This study is based on the websites of Swedish county museums. The purpose of the study is to investigate how the websites of the Swedish county museums convey their geography in the texts about the county museums' history, localization and their exhibitions. Part of the study's purpose is also to examine the county museums' similarities and differences based on the study's three questions. The study's chosen theory is website analysis, a theory that provides basic knowledge about what a website is and how websites use images and text. Website analysis has also been supplemented with Gillian Rose's thoughts on visual methods. Since Rose provides additional knowledge about visual representation, the visual in relation to text and knowledge about how to look at visual representation. The chosen theory is supplemented with two methods consisting of text analysis in relation to image analysis. These two methods have been chosen because the material consists of textual and visual expressions The study shows that the Swedish county museums depict different types of geographies, both within each issue and between the museums. Within the questions about the county museums' geographical history, the museums mainly refer to geographical dispersion and geographical relocations. In the texts on geographical localization, the museums mainly present visual representation in the form of maps together with descriptions, but also geographical dispersion and geographical spread. The question where the answers on the geographical aspect vary more is the survey on exhibitions. Here the museums reflect the regional environment, migration and a few the current climate crisis. A few museums are similar to each other either in the presentation of answers or how they convey their geography, which creates small groups of county museums that are similar to each other. However, the museums rarely resemble each other completely, which also creates a number of differences in how they present material but also how they convey the region's geography.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:lnu-128887 |
| Date | January 2023 |
| Creators | Lindgren, