Social media has changed how we the communicate, especially in the political sphere and in time of crisis. This thesis will explore this change by studying comment sections on Facebook during the spread of the disease covid-19, with the aim to understand how ideologies are spread and to who. The material used are comments on posts with links to news regarding the Swedish government’s handling of the spread of the virus published on SVT Nyheter´s Facebook page. The purpose is to answer what points, grounds and operations of discussion is to be found in the material and whom does the communication target? To do so the thesis uses a theoretical and methodological framework of Edwin Black´s the second persona and Maria Wolrath Söderberg´s topoi as meaning makers as well as her topoi analysis. The conclusion of the analysis of the material is that ideological influence and convincing is used in social media during the time of a crisis with two specific targets: to legitimize the values with and for like-minded and to convince undecided about the correct values by expressing their own and by diminishing others.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:sh-41736 |
| Date | January 2020 |
| Creators | Säflund, Malin |
| Publisher | Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för kultur och lärande |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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