The present study aims to investigate how different refugee groups are portrayed in the Swedish news media. The study uses critical discourse analysis as a methodological and theoretical framework to analyze Aftonbladet and Dagens Nyheter's representation of Syrian and Ukrainian refugees in their editorials. Using Fairclough's three-dimensional model as a tool, the study has analyzed the language used in the articles through text, discourse, and socio-cultural practice. The focus of the study lies in analyzing the texts, but it also brings discussions about how the first dimension (text) affects the second (discursive practice) and third (sociocultural practice). The study's results suggest that there is a difference in how Syrian and Ukrainian refugees are portrayed in Aftonbladet and Dagens Nyheter. The results show that Syrian refugees are portrayed as a burden to a greater extent than Ukrainian refugees. Furthermore, the analysis of discursive practice indicates that the representation of both refugee groups is consistent with the refugee policy discourse of the respective period. Finally, socio-cultural practice shows that differences in language and categorization regarding refugee groups can contribute to the creation of "we" and "them" even between refugee groups. / Föreliggande studie syftar till att undersöka hur olika flyktinggrupper framställs i svensk nyhetsmedia. Studien använder kritisk diskursanalys som metodiskt och teoretiskt ramverk för att analysera Aftonbladets och Dagens Nyheters representation av syriska och ukrainska flyktingar i sina ledarartiklar. Med Faircloughs tredimensionella modell som verktyg har studien analyserat språkbruk genom text, diskurs och sociokulturell praktik. Studiens fokus ligger på att analysera texterna, men den tillför även diskussioner kring hur den första dimensionen (text) påverkar den andra (diskursiv praktik) och tredje (sociokulturell praktik).  Studiens resultat antyder att det finns en skillnad i hur syriska och ukrainska flyktingar porträtteras i Aftonbladet och Dagens Nyheter. Resultaten påvisar att syriska flyktingar framställs som en belastning i högre utsträckning än ukrainska flyktingar. Vidare indikerar analysen av diskursiv praktik att framställningen av båda flyktinggrupper överensstämmer med den flyktingpolitiska diskursen för respektive period. Slutligen, visar den sociokulturella praktiken att skillnader i språk och kategoriseringar gällande flyktinggrupper kan bidra till skapandet av “vi” och “dem”  även mellan flyktinggrupper.

The concern about disinformation in the digital space has increased since the U.S Presidential Election and the British ‘Brexit’ Referendum in 2016. Many have argued for stricter regulatory frameworks for the Internet to uphold the public’s trust in democratic institutions. In December 2020, the European Commission officially published the proposal of the Digital Services Act (DSA), a new regulation partly designed to approach the dissemination of disinformation in the digital space. Considering the political significance of the DSA, this critical study is interested in the discursive role of media in the public’s meaning making of the legislation in particular and, to some extent, Internet regulations in general. Specifically, the study focuses on linguistic aspects in a selection of 14 Swedish news media texts from December 2020 to systematically draw out the ideological implications behind the related discourses, and ultimately whose interests are represented in the in the conception of the DSA in Sweden. Focus is also paid on how and to what extent disinformation is included or excluded in the media discourses. The analysis is conducted with critical discourse analysis as both methodology and theoretical framework, with a complementary ideological and sociopolitical perspective. The results reveal a widespread support for the DSA specifically or Internet regulations in general, advocating for stricter governance in the digital space to a certain degree. Additionally, the DSA is constructed as a means to tackle the dominating role of large digital service providers in the digital market, establishing an economic outlook of the DSA. Consequently, disinformation is neglected in the media discourses and its political significance is therefore diminished.

After World War II, Europe has only experienced two wars, in the 1990s when Yugoslavia dissolved and now in 2022 when Russia went to war with Ukraine. Regardless of the outcomes of wars, it is clear that wars continue to recur in a continent that prides itself on its peaceful aspirations. During the breakup of Yugoslavia, the war in Bosnia was, in terms of scale,  the most terrible of all wars in the Balkans. In addition, it was the war that received extensive media coverage. This affordance has not been fully utilized. After the war ended, the Bosnians went a long way in rebuilding their devastated community. Based on a semiotic analysis of media representation of war-torn reality in this community, it was found that community subjectivity built up at a similar rate to the media's representation of their reality. The results show the five most commonly used terms to describe Bosnians in connection with the Bosnian War. These terms are 1. Genocide 2. Crime 3. Tragedy 4. Invaders 5. Victims. And,  results show that realistic depictions of war presented in the media reduce victim identification in war-devastated communities.

