Today there are areas in Sweden, mostly suburban areas, that are referred to as vulnerable and particularly vulnerable areas. How those areas are perceived by society has a connection to how they are represented by media. Therefore, this study examines how two Swedish newspapers report and portray these so called vulnerable and particularly vulnerable areas. Thus, the study contributes to the media’s responsibility for objective and truthful coverage. In order to achieve the purpose of the study, Aftonbladet and Dagens Nyheter’s reporting during 2018 and 2022 is examined through a quantitative content analysis. Based on agenda setting theory and framing theory, it is examined and discussed within which genre and topics the areas appear in the media and how the news are portrayed. The focus is on how vulnerable and particularly vulnerable areas appear in the newspapers text. Previous research shows that suburbs and vulnerable areas are stigmatized through media’s news coverage and mainly is linked to negative news reporting. We claim that this problem remains, as the results of the study point to that vulnerable and particularly vulnerable areas mainly are being depicted in a negative context. The result contributes to a discussion about the objectivity of news media and journalists and how their work continues to contribute to stigmatization.

Uppsatsen syftar till att undersöka på vilket sätt mänskliga rättigheter används som narrativ i den offentliga debatten om manlig icke-medicinsk omskärelse. Den utvalda empirin är debattinlägg publicerade av den svenska dagstidningen Dagens Nyheter och den danska dagstidningen Politiken. Uppsatsens teoretiska utgångspunkt är diskussionen om individuella och grupprelaterade rättigheter. Utifrån den har en matris skapats som fungerar som verktyg i den första av uppsatsens två analysdelar, en kvantitativ innehållsanalys. Efter den kvantitativa innehållsanalysen kommer en tematisk narrativanalys att genomföras, delvis baserat på de resultat som framkom genom innehållsanalysen. Det överordnade resultatet av undersökningen som uppsatsen presenterar är att det förekommer två slags metanarrativ i debatten om manlig icke-medicinsk omskärelse. Ett mer individorienterande metanarrativ och ett mer grupporienterat metanarrativ. / The thesis aim is to evaluate in what way human rights are used as a narrative in the public debate concerning non-medical male circumcision. The Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter and the Danish newspaper Politiken was chosen as research subject. The theoretical base, which is this thesis ground, is the discussion between individual and group-related rights. To be able to go through with the research, a model for decoding of the articles concerning the debate was created. This model was then used in the content analysis made in this thesis, which results where used in a further analysis, a thematic narrative analysis. The overall result of the thesis was the discovering of two metanarratives which where represented in the debate about non-medical male circumcision. The two metanarratives where one more individualorientedand the other one more group-oriented.

I en värld där terrorismen satt ett allt större avtryck är rapportering av absolut vikt. I den här studien undersöks hur media framställer terrorattentaten mot Oslo och Utöya från datumen 23 juli 2011 till 30 juli 2011. Studien utgår från två olika kategorier av tidningar, kvälls- och dagstidning, och därifrån har två tidningar valt uts för vidare undersökning. Aftonbladet (kvällstidning) och Dagens Nyheter (dagstidning) får stå som exempel i studien för dessa två kategorier. Tidningarna är störst i Sverige i sin egen kategori och har stor erfarenhet av liknande rapportering. Viktigt att poängtera är att analyserna görs endast på tryckta tidningar, alltså studeras texterna som de utformades just den dagen, och har inte kunnat uppdateras och ändrats i efterhand.Genom en kvalitativ innehållsanalys, med textanalys och hermeneutiken som inriktning, och identifierade ämen och teman ska urvalet av artiklar ge grunden för en övergripande analys. Detta för att skapa en förståelse för fortsatt analysering. Därefter används ämnena för en tolkande analys där bakomliggande meningar, tankesätt och språket analyseras och lyfts fram. Utifrån den beskrivande analysen visar resultatet att de mest framförhållande teman som framförs i tidningarna är; Osäkerhet och sökandet efter ett svar, Jämförelse och Anders Behring Breivik. / This study has the objectiv to examine the reporting of the events in Oslo and Utöya. To do this I ́ve choosen the timespan during 23th of july to 30th the same month. I ́m going to analyse chossen articels from swedish newspapers Aftonbladet and Dagens Nyheter,As my method of analysing the results I ́m going to work with oualitative content analysis, and concentrate on hermeneutics. From the analyse I found three stand outs themes that will be discussed in later chapters in the paper. The theories I ́ve applied to the method is media logic, newsworthy and news dramaturgy, to give the method and my results a better standing ground to reach relevant results.Lastly I ́m going to apply a short story, wich will be presented as an annex to this paper. The short story will be analysing the same subject, but in a different light. In the story we will follow a working journalist when the attacks in Norway takes part. Subjects like ethics in journalism, what ́s right and wrong to publish and the human behind the words, will be discussed and analysed. Combined with the qualitative content analysis, this paper will reach results that can relevant for discussions of print media, journalism, ethics and the way newspapers report a crisis.

