The aim of this Master’s thesis is to investigate the meaning the reading group of the public library has to a number of users. To fulfill the aim the following three questions have been formulated: 1) What do a number of users expect from the reading group of the public library? 2) Which approach/attitude or approaches/attitudes do a number of users have to reading and to talking about reading? 3) How do a number of users experience the ongoing reading group?The research is founded on qualitative interviews with five users that take part in three different reading groups in public libraries. The theories that are used is the theory of three so called strategies - the pragmatic, the traditionalistic, the emancipatory – and the theory of flow. The theories have been used to analyze the results and as a way to describe the meaning of the reading group to a number of users. In the review of the literature existing studies of reading groups and relevant literature about reading and reading promotion activities have been examined.Several meanings of the reading group of the public library to a number of users have been discovered and described. The part of the emancipatory strategy that concern personal development is an important meaning. The reading group also turned out to have, outside the theories, a clear social meaning. The meaning can also be described with flow and with the pragmatic strategy. The traditionalistic meaning is limited. / Program: Bibliotekarie

The purpose of this study is to investigate what underlying causes drive people to take part in the Swedish autonomous left-wing movement. The autonomous left-wing movement is an extraparliamentary mob, in Sweden often attributed in negative terms, considered as extremists. Interviewing six activists has given me the chance to better understand the movement in terms of ideology as well as understanding their lack of reliability in the Swedish government and other social structures. The study also shows a complexity in the relationship between the interviewees and fascists, as well as in the Swedish police and the Swedish migration office, which is based on a combination of ideological values as well as a lack of trust to the Swedish system as a whole.

Denna studie behandlar monsterkroppar i HBO:s tv-serie True Blood (2008 – 2014) och deras tillblivelse samt orientering utifrån skevhet, performativ materia och temporalitet. Med utgångspunkt i Sara Ahmeds queera fenomenologi analyseras empirin genom en queer och reparativ läsning i syfte att studera huruvida True Blood som tv-serie kan ha emancipatorisk och subversiv potential. Studiens empiriska omfång utgörs av sju sända säsonger av True Blood, innehållandes totalt åttio avsnitt, och som urval har primärt tre kvinnliga karaktärer följts. Dessa tre karaktärer definieras ha monsterkroppar utifrån den normativa människokroppen. I analysen diskuteras, förutom de tre valda karaktärerna, även andra monsterkroppar. Slutsatsen är att True Blood som text utmanar och ifrågasätter, genom sina monsterkroppar, normativa föreställningar och räta linjer och därmed anses ha emancipatorisk och subversiv potential.

The purpose of this master thesis is to increase knowledge of facilitators´ and participants´ learning experiences in online drama. Semi-structured interviews with 14 informants were conducted. After that an analyzation based on Mezirow´s transformative learning theory was carried out. By using an abductive approach and a thematic analysis, the results show that the informants have experienced both opportunities and obstacles in learning. The opportunities that are being mentioned are around individual-, team-, and collective learning, methodology and technical developments. The obstacles that are being mentioned are within methodology and technical developments. Some examples that come up as both learning opportunities and learning obstacles are around time, amount of people and attention span, how to use the camera, accessibility and connection, bodily aspects, safety, security and confidentiality, knowledge, and possible bias around technical developments. To create learning opportunities in online drama, facilitators need to have instrumental learning around the methodology, setting, and what artefacts-, technical applications- and other technical features to use. Traumatic and embodied learning can create further learning opportunities that can lead to a transformation in online drama. Online drama can be viewed as an emancipatory education and a sustainable transformative pedagogy where mind, body and spirit can connect. The results are reasonably consistent with previous research. The discussion problematizes the need for further research to develop the domain of online drama further. / Syftet med detta examensarbete är att öka kunskapen om lärares och deltagares lärandeupplevelser inom online drama. Semistrukturerade intervjuer med 14 informanter genomfördes. Därefter analyserades resultaten utifrån Mezirow´s transformativa lärandeteori. Genom att använda ett abduktivt förhållningssätt och en tematisk analys visar resultaten att informanterna har upplevt både möjligheter och hinder i lärandet. De möjligheter som nämns handlar om individuellt, team- och kollektivt lärande, metodik och teknisk utveckling. De hinder som nämns finns inom metodik och teknisk utveckling. Några exempel som dyker upp som både lärandemöjligheter och lärande hinder är kring tid, antal människor som deltar och uppmärksamhetsförmåga, hur man använder kameran, uppkoppling, kroppsliga aspekter, säkerhet och konfidentialitet, kunskap och eventuell bias kring teknisk utveckling. För att skapa lärandemöjligheter i online drama bör lärare ha instrumentell kunskap kring metodiken, miljön, artefakter samt tekniska applikationer och funktioner. Traumatiskt och förkroppsligat lärande kan skapa ytterligare lärandemöjligheter som kan leda till en transformation av online drama. Online drama kan ses som en emancipatorisk utbildning och en hållbar transformativ pedagogik där sinne, kropp och själ sammankopplas. Resultaten överensstämmer relativt väl med tidigare forskning. Diskussionen problematiserar behovet av ytterligare forskning för att utveckla domänen online drama ytterligare.