I dagens specialiserade arbeten ställs ofta stora krav på varje medarbetares samarbetsförmåga och att åstadkomma saker tillsammans mot ett gemensamt mål eller projektutfall. En viktig arena för lärande i organisationer är arbetsmöten där människor möts för att samarbeta och hantera olika ärenden. I sammanhanget är det vanligt att ta fasta på samförståndets betydelse för ett kollektivt lärande men samma form av lärande skulle också kunna uppstå genom motsättningar och konflikter. Syftet med uppsatsen är att försöka identifiera och förstå det lärande som kan uppstå genom samtal under arbetsplatsmöten. För att undersöka detta har en observationsstudie genomförts på ett bemanningsföretags veckovisa möten och därefter har en samtalsanalys gjorts på de inspelade konversationerna. Den vanligaste samtalsformen utgjordes av diskussion. I de fall som dialog respektive debatt förekom så ingick de som variationer eller nyanser i diskussionen genom att de bäddades in i eller utgjorde komplement till det övriga samtalet. Vi fann att ett kollektivt lärande endast uppstod under dialog och att debatt verkade hämmande på deltagarnas lärande.

This bachelor thesis explores what has been said about The Darling Library-project on The City Library of Malmö between 2009-2012. In 2009 The City Library of Malmö came up with a new strategic plan on how to further develop the organization of The City Library called The Darling Library - your life, your dreams, your library. This led to a debate on what the purpose of The City Library of Malmö should be. Should the library be primary about books and literature or should the library act as a meeting place in our multicultural society?This thesis examines different conceptions people have about The City Library of Malmö in newspaper articles published between 2009-2012. To analyze the empirical material, discourse analysis developed by Ernest Laclau and Chantal Mouffe have been used, along with a model developed by Åse Hedemark. The findings shows three different discourses: “The traditional discourse”, where books and literature is the core of the library, “The discourse of the future” where the physical library should work as a meeting place filled with activities and experiences, and “The mix discourse” where the library is a mix of these two. The discourses show a complex and varied image and there is a slight ambiguity about what the purpose The City Library of Malmö should be.

To own the Holocaust  The aim of this study has been to summarise and analyse the use of history in the debate surrounding the building of a swedish Holocaust memorial museum. Material used in the study included consultations of SOU 2020:21 from various authorities/agencies and NGO´s, editorials and debate articles from Sweden's leading newspapers and motions and written questions written by members of the swedish parliament. The methods used were textual analysis and hermeneutics. The material was analyzed via Karlsson's typology of use of history.   The study shows that the memory of the Holocaust is being used in different ways depending on the users geografical, political, organizational and/or etnical backgrounds. This affects the concept of the Holocaoust and its moral implication in various ways. Organizations representing the romani community, for example, wants the roma to be included in the Holocaust-concept and the illuminates the historical crualties that the roma´s have endured in order to further that argument. Organizations and political parties emphasize their connections to the Holocaust in order to discredit opponents or to further political or economical/social agendas. The result of this use is a variance in the existential, moral and political implications of the Holocaust.  Another result, which in no way is disconnected from the ones mentioned earlier, is a variance in the ways in which the history of Sweden is linked to that of the Holocaust. The use varies according to where the debater wants to place the museum, a choice which is strongly linked to the author's geographical background. This results in different universalistic implications of the holocausts causes, proceedings and effects.

The aim of this bachelor thesis is to examine how perceptions of the public libraries’ operational mode are expressed in the media debate in the autumn of 2018. The 31 articles analyzed were retrieved from Swedish daily newspapers and Internet news sites. Questions posed in this study are: which discourses about the public libraries’ operational modes are visible in the debate?; how do the discourses portray private and public operational modes of the public libraries? and which subject positions are visible in the statements? To answer these questions Ernesto Laclau’s and Chantal Mouffe’s discourse theory was used but since they don’t provide any explicit method on how to use their theory inspiration was sought in other academic papers which previously used the combined theory and method. The discourses found were named the privatization positive discourse, the privatization negative discourse and the operational mode pragmatic discourse. The privatization negative discourse is dominating in the debate due to the quantity of statements and the capability to dismiss the statements claimed in the other discourses. The analysis reveals that journalists and authors have a prominent position in the privatization negative discourse and can therefore form the discourse and the content of the debate as a whole. The position is that privatization will lead to dismantling the unique collaboration between the libraries which in turn will lead to lower quality and in the long run perhaps erode democracy. The study concludes that the debate is rather polarized itself due to different ideological perspectives.

Violence against women - a changing problem. A discourseanalysis how violence againstwomen is problematized and changed during three parliamentary debates.This paper will examine how domestic violence is elaborated as a problem in three differentparliament debates in Sweden. Debates from different decades, 1979, 1998 and 2021 havebeen chosen as objects of study in order to examine if there is any difference during thetimeperiods and how the problematization has developed between the chosen debates.Sweden is one of the most equal countries in the world, despite this, the country has giantproblems with domestic violence. It is therefore valuable to examine how representatives inthe parliament address the problem since they have the power to develop policies and make achange. With guidance from the WPR approach to find what the problem is represented to be,together with the theory gendercontract that will be used as a tool to examine how theproblem can be produced with stereotypical gender roles and what effects this can have. Thestudy shows that the discourse from the debates changes from being represented as a problemregarding women or a familyproblem that should be handled within the family to theauthorities responsibility to prevent and report the problem. It also shows that stereotypicalgender roles can be a part of the elaboration of the problem to develop to be a part of what isbeing problematized.

