Studien fick en förståelse över hur Greta Thunberg har blivit representerad i de utvalda svenska nyhetstidningarna (Dagens Nyheter & Aftonbladet), vilka karaktärsdrag som tillskrivits henne och vilka värderingar som använts om henne. Frågeställningarna har varit; Hur ser representationen av Greta Thunberg ut i svenska nyhetstidningar? Vilka värderingar finns det i texten? Vilka karaktärsdrag används om Greta Thunberg? Texterna har analyserats genom representationsteorin av Stuart Hall och gestaltningfunktioner av Vladimir Propp och metoden som användes var en kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Studien fann att Greta Thunberg har blivit representerad både på ett positivt och negativt sätt, hon stereotypiseras och tillskrivs en hel del karaktärsdrag genom värderingar utöver de tre som studien har valt att fokusera på. / The aim of the study is to get an understanding of how Greta Thunberg was represented in the Swedish newspapers (Dagens Nyheter & Aftonbladet), what characteristic features that was given to her and the values used about her. The framing of questions is: How is the representation of Greta Thunberg in Swedish newspapers? What values can be seen in the text? What characteristic features are given to Greta Thunberg? The  representation theory of Stuart Hall  and Vlademir Propp's design features was used and qualitative content analysis for helping discover these things. The Study found that Greta Thunberg has been represented in both a positive and a negative way in the chosen written media. She is stereotyped and has been given more characteristic features than this study has chosen to focus on.

Genom att studera Greta Thunbergs resa från riksdagshuset i Stockholm till FN:s generalförsamling i New York fyller denna uppsats två syften. Dels att studera vilka intersektioner som bidrar till Thunbergs inledande ethos, hur ethos sedan förändras över tid och vilka retoriska strategier som skapar förändringen. Dels att föra samman två ämnen och teorier, genusvetenskapens intersektionalitet och retorikens ethos, vilket hittills varit en relativt outforskad kombination. Undersökningens ramverk och material är dokumentärfilmen Greta och utifrån denna genomförs analysen, vars resultat visar att Thunbergs ethos blir allt starkare ju längre tiden går. Med hjälp av retoriska strategier som exempelvis tystnad, omfattande förberedelser, hänvisning till auktoriteter och sociala medier tar sig Thunberg in på de mer ”traditionella” retoriska arenorna. Här förändras också hennes argumentation, som blir alltmer klassisk i retorisk agitatorisk mening. Slutsatserna visar att även om Thunberg i retorisk mening lyckas framställa sig själv och sitt ethos på ett trovärdigt sätt, är hon fortsatt bunden av större strukturer och de intersektioner som redan inledningsvis bidrog till att forma hennes förutsättningar och handelsutrymme. / By studying Greta Thunberg's journey from the parliament building in Stockholm to the UN General Assembly in New York, this essay has two purposes. Firstly, to study which intersections contribute to Thunberg's initial ethos, how her ethos changes over time, and which rhetorical strategies contribute to the change. Secondly, to combine two research areas and theories: the intersectionality of gender studies and the ethos of rhetoric. A relatively unexplored combination up to this point. The framework and material of the analysis is the documentary Greta and the main result show that Thunberg's ethos becomes stronger over the period studied. The rhetorical strategies identified are silence, extensive preparation, reference to authorities and social media, and these make it possible for Thunberg to enter more "traditional" rhetorical arenas. At this point, her argumentation changes and becomes more traditionally masculine, in a rhetorical sense. To conclude, although Thunberg may succeed rhetorically, in presenting herself and her ethos in a credible way, she is still bound by larger structures and the intersections that initially contributed to shaping her intersectional conditions. / <p>2021-06-02</p>

