Uppsatsen bygger på en kvantitativ innehållsanalys som mäter manliga respektive kvinnliga egenskaper i syfte att identifiera könsroller hos huvudkaraktärerna i barnprogrammet Scooby-Doo. Arbetet har utgått från ett teoretiskt ramverk som grundats i ett socialkonstruktivistiskt perspektiv. Analysen bygger på en vidareutveckling av Maria Nikolajevas schema för ”Kvinnliga” respektive ”Manliga” egenskaper för att kunna identifiera könsroller. I den empiriska delen har data från 30 avsnitt av barnprogrammet från olika tidsepoker bearbetats och sammanställts. Empirin bestod av nästan 2 000 uppmätta egenskaper.Min huvudfrågeställning löd: vilka könsroller återfinns hos huvudkaraktärerna i barnprogrammet Scooby-Doo år 1969, 2002 samt 2015? Resultaten visade att den karaktär som var mest fast i en könsroll var Fred som 1969 enbart påvisade 5% kvinnliga egenskaper. Dock skedde en mindre förändring till 2002 då han uppvisade 20% kvinnliga egenskaper. Velma däremot bryter mot den stereotypiska kvinnliga könsrollen då hon uppvisade främst manliga egenskaper under alla säsonger. Daphne och Shaggy visade sig båda vara mångfacetterade, ingen av demuppvisade en tydlig könsroll. Dock var Shaggy inramad på ett vis som bjöd in publiken att skratta åt honom när han uppvisade de kvinnliga egenskaperna och Daphne fick låga uppmätta egenskaper, oavsett manliga eller kvinnliga på 1960-talet, vilket gjorde att hon hamnade i bakgrunden. / This essay is based on a quantitative content analysis that measures male and female characteristics in order to identify the gender roles of the main characters in the children's program Scooby-Doo.The work has been based on a theoretical framework founded in a social constructivist perspective. The analysis is based on a further development of Maria Nikolajeva's scheme for "Feminine" and "Masculine" characteristics in order to be able to identify gender roles.In the empirical part, data from 30 episodes of the children's program from different eras have been processed and compiled. The study consisted of almost 2,000 measured characteristics.My main question was: what gender roles are found in the main characters of the children's program Scooby-Doo in 1969, 2002 and 2015? The results showed that the character that was most stuck in a gender role was Fred, who in 1969 only showed 5% female characteristics. However, there was a minor change in 2002 when he exhibited 20% female characteristics. Velma breaks the stereotypical female gender role as she exhibits mainly male characteristics in all seasons. Daphne and Shaggy were both shown to be multi-faceted, neither exhibiting a clear gender role. However, Shaggy was framed in a way that invited the audience to laugh at him when he exhibited the feminine qualities and Daphne was given low measured traits, whether male or female in the first season, which made her fade into the background.

<p>Abstract</p><p>Title: What TV-glasses do you wear? A study in how party-political people decode the TVshow Scooby Doo (Vilka tv-glasögon har du? En studie i hur partipolitiskt aktiva personer tolkar tv-serien Scooby Doo)</p><p>Number of pages: 47 (54 including enclosures)</p><p>Author: Christopher Landstedt</p><p>Tutor: Amelie Hössjer</p><p>Course: Media and Communication Studies C</p><p>Period: Autumn term 2007</p><p>University: Division of Media and Communication, Department of Information Science, Uppsala University.</p><p>Purpose/Aim: The aim of this essay is to make a study in how party-political people, 18-25 years old, both female and male, decode the messages in the TV-show Scooby Doo from 1969. Do they decode the show differently because of their political view, their gender or, and their social background? Is there a pattern in the decoding or is it based on a more individual level?</p><p>Material/Method: A qualitative method containing a total number of 16 individual interviews with young adults, 18-25 years old, half of them female, the other half male, were used. All of the participants are members of political youth parties/organizations, equally divided in left and right wing parties. Scooby Doo was chosen thanks to the lack of political meanings and messages in the show and its objective aura. The respondents got to see a preselected episode from the first season ever of Scooby Doo. After they finished watching the show, the interview took place. The interview contained questions on a deeper lever regardingthe episode. Stuart Hall’s all time classic encoding-decoding theory is used as the main theory with the support from other theories in the same field.</p><p>Main results: The degree of active reading is overall equal among the young adults that participated in the study. Differences can be found in the way they decode the sender’s messages and what values they put into the message. The leftwing respondents tended to decode the show in more oppositional way than the rightwing people who tended to read the messages dominant. There is an exception to every rule, also in this case. To sum it all up in one last sentence it should be said that some people’s personal values shine through, and aremore obvious than others.</p><p>Keywords: encoding-decoding, gender, television, interpretation, Scooby Doo, political view, leftwing and rightwing</p>

Abstract Title: What TV-glasses do you wear? A study in how party-political people decode the TVshow Scooby Doo (Vilka tv-glasögon har du? En studie i hur partipolitiskt aktiva personer tolkar tv-serien Scooby Doo) Number of pages: 47 (54 including enclosures) Author: Christopher Landstedt Tutor: Amelie Hössjer Course: Media and Communication Studies C Period: Autumn term 2007 University: Division of Media and Communication, Department of Information Science, Uppsala University. Purpose/Aim: The aim of this essay is to make a study in how party-political people, 18-25 years old, both female and male, decode the messages in the TV-show Scooby Doo from 1969. Do they decode the show differently because of their political view, their gender or, and their social background? Is there a pattern in the decoding or is it based on a more individual level? Material/Method: A qualitative method containing a total number of 16 individual interviews with young adults, 18-25 years old, half of them female, the other half male, were used. All of the participants are members of political youth parties/organizations, equally divided in left and right wing parties. Scooby Doo was chosen thanks to the lack of political meanings and messages in the show and its objective aura. The respondents got to see a preselected episode from the first season ever of Scooby Doo. After they finished watching the show, the interview took place. The interview contained questions on a deeper lever regardingthe episode. Stuart Hall’s all time classic encoding-decoding theory is used as the main theory with the support from other theories in the same field. Main results: The degree of active reading is overall equal among the young adults that participated in the study. Differences can be found in the way they decode the sender’s messages and what values they put into the message. The leftwing respondents tended to decode the show in more oppositional way than the rightwing people who tended to read the messages dominant. There is an exception to every rule, also in this case. To sum it all up in one last sentence it should be said that some people’s personal values shine through, and aremore obvious than others. Keywords: encoding-decoding, gender, television, interpretation, Scooby Doo, political view, leftwing and rightwing