The aim of this study was to examine how news reporting about crime is affected by gender discourses. We also examined differences and similarities between the tabloids and the morning newspapers. We did this by observing how the perpetrator's gender affects how both Aftonbladet and Dagens Nyheter constructs participants in crimes where parents commit murder against their children. In regards to participants, we mean the perpetrator, the victim and the relationship between the parents and the children.   The study answered the following questions: How do gender discourses affect news reporting about violent crimes? How are participants portrayed in crimes where parents commit murder against children in Swedish investigative journalism? How is the relationship between the children and the parents portrayed? What are the differences and similarities between the news reporting in Aftonbladet and Dagens Nyheter?   For this study, we used a critical discourse analysis as a method of examination and nine articles from Aftonbladet and Dagens Nyheter were examined. The result shows that male perpetrators were portrayed as aggressive and threatful, especially in Aftonbladet. Female perpetrators were blamed more often for the crime when they broke the norms of what is generally considered as typical female roles and qualities before they commited the crime. The relationship between the victim and the perpetrator was discussed more in the articles in regards to the female compared to the male. However, the qualities of the victims were more described in the articles about the male perpetrators. That can be explained by the crimes which were commited by a female who broke the norms. Therefore, there was a need to explain her actions.

The essay is about how Swedish media have chosen to report on tourism from Haiti and the Dominican Republic in 1993-2018. There may be many different aspects to look into within this but the aspects that have been studied are the degree to which nature and culture are seen in this reporting. The analysis of the articles of the newspaper Dagens Nyheter has been made based on a postcolonial discourse analysis where certain postcolonial concepts have been applied to the selected articles. It is in what ways the different writers have chosen to describe the nature and culture of the two countries that have been analyzed and an analysis will be made of whether reporting differs between the countries. The result shows that the writers are clearly governed by a Eurocentric world order where We, Europe, have a clear overarching relationship in relation to Them, Haiti and the Dominican Republic, who have a clear subordination. This clear boundary is clearly visible in the words chosen by the writers by normalizing concepts that are under the category We and nonnormalizing concepts that belong to Them. The conclusion is that Haiti is described in a lesser way than the Dominican Republic, which may be because Haitians are more strange to us than Dominicans depending on the countries different histories where the Haitians are seen as a Creole language speaking African society and the Dominicans are seen as a Spanish speaking European society. / Uppsatsen handlar om på vilket sätt som svenska medier har valt att rapportera om turism utifrån länderna Haiti och Dominikanska Republiken under åren 1993-2017. Det kan finnas många olika aspekter att kolla på inom detta men de aspekter som det har studerats om är i vilken grad som natur och kultur syns i denna rapportering. Analyseringen av Dagens Nyheters tidningsartiklar har gjorts utifrån en postkolonial diskursanalys där vissa postkoloniala begrepp har applicerats på de valda artiklarna. Det är på vilka sätt som de olika skribenterna har valt att beskriva naturen och kulturen i de båda länderna som har analyserats och det kommer att göras en analys på om rapporteringen skiljer mellan länderna. Resultatet visar att skribenterna är tydligt styrda i en eurocentrisk världsordning där Vi, Europa, har en tydlig överordning jämfört med De, Haiti och Dominikanska Republiken, har en tydlig underordning. Denna tydliga gränsdragning syns tydligt i de ordval som skribenterna gör genom att normalisera begrepp som är under kategorin Vi och icke-normalisera begrepp som tillhör De. Slutsatsen är att Haiti beskrivs på ett undermåligare sätt än Dominikanska Republiken som kan bero på att haitier är mer främmande för oss än vad dominikaner är beroende på att de sistnämnda passar in mer under kategorin Vi.

