This intersectional study explores how the social constructed categories gender and ethnicity interact with each other in photos picturing Swedish athletes. The studies empirical material is collected from the sport section of the biggest Swedish tabloid newspaper Aftonbladet, and was published during the period 23rd of November, 2012 to 23rd of November, 2015. The photos has been analyzed with a semiotic analysis which establishes that there are discriminating differences in how the athletes are being portraited. The most comprehensive differences are found between the groups ethnical Swedish men and ethnical non-Swedish women.

The purpose of this study was to illustrate how the Swedish tabloid press construct their sports sections front pages and what they present on these pages. A second purpose, and by the first following, was to investigate the items these newspapers offer the audience to add to their daily agendas. The aim to show a bigger picture of the front pages content was reached by implementing a content analysis of 196 front pages from the two largest tabloid newspapers in Sweden, Aftonbladet and Expressen, during a period of four years. The study examined 98 items per newspaper and since the aim was to examine sports journalism the units were chosen from the two newspapers sports sections, Sportbladet and SportExpressen. The great conclusions that were made during this process were the differences in between genders, the dominating sports and what big part sponsors have in sports. The most common front page shows a Swedish man playing football in the age between 20-35. A less common page is woman, playing any sport. She is only found on nine of a hundred front pages. As in the case of men, football is the dominating sport in Swedish tabloid press. On second place we found ice hockey. What we also could find was the big part sponsors have in sports. We saw the logos of sponsors on every second front page.

Uppsatsen undersöker hur kvällstidningen Aftonbladet gestaltar våldtäkt i sin nyhetsrapportering. De våldtäkter som studien kommer att analysera är våldtäkter som inträffat på festivalområden, avgränsat till de på Bråvallafestivalen 2016, samt övriga överfallsvåldtäkter som inträffat under sommaren 2016. Studien kommer även att undersöka potentiella likheter och skillnader i nyhetsrapporteringen av dessa två typer av våldtäkt. Analysmaterialet består av tre rapporterande artiklar om festivalvåldtäkter respektive tre om överfallsvåldtäkter. Genom att utgå från teorier såsom Christies teori om det ideala offret, gestaltningsteorin, medielogikens dramaturgi och teorin om nyhetsvärdering, i samband med en kvalitativ innehållsanalys, analyseras respektive artikels textuella innehåll utefter fem olika teman. Dessa teman är hur rubrik och ingress konstrueras, hur offret gestaltas, hur gärningsmannen gestaltas, hur miljön gestaltas, och vilka andra aktörer som lyfts fram samt hur de lyfts fram. Analysresultaten, av de tre respektive tre artiklarna, sammanfattas sedan utefter den våldtäktstyp de behandlar, för att sedan jämföras med varandra.Resultaten av den tematiska analysen visar på att Aftonbladets framställning av festivalvåldtäkter till viss del skiljer sig från tidningens framställning av överfallsvåldtäkter. Genom användandet av mindre värdeladdade ord och mer neutrala beskrivningar i artiklarna om festivalvåldtäkt, framstår bland annat offren som mindre oskyldiga, gärningsmännen som mer passiva och distanserade, medan miljön kan tolkas som mindre respektabel, i jämförelse med artiklarna om överfallsvåldtäkt. Denna framställning kan tolkas normalisera de våldtäkter som inträffar på festivalområden. / The essay examines how the Swedish tabloid newspaper Aftonbladet portrays rape in their news reports. The rape cases that the study is going to analyze are rape that has occurred at festivals, delimited to Bråvallafestivalen 2016, as well as other cases of assault rape taking place during the summer of 2016. The study will also examine potential similarities and differences between the news reports of these two types of rape.By using theories such as Christie’s theory of the Ideal Victim, the Framing theory, the Dramaturgy of the Media Logic, and the News Value theory, in combination with a qualitative content analysis, the textual content of each article is analysed based upon five themes. These themes are how the headline and preamble are constructed, how the victim is portrayed, how the perpetrator is portrayed, how the environment is portrayed, and which other actors that are being mentioned as well as how they are being mentioned.The results of the thematic analysis shows that some differences do exist, when it comes to how Aftonbladet portrays rape at festivals in comparison to assault rape. By using less emotive words and more neutral descriptions in the articles about festival rape, the victims appear as less innocent, the perpetrators as more passive and aloof, while the environment could be perceived as less respectable, as compared to the articles about assault rape. This portrayal can be interpreted as normalizing the rapes that take place at festivals.