Syftet med den här uppsatsen har varit att kartlägga ungdomar i Södertäljes tidningsläsning, framförallt av morgontidningar. Huvudfrågeställningen har varit: Hur ser ungas läsvanor av tidningar ut? Under genomförandet av denna studie har vi utfört en enkätundersökning bland gymnasielever i Södertälje kommun. 81 ungdomar fick svara på frågor om till exempel vad de tycker är mest intressant i en dagstidning, om de saknar något i innehållet och hur de upplever att det skrivs om unga. Vidare har vi genomfört en samtalsintervju med den ansvarige utgivaren på Länstidningen i Södertälje, Thelma Kimsjö. Resultatet av studien ger en ögonblicksbild som visar att unga i Södertälje läser tidningen. Den viktigaste slutsatsen som dragits av detta är att verkligheten inte stämmer överens med den i vissa kretsar rådande uppfattningen om att unga inte läser tidningar.

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The aim of this research review is to map research about how children relate to nonfiction, and how adults, represented by parents, librarians and teachers, relate to children’s nonfiction and its possible purposes, and also the similarities and differences between them, according to current research.A theory of three different ways to look at reading is applied to the material concerning adults’ views of children’s nonfiction. To show children’s views, themes are extracted from the research material, using an analysis model of four different ways to read.Studies show that most children as well as adults perceive children’s nonfiction in a traditional way as a means to gain knowledge and facts, and primarily related to school work.Nonfiction can also help children with reading difficulties to practise reading, by stimulating their interests. Many children read nonfiction because they prefer to read ”real stories” about actual people and events. Nonfiction can also help children find and strengthen their identity. Some children simply read nonfiction for fun and pleasure, in the same way others read fiction.Most librarians and teachers see nonfiction as a way for the children to gain knowledge, practise reading skills or source criticism. Some also see future benefits for the child as an individual or a member of the society.There are few research studies about children’s nonfiction, and parents’ views are also poorly represented in these studies. / Program: Bibliotekarie

The purpose of this master’s thesis is to find out in which ways a group of first generation immigrants use Swedish papers and magazines in a public library and which information needs this group has about Swedish society. One important aspect in this essay is integration of immigrants in the Swedish society as a possible effect of newspaper reading. The method used in this study is qualitative. Data is generated through semi-structured interviews. The immigrants have been represented by eight persons from different ethnic groups. Through a literature survey of earlier research I have presented a background to immigrants’ information needs and possible connections between on the one hand education, employment, gender, duration of their stay in the country and on the other hand on the impact on information needs patterns. The study has two theoretical starting points: Diaz’ integration theory and a modified version of Höglund – Perssons’ model of information use. Of great interest for this essay have been the effects of the information use, especially integration of immigrants in Swedish society. The results of the analyses show that information seeking and information use have had a more profound effect on integration in the language community (kommunikativ integration) than on the social, structural and political integration. The majority of immigrants in the study do not feel integrated in the Swedish society. However we can conclude that this study tends to show that reading and information seeking have effect on some aspects of integration and that the public library has an important role in this process. / Uppsatsnivå: D