Magister Bibliothecologiae - MBibl / The project examines the information seeking behaviour of a small group of so-called Generation Y students at the Stellenbosch University as they undertake an academic assignment. There is consensus across the world that universities need to adapt to the needs of Generation Y students, brought up with high-level information technology, the internet and social networking. However, research shows that this does not mean that they are information literate. They have high-tech skills but often do not know how to analyse an information need or discriminate between information sources. Information scientist Carol Kuhlthau develop the ISP model upon which the study was based. Her model sees information seeking as a complex cognitive and affective process. Successful seekers have learned how to manage the process. University libraries need to adapt their information retrieval systems and services to meet the needs of their new kinds of students. The study, a small-scale intensive qualitative case study, hopes to provide insight into how they might do this. The researcher collected data while the participants were writing the assignment. Data gathering methods included interviews, journal writings and questionnaires. / South Africa

The theme of this thesis is gender equality, and especially gender equality in school. The study assumes a poststructuralist position and aims to demonstrate how gender equality is problematized in the world of education. Through studies of documents and interviews with people in the school world, the representations of the gender equality problem were brought to light. A WPR-perspective helped in the process of revealing how gender equality is “made”. The material were reduced to three categories: gender roles, ethnicity, and knowledge. The research questions were based on Carol Bacchis WPR-perspective: 1) what is the problem with gender equality? 2) what assumptions underlie the problem? 3) What is left unproblematic? and 4) what are the effects? The result of the study shows that there are a lot of dichotomies in how gender equality is represented, but the primary representation is a matter of me/others. Through the problematization of boys (that is, students), culture (Swedish “equal” and non-Swedish, unequal “others”) and knowledge (unknowing, hence unequal other teachers) is the problem made someone else's and hence, ones own responsibility fails to represent the problem.

The aim of this study is to ascertain where pupils in primaryschool search for information when they have a specific question to answer. I also question how they explain their choice, how they perceive the results of their search process and what perceptions librarian and teachers hold regarding students' informationretrieval. I focus in particular on how the pupils’ made their choice: nonfiction books contra the Internet in order to discover whether orn ot Internet has, by and large, replaced nonfiction books for pupils.The empirical data was collected through interviews with fourpupils, their teacher and their school librarian. The material has beenanalysed and interpreted based upon Carol C. Kuhlthaus´ teachingmodel and previous research. The results of my study indicate that nonfiction books have lost theirr elevance in terms of pupils' information retrieval. Pupils’ firstchoice when searching for information is Internet. Howevernonfiction material has still an important role to play. Many slowreaders or readers who are generally uninterested in reading fiction choose to read nonfiction for pleasure. Reading nonfiction also improves reading skills and in particular reading comprehension. Moreover all pupils must learn how to read for information and to understand what they are reading before they are able to navigate the more advanced texts used on Internet. Thereby it is possible to explain a demand for well written nonfiction literature both now and in the future.

Cette thèse explore la problématique de la violence à travers deux corpus distincts : le féminisme du care et le féminisme autochtone, principalement nord-américain. S’inspirant des travaux de Carol Gilligan en psychologie morale et sociale, ses propos démontrent l’existence d’un fil conducteur entre la répétition d’une « psychologie de la dissociation », en Occident, et la forme de vie patriarcale qui la définit. Le dialogue avec le féminisme autochtone nous permet de saisir de nouvelles articulations matérielles et politiques de cette violence à travers l’expérience de la colonisation. En parallèle avec le care, le féminisme autochtone nous permet aussi de concevoir de nouvelles formes de résistance éthique, épistémologique et politique à cette violence. L’introduction pose le problème de la thèse autour de la violence, de la théorie politique et du féminisme. Le premier chapitre discute des tabous et des difficultés qui entourent encore aujourd’hui les théories féministes, incluant les deux corpus étudiés. Le deuxième chapitre discute de l’évolution des débats sur le care et les travaux de Carol Gilligan depuis les années 1980 jusqu’à aujourd’hui. Coeur de la thèse, le troisième chapitre présente la critique de la violence patriarcale telle que Gilligan l’articule dans ses travaux les plus récents. Il s’ouvre ainsi sur une critique de l’amour tragique et des considérations de genre qui en constituent le centre. Le quatrième chapitre discute enfin plus en profondeur du féminisme autochtone. Ses enjeux sont présentés en reprenant la méthode traditionnelle de la roue de la médicine. L’ensemble montre une approche critique, phénoménologique et thérapeutique sur l’enjeu de la violence qui nous préoccupe.

Försvarsmakten är en av Sveriges största statliga myndigheter, och samtidigt en av de mest jämställdhetssegregerade och manligt dominerade organisationerna. Från Försvarsmakten högsta organisatoriska ledning, impliceras att ökad jämställdhet ökar den operativa effekten. Studiens empiri består av tio respondentintervjuer med representanter från den högsta organisatoriska ledningen i Försvarsmakten. Vid analysen användes Carrol Bacchis kvalitativa metod ”What´s the problem Represented to Be”. Resultatet visar att två olika uppgifter i Försvarsmakten löper parallellt i organisationen. Operativ effekt beskrivs som organisationens huvuduppgift, och jämställdhetsarbetet tycks utgöra en skugguppgift. Jämställdhet ses som ett verktyg för att uppfylla mål med organisationens operativa effekt vilket är anledningen att uppgifterna länkas samman. Detta förfarande använder högsta organisatoriska ledning i Försvarsmakten som en balansgång mellan att å ena sidan hantera ett förändrat säkerhetshot i Sveriges närområde och å andra sidan hantera krav på tillväxt. Jämställdhet syftar till att möjliggöra rekrytering av kompetent personal. Den tycks inte vara en uppgift som finns för att jämna ut maktförhållandet mellan kvinnor och män som dessutom utgör en demokratisk rättighet. Det är kroppsräkning och den kvantitativa jämställdheten som existerar för att underlätta den operativa effekten. Ytterligare ett problem som presenteras är att organisationskulturen och de manligt kodade normerna inom Försvarsmakten försvårar rekryteringen av kvinnor eftersom kravet är att varje individ, kvinna som man måste socialiseras in i den rådande organisationskulturen. Den reproduceras i sin tur av både män och kvinnor i organisationen, vilket förhindrar att jämställdheten implementeras fullt ut. Fortsatt forskning och praktiska implikationer har diskuterats liksom konsekvenser av identifierade problempresentationer.

