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The American society is dominated by a heterosexual powerstructure with norm-filled social values. It is difficult for norm-breaking humans who live outside of the gender stereotypical social model, this includes the group of transgenders. The renowned olympic decathlon athlete Bruce Jenner, also known from the TV-series Keeping Up with the Kardashians, came out as a transgender woman in April, 2015, which aroused a great news reporting. This is a qualitative content analysis with the aim to examine Diane Sawyer’s depiction of Bruce Jenner during the interview in the TV-show ABC 20/20. Sawyer is a prominent mediaprofile in the USA and got sole rights to make the last interview with Bruce Jenner before he transitioned to become a woman. We based our method out of the symptomatic reading to understand the underlying message of the questions asked in the interview and have used Selby and Cowdery's three-stage model as an analysis tool when we created our analysis framework. Furthermore, we have applied this analysis schedule on selected key scenes that we transcribed from the interview in order to get answers to our thesis questions. The result of our thesis is that Sawyer has steered the questions asked in the interview, how they are formulated, and through it controlled the depiction of Jenner in the program. Sawyer questions to Jenner was sometimes chareterized by ignorance and prejudice for transgender, however the overall impression of the interview is that she depicted Jenner in a way that was positive and advantageous for him.

Syftet med föreliggande uppsats är att undersöka hur ADHD-medlen Ritalin, Concerta och Strattera skildras i massmedia. Specifikt studeras den töjbara gränsen mellan läkemedel och drog med avseende på ADHD-medlen. Uppsatsen tar sin utgångspunkt i socialkonstruktionismen och den kritiska diskursanalysen. Sammanlagt analyserades 183 tidningsartiklar som förekom mellan 2002-2015 i åtta av de största svenska dags- och kvällstidningar. Resultatet visar att Ritalin, Concerta och Strattera konstrueras som läkemedel i massmedia genom att; 1) benämna dessa som läkemedel; 2) tilldela förespråkare för en ökad förskrivning av medlen plats på nyhetssidorna medan kritiker förläggs till debattsidorna; 3) tilldela framförallt psykiatriker som intar en biomedicinsk diskurs större massmedialt utrymme; och 4) underrapportera om biverkningar. Konstruktionen av Ritalin, Concerta och Strattera som läkemedel ska ses som en bidragande orsak till den ökade förskrivningen av ADHD-medel.

The aim of this bachelor’s thesis is to investigate how the activities of the public library are portrayed by the Swedish press. It poses the following questions: What kinds of public library activities are portrayed in the Swedish press? What image does this depiction purvey to the general public about the societal role of public libraries?A model of four library spaces developed by Skot-Hansen, Hvenegaard Rasmussen, and Jochumsen is used as the theoretical framework for this study. Qualitative content analysis is applied to 173 Swedish newspaper articles that describe public library activities.The analysis reveals that articles about many kinds of public library activities get published in the Swedish press, but that some activities occur more frequently than others. Articles depicting the public library as a place of literature, a place for lectures, and as a place where you can spend your free time are common, whereas articles depicting the library as a place for seeking information are rare.The essay concludes that if the public libraries want the press to give an accurate account of the roles of the modern public library, they need to make sure that more articles are published which highlight the library’s role not only as a tool for entertaining people, but also for empowering them. / Program: Bibliotekarie