On morning of the second of April 2024, a twelve-year-old boy stepped into his elementaryschool in Vantaa, Finland and shot one boy of the same age dead and wounded two girls. In theevent of crisis, a surge for information is created. This thesis aims to study the Swedish newsshow for children, Lilla Aktuellts’, crisis reporting on multiple platforms in the case of theschool shooting in Vantaa. Through applying a multimodal analysis of Lilla Aktuellts’ TikTokvideo, including the comment section, three news broadcasts and a qualitative text analysis ofthe chat communication in the app SVT Duo the study focuses on research questions regardinghow Lilla Aktuellt portrayed the school shooting in Vantaa, Finland, in news broadcasts and onTikTok, if Lilla Aktuellt used constructive elements in to convey the news to its audience, andwhat role hybridity play in the use of digital platforms in reporting. In the study, we found thatLilla Aktuellt portrayed the shooting in a manner which focused on the reactions from thecommunity, whilst the suspected shooter was given relatively little space. Through the selectionof image material and language the shooting was portrayed as woeful and rare. In the reportingconstructive elements were used by opening a 30-minute chat with the school safety expertLena Ljungdahl and two of Lilla Aktuellts’ reporters where children were welcome to posequestions about the incident and their worries and fears about school shootings. Selectedquestions were also incorporated into the following news segments. Using a hybrid approach tothe reporting gave Lilla Aktuellt a chance to reach out with information in different formats, atdifferent points in time and to audiences that don't usually find their broadcasts. It also givesthe chance to interact with the audience.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:umu-226678 |
| Date | January 2024 |
| Creators | Holm, Anna, Einarsson, Astrid |
| Publisher | Umeå universitet, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper |
| 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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