TITLE:  ”Fuck society” SUB-HEADING: Mr. Robot som samtida dystopi. AUTHOR: Petra Stråle. EXAMINER: Johan Nilsson. LEVEL: BA Thesis.SUBJECT: Media and communication science. INSTITUTE: Department of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences University of Örebro.PURPOSE: The thesis purpose is to examine how the television series Mr. Robot can be viewed as an dystopian work of fiction that depicts our present society. METHOD: Content analysis. RESULT: The results indicates that the television series Mr. Robot can not be categorized as a classical dystopia, but does, however, contain dystopian elements and is connected to different forms of dystopia, like the critical dystopia and the proto-dystopia.

The primary intent of this thesis is to content analyze four Nigerian dailies in an attempt to look at press freedom under the civilian rule (1960-1965) and the military rule (1966-1978); and compare to see how both governments' control affected the content of the Nigerian newspapers. It also attempts to determine how both governments relate to the press and the level of press freedom in Nigeria. This newspaper analysis was significant for several reasons: It was the first research up to date that has looked at the civilian/military government control (as it affects the Nigerian newspapers' content; and furthermore, to see the form of government under which press freedom was attained more. The old, effective, traditional oral communications gradually disintegrated as the development of the press in Nigeria surfaced. The nature of press-government relationships in Nigeria today is in large part due to the legacy left by the British colonial administrators. The main sources of information were four Nigerian newspapers: Daily Times, New Nigerian, Nigerian Tribune and the Daily Express. Also a wide variety of secondary information, books and periodicals were used.

The aim of this study is to seek increased sociological understanding of modern spirituality through an investigation of the spiritual teachings of the danish mystic Martinus and its followers. Seven interviews with followers of Martinus were conducted and analysed using qualitative content analysis. The analyze shows that the teachings of Martinus has resulted in a new life which can be understood in terms of its benefits and pleasures; the benefits being a sense of meaning, security and belonging and the pleasures being a sense of excitement, beauty and joy. Based on these results the study indicates that an aesthetic perspective can complement the more common instrumental perspective on spirituality to offer a more authentic and comprehensive understanding of why modern people becomes spiritual. The study ends with a final discussion on whether modern spirituality even can be sociologically understood and what this understanding would entail. Here I argue that genuine agnosticism is incompatible with the naturalistic premise of sociology and that the sociologist only can understand modern spirituality based on this premise, thus undermining the same spirituality that he or she wishes to understand.

This thesis deals with values in fairy tale movies. Its aim is to explore the possibilities of tracking values in fairy tale movies, because fairy tales serve as an important source of values for a child in the process of socialization. The theoretical part presents basic concepts of values, approaches to film research from a psychological point of view and observes the importance of fairy tales for a child. These topics are connected by socialization of a child and the role of media in adopting of values. Original research consists of content analysis of selected sample of Czech and Czechoslovak fairy tale movies. Certain characteristics, on which we can think about the values expressed in selected movies, are described. The research results indicate a trend of decreasing amount of contained values in fairy tale movies over time. Qualitative analysis examines various tales and describes value characteristics of particular characters in selected movies. Diploma project represents a contribution to the psychology of media and embraces media research as an important part of the socialization process.

New technologies have increased the possible ways in which humans interact and as a result require new as well as old ways to establish trust. The findings of this paper suggest that trust should be divided into three main categories of trust drivers, exchange factors, design factors and motivational factors. The results indicate that tutorials can, and should, include drivers that build these categories. While we found varying degrees on how well implemented these were, we found that design factors were generally more prominent and found opportunities for tutorials to improve on the exchange side.

This quantitative study intends to identify how collective meaning-making elaborates on social media in terms of a rather new swedish concept, klimatsmart. User generated content, gathered under the hashtag #klimatsmart, is analyzed through quantitative content analysis and the study focuses on which climate friendly representations is created and further maintained on the social media platform Instagram. The approach combines an understanding of climate communication as well as how affective communities is formed in social media. The results show that commercial actors and individuals contribute with most content and that visual content of food and items of everyday use are the most common. A consumptionand recycling aspect often is mentioned along with this visual content. This indicates that the ideological negotiation in terms of the hashtag #klimatsmart is focused mainly to small lifestyle changes such as behavior linked to environmentally friendly consumption.

