The purpose of this study was to investigate the differences and similarities in the crime journalism of the two swedish newspapers Aftonbladet and Dagens Nyheter. Both general similarities and differences and those that concern the gender of the victim and perpetrator were investigated. I also looked at which type of actor that was given most room to speak in the articles. The theoretical perspectives and previous research that were used in this study was agenda setting, framing, news evaluation, journalistic rules, studies about gender in news media and studies about crime journalism. The methods that were used was a quantitative content analysis and critical linguistic. The study was conducted on a selection of 200 articles (100 from each newspaper) for the quantitative content analysis and 8 articles for the critical discourse analysis. The study focused on five different types of crime: assault, rape, murder, robbery and attempted murder. The study showed several similarities between the two newspapers One was that murder for example was the by far most covered type of crime in both Dagens Nyheter and Aftonbladet. The main differences concerned what was prioritized in the newspaper's news evaluation. The main differences that were found were between articles about male and female victims and perpetrators. Women were always framed as victims while men almost completely disappeared in the text if the perpetrator was female. Male perpetrators were also framed as ruthless and dangerous to a larger extent than female perpetrators.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:umu-185010 |
| Date | January 2021 |
| Creators | Jonsson, Daniel |
| 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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