The aim of this study is to examine how the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter reports about the environment. Through a quantitative content analysis 335 news articles from the first half of 2018 and 2021 have been examined, with the Swedish environmental goals as base. The Swedish environmental goals were agreed on by the Swedish government in 1999 and have been a part of the sustainability work ever since. Only one of the 16 goals have been achieved so far. This study examines what environmental goals Dagens Nyheter prioritizes in their agenda and shows how the articles are presented and contextualized. Climate impact is a dominant topic during both time periods, based on several aspects. At the same time, several of the other environmental goals receive minimal reporting even though they have not been fulfilled yet. With the agenda setting as a theoretical framework this will affect the citizens' image of the reality, which they later will act upon. The readers will believe that the climate is the most important topic to put effort into, at the same time as many of the other goals don't need their attention. To contribute to the field, the study’s focus on the environmental goals brings new aspects to the discussion about environmental journalism, in comparison to earlier studies that mostly focus on the climate alone.

The purpose of this study is to examine how the Swedish daily press Dagens Nyheter andSvenska Dagbladet during the period August 2018 until April 2019 portrays the youngactivist Greta Thunberg and the social movement and hashtag #Fridaysforfuture in theirarticles. The analysis has been executed through a qualitative content analysis and framing theory.The results of the study is that both news papers portays Greta Thunberg based on twothemes; age and functional limitation. When it comes to the social movements the newspapers portrays it based on two themes; age and incentives. The conclusion of this studyis that Greta Thunberg is portrayed through two perspectives based on the fact that she isa child. One perspective is that she is an independent child who refuses to go to schooland listen to other adult people. The second perspective involves a normative child whois ruled by their parents. The analysis results of the study also show that the #Fridaysforfuture movement is mainlyproduced on the basis that the movement consists of children and young people. Theparticipants of the movement are thus portrayed on the basis that they are children andyoung people.

Syfte och frågeställningar: Uppsatsens syfte är att med utgångspunkt i hur en av dagens opinionsbildare kommer till uttryck i olika medieformat bidra till ökade kunskaper om hur unga vuxna uppfattar opinionsbildningsprocesser i dagens medielandskap. Utifrån syftet formulerades en huvudfråga och tre följande forskningsfrågor: “På vilka sätt beskriver unga vuxna att en av dagens opinionsbildares mediala uppmärksamhet haft för betydelse för synen på miljöfrågor i allmänhet och klimathotet i synnerhet?”, “På vilket sätt upplever unga vuxna nyhetspridningen och sociala mediers villkor?”, “På vilket sätt beskriver unga vuxna betydelsen av en av dagens opinionsbildare och dess roll?” samt “På vilka sätt beskriver unga vuxna betydelsen av opinionsbildning i sociala medier jämfört med opinionsbildning i traditionella medier?”. Metod och material: I uppsatsen har vi använt ett teoretiskt ramverk bestående av tidigare forskning om klimatfrågor, opinionsbildning samt internetanvändning. Ramverket utgörs av Agenda-setting Theory och tvåstegshypotesen. Uppsatsens metod baseras på kvalitativa fokusgruppsintervjuer, innefattande tre grupper med tre deltagare i vardera. Huvudresultat: Studiens resultat visar att de unga vuxna upplever att Greta Thunbergs uppmärksamhet i media kommit att få en större effekt på den yngre generationen likaväl som allmänheten, snarare än på dem själva samt politiken. Respondenter uttrycker att hennes engagemang och aktivism i medier bidrar till en ökad kunskap om miljöfrågor för befolkningen. Vidare upplever de unga vuxna att opinionsbildningen både snabbare, lättare och i större utbredning kommer till uttryck i sociala medier, jämfört med traditionella medier.

During the twenty-first century attention towards climate change and its consequences has increased significantly and somehow it reached its peak when young activist Greta Thunberg started what has become one of the largest movements for the climate in 2018. Her school strike has created debate and given rise to demonstrations and collective actions around the globe. The purpose of this study is therefore to bring clarity to the framing processes which has contributed to this development. Consequently, this analysis has been conducted through a descriptive framing analysis with a focus on what frames Greta Thunberg has used to describe climate change, including a description of her goal with the strikes and a discussion of features associated with mass mobilisation. Building on the theoretical framework from social movement researchers Robert D. Benford and David A. Snow the results have revealed three main frames; a crisis frame, a parental frame and a hierarchical frame as well as features within Thunberg’s message has been discovered which ad insights to Benford and Snow’s discussion of what can create resonant frames. By describing how Thunberg has framed her cause this study concludes that the coherence between her actions, behaviour as well as who she is in relation to her frames has contributed to a message that emphasises collective and/or self-efficacy which encourages people to follow her lead.