This assignment is a study of three Swedish newspapers and how they reflected on the gypsy riots that took place during twenty-third of June to the second of July 1948. The chosen newspapers are Dagens Nyheter, Jönköpings-posten and Smålands Folkblad. Dagens Nyheter is a regional newspaper and the other two is local newspapers. In this qualitative study that focus on the anthropology and postcolonial theories to find out if the newspapers at the time had a neutral attitude towards the event. And also, how they portrayed the event. The study covers the entire year (1948) of the publication of the newspapers to get a more accurate view of the matter. The result coming to that two of the newspapers had an impartial attitude towards the riots however the last newspaper (Smålands Folkblad) took a turn against the gypsies in the city. Showing a negative approach to the matter involving the gypsies even though they were victims of the riots and innocent people. Also shown is that all of the newspapers saw the gypsies as not a part of the Swedish population. In some matters the newspapers even mention that it’s the gypsies against the inhibitors of Jönköping, they are somehow not the same thing. The incident was a personal argument that got out of hand and turned out to witch-hunt to catch the so-called gypsies, but none of the newspapers find it that way. They explain it like a commotion with all people involved.

Utifrån empiriskt material i form av insamlande enkäter från GERDA-projektet undersöks här äldres tillit kopplat till socialt kapital och konsumtion av nyheter/samhällsprogram via medier. Det sociala kapitalet som begrepp har operationaliserats genom variabler för förvärvsarbete och ideellt arbete. Syftet är att ta reda på om socialt kapital påverkar äldres tillit och hur konsumtion av nyheter/samhällsprogram via olika medier påverkar äldres tillit till andra människor och institutioner. Resultatet baserar sig på univariata, bivariata och multivariata sambandsanalyser som undersöker hur det sociala kapitalet och mediekonsumtion påverkar den partikulära tilliten, generella tilliten och lokalsamhälletilliten. Slutsatserna visar på att såväl det sociala kapitalet, som konsumtion av nyheter/samhällsprogram via medier, påverkar äldres tillit till andra människor och samhällsinstitutioner. Respondenter med högt socialt kapital har större tillit än de med lågt social kapital. Genom att de med lågt socialt kapital tar del av nyheter/samhällsprogram via medier kan det leda till att de har liknande mängd tillit som respondenter med högt socialt kapital som inte tar del av nyheter/samhällsprogram via medier. Det framkommer även att de som tar del av nyheter/samhällsprogram via radio, internet och dagstidning stärker sitt ställningstagande genom detta.

Utifrån empiriskt material i form av insamlande enkäter från GERDA-projektet undersöks här äldres tillit kopplat till socialt kapital och konsumtion av nyheter/samhällsprogram via medier. Det sociala kapitalet som begrepp har operationaliserats genom variabler för förvärvsarbete och ideellt arbete. Syftet är att ta reda på om socialt kapital påverkar äldres tillit och hur konsumtion av nyheter/samhällsprogram via olika medier påverkar äldres tillit till andra människor och institutioner. Resultatet baserar sig på univariata, bivariata och multivariata sambandsanalyser som undersöker hur det sociala kapitalet och mediekonsumtion påverkar den partikulära tilliten, generella tilliten och lokalsamhälletilliten. Slutsatserna visar på att såväl det sociala kapitalet, som konsumtion av nyheter/samhällsprogram via medier, påverkar äldres tillit till andra människor och samhällsinstitutioner. Respondenter med högt socialt kapital har större tillit än de med lågt social kapital. Genom att de med lågt socialt kapital tar del av nyheter/samhällsprogram via medier kan det leda till att de har liknande mängd tillit som respondenter med högt socialt kapital som inte tar del av nyheter/samhällsprogram via medier. Det framkommer även att de som tar del av nyheter/samhällsprogram via radio, internet och dagstidning stärker sitt ställningstagande genom detta.