This study aims to examine how the city of Stockholm represents the problem with housing shortages for young adults in their policies for housing supply. How the problem is represented has an impact on which measures are implemented to combat the housing shortage in the municipality. Drawing on Carol Bacchi’s “what’s the problem represented to be” framework the analysis in the study seeks to enlighten the implicit assumptions and underlying reasons for the housing supply strategy. The result of the study showed that two main representations of the problem can be detected. The first one is related to the municipalities’ limited conditions for building houses that match the needs of young adults. The other representation of the problem is related to the young adults as an economically weak group who have difficulties buying a home that matches their needs.

The purpose of this Master’s thesis is to study why the concept of digital competence previously has been frequently addressed in Swedish politics, and to examine possible connections to the related concepts information literacy and media and information literacy (MIL). These inquiries have been studied using Carol Lee Bacchi’s methodological approach to policy analysis to, with basis in Foucaldian post-structuralist discourse analysis, study representations of the problem present in a public investigation, presented by the Digitization Committee regarding digital competence (SOU 2015:28). In order to perform a discourse analysis according to Bacchi’s methodology, elements from both Foucault’s archeology and genealogy have been used to examine the discursive formations of digital competence. Apart from the public investigation issued by the Digitization Committee, other relevant documents have been studied. The Media public investigation (SOU2015:94), the Government’s Digitization Strategy (N2017/03643/D) and the National IT Strategy for the Swedish School System (U2017/04119/S) have been examined, in search for competing discourses regarding digital competence. The results of the study show that digital competence has been frequently issued in Swedish politics in regard to its part of hegemony discourse and therefore to its prominent position in the economics and technology discourse. Connections to the related concepts information literacy and media and information literacy are identified in their part of a competing humanistic and sociological discourse, and their power and potential to rephrase hegemony discourse, regarding the concept of digital competence.

This thesis argues that textual and historical analysis of The Carol Burnett Show reveals that the program utilized slapstick, women's comedy and feminist humor to create comedic parodies of television commercials, melodramas and women's films, and soap operas. Their television commercial parodies reflect Second Wave feminist critiques of media advertising contemporary with the program. Comparison of the work of early feminist film theorists and media critics to the program's parodies of film and soap opera reveal an interest in texts that address a female audience and that The Carol Burnett Show was making similar critiques to feminist media scholars in the years before it became a field of inquiry.

Shortly after Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol was released in 1843, a tradition of adaptation began which has continued seemingly unabated to the present day. Consequently, the tale has become so widely known that one is arguably as likely to have first encountered the iconic miser Scrooge through any number of audio-visual adaptations as through the original work itself. Significant critical attention has been paid to the nature of Scrooge's drastic change from miser to philanthropist. Many would argue that the change, happening both literally and figuratively overnight, is not representative of a genuine psychological transformation. On Christmas day, 2010, Stephen Moffat, Show-runner of the popular sci-fi series Doctor Who, became the latest adapter of the classic tale, with a Christmas themed episode of the series titled Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol. This paper addresses the Scrooge Problem, or the debated legitimacy of Scrooge's transformation. A study of A Christmas Carol and Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol reveals that Dickens in fact represents a genuine transformation based on one primary concept, time as a cyclical journey. This concept accommodates Dickens's belief in the transformative power of childhood memory and the nature of sympathy. Scrooge's transformation is brought to pass in part through his evolving understanding of the nature of time, a phenomenon which becomes even more apparent in Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol.

The focus of this thesis is my performance in the play The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge by Mark Brown. I will research and perform the role of The Ghost of Christmas Past, a role which also plays the parts of Fan and Belle from Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. I shall perform in The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge at the Orlando Shakespeare Theatre, in Partnership with UCF in December 2008 as a part of their 2008-2009 Signature Series season. The main focus of this thesis is the exploration of how to create a performance of a classical character for a modern audience. I hope to maintain the integrity of Dickens's characters written in 1843, while performing in a contemporary script written by Mark Brown in 2004. My performance and research question is how to successfully communicate Brown's version of the story and still keep the spirit of the Dickensian characters as they were first written. I aim to discover and address the problems that may arise in combining the two versions of the characters. I will begin with my belief that contemporary humor and storytelling balanced with the essence of the classic characters that audiences may remember from the novel or other versions of this story will give the most effective, rich performance. Playwright Mark Brown strives for this balance in his script and my research for the role will focus on finding elements in my performance that satisfy both elements. My research will include deep examination of Fan, Belle, and the Ghost of Christmas Past, as they appear in both Dickens' novel A Christmas Carol and in The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge. I will look at different interpretations of the characters in the many stage and film versions of this story that have been created since the original to investigate how others have attempted to update or recreate the roles for their audiences. My research will also include an interview with the playwright for insight about his process of integrating old with new. My written thesis will include the findings of my research and preparation, a detailed rehearsal and performance journal, and extensive analysis of my discoveries, all of which will hopefully lead to a conclusive and useful approach for portraying contemporary characters derived from classical literature.