This research looks at the French press coverage of the 2014 uprising in Burkina Faso. The aim is to focus on the nature of the coverage by Libération and Le Figaro. Another goal is to find out how these newspapers framed their reporting and whether there are similarities and differences in their coverage. This research draws upon news framing. It is built on findings about the coverage of demonstrations and how the Western media reports about African news. It aims at refining the existing research on the subject of French media reporting about Africa and at filling the research gap of foreign news coverage of demonstrations in Sub-Saharan Africa. The research uses a qualitative content analysis to study the articles published by Libération and Le Figaro during the first week of the uprising. It examines the terms used to name actors, actions and to define the events. The thesis found that both newspapers covered the events in a rather similar way, pointing out the same actors and focusing on the same actions. They both draw a violent picture of the events. There were nevertheless differences in framing the responsibilities for the violent actions during the uprising.

This research looks at how a small group of young Muslim Kashmiri men perceive their representation in BBC and Al Jazeera news coverage about the Kashmir conflict, with focus on the August 2016 unrest. It is an exploratory study aiming to give insights on how the Kashmiri people and particularly young Muslim Kashmiri men might perceive their proper representation and that of the conflict in foreign news. The research uses a questionnaire method by asking a sample of six Kashmiri men to watch two news video clips covering the 2016 August unrest, one from BBC news and the other from Aljazeera news asking them to answer relevant questions. One of the main findings exists in discovering that although the group of men generally perceived the representation of Kashmiris as positive in the video clips, the general consensus on how truthful the depictions were, proved to be more complex.

This research aims to study the discourse of French newspapers on Russia based on the analysis of the coverage of Anna Politkovskaya’s murder in 2006 and to analyse how French newspapers represent Russia. The goal of this thesis is to study the representation of Russia in French newspapers through the analysis of this specific event. The analysis is based on the literature previously produced on three different topics: the notion of representation and national identity and their links with language, the representation of national identity and other nations in media coverage as well as the representation of Russia in French media.In order to conduct this study, this thesis uses a critical discourse analysis applied on the coverage of Politkovskaya’s murder in three different French national newspapers from three different political wings: Le Monde, Le Figaro and Libération.The results of this study outlined a specific representation of Russia, mostly negative and based on its stereotypisation, the emotionalisation of the event covered as well as an ideologically orientated discourse. The thesis also found that this representation of Russia is notably embodied by the person of Vladimir Putin but also on-sided and partial as it gives the view of the event covered from an Occidental point of view.

Literature connects sports with creating a feeling of unity and nation building amongst people. In a country such as Rwanda, a nation that is rebuilding itself after ethnic tensions that resulted into genocide against one of the ethnic groups, the Tutsi, it is important to understand the role of the new national identity in the process of rebuilding the country. Subsequently, this study aimed at investigating the link between national identity and sport specifically how professionals in Rwanda, as football fans, perceive their national identity. To this end, the study used survey questionnaire to investigate perceptions of new national identity. The findings relate football to the new national identity based on unity and professionals identify themselves with that new national identity. These findings suggest that football plays an important role in building the national identity for a country. This study presents original findings about new Rwandan national identity and its representation and, thus, fills a gap in existing literature. It also serves as a basis to study further the Rwandan national identity.

Det råder en stark tillhörighet bland fotbollssupportrar som kopplas samman genom sin kärlek till den gemensamma fotbollsklubben. Det är en stark gemenskap som ibland uttrycks i form av våld mellan rivaliserande klubbars supportrar. Den forskning som har gjorts kring våldskulturen bland fotbollssupportrar har sett kopplingar till maskulinitetsidealet men även påvisat att våldet i allt större utsträckning spridits till internet. Det har i forskning visats att det i samband med matcher råder en stark gemenskap bland svenska fotbollssupportrar, det har dock inte kunnat påvisats att en liknande gemenskap återfinns på internet. Jag har haft som syfte att studera hur denna gemenskap tar sig i uttryck på internet. Detta har gjorts genom att studera vilka normer och värderingar som kommer till uttryck på internet och se hur man kan förstå dem i relation till våldskultur och maskulinitetsideal. Studien genomfördes med en kvantitativ innehållsanalys där kommentarer på tre lags supporterforum studerades under sex olika matchdagar. Jag använde mig av teorier om nätgemenskaper som behandlar hur sociala nätverk bidrar till att skapa gemenskaper på internet. Jag använde mig även av en teori om maskulinitetsideal, där manlighet förknippas med självsäkerhet och tuffhet. Studien visade på att det råder en stark känsla av tillhörighet, en vi mot dem-känsla, där individerna till stor del delar samma åsikter och värderingar. Studien visade även att det finns så mycket mer på internetforum än den våldskultur som ofta omskrivs. Tidigare studier har visat att våldet på internet ökat bland fotbollssupportrar. I min studie visar sig dock den rena uppviglingen till våld vara sällan förekommande och det maskulinitetsideal som så ofta förknippas med våld har inte heller visat sig vara frekvent på internetforumen. Hotfulla och hatiska kommentarer förekommer dock mer frekvent. När maskulinitetsidealen väl kommer till uttryck på internetforumen är det ofta i samband med positiva kommentarer medan femininet ofta uttrycks i samband med negativa kommentarer.

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As today's school market is constantly evolving with more and more private schools being started, the municipal high schools have gotten more competition than ever. Pupils have greater freedom of choice to choose their high school and thus require increased efforts for marketing purposes. We have, through a rhetorical text analysis, analyzed the web-based texts from one municipal and one independent high school's homepage to find out the differences and similarities that exist between the two. We have also examined the emotional and rational values that underlie the rhetorical form of the texts. The two schools we have analyzed are the private school Thoren Business School and the municipal school Sundsta-Älvkullegymnasiet. The result of a total of seven analyzed texts shows that the two high schools have a similar rhetorical base in the material, but that the tonality of the texts is what sets them apart. Both schools appeal strongly to the emotional pathos by focusing on the student's individual development and its future in two different ways. Thoren, who profiles themselves as a "business school" has an explicit sales focus in his texts, while Sundsta-Älvkullegymnasiet sells itself by focusing on what the student can add to the school instead of the opposite.