The 9th March 2014, there is a clash between the Nazis and feminists around Möllevångstorget, Malmö, where four people knife damage so serious that two of them had life-threatening injuries. Many people were there and witnessed the incident but as a citizen, you will be whitened about what happened following the news reports in the media. The press reports plentiful and follow up event but then there are major differences of opinion about what actually happened and about who is actually responsible for the attack arises many questions from the public. Can you trust what is written in the media? Is journalists and their sources credible?Journalists have long been considered the fourth estate whose task is to examine the other two; the government and the parliament. Previous research suggests that the sources and actors who are given space in traditional media in a way, has power over people's interpretation of reality, a reality that the individual before the new media development has not had the same opportunities to discuss and, or question. With the emergence of new media challenged journalists' exclusive right to disseminate information and news about the present. A platform that challenges journalism is Internet-based interactive community Flashback where the audience itself may influence and create media content.When the journalists no longer have the exclusive right to define an event, who has the power over the media landscape? Who should you trust? This has consequences that are worth studying and analyzing. In our study, we approach the explanation by studying the sources which the writers use when reporting about the merits of the case. In Anders Sahlstrands doctoral thesis "Visible" presented in 2000, he notes that elite sources dominate the news media which gives a misleading picture of the society. The purpose of this study is therefore to study the sources are heard when news is portrayed by a journalist in the traditional media versus when the news is portrayed by a citizen journalist on Flashback Forum to see if there is a difference.To obtain the empirical evidence as the basis for our investigation, we conducted a quantitative content analysis. The material that will be used to conduct the quantitative content analysis consists of two parts; traditional media in the form of four daily2newspapers and a medium which falls within the "new media" for user-generated journalism; Flashback Forum.In summary, we can conclude that the answer to our main question is clear. It is predominantly elite sources which may make its voice heard when news is portrayed in traditional media and it's especially non-elite sources that sounds when a news reported on Flashback Forum. The number of elite sources and non-elite sources differ depending on which media platform is studied and also the manner, how they are heared are different depending on the platform.

There are no private media in Vietnam, all media activity is owned and controlled by the State and the Vietnamese media landscape is therefore relatively closed and strangled. It is not allowed to produce any news material which criticise the government or put it in bad days. In 1997, the Internet was introduced in Vietnam and online newspapers started to establish. Through investigating the underlying factors of the development and success of one of the biggest online newspapers in Vietnam, VnExpress, our study intends to describe how it has affected the Vietnamese media landscape. Based in Hanoi during ten weeks, we performed this minor field study with the support from Swedish International Development Cooperation Association, SIDA. Our case study is made from five in-depth interviews. The research questions deals with VnExpress in particular; how they have developed, how they consider their purpose as an online publication and what they find unique about their newspaper. Through the empirical findings, we can distinguish a couple of factors with which VnExpress has affected the Vietnamese media landscape. First of all, we found that their policy of always reporting news in an objective point of view has made them respected among competitors and used by the same as a source of news material. Furthermore, their close contact to readers through different channels at the editorial, giving them the opportunity to express their thoughts, makes the readers engaged and able to form their own opinions about the society. To achieve the above, it is significant that VnExpress has a unique ownership allowing them to work as free and limitless as possible in a country like Vietnam. Finally, we can see that the Vietnamese media landscape tends to become more open and we claim that online newspapers and Internet in general will have a great impact of its development.

<p>There are no private media in Vietnam, all media activity is owned and controlled by the State and the Vietnamese media landscape is therefore relatively closed and strangled. It is not allowed to produce any news material which criticise the government or put it in bad days. In 1997, the Internet was introduced in Vietnam and online newspapers started to establish.</p><p>Through investigating the underlying factors of the development and success of one of the biggest online newspapers in Vietnam, VnExpress, our study intends to describe how it has affected the Vietnamese media landscape. Based in Hanoi during ten weeks, we performed this minor field study with the support from Swedish International Development Cooperation Association, SIDA. Our case study is made from five in-depth interviews. The research questions deals with VnExpress in particular; how they have developed, how they consider their purpose as an online publication and what they find unique about their newspaper.</p><p>Through the empirical findings, we can distinguish a couple of factors with which VnExpress has affected the Vietnamese media landscape. First of all, we found that their policy of always reporting news in an objective point of view has made them respected among competitors and used by the same as a source of news material. Furthermore, their close contact to readers through different channels at the editorial, giving them the opportunity to express their thoughts, makes the readers engaged and able to form their own opinions about the society. To achieve the above, it is significant that VnExpress has a unique ownership allowing them to work as free and limitless as possible in a country like Vietnam.</p><p>Finally, we can see that the Vietnamese media landscape tends to become more open and we claim that online newspapers and Internet in general will have a great impact of its development.</p>

