This is a qualitative interview study where the purpose is to compare the view and experience of the Våxnäs district between individuals who live in the district and people who have moved out of the district. Furthermore, the purpose is to investigate whether local media affect the individual's view and experience of the district. The study is based on eight interviews where the interviewees live in the district and moved out of the district Våxnäs. The results have been analyzed based on a thematic qualitative analysis. A qualitative content analysis of local news articles has also been carried out, to examine how the media report on the area. The results have been analyzed empirically and theoretically based on sociological theories and concepts such as stigma, the definition of the situation, self-fulfilling prophecy, and the functions of a district. This study shows that the two groups of have a predominantly negative view of and experience of the Våxnäs district. The difference between the two groups is that the residents experience the district as positive periodically, while the emigrants experienced the district mostly negatively. A factor that governs the view and experience of the district is the different seasons. The results also show that the views and experience of the district by the people who live in the district and the people who have moved out of the district is affected by how others talk about the area, as well as how the media reports about the area. Based on the results of the content analysis and the thematic qualitative analysis, it can be deduced that the media's reporting is predominantly negative, and that the individual speaks negatively about the area. Furthermore, this is something that creates a stigmatization of the area, where the area is attributed negative characteristics. The study shows that the media’s reporting partly affects participants in different ways depending on what the media reports about. What affects the individual is the reporting of crime, gangs and threats that occur in the area. Furthermore, the content analysis shows that the media's reporting on Våxnäs produces two images. One image is characterized by crime and the other image is characterized by growth in the area. These two images can collide, which can create confusion for the individual who may become insecure and don’t know what to believe in relation to the reporting by the media.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:kau-92235 |
| Date | January 2022 |
| Creators | Nordin, Emilia, Nordkvist, Linnéa |
| Publisher | Karlstads universitet, Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013), Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för sociala och psykologiska studier (from 2013) |
| 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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