<p>The aim of this study is to analyze the discussion on the publication of twelve caricatures of the prophet Muhammad, in two Swedish newspapers – Dagens Nyheter and Sydsvenska Dagbladet. The caricatures were originally published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, in September 2005. Even though the violent protests and attacks against Danish interests gained major media attention in Sweden few – if any – major Swedish newspapers published the caricatures.</p><p>Using Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), a theory and a method that critically examines the relationship between text, the discourse practice in which text is produced and consumed, and the wider social practice, this study examines why Swedish newspapers chose not to publish any caricatures.</p><p>The study concludes that the relationship between orders of discourse continuously affect, and is also affected by, Swedish media content. However, CDA cannot present the “truth” behind the decision not to publish the caricatures. It can only draw hypothetical conclusions, in which it is suggested that – due to the fact that the powers of media institutions continue to grow – the media is forced to take on a greater responsibility as a political actor. Thus, Swedish newspapers decided not to publish in order for Sweden not to become involved in that international conflict.</p>

I uppsatsen används kritisk diskursanalys som teori och metod för att undersöka och jämföra hur sociologiprogrammet presenteras som utbildning på tre svenska universitets hemsidor. Studien fokuserar på diskurs i form av det språk som används för att presentera programmet som utbildning. Undersökningen jämför hur samma program presenteras som utbildning på universitetens hemsidor samt om det finns skillnader mellan presentationerna av programmet. Studiens resultat visar att som programmet presenteras är lärare, undervisning och programmets olika inriktningar tre diskursområden som är betydande för presentationen av utbildningen. Det är områden av utbildningen som representeras både med likheter och skillnader i universitetens presentationer av programmet. Undervisning är ett diskursivt område som representeras snarlikt i presentationstexterna däremot är lärare ett område med mer tydliga skillnader. Varje universitet har en distinkt inriktning för sociologiprogrammet mot antingen arbetslivet, socialpsykologi eller utbildningssociologi vilket avspeglas i respektive presentation och får implikationer för skillnader i utbildningen. Uppsatsen använder teoretiska begrepp som: Kritisk diskursanalys, diskurs/er, diskursordning, hegemoni och makt.

Denna studie är en kritisk diskursanalys av tidningen Expressens artikelserie kring "Järnrörsskandalen" med särskilt fokus riktat kring hur Faircloughs tredimensionella analysmodell kan användas för att undersöka olika diskursordningar. Foucaults teori kring utestängningsmekanismer utgör även en betydande del av analysunderlaget och påvisar det komplexa förhållandet kring att försöka påvisa diskursens konstanta föränderlighet. Resultaten visar på en betyande svårighet kring att fastställa en obestridlig sanning. Trots denna problematik bedöms tidningen Expressen hantera diskursordningens följdriktghet ur ett utomordentligt effektivt sätt med hänsyn till källmaterialets svåra hantering. / This study is a critical discourse analysis regarding the swedish newspaper "Expressen" series of articles on the "Iron pipe scandal" with a focus on how Fairclough's three-dimensional analysis model can be used to investigate different order of discourse arrangements. Foucault's theory of exclusionary mechanisms also forms a significant part of the analytical data and demonstrates the complex relationship around trying to demonstrate the constant variability of discourse. The results show a significant difficulty in establishing an undeniable truth. Despite this problem, the newspaper Expressen is refereed to handle the consistency of the discourse order in an extraordinary effective way regarding the difficult management of the source material.

Studien visar upp på vilka olika sätt det Internetbaserade uppslagsverket Wikipedia framställs i tidningarna Dagens Nyheter och Svenska Dagbladet, från april 2005 och fram till november 2007. Diskurser i ledare, artiklar och krönikor synliggörs och kopplas till den större debatt om kunskap som Wikipedia blivit en del av.

<p>Studien visar upp på vilka olika sätt det Internetbaserade uppslagsverket Wikipedia framställs i tidningarna Dagens Nyheter och Svenska Dagbladet, från april 2005 och fram till november 2007. Diskurser i ledare, artiklar och krönikor synliggörs och kopplas till den större debatt om kunskap som Wikipedia blivit en del av.</p>

The purpose of this study was to examine social workers arguments behind the investigationfor children custody, resident and social intercourse due to possible parentage discourses.Results from earlier research has shown that societal discourses makes a difference betweenmothers and fathers due to traditional stereotypes something that contrasts with the officialSwedish family politics. Socialconstructionism and critical discourse analysis creates thetheoretical approach for this study which was aimed to illustrate how social workersreproduce and maintain societal discoureses about parents, fathers and mothers. The analyzewas based on four semi-structured interwieves, using vinjettes to enable detailedargumentation about parentage according to gender. To identify possible discoursesFaircloughs (1992) critical discours analysis about three dimensions of discours was appliedto the material. The analyze resulted to four discourses about parentage, motherhood,fatherhood and governing discourses. These discourses showed how social workers tend toget affected by organizational discourses about parents being gendernatural, but also bysocietal discourses about mothers being a childs primary caregiver and fathers being a childssecondary caregiver. The results indicate that social workers contribute to theese discoursesbeing maintained.

The aim of this study is to analyze the discussion on the publication of twelve caricatures of the prophet Muhammad, in two Swedish newspapers – Dagens Nyheter and Sydsvenska Dagbladet. The caricatures were originally published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, in September 2005. Even though the violent protests and attacks against Danish interests gained major media attention in Sweden few – if any – major Swedish newspapers published the caricatures. Using Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), a theory and a method that critically examines the relationship between text, the discourse practice in which text is produced and consumed, and the wider social practice, this study examines why Swedish newspapers chose not to publish any caricatures. The study concludes that the relationship between orders of discourse continuously affect, and is also affected by, Swedish media content. However, CDA cannot present the “truth” behind the decision not to publish the caricatures. It can only draw hypothetical conclusions, in which it is suggested that – due to the fact that the powers of media institutions continue to grow – the media is forced to take on a greater responsibility as a political actor. Thus, Swedish newspapers decided not to publish in order for Sweden not to become involved in that international conflict.