The Czech Republic and Sweden have historically been prominent producers and exporters of arms. The end of the Cold War has, however, changed the global patterns of arms trade. The aim of this thesis is to compare the trends in arms exports of the two countries in the years 1993-2012. The method involves a combination of a quantitative analysis aimed at examining how arms exports correlate to national product and military expenditure, and a qualitative analysis for an in-depth examination of the different sectors that the exports were composed of. The results show weak or non-existent correlations between the arms exports and the mentioned macroeconomic variables, with a general upward-pointing trend for Sweden and a general downward-pointing trend for the Czech Republic. Analysis by sector suggests that the Czech defense industry suffered greatly from the turbulent period that followed the end of the Cold War, thus also negatively affecting the country’s exports. The Swedish defense industry has not been affected to the same extent and the exports seem actually to have benefitted from reductions in the size of the armed forces. The fact that the export trends have been very volatile and do not show much correlation to economic variables suggests a certain degree of unpredictability, both due to external events and to the inconsistency of defense policy.

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Syfte: Syftet med studien är att undersöka fortsättningsvisanvändarinvolvering inför kommunens webbutvecklingsprocessen, kan hjälpa att få idéer och förbättringsmöjligheter. Detta för att kunna hjälpa kommunen att utveckla sina webbplattformar och nå sina mål. För att begränsa studien, har författaren valt att enbart studera och förstå unga vuxna i åldern18–25 år. Metod: Kvalitativ forskning med deduktivt synsätt. Design thinking används för att empatisera med också generera nya idéer och förbättringsmöjligheter. Semi-strukturerade intervjuer och workshopsanvändes för att samla in data. Slutsats: Resultat från empiri har belysttydligthur unga vuxna upplevde kommunen webbplattformar. Unga vuxna har gett varierande och ibland samma synpunkter kring hur de upplevde kommunens digitala kanaler vid användningen av kommunens digitala kanaleroch hur de skulle vilja utveckla plattformar. Några hade lite problem med texterna som kommunen publicerar. Några andra upplevde inte detta, utan de hade annat problem. Alltså det var några som sa att det upplevde problem när de sökte jobb, och information på kommunens hemsida. Några andra lärde sig först vid praktiskanvändningav kommunens digitala plattform.Unga vuxnas svar och förslag på utvecklingsmöjligheter varieradeberoende på hur problem uppfattades. Då samtliga deltagarna under den här studien har påvisat sina behov och förbättringsmöjligheter, rekommenderas användarinvolverade metoder att användas i en kommunal kontext som utvecklar kommunala webbplattformar.

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Today cosplay is a constant growing subculture of people dressing up in costumes of their favourite fictional characters partaking in geek culture. This group of people have different ways of practicing cosplay. They go to conventions, meet up on online forums like Facebook and share their experiences and interests with each other. The focus of cosplay is for the person to transform them self with costumes that the cosplay practitioners or also known as “cosplayers.” have bought ore crafted themselves. This study focusses on analysing the thought process of cosplayers in relation to crafting a cosplay costume and how it relates to cosplayers personal identity. What is typical in crafting cosplay costumes and how does it differ between cosplayers in relation to the costumes purpose and cosplayers personal identity? This study uses mixed method research and is based on a survey of active cosplayers and their opinions of cosplay craft. The study uses social identity theory to analyse the cosplayers answers and how it effects the way they choose to practice cosplay. The result of this study show that cosplayers closely identify themselves with their craft in way that creates a cosplay identity. The cosplayers cosplay identity is how they relate their own way of cosplay inside the cosplay community. If they are a competing cosplayer, non-competing cosplayer, Armor specialist or the seamstress.          Keywords; Cosplay, personal identity, Cosplay competition, craft, textiles

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