This thesis examines how Swedish newspaper media problematize surveillance. This is done by analysing the media reports from two major surveillance events: the debate in 2008 about the legislation concerning the expansion of the rights of Försvarets Radioanstalt to monitor internet and telephone traffic crossing the Swedish borders, and the revealing of an ethnically based index including over 4000 individuals created by the Swedish police. The thesis sets out to expand the knowledge about media’s role as a interpreting source of information concerning how people understand and relate to surveillance (Barnard-Wills, 2011; Carlsson, 2009; Greenberg & Hier, 2009). The thesis attempts to answer the question whether Swedish media problematizations regarding the abovementioned surveillance events correlates with the most common theories of surveillance critique. In addition the thesis examines who are allowed to express their views on the issues. By analysing the material using a qualitative content analysis the result show that there are great differences between the way media problematize the two events. The debate regarding FRA almost exclusively focuses on how the surveillance is perceived as a threat to the personal integrity whilst the coverage of the index complied by the Swedish police this problematization is close to absent. Instead the news media focuses on problematizations of the discriminatory aspect of the ethnically based index and the fact that it raises uncomfortable feelings. In the material on the FRA legislation most of the problemsatizations are carried out by journalists whilst they are presented by civil individuals in the coverage of the police index.

I dagens planeringsprocesser inkluderas medborgare huvudsakligen genom samrådsprocessen. Detta innebär två huvudsakliga problem: Det första problemet är att medborgares kunskap inkluderas först efter att problemen för en planeringsprocess är fastställda. Det andra problemet är att det endast är de medborgare som närvarar vid samrådet som möjlighet att representera sin kunskap och sina åsikter. Uppsatsens syftar därför till att undersöka om och eventuellt hur olika kunskapsunderlag påverkar hur problem formuleras i stadsplaneringsprocesser. Vidare syftar uppsatsen till att undersöka hur inkluderingen av olika former av kunskap kan påverka vilka åtgärder som prioriteras inom stadsplaneringsprocesser.Det huvudsakliga metodvalet har varit en fallstudie av Malmabergsgatan i Västerås. Inom fallstudien har det sedan genomförts intervjuer med medborgare, tjänstepersoner och en fokusgrupp, samt en observationsstudie och en enkätundersökning. De resultat som framkom av vår undersökning visade att problem som formulerades av medborgare har en högre detaljnivå än de problem som tjänstepersonerna formulerade – detta trots att samma grundproblem definierades. Vidare har vi också kunna se att en inkludering av olika former av kunskap, i teorin, bör leda till mer resurseffektiva och acceptabla, från medborgarnas sida, åtgärdsförslag. / In city planning processes today citizens are mainly included through consultation processes. This implies two main problems: The first problem is that citizen’s knowledge only is included in city planning processes when problems already have been formulated. Secondly only citizens who attend the consultation process have the opportunity to represent their knowledge. This thesis objective is therefor to study if and possibly how different sources of knowledge affect how problems are formulated in city planning projects. Furthermore the objective is to study how inclusion of different forms of knowledge may affect which measures are prioritized in city planning processes.Our main method has been a case study of Malmabergsgatan in Västerås, Sweden. Within this case study we have exercised interviews with citizens, communal office workers and a focus group. We have also exercised one observational study and one survey study. Our results showed that problems formulated by citizens contain a higher degree of detail than problems formulated by communal office workers – even though they defined the same basic problem. We have also seen results showing that inclusion of different forms of knowledge, in theory, should lead to measures in city planning processes that are more acceptable, from a citizen’s perspective, and more resource efficient.