The Bachelor thesis ”Oh, it’s only student radio” is a qualitative study of the Swedish student radio and its members. The study aims to investigate the professionalisation of the radio hosts through Pierre Bourdieu’s theories of field and habitus as well as theories of profession. In order to do so, it’s also necessary to establish the radiostations’ perceived role in today’s media landscape by analysing their ambition in relation to other media organisations. The latter has been determined in part by the same theories as the former, in part also by theories of media convergence and a comparison to its international counterpart Community Radio. The investigation has been conducted through semi-structured research interviews with active members. The material has furthermore been operationalised through a theme-based qualitative data analysis, to compare and contrast the participants views and perceptions from the standpoints of the theoretical framework and earlier research. The thesis concludes that the journalism students have higher ambition and are likely to use the student radio as a stepping stone for their future career. They are also more likely to take on several different projects, whereas the other members tended to stay within the same genre of radio show. All the participants said to achieve a personal growth through their memberships, whether as mastering the tool of a future career or more of a personal gain through a hobby. It was also established that members of the older and larger radio stations where more likely to aspire as competators of Sveriges Radio (Swedish Public Service Broadcaster) whereas hosts from the younger stations where more likely to compare themselves to those within the podcasting community, due to the esteem of the stations leading figures.

This master's thesis deals with the Greek media system and its specifics, describes the media landscape of Greece and its transformation influenced by the economic crisis. The theoretical part is devoted to the definition of the media system and to the description of the development of its research with special focus on the publication Four theories of the press written by Fred Siebert, Theodor Peterson and Wilbur Schram and the Comparing Media Systems written by Daniel C. Hallin and Paolo Mancini. In the practical part, the historical development of the Greek media market is described, followed by a description of the contemporary media landscape of Greece. The thesis focuses on print media, radio broadcasting, television broadcasting and digital media including social networks. The ownership structures of the Greek media are also characterized. The master's thesis also deals with the legislative framework of Greek media and self-regulation principles. In the thesis the impact of the economic crisis on the Greek media market is analyzed and the future development of the Greek media is aniticipated. The thesis is partly based on the criteria defined by D. C. Hallin and P. Mancinim in the above-mentioned publication Comparing Media Systems and compares the postulated theses of both authors with the...

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T18:12:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Paula Alzugaray Van Steen.pdf: 8633850 bytes, checksum: a7a734b6450d92a01976b01a658a1750 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-10-18 / As its object of investigation, this research looks at the project On Subjectivity, by Spanish artist Antoni Muntadas, for its representativeness of core strategies of contemporary art and communication. The text discusses how this work, conceived in 1978, articulates concepts as the reissue of information appropriated from media circuits; activation of archives; problematization of memory; the formation of collective memories; aspiration of artistic praxis networks; translation. The research works with the hypothesis that On Subjectivity, as a way of investigating multiple readings of journalistic images, is a work of open and participatory structure that favours its translation into contexts of Brazilian photojournalism and social networks on the Internet. Therefore, the translation of the work becomes a strategy for analyzing paradigm changes that occurred between the context of mail art networks and social networking sites, and between the practices of an archivist art and the database aesthetics / A presente pesquisa toma como objeto de estudo o projeto On Subjectivity, do artista espanhol Antoni Muntadas, por sua representatividade de estratégias centrais da arte e da comunicação contemporânea. O texto discorre sobre como este trabalho, concebido em 1978, articula questões como a reedição de informações apropriadas de circuitos midiáticos; a ativação de arquivos; a problematização da memória; a constituição de memórias coletivas; a aspiração das práxis artísticas em rede e a tradução. A pesquisa trabalhará com a hipótese de que On Subjectivity, ao investigar múltiplas leituras de imagens jornalísticas, constitui uma obra de estrutura aberta e participativa que favorece a sua tradução para os contextos do fotojornalismo brasileiro e das redes sociais na internet. Portanto, a reedição do trabalho torna-se uma estratégia para analisar as mudanças de paradigmas que se deram entre o contexto das redes de arte postal e as redes sociais da Internet; e entre as práticas de uma arte arquivista e de uma estética do banco de dados

