This thesis aims to explore how the Swedish-language newspapers in the USA fraimd the debate regarding compulsory conscription that came with the law selective service act in 1917. Furthermore, the thesis aims to show whether any identities are addressed in the newspaper articles. The thesis aims to explore if the newspapers politics were decisive for which identity was addressed, and if different identities were addressed because of politics in the newspapers. Robert M Entman wrote aboute framing and his thoughts are important to the thesis´s method and theory. Entmans four codes Promote a particular problem definition, causal interpretation, moral evaluation, and treatment recommendation will be used in the thesis´s analysis. The newspapers which is used in the thesis is Svenska Amerikanaren, Svea, Svenska Tribunen, Svenska Folkets Tidning, Svenska Amerikanska Posten, Svenska tribunen-nyheter, Svenska Monitoren, Alarm and Svenska Socialisten. The results of the thesis shoes tow diffrent framings in the newspapers. Both patriotic to the country they live in but in diffrent ways. One framing is talking about protect democracy and peace and working against compulsory conscription. The other is talking about protecting democracy and honor by joining compulsory conscription. Tow patriotic identities are portrayed in the newspapers that are called "Loyalty to democracy and the new fatherland" and "Protect democracy" in the thesis. The first patriotic identity is addressed in the liberal and conservative newspapers through their framing of compulsory conscription. The second patriotic identity is addressed in the socialist newspapers through their framing of compulsory conscription. / Denna Masteruppsats undersöker hur de svenskspråkiga tidningaran i USA gestaltade obligatorisk värnplikt år 1917. Vidare ska uppsatsen undersöka om några patriotiska eller nationalistiska identiteter gestaltas eller tilltalas i tidnigarna. Uppsatsen undersöker om de svenskspråkiga tidningarnas politiska tendenser påverkar gestaltningen av den obligatoriska värnplikten och om skilda patriotiska identiteter tilltalas på grund av tidningarnas politiska tendens. Robert M Entmans tankar kring gestaltning är viktiga för uppsatsens metod och teori. Entmans fyra koder Promote a particular problem definition, causal interpretation, moral evaluation och treatment recommendation används i uppsatsens analysdel. De svenskspråkiga tidningarna som används som källmaterial i uppsatsen är Svenska Amerikanaren, Svea, Svenska Tribunen, Svenska Folkets Tidning, Svenska Amerikanska Posten, Svenska tribunen-nyheter, Svenska Monitoren, Alarm och Svenska Socialisten. Uppsatsens resultat visar hur två olika gestaltningar synligörs i de svenskspråkiga tidningar som undersöks. Både gestaltningar av den obligatoriska värnplikten är patriotiska mot landet de svenska emigranterna har emigrerat till men de två gestaltningarna har olika åsikter gällande hur svensk-amerikanerna bör agera gällande obligatorisk värnplikt för att vara patriotisk mot det nya fosterlandet. En gestaltning talar om hur demokratin och freden måste skyddas genom att göra motstånd mot den obligatoriska värnplikten som anses vara odemokratisk. Den andra gestaltningen talar om att skydda demokratin och svensk-amerikanernas ära genom att medverka och stödja den obligatoriska värnplikten. Två patriotiska identiteter tilltalas av gestaltningen i den svenskspråkiga tidningarna i USA 1917. De kallas i denna uppsats "Lojalitet mot demokrati och det nya fosterlandet" och "Slå vakt om demokratin". Den första patriotiska identiteten tilltalas genom gestaltning i den liberala, borgliga och högervridna tidningarna medan de socialistiska tidningarna tilltalar den andra patriotiska identiteten genom sin gestaltning av obligatorisk värnplikt.

Sweden and Finland were one country for more than 600 years and there are many remaining links between the two countries. Throughout the period, but even today there are Swedish and Finnish populations on both sides of the Gulf of Bothnia. When Russia conquered the Finnish part of the country in 1809, the state and its population were separated and the situations for the language groups changed and developed differently in Sweden and Finland. During the period studied in this thesis, 1866-1939, a new type of nation emerged in Europe, based on versions of nationalism constructed on ethnicity and language. Elementary schools played an important role in this nation building, spreading the mother language and the nation’s history. Elementary school textbooks were designed in relation to nation building, language and ethnic identification.  The thesis compares how Swedish and Finland-Swedish textbooks describe ethnicity and common history in Sweden and Finland in a period of nationalism. The main aim of the thesis is to compare how two textbooks-traditions describes their Swedish and Finnish populations and if, or how, the textbook history is to be seen as related to these descriptions. The textbooks examined were written for elementary schools from 1866-1939 to be used in the teaching of history and geography. The research question focuses on descriptions of Swedes and Finns and whether it is possible to see differences in the nation’s historiography. Patterns of reproduction or transformation are also analysed in the textbooks. In the study 105 textbooks were examined and the quotations from the textbooks connected to the aim are sorted and analysed using Critical Discourse Analysis.  The results show that Finns are rendered invisible in Swedish history textbooks. The geography textbooks describe Swedes as cultural and civilised with a peace-loving national character, while Finns are described as uncultured, peripheral and stubborn. This pattern is similar in Swedish and Finland-Swedish geography textbooks. At the beginning of the study it is a positive stubbornness, portrayed as brave and truthful to Sweden. Later on, the stubborn Finn is described negatively as old-fashioned and clinging to old habits. The Swede´s are described as more flexible through time; they have refined their national character and developed cultivation and democracy.  The historiography differs in what is described, and how. One example is that the Finns´ contribution to the common country is quite hard to find in the textbooks.  Swedish textbooks also seem to want to steal the honour from any Finnish success by placing Swedish ethnicity before Finnish national identity in cases where Swedish-speaking Finns have done great things. These types of descriptions are both reproduced and transformed as the actual relations between Finland and Sweden change and it is obvious that textbook history does not tell about the past but rather the story that the present wants to propagate.