Purpose – The purpose of this master thesis is to generate new knowledge and understanding how the concept of public sphere has been used and understood in library and information research of public libraries.  Design/methodology/approach –Through a systematic literatur review of  research literature of public libraries and public sphere, interpretations of the public sphere concept are mapped. Qualitative content analysis is applied for the analysis. The research questions are: 1. How is the concept of public sphere interpretated in library and information science (LIS) research about the democratic role of the public library and its role beeing a meeting place and an arena for public debate?  2. What significance can the interpretation of the concept public sphere be assumed to have for the understanding of how LIS researchers view and use the concept?  Findings – Six themes are identified: 1. Habermas original theory of public sphere from 1962. 2. A theoretical framework of public sphere, based on Habermas theory. 3. Other concepts and theories that can be applied on public libraries and public sphere. 4. A diversity of public spheres. 5. The democratic role of the public libraries and public sphere. 6. Conversation, communication, debate and public sphere.

The study aims to increase the understanding of how the rhetorical device enthymeme is used in a Swedish party leader debate on the show Agenda on SVT. The study also chooses a more complex and problematized description of enthymemes where they are seen as more than rhetorical syllogisms, and which suggests they can act as methods for analyzing discursive practices. With that, the method Critical Discourse Analysis was chosen to analyze how enthymemes work and are constructed in the text, how they can create discourses, and how these discourses have a relation to or affect society at large.A scheme for analysis was created and based on Walkers (1994) description of the enthymeme, and includes an analysis on a textual level of argumentative structure (including implicit or explicit premises and conclusions), modality and tonality, lexical choices, interactional control, kairos, aptum, doxa, and stylistic devices. In total, 21 enthymemes were found in the debate, and 10 of them were chosen as particularly interesting for further analysis. The analysis shows that all party leaders use enthymemes in the debate, as well as the importance of the implicit information and knowledge used. The analysis also shows that the description of enthymemes as more complex than a rhetorical syllogism is correct, and that Critical Discourse Analysis can reveal more about the workings of enthymemes as the method analyzes on several levels with great care for context. / Studien avser att öka förståelsen för hur det retoriska verktyget entymem används i en partiledardebatt i SVT:s Agenda. Studien väljer även att utgå från en mer komplex och problematiserad beskrivning av entymem, där man vidgar uppfattningen av entymem som retorisk syllogism och föreslår att istället se det som en metod för att analysera diskursiv praktik. Därmed väljs metoden kritisk diskursanalys för att analysera hur entymem fungerar och konstrueras i text, hur de kan skapa diskurser, och hur dessa diskurser har en relation till eller påverkar samhället i stort.Ett analysschema utformades utefter Walkers (1994) beskrivning av entymem och inkluderar en analys på textnivå av den argumentativa strukturen (inklusive implicita eller explicita premisser och slutsatser), modalitet och tonalitet, ordval, interaktionell kontroll, kairos, aptum, doxa, och stilistiska verktyg. Totalt fanns 21 entymem i debatten, varav 10 valdes ut som särskilt intressanta och analyserades vidare enligt den beskrivna metoden. Analysen visar bland annat att samtliga partiledare använder entymem i debatten, och vikten av den implicita information och kunskap som används. Analysen fann även att bilden av entymem som mer komplext stämmer, och att en kritisk diskursanalys kan avslöja mer om hur entymem fungerar eftersom man undersöker verktyget på flera nivåer och med stor omtanke för kontext.

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This essay conducts a qualitative text analysis on the Swedish foreign policy debates held in February 2015 and 2023. The study aims to enhance understanding of the shift in Swedish security policy following the Swedish NATO application. Using an ideal-type analysis, the occurrence of realistic and liberal assumptions is compared in the two debates. The study reveals that both debates are characterized by liberal assumptions. Additionally, it is evident that the Swedish foreign policy debate in 2023 is characterized to a greater extent by realistic assumptions than the debate in 2015. This difference becomes apparent as the debaters in 2023 more frequently and elaborately discuss the consequences of the international situation for security in Sweden and its vicinity. At the same time, the threat is more extensively linked to states, and a certain skepticism is expressed towards international institutions and their ability to uphold international laws. This enhances understanding of the shift in the Swedish security policy debate, indicating a change in how Swedish politicians talk about security concerns.

Denna studie analyserar offentligt utgivna dokument för att identifiera centrala budskap avseende säkerhet samt synliggöra vilka syner på säkerhet som prioriteras på bekostnad av andra syner på säkerhet. Studien syftar till att analysera vilka synsätt på säkerhet som framkommer vid den politiska debatten om uranbrytningen 2018 samt 2022/2023. Detta för att undersöka om synen på säkerhet är en möjlig förklaring till den snabba politiska förändringen som uppkommit i och med att förbud mot nationell uranbrytning infördes i Sverige 2018 och en debatt om att återigen legalisera det uppkommit 2022/2023. Studien antar det vetenskapliga synsättet socialkonstruktivistiska som utgår ifrån att människor skapar konstruktioner av verkligheten genom kommunikation och samspel med varandra (Peoples 2021). Studien har en kontinuerlig utgångspunkt i säkerhetiseringsteorin och analysen genomförs utifrån det breddade säkerhetsbegreppet framfört av Buzan, Waever och de Wilde (1998). Detta innebär att synerna på säkerhet som denna studie analyserar utifrån är den militära sektorn, politiska sektorn, ekonomiska sektorn, miljösektorn och samhällssektorn. Studien inkluderar även energisäkerhet (FOI 2010) för ökad bredd och möjlighet att identifiera vilken syn på säkerhet som framförs i de politiska debatterna. Analysen genomförs utifrån metoden kvalitativ innehållsanalys med deduktiv ansats (Mayring 2000). Slutsatsen för studien är att det skett ett skifte i synen på säkerhet, vilket innebär att synen på säkerhet är en möjlig förklaring till den snabba politiska förändringen som uppkommit avseende den nationella uranbrytningen.