The digital development of the 1990s and early 2000s had a major effect on the Swedish media industry, including newspapers. Still, it is not clear what role academia had during this process. Therefore, the purpose of this thesis is to examine the role of the university in the digital development of the Swedish news media industry. To investigate this, a case study has been performed, focusing on the Swedish technical university KTH Royal Institute of Technology. A theoretical background was created, consisting of the three waves of digitalization by Yoo et al. (2010), the emerge of the entrepreneurial university, and the Triple Helix model. Data were collected through archival research consisting of the Swedish magazines Ny Teknik and Pressens Tidning, and semi-structured interviews with seven individuals. The results showed that the digital development of the Swedish news media industry was characterized by the rise of the Internet, which generated both new news channels and contributed to digitally develop the printing industry. The results indicate that KTH’s role in this development was to provide the industry with well-educated engineers as well as innovations through research projects, to help media companies handle the opportunities and the challenges the digital development offered. The results also indicate that KTH in some ways can be compared to an entrepreneurial university, since the university has contributed to economic activities in society. However, most of these activities would not have been possible without the participation of the media industry, demonstrating that the concept of the Triple Helix to some extent also can be applied to this case study. / Den digitala utvecklingen av 1990- och tidigt 2000-tal hade en stor effekt på den svenska medieindustrin, inklusive tidningsindustrin. Det är dock inte klart vad för roll universiteten hade under denna process. Syftet med denna uppsats är därför att undersöka universitetets roll i den digitala utvecklingen av den svenska nyhetsmedieindustrin. För att undersöka detta har en fallstudie genomförts, som fokuserar på det svenska tekniska universitetet KTH Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan. En teoretisk bakgrund togs fram, bestående av de tre vågorna av digitalisering av Yoo et al. (2010), framväxten av det entreprenöriella universitetet och modellen Triple Helix. Data samlades in genom arkivforsknings bestående av de svenska tidningarna Ny Teknik och Pressens Tidning, samt semistrukturerade intervjuer med sju personer. Resultaten visade att den digitala utvecklingen av den svenska nyhetsmedieindustrin karaktäriserades av uppkomsten av Internet, vilket genererade både nya nyhetskanaler och bidrog till en digital utveckling av tryckeribranschen. Resultaten indikerar att KTH:s roll i denna utveckling bestod av att bidra med välutbildade ingenjörer till industrin, likväl som innovation genom forskningsprojekt, vilket hjälpte industrin hantera möjligheterna och utmaningarna som den digitala utvecklingen medförde. Resultaten indikerar också att KTH i viss utsträckning kan jämföras med det entreprenöriella universitetet, eftersom universitetet har bidragit till ekonomiska aktiviteter i samhället. De flesta av dessa aktiviteter hade dock inte varit möjliga utan medieindustrins delaktighet, vilket demonstrerar att modellen Triple Helix i viss utsträckning kan appliceras på denna fallstudie.

Tidigare forskning har visat att media har stor påverkan på hur samhället ser på kriminalitet och gäng. Gängkriminalitet är ett aktuellt och stort ämne i svensk media i dagsläget på grund av våldet och skjutningarna som gängkriminaliteten associeras med idag, som får storuppmärksamhet i media. Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur kriminella gäng och individer med koppling till kriminella gäng konstrueras och positioneras i den nyhetsmediala samhällsdebatten ur ett intersektionellt perspektiv samt utifrån den kritiska diskursanalysen. Detta genomförs genom att kritiskt granska innehållet i artiklar publicerade i Aftonbladet och Svenska Dagbladet. Resultatet visar bland annat på att svensk media konstruerar gäng som hänsynslösa och våldsamma. Miljön som gängen rör sig inom beskrivs som en gangstermiljö som är fylld med narkotika och vapen. Män är det mest framträdande könet när media skriver om gängmedlemmar, och segregation, klasskillnader och svag integration är faktorer som anses påverka till gängmedlemskap. Uppsatsen visar på hur svensk nyhetsmedia skildrar och framställer gängkriminella, och på hur detta bidrar till att konstruera och reproducera identiteter för gängkriminella. Studien bidrar med att synliggöra diskurserna om gängkriminella samt hur detta skapas och stärks av svensk nyhetsmedia. / Gang crime is a current and major topic in the Swedish media at the moment due to the violence and shootings that gang crime is associated with today, and it receives a lot of attention in the media. The purpose of this study is to examine how criminal gangs and gang members are constructed and positioned in the news media from an intersectional perspective and based on the critical discourse analysis. This is done by critically reviewing the content of articles published in Aftonbladet and Svenska Dagbladet during the period January 2019 to April 2023. The results show, among other things, that the Swedish media constructs gangs as ruthless and violent. The environment the gangs operate in is described as a gangster environment filled with drugs and weapons. Men are the most prominent gender when the media writes about gang members. Segregation, class differences and weak integration are factors considered to influence gang membership. The essay shows how the Swedish news media portrays gangs and gang members, and how this contributes to construct and reproducing identities for gang criminals. / <p>2023-01-01</p>