Media and journalists influence the Swedish democracy and form opinions among the public. With this is mind, media has a responsibility to be a critical institution and to strive for impartial reporting. However, it can be argued that party political opinions are embedded within media organisations hence, preventing neutral reports. With this in mind, Systembolaget, the Swedish alcohol monopoly, becomes especially interesting. Partly, because CEO, Magdalena Gerger, recently wrote a debate article protesting a motion allowing direct sales from small business alcohol producers. Additionally, Systembolaget has a unique position of power in the Swedish society.  The purpose of this thesis is to explain which generalised image of Systembolaget that is portrayed based on articles from the four largest Swedish newspapers: Aftonbladet, Expressen, Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Dagbladet, over the course of one year. In order to meet the purpose, a quantitative content analysis was conducted, where 412 articles from the selected newspapers were analysed. A qualitative method was then used to analyse expressed opinions towards Systembolaget.  The findings indicate that a majority of the articles about Systembolaget tended to be “neutral” (e.g. beverage tips). Furthermore, none of the analysed articles were written with an auditing perspective on Systembolaget. Finally, the thesis concluded that there is a difference between the selected newspapers reporting on Systembolaget. Future research should strive to further look into the reporting of Systembolaget through time.

Denna uppsats syftar till att undersöka hur dagspressen framställer socialtjänsten och analysera hur denna bild kan förstås i relation till grundförutsättningarna för det sociala arbetet i Sverige. För att besvara detta syfte har jag undersökt hur socialtjänsten beskrevs, i vilket sammanhang det beskrevs samt vilka aktörer det var som beskrev myndigheten i Dagens Nyheter och Svenska Dagbladet mellan åren 2006-2016. Material för uppsatsens bakgrund och tidigare forskning utgjordes av böcker, rapporter och artiklar. Resultatet av uppsatsen utgjordes av 87 tidningsartiklar från Dagens Nyheter och Svenska Dagbladet. Materialet från tidningarna analyserades utifrån en summerande och konventionell innehållsanalys, med inspiration från diskursanalys. De huvudresultat som jag kom fram till var att de flesta av tidningsartiklarna beskrev socialtjänsten negativt samt att majoriteten av artiklarna fokuserade på socialtjänstens arbete med barn och unga. Mycket av kritiken som riktades mot socialtjänsten hade att göra med resurser, riktlinjer och rutiner. Dessa tre områden ansågs begränsa socialtjänsten i sitt arbete. Utöver detta visade resultatet på att nyckelpersoner ifrån myndigheter, politiker, personal från socialtjänsten eller socialnämnden samt representanter från organisationer och förbund var de vanligaste aktörerna som fick plats i nyheterna.

The specific aim of this dissertation is to formulate and examine the discursive constructions of “the good teacher” in a specific discursive practice in the media arena. The broader aim is to participate in a discussion about the relationship between the media and education, including education policy. The discursive practice that is studied is the Swedish daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter. The material underlying the study consists of articles published on the editorial and comment pages of the paper during the 1990s, a decade when the Swedish education system underwent some major changes. In the first part of the empirical study, the articles included are categorised, first according to the debates constituted and then according to five themes related to the position of the teacher. The second part of the empirical study focuses on education as it is constructed in the discursive practice examined, progressing step by step towards achieving the specific aim of the study. The findings here include the following: a situation for education is established which involves a clear distinction between two different ways of perceiving education; a space of possibility for schooling is opened which excludes certain issues; a preferred school is formed in which priority is given to subject knowledge and order; distinct subject positions are offered to different figures in education, including teachers who are given an authoritative voice and educational researchers who are not; and finally the “good teacher” constructed is an expert who bears and transmits subject knowledge and a proponent of traditional values who manages to individualise teaching. It is also found in the study that a conservative discourse serves to provide an illness for a remedy that is put forward by a neo-liberal discourse, and that media logic is at work in the framing of educational issues in the practice studied.

