This study examines how vaccines are presented in the daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter (DN). The purpose of the study is to contribute new research on how news frames appear in daily newspapers, especially in the field of journalism. The purpose of the study is also to expand research on how vaccines are presented in newspapers, more specifically to expand research on generic design framework. The study will carry out the investigation through Entman's definition of framing and thereby operationalise through a deductive approach. The results of the study show that vaccines are designed in an objective way. When it comes to news frameworks, responsible frameworks are most prevalent in articles about vaccination in DN. This is probably due to the fact that the majority of vaccine articles attribute both responsibility and solutions related to vaccines.

The aim of this bachelor thesis was to analyse and examine which images the morning newspaper Dagens Nyheter and the tabloid paper Aftonbladet choosed to use on their front pages when reporting about the terrorist attack in Stockholm 2017. We also wanted to examine if there were any differences or similarities between morning newspapers and tabloids images on their front pages.    Before our study we did a mapping where we examined how many images, between April 8 and April 30,  the two newspapers used when portraying the incident on their front page. The mapping helped structuring our process by creating categories before deciding which images we wanted to examine more closely. We conducted a qualitative study and used semiotic image analysis, visual rhetoric analysis, metonymy, metaphor and index. We analysed twelve pictures; seven from Aftonbladet and five from Dagens Nyheter.          By examining this we established that there were both differences and similarities between the newspapers. The biggest difference was that Aftonbladet used more dynamic images while Dagens Nyheter used more approximations. Aftonbladet´s images portrayed the attack with dramatic, close-ups images where the images felt more realistic and Dagens Nyheter portrayed the attack with more objective images. A similarity that we found was that both newspapers used images of authoritarian people and implied that the society stands united against the terror. We also found that the suspected terrorist, Rakhmat Akilov, was presented as a threat from the outside that destroyed “our” western world.

The aim of this study is to analyze the botanist Elias Magnus Fries legacy between 1970 until today. The focus is on the Swedish medias interest in Fries, as well as how he and his name has been utilized during this period. Departing from theories on history culture and uses of history, the Swedish national newspapers Aftonbladet, Dagens Nyheter, Expressen and Svenska Dagbladet are analyzed. The study shows when and how the memory of Elias Magnus Fries has been activated and portrayed in Swedish media, as well as if they used Fries as a kind of national symbol. During the 1970’s the interest was at its peak but dwindled after the 90’s probable due to the lack of jubilee celebration. Indeed, the interest of Fries peaked during the 70’s and 90’s because of celebrating the 100-year celebration of his death in 1878 and the 200 anniversary of his birth in 1794. Although, the general view of Fries persona always has been positive, rather scant attention har been devoted to Fries during the entire period and he was often only mentioned briefly. The interest was in general primarily on mushrooms rather than Fries, and it was always the mushrooms that spurred an interest in Fries rather than the other way around. This might indicate a rather weak position in the history of science within Swedish media. Nevertheless, the newspapers also depicted Fries as a kind of national educator, scientist and a person with a great an evolutionistic mind for his great interest in mushrooms and its introduction in the Swedish cuisine.

This study examines the media coverage on the European Union (EU) plastic ban directive in Sweden and investigates the role of the Swedish media in the EU decision-making process. As society and social movements are the driving force for pushing policies forward and affecting policy change, it is important to understand the media’s role in the development. Since media is one core driving force of opinion-building in this decision-making process, this thesis, analyses the media coverage on the topic of plastic to understand the media output that is directed towards the Swedish people. Therefore, the main focus has been to gather and analyze the news coverage on the topic of plastic in two of Sweden’s largest daily newspapers, Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Dagbladet during the adoption of European Union’s Directive 2019/904 on the reduction of the impact of certain plastic products on the environment. By analyzing the media coverage and the international regulations that have been formed by the United Nations and European Union through discourse analysis with the application of the concepts Framing and Europeanization, differences between the media and actors of decision-making have been discovered.