I ett samhälle där podcasts blir allt mer populärt är det intressant att forska kring podcastens utveckling och hur en privatägd podcast kan skilja sig mellan en podcast som producerats av en public service radiokanal som behandlar samma ämne. I denna analys jämförs P3 spel och Spela spel som båda handlar om tv- och dataspel för att se om det finns några skillnader i deras struktur, ämnesfokusering och intervjuteknik.  Fyra intervjuer och två diskussioner valdes ut ur sex olika avsnitt och transkriberades för att sedan analyseras med hjälp av diskursanalys. Även klockmodellen (Åberg, 2012) användes för att kartlägga avsnittens struktur och tematisering för att undersöka intervjuteknik, ämnesfokusering och språk. Resultatet av analysen visar att det finns både likheter och olikheter mellan dessa två podcasts. Public servicediskursen märks tydligt i P3 spel eftersom den är mer ämnesfokuserad och har en mer professionell ton. I sina intervjuer låter podcastvärdarna sina gäster tala till punkt innan de ställer en ämnesfokuserad följdfråga. I Spela spel råder istället en oberoende diskurs där det är en mer personlig ton som tillåter podcastvärdarna att byta ämne och även avbryta under intervjuerna. Det blir mer av en diskussion även när de har gäster i studion vilket bidrar till den personliga känslan eftersom det för en lyssnare blir som att lyssna till ett samtal än en intervju. När det gällde språk använde sig båda podcasterna av fackord som kan vara svåra för lyssnare som inte är insatta i speldiskursen att förstå, men överlag var P3 spel mer inbjudande i sina samtal genom att undvika eller förklara fackord. / In a community where podcasts are becoming increasingly popular, it is interesting to research the podcast development and how a privately-owned podcast can differ from a podcast produced by a public service radio channel. In this analysis, we compare “P3 spel” to “Spela spel”, both of which are about tv- and computer games, to see if there are any differences in their structure, subject focus and interview technique. Four interviews and two discussions were selected from six different episodes and transcribed, then analyzed using discourse analysis as a method. The clock model (Åberg, 2012) was also used to chart the episodes structure and thematization to investigate interviewing techniques, subject focus and language. The public service discourse is clearly visible in P3 spel because it is more subject-focused and has a more professional tone. In their interviews, the podcast hosts let their guests speak until they are finished before they ask another question. In Spela spel, there is an independent discourse where there is a more personal tone that allows the podcast hosts to change topics and also interrupt during the interviews. It becomes more of a discussion even when they have guests in the studio, which contributes to the personal atmosphere, because it feels like listening to a conversation rather than a recorded podcast. In the case of languages, both podcasts used to use words that could be difficult for listeners who are not familiar with the game course to understand, but overall, P3 games were more inviting in their conversations by avoiding or explaining trade words.

The diploma thesis "The media landscape in Spain" aims to describe the contemporary Spanish media scene and apply the basic characteristics and particularities of the "polarized pluralist model" media system which was described by Hallin and Mancini in their book Comparing Media Systems and whose features are also allocated to other South European countries (Italy, Portugal, Greece and marginally also France) in addition to Spain. The description of the press and audiovisual media market itself is preceded by three extensive chapters dealing with press media development in Spain from its beginnings in the 17th century until today, media legislation and the concentration of media ownership. It was the development of the press (and, in the 20th century, the development of audiovisual media) which, due to its exceptionally close ties to politics, determined the shape of the contemporary Spanish media landscape, which is why the thesis focuses primarily on this topic. The historical and political development of the country and constantly changing systems of government led to frequent changes in law (press laws in particular), which makes Spain very different from other European countries in this aspect. The chapters dealing with the press and audiovisual media market refer to the weak tradition of...

