I den här kvalitativa studien har två reklamfilmer granskats och analyserats utifrån en semiotisk analysmetod med denotation, konnotation och myter som huvudfokus. Efter analysen har även en jämförelse mellan reklamfilmerna genomförts. Studiens huvudsakliga teoretiska ramverk är baserat på just semiotiken och tidigare nämnda begrepp, men fokus har även legat på kontext, symboler, ikoner och index. Materialet som har undersökts är producerat av det statliga företaget Svenska Spel. Det är två reklamfilmer och båda gör reklam för samma spel, nämligen Stryktipset. I studien har filmerna undersökts för att dels analysera de manifesta budskapen men även för att lyfta fram de latenta budskap som finns i bakgrunden. Syftet med att göra analysen var att undersöka hur myten om fotbollssupportrar såg ut i reklam för ett spel om pengar med stark koppling till fotbollen. Myten om supportrar som har funnits i de olika reklamfilmerna har sedan jämförts för att se hur den har förändrats mellan åren 2009 och 2017. Eftersom Svenska Spel är ett statligt företag är det viktigt att deras egen policy om att lyfta fram de positiva effekter sporten och deras supportrar har i samhället syns i reklamfilmerna. Studiens resultat visar att myten om fotbollssupportrar som framställs skiljer sig mellan de olika reklamfilmerna. Framför allt ser man skillnad i vart supporterskapet är riktat, mot laget eller mot sporten. Myterna som framställs har likheter och båda passar in i den generella mytbildning som finns kring fotbollssupportrar idag. Det förekommer även tecken som har koppling till huliganism men den har inte en stor roll i reklamfilmerna. / In this study, two commercials have been reviewed and analyzed with a semiotic analysis method, where denotation, connotation and myths have the main focus. After the analysis, the two commercials where compared. The main theoretical framework used in this study is based on semiotics and previously mentioned terms, but focus has also been on context, symbols, icon and index. The two commercials, who have been analyzed, are both produced by the state company Svenska Spel. The commercials both advertise the same product, Stryktipset. In the study the commercials have been reviewed partly to analyze the manifest messages but also to bring forward the hidden messages underneath. The purpose for doing the analysis was to look into how the myth about football supporters was produced in commercials for gambling with a strong connection to football. Later, the myth presented in the different commercials are compared to each other to see how it has changed between 2009 and 2017. Since Svenska Spel is a state company it’s important that their own policy about showing all the good sides that comes with sport and its supporters are noticeable in the commercials. The result of the study shows that the presented myth differs between the two commercials. The main difference is in where the focus of the supporters is, on the team or on the sport itself. The myth presented also have some similarities and they both fit into the general myth about football supporters in society today. There are also signs that are connected to hooliganism but they don’t play a big role in the commercials.

In December 22, 2010, the hockey clubs AIK and Djurgården played against each other in front of an audience of more than 11 000 people in Ericsson Globe Arena, Stockholm. Although it was one of the biggest games of the year, afterwards no one was talking about the actual game on the ice. The reason; several times during the game, hooligans from both sides started big quarrels and the hockey dome felt more like a war scene than a place for a hockey game. From a branding point of view, and along with similar incidents from the past, the night in December did not create a good situation for AIK and their image.   Therefore, in this essay I want to investigate how AIK communicated through the crisis. I also want to evaluate whether their communication was good or bad from the perspective of different crisis communication theories. The essay’s research questions are: How did media describe the crisis and AIK´s part in it? What effect did AIK´s previous history of similar problem have on the ongoing crisis? How did AIK communicate through the crisis? How was AIK´s image affected by the crisis? What did AIK do well/what could AIK have done better? To be able to answer these questions, several news articles from the sports paper “Hockeyexpressen” has been analyzed as well as a text from AIK itself. The answers from the analysis has then been weighed against Hearit´s and Benoit´s theories on apologia as well as Coombs theory on the impact from previous crisis. An important conclusion is that AIK protects its image during the crisis by using the strategy “shifting the blame”. AIK also redefines the picture of a true supporter by questioning the acts of some of their so called “fans”. AIK´s redefinition also serve to correct the news papers misleading use of different epithets on the same category of people. However, although their image stays more or less intact AIK fail to communicate the need of a broader responsibility from the society when it comes to the problems caused by sports related hooliganism.