The artificial intelligence (AI) technology has developed unexpectedly fast for the last five years. There is an ongoing discussion about whether the technology should be seen as a contributing tool that could make life easier for people or if it is a risky innovation threatening human systems, particularly among journalists. The different opinions of AI within the journalism profession contributes to the interest in studying how artificial intelligence is written about in newspapers. Despite this, there is a lack of studies that investigate the portrayal of artificial intelligence in Swedish news. This paper examines the depiction of artificial intelligence in the most read daily newspaper in Sweden to contribute to this research gap. It also offers a comparison of the portrayal for the year 2018 and 2022. The study is based on Entman´s framing theory and explores the framing of AI within different subjects, perspectives of time and the representation of AI as an aid or a risk. The study also applies theorized concepts of media panic and technological optimism to enable a deeper analysis and discussion of the results. The analysis was conducted through qualitative content analysis of twentyone news articles from Dagens Nyheter. By analyzing significant words and sentences the results of this study shows that AI is mostly framed along the following subject categories: ethics and culture. Further on the results show a predominantly framing of AI as a contributing aid and a discussion from a present or future perspective of time. The comparison between the portrayal of AI during 2018 and 2022 presented a rather similar result. The most noticeable differences are that more subjects, such as economics, politics, education and climate, were identified in articles from 2018 and that articles from 2022 tend to discuss risks of AI to a slightly higher extent. Due to the predominant framing of AI as an aid, there could be traces of technical optimism in the empirical data but there is nothing in the material to clearly indicate this.

Den här studien ämnar att undersöka hur fyra nyhetsmedier: Aftonbladet, Expressen, Svenska Dagbladet och Dagens Nyheter, framställer det vita snuset och kopplar resultaten med hur det kan påverka trender bland ungdomar. När det vita snuset lanserades 2016 ingick inte det i lagen om tobaksprodukter vilket innebar att snuset kunde marknadsföras och säljas till personer under 18 år väldigt enkelt. Resultatet blev en explosionsökning av snusande ungdomar. I augusti 2022 kom ”lagen om tobaksfria nikotinprodukter” till vilket innebar en förändring i samhället i form av marknadsföring och försäljning. Hur skriver nyhetsmedier om det vita snuset idag? Sammanfattningsvis belyser studien efter en kvantitativ och kvalitativ innehållsanalys att nyhetsartiklar idag framställer och gestaltar nikotinsnuset som mestadels hälsofarligt och är ett pågående problem för dagens ungdomar.

The focus of this research paper is to analyze three Swedish travelogues and news paper reportage of Yugoslavia between the years 1950 and 1970. This is achieved through applying three theoretical concepts on the source material: Yugoslavism, Tourist gaze and Gender. The theoretical structure has aimed to understand how the sources define and write about Yugoslavia and how it relates to the concepts. With two research questions that focus on how Swedish writers saw Yugoslavia, the paper aims to build an understanding of what Yugoslavia as a tourist destination was like according to the source materials. This is achieved and the results of the paper are discussed. They include how the writers construct their own image of Yugoslavia according to the concept yugoslavism, how they don’t see the reality (tourist gaze) and how much they describe women and their role in the society (gender). These results are not accompanied with a negative undertone, which nuances the material as the writers simply were fascinated by the region. The results are analyzed and set in context with previous research and their relevance for research are discussed.

