Denna studie undersöker hur representanter från musikindustrin använder sig av hashtags, sociala medier och vilka effekter hashtags har samt, vilken effekt de skulle kunna ha på deras arbete. Användningen sätts i förhållande till tio redan definierade funktioner av hashtags.Uppsatsens syfte är att bidra till djupare förståelse hur hashtags används och hur dessa kan användas inom musikindustrin. Genom att förtydliga om detta är ett verktyg som kan användas för att lättare sprida information på social media. Detta genomfördes genom en kvalitativ studie och utförandet av semistrukturerade intervjuer med fem representanter från musikindustrin och två respondenter som arbetar inom andra områden, varav en är har forskat på twitter och hashtags och en jobbar med att stärka användningen av digitala verktyg på ett större företag. Detta har sedan blivit granskat genom en induktiv ansats. Frågeställningen har besvarats genom att resultaten från empirin analyserats utifrån teorin.Studien kom fram till att representanterna från musikindustrin i huvudsakligen använde sociala medier och hashtags för att marknadsföra sig själva och sina band. Men Artist 1 använde hashtags mer än Skivbolag 1. Effekterna hashtags hade var både positiva och negativa. Fördelen var att hashtags kunde rikta deras budskap mer exakt och nackdelen var att personer kan ha en negativ bild av hashtags och på sätt bli kritiska till användningen av dem. / This study examines how representatives from the music industry use hashtags, social media and what effects hashtags have, and what effect they could have on their work. The usage is set in relation to ten already defined functions of hashtags.The purpose of the thesis is to contribute to a deeper understanding of how hashtags are used and how these can be used in the music industry. By clarifying whether this is a tool that can be used to more easily disseminate information on social media. This was done through a qualitative study and was conducted by semi-structured interviews with five representatives from the music industry and two respondents as workers in other areas, one of which has been researching twitter and hashtags, and one who is working on strengthening the use of digital tools at a large company. This has since been examined through an inductive approach. The question has been answered by analysing the results of the empirical data based on the theory.The study concluded that the representatives of the music industry mainly used social media and hashtags to market themselves and their bands. But the artist used hashtags more than the record company. The effects of hashtags had been both positive and negative. The advantage was that hashtags were able to target their messages more accurately and the disadvantage was that people could have a negative image of hashtags and thus become critical of their use.

Losing a close relative or friend is a traumatic event for anyone, especially for children and adolescents. This article investigates the motives and patterns of children’s and adolescents’ interpersonal online communication on bereavement platforms. A qualitative content analysis of two different youth bereavement platforms (n = 21 threads; 319 postings) illuminates how one common feature is the verbalization and illustration of missing support in the offline world. The substantial usage of social network platforms can be considered an extension of children’s and adolescents’ personal social environment. Furthermore, topics on bereavement platforms ultimately go beyond grief, as children and adolescents also include emotions such as hope, gratitude and cohesiveness. Communication within online bereavement communities thus enables a process known from offline communication as transformation from a lossoriented to restoration-oriented coping (Stroebe and Schut 2010, p. 277).

Aim: The study will try to depict the current state of social capital in relation to fear of missing out and screentime hours on smartphone activities. Does the most frequently used social contexts create bridging capital but not enough bonding capital? The aim is to contribute to a larger understanding of what drives a sense of inclusion by different social capital within different social contexts. The study will investigate if there is a relationship between social capital, fear of missing out and what we spend our time on together with our smartphone by measuring screentime on the five largest social networking sites (Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube).  Method: This study has been conducted with a quantitative approach of using an electronic survey. The sample investigated was Generation Z, defined as people born between 1997 and 2004.  Previous theory and prior research have been analyzed as the basis for this work and then implemented into a survey for data collection. The survey was made in the tool Survey and report. Requests for participation was made via a convenience sample in geographical proximity to Karlstad University.  The survey was mainly distributed with QR-codes placed on different locations throughout Karlstad University. The results of the survey have been processed and analyzed through the statistical analysis program SPSS.   Result & Conclusions: The results of this study conclude that there is a significant correlation between FOMO and bridging social capital in this sample. The driving factors behind this correlation can only partly be explained by the results from the survey. With non-valid questions regarding hours together with a slight skewness in the sample, it is not possible to generalize these results to the population. The result of this study can however be seen as a significant result in a specific group that could inspire to more in-depth research on a greater scale. Suggestions for future research: The correlation in this study explains about 20% of the variation of FOMO by bridging capital and wise versa, leaving 80% unexplored. Future research can be carried out using the same theory for social capital but develop this future with additional theories for e.g., social context.  If future research investigated a broader sample of generation Z, it would also be interesting to compare them to other target groups (e.g., generation X or Y), examining differences between and within these groups.

