Title: Blogs as a new tool of communication and promotion of fashion brands. Research question: How do fashion companies make use of bloggers as a new tool of communication to promote their brands? Purpose: The purpose of this study is to observe and explore how the fashion brands use bloggers and their blogs as a new method to advertise and communicate about them and their products to consumers. The study is conducted from an external point of view. Design/methodology/approach: This study is exploratory and descriptive and uses a qualitative method, with non-randomly method where the sample is composed of six international fashion blogs. To collect data the authors used guideline to conduct the content analysis of these selected blogs. Findings: This study shows that brands use the blogger as human being with the phenomenon of the word-of-mouth and opinion formers/leaders and they also make us of the blog content to incorporate ads to directly communicate to the online communities.

Bakgrund: Ortorexia nervosa är ett fenomen som beskrivs olika runt om i världen och tidigare forskning är bristfällig. Orsakerna till fenomenet är oklara men det kan ses som en samsjuklighet mellan Anorexia nervosa, tvångssyndrom och överträningssyndrom. Syfte: Syftet med denna studie var att beskriva personers erfarenheter av att drabbas av Ortorexia nervosa. Metod: Data samlades in genom sex bloggar och analyserades med en kvalitativ innehållsanalys med induktiv ansats. Resultat: Ur analysen av datamaterialet framträdde tre huvudkategorier; När hälsa blir ohälsa, vara i ett missbruk och vägen mot frihet. Huvudkategorierna innefattar tio underkategorier. Konklusion: Denna studie har bidragit med mer kunskap om personers erfarenheter av Ortorexia nervosa. Sjuksköterskan kan med fördel använda denna kunskap för att ge en personcentrerad vård. En ytterligare slutsats är att mer kunskap om fenomenet krävs vilket kan bidra till tidigare identifiering och effektivare behandling. / Background: Orthorexia nervosa is a phenomenon that is described differently around the world. The reasons for this phenomenon is unclear but it may be seen as a comorbidity between anorexia nervosa, obsessive compulsive disorder and overtraining syndrome. Aim: The aim of this study was to describe people's experiences of suffering from Ortorexia nervosa. Method: Data were collected through six blogs and analyzed by a qualitative content analysis with inductive approach. Results: From the analysis of the data emerged three main categories; When health becomes unhealthy, being in an addiction and the way to freedom. The main categories include ten subcategories. Conclusion: This study has contributed more knowledge about people's experiences of orthorexia nervosa. Nurses can benefit from using this knowledge to provide person-centered care. A further conclusion is that more knowledge about the phenomenon is required, which can contribute to earlier detection and more effective treatment.

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