Problemformulering och syfte: Under år 2020 har det rapporterats frekvent om pandemin till följd av viruset covid-19. Under årets gång har flera medier rapporterat om människor och företag som drabbats i sviterna av pandemin. Tidigare forskning visar att kvinnor länge har varit underrepresenterade i svenska nyhetsmedier, men stämmer det även under en pandemi? Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka i vilken omfattning män kontra kvinnor representerats som huvudaktör i Aftonbladet och Dagens Nyheters coronarapportering, samt hur könsrepresentationen ser ut när det kommer till de rollerna dessa huvudaktörer har haft. Metod och material: Studiens syfte har uppnåtts genom en kvantitativ innehållsanalys av tryckta artiklar från Aftonbladet och Dagens Nyheter under pandemins första våg (25 mars 2020 - 31maj 2020) och andra våg (1 september 2020 - 7 november 2020). Detta gör vi utifrån ett genusperspektiv som tar avstamp i könsmärkning och genussystemet. För att analysera materialet har ett kodschema skapats med variabler kopplade till syftet och frågeställningarna. Kodningen har sedan sammanställts och presenterats i form av diagram.Huvudresultat: Resultatet visar att kvinnor varit underrepresenterade i Aftonbladet och Dagens Nyheters coronarapportering. Det förekom dessutom en tydlig könsmärkning och en ojämn könsfördelning inom flera områden i dessa tidningar under pandemin. Då antalet manliga huvudaktörer var som lägst, var antalet ändå högre än när antalet kvinnliga huvudaktörer varsom högst. Inom flera av huvudaktörernas roller och artiklarnas huvudområden rådde en markant könsmärkning i båda tidningarna.Resultatet indikerar även att män och kvinnor i Aftonbladet och Dagens Nyheter citerats i liknande utsträckning när det kommer till omfånget av citeringarna, men att män citerats oftare eftersom de förekommit mer frekvent.

En politiskt kunnig befolkning är enligt många demokratiteoretiker en förutsättning för en välfungerande demokrati. Politisk kunskap hos medborgare ger dessa möjligheten att agera ansvarsutkrävande och rösta bort makthavare som anses ha förbrukat sin rätt till makt. Av tidigare forskning kring ämnet framgår att nyhetsmedia har en viktig roll som förmedlare av information som kan leda till politisk kunskap. Föreliggande uppsats syftar till att undersöka huruvida konsumtion av nyhetsmedia resulterar i en ökad politisk kunskap för svenska högskolestudenter, samt styrkan i detta samband. Mer preciserat undersöks förhållandet mellan konsumtion av nationella nyheter och kunskap om nationell politik, samt förhållandet mellan konsumtion av lokala nyheter och kunskap om lokal politik, alltsammans i en svensk kontext. En enkätundersökning har legat till grund för studiens resultat, vilken skickats till högskolestudenter i Uppsala. Undersökningens resultat har vidare analyserats med hjälp av regressionsanalyser. I studiens resultatdel framkommer tendenser på att en ökad nyhetskonsumtion leder till ökad politisk kunskap för högskolestudenter, både i nationell och lokal kontext. Det visar sig också att en ökad nyhetskonsumtion har en större påverkan på politisk kunskap på nationell nivå, samt att nivån av lokalpolitisk kunskap är låg.

Syftet med denna kunskapsöversikt är att undersöka och redogöra för vad forskningen säger om hur samhällskunskapsämnet påverkas av sociala medier. Med en frågeställning som lyder:   ”Vad säger tidigare forskning om hur undervisningen i samhällskunskap påverkas av sociala medier?”   Processen där materialet som har använts har framkommit utifrån en systematisk sökningsprocess. Sökningarna har huvudsakligen gjorts i tre olika databaser, vilka är ERIC via EBSCO, ERC och LIBsearch.   Resultatet visar att samhällskunskapen påverkas en hel del av sociala medier. Eleverna läser sina nyheter till en allt högre grad på sociala medier, vilket kräver en ökad aktivitet av lärarna kring ämnen som källkritik, medie- och informationskunnighet samt att elevernas demokratiska deltagande måste byggas på rätt grunder. Kunskapsöversiktens slutsats säger detsamma. Även ungdomars politiska delaktighet kommer fram, om hur sociala medier påverkar samhällskunskapsämnet.