The purpose of this bachelor's thesis is to study the strategic communication within companies in the IT industry that operate on LinkedIn. The study was conducted with a multiple qualitative interview approach, where the data consisted of four interviews with four communication professionals from different companies. The analysis was constructed through the lens of Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory and his key concepts of field, capital and habitus to identify the structure of successful communication on LinkedIn. This study reaches the conclusion that LinkedIn can be viewed as a field with competitors competing for the right to be seen through strategic tactics and investments of digital, social and economic capital. Digital capital becomes the most important capital for communication on LinkedIn, without it the other capitals lose their purpose. The larger companies have a more favorable habitus for LinkedIn communication than the smaller competitors as they have structural advantages in the organization to teach their staff new knowledge (new habitus). / Syftet med detta kandidatarbete är att studera den strategiska kommunikationen av företag inom IT-branschen som verkar på LinkedIn. Materialet samlades in med en multipel kvalitativ intervjustudie, där data bestod av fyra intervjuer med fyra kommunikationsproffs från olika företag. Analysen konstruerades genom linsen av Pierre Bourdieus fältteori och hans nyckelbegrepp av fält, kapital och habitus för att identifiera strukturen för framgångsrik kommunikation på LinkedIn. Denna studie når slutsatsen att LinkedIn kan ses som ett fält med konkurrenter som tävlar om rätten att synas genom taktiker och investeringar av digitalt, socialt och ekonomiskt kapital. Digitala kapital blir de viktigaste kapitalet för LinkedIn-kommunikation, utan det tappar de andra kapitalen sina syften. De större företagen har en mer gynnsam habitus för LinkedIn-kommunikation än de mindre konkurrenterna då de har strukturella fördelar i organisationen för att lära sin personal ny kunskap (ny habitus).

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Quasicrystals are systems that are ordered but not periodic. They do however still have long-range order and well-defined diffraction peaks. This leads to interesting properties, like critical states which are neither extended nor localized, and to topological invariants and edge states. We study how these peculiar properties impact superconductivity in an SNS-junction, by attaching superconducting leads to a quasicrystal nanowire. We choose to investigate proximitzed superconductivity in Fibonacci quasicrystals, since their normal state has been thoroughly studied and understood. Using the Bogoliubov-de Gennes method and solving the order parameter self-consistently, we calculate the proximity effect as well as the Josephson current. We find that quasicrystals can enhance the proximity effect and significantly enhance the Josephson currents.

1 Abstract International migration has an impact on the economy in both the receiving and the sending countries due to the fact that foreign workers will 'reinvest' the financial remittances in their home country and support the domestic economy in the source state while fulling the demand for work in the receiving country and improving the financial climate in the host state. Work agencies and the client system are some of the most important details of this system that allows migrants to get a job and often facilitates participation and provides additional services to organize their stay in the host country. The theoretical basis of this thesis is the migration network theory and also the neoinstitutional theory with its concept of limited human rationality as well as a concept of institutional "limitations" in the context of created institutional rules. In the theoretical part of this work the agency and the so-called client system, which performs the same duties on an illegal level, - were explored as institutional units in their historical, real, social dimensions. Basic qualitative research examines the concept of the migration network theory and the concept of limited choice of institutional theory on the example of nine migrants from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and Ukraine with...

L'usage politique d'Internet et des réseaux socionumériques (RSN) ne cesse d'augmenter depuis plus d'une décennie. Le recours à des réseaux tels que Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Skype, Instagram etc., se manifeste comme un passage obligatoire, tant pour les acteurs politiques que pour les citoyens « ordinaires ». La présente recherche retrace l'usage politique et les logiques de mobilisation et de la production de parole politique sur les RSN dans le contexte de la crise syrienne en 2011. Elle questionne, à travers l'analyse de cas de la page The Syrian Revolution 2011, les possibilités que ces RSN offrent aux usagers dans l'instauration d'espaces de mobilisations et d'interactions collectives. Notre analyse s'est organisée pour couvrir deux périodes : la première s'étale de 18 janvier au 14 mars 2011, quant à la seconde, elle s'étend du 15 mars au 30 avril 2011. Ce découpage permet de comprendre le passage d'un mode opératoire à un autre en fonction du changement du contexte politique et de la dégradation de la situation dramatique en Syrie. Notre recherche question également la place de la discussion politique en ligne dans l'élaboration des cadres d'action collective. Elle montre que ces derniers sont, activés, adoptés et diffusés à travers des logiques propres aux pratiques sociotechniques offertes par les RSN. Ainsi, notre étude peut apporter une contribution, nous l'espérons, originale dans le champ de l'analyse des RSN. Elle montre comment ces derniers peuvent constituer un espace de mobilisation d'information à travers duquel les usagers peuvent développer différentes pratiques communicationnelles. / During the last decade, the political use of the Internet and Social Network Sites (SNS) has tremendously increased. Using networks such as Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Skype, Instagram, etc., has become a must for both political actors and ordinary citizens. Using as a framework the Syrian crisis in 2011, this research will follow the evolution of the political use of SNS in addition to the logics of mobilization and the production of the political speech in these networks. Through the analysis of the Facebook Page the Syrian Revolution 2011, it will question the possibilities that these SNS provide to the users to create mobilizations spaces and collective interaction. Our analysis covered two periods of time: the first one from January 18th to March 14th 2011, and the second from March 15th to April 30th 2011. This will help us better understand the change from one operational mode to another based on the change of the political context and on the degradation of the dramatic situation in Syria. Our research questions the place of the political discussion online and its parts on the creation of collective actions frames. It shows that these frames are activated, adopted and spread in ways that are specific to the social and technical practices provided by the SNS. From this perspective, we hope that our study can bring an original contribution in the analysis of the SNS field. It shows how these networks can be an area for mobilization of information that would help users develops various communication practices.