Sweden and Finland were one country for more than 600 years and there are many remaining links between the two countries. Throughout the period, but even today there are Swedish and Finnish populations on both sides of the Gulf of Bothnia. When Russia conquered the Finnish part of the country in 1809, the state and its population were separated and the situations for the language groups changed and developed differently in Sweden and Finland. During the period studied in this thesis, 1866-1939, a new type of nation emerged in Europe, based on versions of nationalism constructed on ethnicity and language. Elementary schools played an important role in this nation building, spreading the mother language and the nation’s history. Elementary school textbooks were designed in relation to nation building, language and ethnic identification.  The thesis compares how Swedish and Finland-Swedish textbooks describe ethnicity and common history in Sweden and Finland in a period of nationalism. The main aim of the thesis is to compare how two textbooks-traditions describes their Swedish and Finnish populations and if, or how, the textbook history is to be seen as related to these descriptions. The textbooks examined were written for elementary schools from 1866-1939 to be used in the teaching of history and geography. The research question focuses on descriptions of Swedes and Finns and whether it is possible to see differences in the nation’s historiography. Patterns of reproduction or transformation are also analysed in the textbooks. In the study 105 textbooks were examined and the quotations from the textbooks connected to the aim are sorted and analysed using Critical Discourse Analysis.  The results show that Finns are rendered invisible in Swedish history textbooks. The geography textbooks describe Swedes as cultural and civilised with a peace-loving national character, while Finns are described as uncultured, peripheral and stubborn. This pattern is similar in Swedish and Finland-Swedish geography textbooks. At the beginning of the study it is a positive stubbornness, portrayed as brave and truthful to Sweden. Later on, the stubborn Finn is described negatively as old-fashioned and clinging to old habits. The Swede´s are described as more flexible through time; they have refined their national character and developed cultivation and democracy.  The historiography differs in what is described, and how. One example is that the Finns´ contribution to the common country is quite hard to find in the textbooks.  Swedish textbooks also seem to want to steal the honour from any Finnish success by placing Swedish ethnicity before Finnish national identity in cases where Swedish-speaking Finns have done great things. These types of descriptions are both reproduced and transformed as the actual relations between Finland and Sweden change and it is obvious that textbook history does not tell about the past but rather the story that the present wants to propagate.

The Bachelor dissertation What do you mean national self-image? is a discourse analysis of the relationship between Swedish news providers. The study aims to investigate how Swedish-language print media interact with the main provider of Swedish news in English, The Local Sweden, and what it reports as the “essence” of the nation and its people.   The investigation has been conducted through the implementation of Ernesto Laclau’s and Chantal Mouffe’s discourse analysis and uses intertextuality, stereotypes, social representation, as well as nationalism and the imagined communities as its theoretical framework. The material selected for the analysis comprises publications by Swedish-language print media from the year of 2014, which engage in a dialogue with The Local Sweden beyond the generic interaction of news. The dissertation concludes that Swedish-language print media approach The Local Sweden’s news coverage in two ways: in agreement or in opposition of what has been reported. When The Local Sweden has published something with the intention of capturing the “essence” of Sweden and its people, they bring attention to the Swede’s hugging culture, their food and souvenirs, as well as their knowledge of language. The results of the study suggest that The Local Sweden manages to provide new information on the subjects, which then leads to Swedish-language print media responding with entire articles dedicated to these topics. The articles convey a sense of fascination and curiosity toward the findings and confirm that The Local Sweden has been correct in their observations. However, when The Local Sweden publishes something with the intention of presenting Swedish news rather than the specific “essence” of it, they find different angles in news stories than what has been covered by Swedish-language print media. The results of the study suggest that by doing so they set themselves apart and provoke Swedish-language print media into responding by incorporating a comment for and/or relating to them as a news provider. The comments convey that Swedish-language print media question The Local Sweden’s validity as a valuable member in covering Swedish news.