Current marketing discourse seems to be less and less about communicating to customers, and more and more about communicating with customers. Concurrently, traditional news companies are in a bit of a crisis where their business models are failing to compete with the growing colossus of “free” news that circulates the web. In the aftermath of all this, native advertising – an umbrella term for advertisements that look like editorial content – has emerged like a panacea. But while native advertisements might be effective where traditional advertisements are not, they also create a problematic ambiguity for the consumer – what is marketing and what is news? This thesis set off to investigate whether consumers perceive native advertisements as advertisements and how that might affect their trust towards the advertiser (company) and platform (news site). A questionnaire with a slightly experimental touch was constructed from various theoretical focal points; 207 respondents were exposed to three different types of native advertisements and then answered statements about how they perceived them on a 7-point Likert scale. The majority of the respondents considered all three of the native advertisements as sponsored content, with regard to some notable disparities between the examples. However, not all of them did; in one case, as much as 27 % stated they did not perceive the advertisement as sponsored content at all. There was also a unanimous preference towards traditional advertisements, particularly among those who felt they had a hard time distinguishing native advertisements from editorial content, and frequent occurrence of sponsored content on a news site weakened its general credibility among the respondents, as well as their trust in both advertiser and platform. This study is more exploratory than conclusive and should be interpreted as such, but from these results it seems that stakeholders should tread a lot more carefully when using native advertisements compared with traditional advertisements – particularly considering how they have become an industry norm in an almost dogmatic fashion. The consequences may not be as direct as a wound up CTR-ratio or increased advertising revenue, but trust is simply a too valuable currency to gamble with in an era filled with ‘post-truth’ and ‘fake news’. / Aktuell marknadsföringsdiskurs verkar handla mindre och mindre om att kommunicera till konsumenter, och mer och mer om att kommunicera med konsumenter. Parallellt med det har de mer traditionella nyhetsbolagen hamnat i något av en kris efter att deras affärsmodeller misslyckats med att konkurrera med den växande kolossen av ”gratis” nyheter som cirkulerar på webben. I efterdyningarna av allt detta har native advertising – ett paraplybegrepp för annonser som liknar redaktionellt innehåll – uppstått som en slags universallösning. Men medan native advertisements framstår effektiva där traditionella annonser inte gör det så uppstår även en problematisk ambiguitet för konsumenten – vad är marknadsföring och vad är nyheter? Denna uppsats tog avstamp i att undersöka om konsumenter uppfattar native advertisements som annonser och hur det påverkar deras förtroende gentemot annonsör (företag) och plattform (nyhetssida). En enkät med en något experimentell touch konstruerades utifrån olika teoretiska infallsvinklar; 207 respondenter exponerades för tre olika varianter av native advertisements, varefter de fick besvara påståenden om hur de uppfattade dem på en sjugradig Likert-skala. Majoriteten av respondenterna ansåg alla tre native advertisements vara sponsrade, med hänsyn till viss diskrepans mellan exemplen. Emellertid var det långtifrån alla som gjorde det; i ett fall var det så många som 27 % som menade att de inte uppfattade annonsen som sponsrat innehåll. Det var också en övervägande preferens gentemot traditionella annonser, särskilt bland de som tyckte det var svårare att urskilja native advertisements från redaktionellt innehåll, och en hög förekomst av sponsrade artiklar på en nyhetssida försämrade inte bara dess generella trovärdighet bland respondenterna, utan också deras förtroende för såväl annonsör som plattform. Studien är mer explorativ än fastställande och bör tolkas därefter, men utifrån dessa resultat framstår det som att alla intressenter behöver träda mycket mer varsamt när de använder sig av native advertisements istället för traditionella annonser – i synnerhet med tanke på hur de blivit en branschnorm på ett nästan dogmatiskt vis. Konsekvenserna kanske inte är lika direkta som en uppskruvad CTR-ratio eller ökade annonsintäkter, men förtroende är helt enkelt en alldeles för värdefull valuta för att gambla med i en era fylld av ’post-sanning’ och ’alternativa nyheter’.

Millennials are often portrayed negatively. To better understand the role news media in perpetuating stereotypes about the generation, we surveyed articles from Sweden’s two major newspapers, Aftonbladet and Dagens Nyheter. Nineteen articles, published between January 2016 to April of 2017, were included in the sample. All were analysed using critical discourse analysis with Norman Fairclough’s three dimensional model. The analysis revealed several tendencies for negative depictions. For example, millennial attitudes towards work were often described as lazy and entitled. In comparisons with previous generations, reports claimed millennials were disproportionately impacted by the harmful effects of technological advancement. Importantly, when these articles contained interviews with millennials or if the writers themselves were millennials, they represented themselves and their generation’s values with the same negative, stereotypical categorisations. Although these themes were more frequent than others, other forms of interpretations of millennials are possible.