Ist die 16-jährige schwedische Schülerin Greta Thunberg eine Heldin, weil sie (ohne ein politisches Amt oder eine Führungsfunktion in einem Umweltverband) die «Schulstreiks für das Klima» und die daraus entstandene nternationale Bewegung „Fridays for Future“ (FFF) initiiert hat? Oder ist sie ein bedauernswertes Opfer, ein Kind ohne Kindheit, das von ihren Eltern wie eine Marionette gesteuert und für politische Zwecke instrumentalisiert wird? Die Deutung und Interpretation der verwendeten Deutungsmuster werden als Frames (Rahmen) bezeichnet, der Prozess, in dem diese Deutungsmuster erstellt und verbreitet werden als Framing (Rahmung). Der Beitrag diskutiert am Beispiel von Greta Thunberg welches Framing bei diesem Thema möglich ist.

The purpose of this study was to examine how Greta Thunberg, as a phenomenon, is portrayed in the news media Fox News as well as CNN and also how other actors are appearing in the news frames. The study was done by doing a qualitative content analysis in the form of a news framing analysis by focusing on frequent themes; frames by which she is portrayed. Furthermore I compared CNN with Fox News in relation to Greta Thunberg and how they portray her objectively. The examined articles were those of which they were published during the week when Greta Thunberg was named TIME’s ‘Person of the Year’. The frames, as a result, were that Greta Thunberg is framed as ‘A Hero’, ‘Someone to be questioned as Person of the Year’ and ‘A threat towards Donald Trump. The frequent actors apart from Greta Thunberg who appeared were Donald Trump as well as TIME’s Magazine. The results also found that Fox News and CNN takes different stands when it comes to Greta Thunberg.

The aim of this bachelor thesis was to examine how the Swedish- and American daily press portrayed the young activist Greta Thunberg in their news coverage between the period of August 2019 and October 2019. Our research questions purposely intend to define how Greta Thunberg gets depicted, and to which extent the daily press insinuate her to be the face the climate movement through personation. By defining these aspects, we can therefor highlight and compare any similarities and differences presented. In order to fulfill the purpose of the study, we used a framing analysis to a selection of 66 news articles in total. These were divided by two different newspapers from each country; 21 articles from Dagens Nyheter, 24 articles from Svenska Dagbladet, 11 articles from The New York Times and 10 articles from The Washington Post. Each article was coded and categorized using a coding scheme until no more patterns or themes could be detected. Our study shows that both the Swedish- and the American daily press portrayed Greta Thunberg as a leading figure and the face of the new global climate movement. Both countries also portrayed those in power as the main cause of the problem and Thunberg and her advocacy as the resolution.

This paper aims to study the correlation between the proportion of young people and climate policymaking on a local governmental level. This is measured by how the proportion of population under 18 in municipalities affectthe amount of carbon dioxide emission reducing actions and the budgeting towards institutions of environmental health, measured as a proportion to the yearly municipal budget, in respective municipality. To help unpack the results, two theoretical frameworks are used. First, Punctuated Equilibrium theory and second, the Advocacy coalition framework. The punctuation used for this paper is derived from Greta Thunberg’s school strikes for climate, and the paper uses people under 18 as a hypothesised weaker coalition trying to affect local decision makers to reach a climate policy equilibrium, in this paper, passively. The results show no such statistically significant correlation, just a couple of weak negative regression coefficients. This means that there is no support for the hypothesised relationship between the studied variables. However, this study found that the average level of formal education in the observed municipalities had a significant impact on the emission reduction actions in a positive way and budgeting in a negative way.