Amidst the public’s declining trust in news, media prosumers—that is, media consumers who have also become producers of mediated texts—are not equipped with any credible alternative mechanism to better understand the world around them. Prior academic studies of news and its delivery have not adequately explored the ideological framework we need to confront this frightening situation. This dissertation does so. I problematize the narration of news as an aesthetic process. Such mass-mediated narration stitches together our world in ideological ways. A tidal flow of stories highlights and obscures selected truths in a frenzy of “new” news cycles, the frequency of which intensifies with each new delivery platform. Social media platforms, which peddle short videos, need to be understood using new analytical methods, given that the aesthetic and narrative dimensions of such audio-visual texts are so far removed from the pace, delivery, and meaning of 19th-century objects like newspapers. In the current moment, I theorize the process through which an incident is converted first into a media event, then a media spectacle, and finally into myth. My work breaks new ground in mass communication studies by understanding this aesthetic and narrative process as mystification, a formulation I borrow from contemporary philosophers, particularly Cornel West. As an aesthetic process, mediated narration presents what the power brokers of a society deem desirable, while evacuating that which contradicts their ideological position. In this dissertation, I theorize this process in terms of “absenting” as a narrative process and “invisibilization” as an aesthetic maneuver. Aesthetic value undergirds the narration of the news by falsely presenting certainty and consensus to media prosumers. To accomplish this, I employ Theodor Adorno’s aesthetic theory to explain how news narration routinizes values of visibility, forming a discursive field that envelops the media prosumer. Pierre Bourdieu’s habitus best explains this theoretical field. An important implication of my work concerns the current obsession with “media literacy.” I argue that media literacy has not adequately explained the ideological nature of mediated narration, shifting the blame for a disinformation society from the structural forces of textual production onto a purportedly “illiterate” public. I destabilize the current understanding of media literacy by revealing the ideological implications of the aesthetic and narrative construction of what both practitioners and scholars of the news reduce to a binary notion of truths and falsehoods. The domain to which I apply this theoretical apparatus is the narration of majoritarian nationalism. Postcolonial governments use nationalism as an emotional trigger to co-opt their citizens into participating in the modernization project. Current institutions use rationality to showcase their nation as modern. The general narratives I have just described are in fact gleaned from three disturbing media events in recent India. My nation’s shift in recent years from a pluralistic democracy to a majoritarian, authoritarian state makes it a timely location for inquiry. In my three case studies, news narration showcases the desirable and hiding undesirable elements; depicts farmers in a negative light, as obstacles to modernization; and discredits resistant voices and deems them illegitimate individuals with smartphones or unethical practitioners of journalism. First, I analyze a media spectacle created in the city of Ahmedabad in 2020 by Narendra Modi’s government for Donald Trump’s visit. The government showcased this Potemkin Village as an example of the modernization project, a false construction that illuminates presentable elements of the city while walling off the unpresentable. I evaluate eight visual moments of this event and draw attention to the aesthetic facets of visibilization and invisibilization. Second, I examine narrative performances in a news-based television show anchored by Arnab Goswami, who analyzes murders involving politicians and farmers in a small rural road on which farmers marched and a convoy of vehicles led by the son of a central minister ran over them from behind, inviting retaliation. The aesthetic practices of this coverage destabilize in a chilling way who are the perpetrators and victims in these stories. In the third event, I analyze moments of journalistic struggle in a story of the police forcibly burning the body of a victim of gang-rape. Four men of an upper caste allegedly gang-raped a lower-caste woman in a village, and her dead body was brought back from a hospital in New Delhi. The media followed, and their cameras serendipitously captured the alleged destruction of evidence by the police. My dissertation concludes with questions about what cultural capital would be required in a world in which a media prosumer would be able to read and interpret the aesthetic and narrative presentation of such mass media objects. I conclude by understanding how the visibilized and invisibilized maneuvers of our current news media lead to the construction, not of media literacy, but instead, of “media illiteracy.” It is my theoretical conclusion that demystification is the best process to undo the debilitating effects of this dire situation. My dissertation ends with recommendations for completely transformed media literacy programs that deliver to communities, and specifically not individuals in a classroom, pedagogical tools rooted in critical theory.