Master of Arts / Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work / Laszlo Kulcsar / This study provided an exploratory qualitative analysis of printed brochures to evaluate the conceptualization of successful aging. Data was collected from a sample of 39 printed brochures derived from Kansas Department on Aging Directory (KDAD) of Adult Care Homes 2009. Content analysis methodology was employed to investigate how these brochures reflect the core elements of successful aging as constructed in the gerontological literature (Rowe and Kahn’s and Baltes and Baltes), as well as compare across the ‘traditional’ and ‘culture-change’ models. Other variables of ‘licensure classification’, ‘residency cost’ and ‘gender’ were explored. An overall perspective indicated several brochures met the core elements of successful aging delineated by the literature. In most cases, these elements showed no significance difference for brochures representing facilities by model types, licensure classifications, residency cost and by the demographic of gender.

The work deals with the current burning issue of cultural differences. These issues relate to the expression of culture and one's home country within the mediums of the Internet and online communication. Based on the research of previous studies, this work aims to demonstrate the influence of cultural dimensions in web design and content. In a sample of the largest beer producers in the Czech Republic, Japan and Great Britain supplemented with the largest international brewing companies are analyzed components which characterize cultural differences. The main scope of this study is based on assumptions and theories according to G. Hofstede and E. T. Hall. It thus demonstrates the influence of culture and dimensions -- Collectivism/Individualism, Power Distance, Uncertainty Avoidance, High/Low Context, Masculinity/Femininity, Time Orientation and Colour symbolism. It is recommended that companies pay more attention to the cultural adaption of web communication, which can bring more clarity and attractiveness, and also a higher added value to the customer himself.

The aim of this thesis is to map the perception of female body in our society and demonstrate the impact of marketing on the ideal of woman beauty. The work is divided into three major parts. The first part, which is theoretical, provides a basis for subsequent research and familiarizes the reader with the issue of body image. The second part is devoted to content analysis of women's web magazines that offer an interesting area for marketing communication. The third part contents an analysis of questionnaire survey from Czech and Slovak respondents. The specific conclusions and recommendations to the marketing are drawn at the end of the Master's Thesis.

Essa dissertação é o resultado da análise de questões do Exame Nacional do Ensino Médio (ENEM), atualmente o mais importante exame de seleção do ensino superior no país. O objetivo desta dissertação é fazer um tratamento quantitativo e qualitativo das questões de provas do ENEM relacionadas ao conceito de proporcionalidade. As questões das provas de 2009 a 2018 foram analisadas e estruturadas em unidades, subunidades e categorias com base na metodologia Análise de Conteúdo de Laurance Bardin. A escolha do tema proporcionalidade se justifica por ser considerado uma das ideias fundamentais da Matemática e presente em situações do cotidiano e em aplicações em outras áreas. Documentos curriculares brasileiros, tais quais Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais (PCN), Base Nacional Comum Curricular (BNCC), Currículo do Estado de São Paulo, destacam a importância de se tratar o conceito no ensino básico. O tema está também presente na Matriz de Referência de Matemática e suas Tecnologias do ENEM. Além disso, a escolha foi motivada também pelos indícios de ser um conceito bastante presente nas provas. Esperamos, com os resultados apresentados nessa dissertação, contribuir para pesquisas na área. / This dissertation is the result of the analysis of questions of the National High School Examination (Exame Nacional do Ensino Médio - ENEM), currently the most important selection exam for higher education in the country. The objective of this dissertation is to make a quantitative and qualitative treatment of ENEM questions related to the concept of proportionality. Test questions from 2009 to 2018 were analyzed and structured in units, sub-units and categories based on the Content Analysis methodology of Laurance Bardin. The choice of subject proportionality is justified by being considered one of the fundamental ideas of Mathematics and present in everyday situations and in applications in other areas. Brazilian curricular documents, such as National Curricular Parameters (Parâmetro Curricular Nacional - PCN), National Curricular Common Base (Base Nacional Comum Curricular - BNCC), Curriculum of the São Paulo state, highlight the importance of addressing the concept in basic education. The theme is also present in the Reference Matrix of Mathematics and its Tecnologies of ENEM. In addition, the choice was also motivated by the evidence of being a fairly present concept in the tests. With the results presented in this dissertation we hope to contribute for research in the area.