The aim of the study was to examine the news coverage surrounding Stockholm City Theatre’s former CEO Benny Fredriksson during the metoo-movement, from the time of the accusations against him until a time after his death. The questions examined were: How is Benny Fredriksson represented at the time of the publishing of the accusations and at the time of his death? How are the anonymous witnesses and the journalism represented? How does the representation of victims and perpetrators change after the death of Benny Fredriksson? What are the differences and similarities in the reporting of Aftonbladet and Dagens Nyheter? To analyze this, we made a discourse analysis of 12 articles from Aftonbladet and 13 articles from Dagens Nyheter. The results showed that the roles of all the characters change during the coverage. At the time of the publishing of the accusations, Benny Fredriksson is represented as an evil dictator that harasses his employees at Stockholm City Theatre. After his death, Benny Fredriksson is represented as a victim of circumstances, helpless and full of anxiety. At first, the witnesses are represented as scared, helpless victims. At the end of the coverage the representation has changed, and the victims are instead represented as perpetrators that are accused of lying. The journalism goes from being represented as investigative journalism to being represented as a media hunt that killed Benny Fredriksson. Overall, Aftonbladet is more defending of the witnesses and the journalism while Dagens Nyheter is more defending of Benny Fredriksson. The study shows that a death can affect the news coverage and consequently how the characters are represented.

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I augusti 2010 inträffade en olycka i San José-gruvan i Chile. Olyckan resulterade i att 33 gruvarbe-tare blev fast i ett skyddsrum i över två månader innan de kunde räddas. Händelsen fick ett stort utrymme i media världen över. I vår studie har vi utmanat medielogiken genom att testa tre ny-hetsvärderingsteorier utifrån aftonbladet.ses och dn.ses nyhetsrapportering kring gruvolyckan. Tidningarna valdes därför att de är Sveriges största kvälls- respektive morgontidning. Vi undersök-te vilken av teorierna som bäst kunde appliceras på rapporteringen och även på skillnader mellan tidningarnas rapportering sett utifrån teorierna. De nyhetsvärderingsteorier vi testat kommer från Håkan Hvitfelt, Tony Harcup & Deirdre O’Neill samt Pamela J. Shoemaker, Tsan-Kuo Chang & Nancy Brendlinger.Vid analysen utförde vi en kvalitativ textanalys och analyserade artiklarna hermeneutiskt genom åtta dimensioner i ett analysschema. Under studien kom vi fram till att det endast finns små skill-nader mellan tidningarna i deras rapportering. De skiljer sig bara åt i två av de åtta dimensioner vi analyserade. Ingen av teorierna stämde helt överens med rapporteringen, men Hvitfelt är den teo-retiker vars teorier stämmer bäst överens med hur tidningarna skrev. Tätt därefter följer Harcup & O’Neill och därefter Shoemaker et al. Det bör dock understrykas att teoriernas kriterier i många fall var vaga och svårtolkade, vilket ledde till att vi själva fick tolka vad teoretikerna menade. Fast-än teoretikernas idéer skiljer sig åt finns det alltså ingen som lyckats skapa en teori som är fullstän-dig. Det är först när teorierna konvergerar som de visar en godtagbar väg till hur en artikel blir nyhetsvärdig i dagens medielandskap. / In August 2010 an accident occurred in the San José mine in Chile. 33 miners were trapped in a shelter at a depth of 700 meters for over two months before they were rescued. The accident got a lot of media cover-age worldwide. In our study we have challenged the media logic by testing three news value theories from the content of aftonbladet.se:s and dn.se:s news articles regarding the mining accident. The newspapers were selected because they are the largest evening and morning newspaper in Sweden. We looked at which of the theories that best could be applied to the newspapers articles and also the differences between the newspa-pers' reporting from the perspective of the theories. The news value theories that we tested are from the theorists Håkan Hvitfelt, Tony Harcup & Deirdre O'Neill and Pamela J. Shoemaker, Tsan-Kuo Chang & Nancy Brendlinger. In the analysis we made a qualitative text analysis and analyzed the articles hermeneutically through eight dimensions in an analytical framework. During the study we concluded that there are only small differences between the newspapers in their reporting. We only found differences in two of the eight dimensions we analyzed. None of the theories fully consists with the newspapers reporting, but Hvitfelt is the theorist whose theory is most consistent with how the newspapers were written. He is followed closely by Harcup & O'Neill, then Shoemaker et al. It should be emphasized that the factors in the theories in many cases are vague and difficult to interpret, which led us to make our own interpretations in those cases. Although the theorists’ ideas differ, none of them has succeeded in creating a theory that is complete. It is only when the theories converge that they demonstrate an acceptable way of how an occurrence becomes news worthy in today's media landscape.