The current study employs a regional sample in order to investigate the phenomenon of fear-of-missing-out (FoMO), the awareness associated with the fear that other individuals are having a more pleasurable experience that one is not a part of. The current study uniquely examines the role that FoMO plays in viewing patterns associated with news content on social media interfaces. The 10-item scale created by Przybylski, Myrayama, DeHaan, and Gladwell in 2013 was used as a basis to discover the degree of FoMO participants experience while online, while other questions of the survey serve to collect data about participants sociodemographic's, engagement with soft and hard news content, and overall social media usage. (Przybylski, Myrayama, DeHaan, Gladwell 2013). The objective is to demonstrate the influential effects that FoMO poses on media consumer viewing patterns and behaviors.

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Sohlmér, A. ”Långt ifrån alla pedofiler är förövare. Och varför det är viktigt att veta. Examensarbete i Socialt arbete 15 högskolepoäng. Malmö högskola: Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle, institutionen för Socialt arbete, 2013.Syftet med studien är att ge en ökad kunskap kring pedofili och komplexiteten kring det för att professionella ska kunna ge ett bättre bemötande mot personer med pedofil läggning. I studien besvaras frågan hur pedofili beskrivs i såväl litteratur, av professionella samt i sociala medier och nyhetsmedia. Studien belyser även det hat och den skam som är starkt förknippat med pedofili. Studiens viktigaste resultat är att nyhetsmedia och sociala mediers bild av pedofiler som likställda med förövare av sexuella övergrepp på barn inte stämmer överens med vad litteratur och professionella säger. Pedofiler begår inte alltid sexuella övergrepp och de som begår sexuella övergrepp är inte alltid pedofiler. Det är viktigt att som professionell kunna skilja på person och handling. Vidare visar studiens resultat att pedofili är en komplex sexuellt avvikande läggning som kräver flera olika perspektiv för att förklaras och förstås. / Sohlmér, A. An attempt to understand pedophilia. And why it’s important. Degree project in Social Work 15 credit points. Malmö University: Faculty of health and society, Department of Social Work, 2013.The purpose of this study is to provide an increased knowledge about pedophilia and the complexity around it so that professionals will be able to give better treatment to people with a pedophile orientation. The study answers the question of how pedophilia is described in both the literature, by professionals as well as social media and news media. The study also highlights the hatred and shame that is strongly associated with pedophilia. The study's main findings is that news media and social medias image of pedophiles as equivalent to perpetrators of child sexual abuse is not consistent with what the literature and the professionals say. Pedophiles do not always commit sexual abuse and those who commit sexual abuse are not always pedophiles. It is important as a professional to distinguish between person and action. Further, the results of the study show that pedophilia is a complex sexually deviant preference that requires multiple perspectives to be explained and understood.

This thesis explores the legitimacy of national libraries, by analysing the media's portrayal of the British Library during a major cyber attack by the Rhysida group in October 2023. Using diverse media sources, the research examines how media narratives reflect institutional pressures during prolonged disruption. The research employs a mixed-method approach, combining quantitative media coverage mapping with qualitative thematic analysis. The mapping categorises news articles based on content type, publication section, and perspectives represented. Thematic analysis identifies key themes such as the disruption of library services, cybersecurity concerns, and critiques of digital fragility. The findings reveal a complex interplay between the library's historical role as a national institution and its modern digital vulnerabilities. Additionally, the study discusses the broader implications of digital practices for the institutional identity of libraries, and the perceived responsibilities of national libraries in safeguarding cultural and intellectual heritage against cyber threats.