This essay sheds light on the protest events in connection with the Davis-Cup matches in Båstad in 1968 and 1975. They are relatively close in time, touch on the same sports competition, similar issues, engage largely the same group of protesters and were the subject of enormous media interest. When looking at the events in Båstad in a retrospective light, the event in 1968 is reflected much more strongly than the event in 1975, in this essay this imbalance will be examined in more detail. The main purpose of the essay is to, based on articles in Svenska Dagbladet and Dagens Nyheter, comparatively investigate how these newspapers may have shaped the historical image of the events in connection with the Davis Cup matches in Båstad in 1968 and 1975. The theoretical framework is based on framing theory, which shows how media's representations of reality affect people's perceptions, how media, in some ways but not others, reproduces and disseminates different power centers’. The choice of the theoretical framework rests on the thesis that the newspapers' depiction of the events created a historical picture of them. The newspapers visualize the reality according to preferences that they find to be rewarding now. The essay's methodological starting point is both quantitative and qualitative as it consists of a conventional content analysis on the one hand and is inspired by a quantitative four-step model that is connected to the framing theory on the other. The results show that the framings of the newspapers can be linked to the different course of events of the protests, as well as the modernization of social institutions, in particular sports. In 1968, the white sport was still white, but the events in Båstad nullified the possibility of seriously claiming that sports and politics did not influence each other. The similar framings of the newspapers in 1975 also show how far the abolition of authority had come. Sport was opened to the world and to politics, modernized and democratized and is today more democratically governed than before.

Det finns farhågor att den ökade ägarkoncentrationen i mediebranschen gällande lokaladagstidningar riskerar att påverka innehållet för dess läsare. Allt mer material hämtas från externaaktörer, såsom nyhetsbyråer och kommunikationsavdelningar. I kombination med den digitalautvecklingen har detta inneburit förändringar för de etablerade mediehusen. Genom att undersökatvå lokala dagstidningar kopplade till Stampen media, ville jag undersöka om detta har påverkattidningens lokala prägel. Stampen media köpte dels upp flera lokala tidningar i början av 2000-talet,dels blev Stampen media själva uppköpta för något år sedan.Sveriges riksdag beslutade om ett nytt presstöd 2018, vilket skall stärka den lokala journalistiken.Detta i kombination med att en entydig forskning som visar på att den lokala tidningen har en viktigroll att spela när det kommer till demokrati och att skapa samhällsengagemang, visar på vikten avlokala tidningar.Den kvantitativa innehållsanalysen visar på att den lokala prägeln inte har minskat i någon störreomfattning. Tendensen för Hallands Nyheter är mer negativ, än för Hallandsposten. Vidare visarresultaten på ett fokus på centralorterna i tidningarnas utgivningsområden. Det som framkommer äratt tidningens material har minskat betydligt och vad detta kan ha för betydelse för tidningens lokalaprägel i framtiden, får framtiden utvisa.

This study aims to contribute knowledge about how secondary teachers perceive their work with political news, in their teaching in the subject social studies. The study is based on qualitative interviews with five secondary teachers, who hold varying experience of teaching in the subject of social studies. The results shows that the teachers work with relatively similar news sources as well as media forms, and they are primarily influenced by their own personal news media preferences. The data shows that it is equally common for the teachers to use the method and ideal type of news integration as well as of news coverage. Regarding the teacher’s approach, the respondents mainly represented the ideal type of strong objectivity along with a weak neutrality. Conclusions that could be drawn from this study are that teachers largely have a positive view of political news in their teaching whereas aspects as accessibility, lack of time and the feeling of too much content represent challenging factors. The study points out that the teachers have a great interest in the news and that the media can be used as a possible source for knowledge in teaching. But this is only true under certain circumstances where source credibility is constantly present. Perhaps the study's most important contribution is that of the increased knowledge about the teacher’s selection of content, together with making teachers' media views and understanding of media influence visible. This highlights the complexity of the position the teacher finds themselves in, both as a frontline bureaucrat as well as an agendasetter.