<p>Uppsatsen, Kriskommunikation i ett förändrat medielandskap, är en fallstudie på webbplatsen www.krisinformation.se. Utgångspunkten för uppsatsen är det förändrade medielandskapet och vad det innebär för kommunikation i kris. Uppsatsen berör flera olika hörnstenar som är viktiga för framgångsrik kriskommunikation. Hörnstenarna rör bland annat vilken tillit och vilket förtroende användarna har för Krisinformation.se, dess innehåll samt Internet som medium i den förändring som skett i medielandskapet när det gäller kriskommunikation.</p><p>Fallstudien undersöker även om det är privatpersoner eller yrkesverksamma som besöker Krisinformation.se. Den undersöker även vad användarna anser är viktigast när de ska ta del av information i en krissituation gällande om informationen är snabb, kortfattad, relevant eller tydlig. Vi har i fallstudien också studerat vilket medium de använder i olika situationer samt hur de agerar på webbplatsen när det gäller att följa hyperlänkar till vidare information.</p><p>Teoretiska utgångspunkter är teorierna om kriskommunikation och teorin global village. Forskning inom andra områden berörs också, då de är relevanta för uppsatsen och dess syfte. Dessa områden är gatekeeping-teorins förändring, fördelar och nackdelar med Internet, vilka medievanor människor har haft i tidigare kriser, samt forskning om vilket medium människor föredrar i kris.</p><p>Resultatet som framkommit bekräftar tidigare forskning och indikerar på att Internet kan ses som en framgångsrik kanal vid kommunikation i kris. Respondenterna har ett högt förtroende för Krisinformation.se som avsändare och ett ännu högre förtroende för innehållet. De har även högt förtroende för Internet som medium när de ska ta del av information i kris. De prioriterar att informationen förmedlas snabbt, oavsett informationens form i det läget. Något anmärkningsvärt är att respondenterna föredrar att ta del av krisinformation via myndigheters webbsidor. De väljer dock först att hämta informationen på nyhetssidor på Internet, vilket ytterst få har störst förtroende för. Det paradoxala i detta, är att majoriteten av respondenterna föredrar att informationen ska vara sann. De agerar alltså inte som de säger att de vill göra.</p><p>Resultatet som avviker från tidigare forskning, är att det finns fler aktörer än traditionell media som fungerar som guider i det förändrade medielandskapet. Vilka dessa aktörer är och hur de agerar, är värt att undersöka vidare.</p><p><em> </em></p>

Uppsatsen, Kriskommunikation i ett förändrat medielandskap, är en fallstudie på webbplatsen www.krisinformation.se. Utgångspunkten för uppsatsen är det förändrade medielandskapet och vad det innebär för kommunikation i kris. Uppsatsen berör flera olika hörnstenar som är viktiga för framgångsrik kriskommunikation. Hörnstenarna rör bland annat vilken tillit och vilket förtroende användarna har för Krisinformation.se, dess innehåll samt Internet som medium i den förändring som skett i medielandskapet när det gäller kriskommunikation. Fallstudien undersöker även om det är privatpersoner eller yrkesverksamma som besöker Krisinformation.se. Den undersöker även vad användarna anser är viktigast när de ska ta del av information i en krissituation gällande om informationen är snabb, kortfattad, relevant eller tydlig. Vi har i fallstudien också studerat vilket medium de använder i olika situationer samt hur de agerar på webbplatsen när det gäller att följa hyperlänkar till vidare information. Teoretiska utgångspunkter är teorierna om kriskommunikation och teorin global village. Forskning inom andra områden berörs också, då de är relevanta för uppsatsen och dess syfte. Dessa områden är gatekeeping-teorins förändring, fördelar och nackdelar med Internet, vilka medievanor människor har haft i tidigare kriser, samt forskning om vilket medium människor föredrar i kris. Resultatet som framkommit bekräftar tidigare forskning och indikerar på att Internet kan ses som en framgångsrik kanal vid kommunikation i kris. Respondenterna har ett högt förtroende för Krisinformation.se som avsändare och ett ännu högre förtroende för innehållet. De har även högt förtroende för Internet som medium när de ska ta del av information i kris. De prioriterar att informationen förmedlas snabbt, oavsett informationens form i det läget. Något anmärkningsvärt är att respondenterna föredrar att ta del av krisinformation via myndigheters webbsidor. De väljer dock först att hämta informationen på nyhetssidor på Internet, vilket ytterst få har störst förtroende för. Det paradoxala i detta, är att majoriteten av respondenterna föredrar att informationen ska vara sann. De agerar alltså inte som de säger att de vill göra. Resultatet som avviker från tidigare forskning, är att det finns fler aktörer än traditionell media som fungerar som guider i det förändrade medielandskapet. Vilka dessa aktörer är och hur de agerar, är värt att undersöka vidare.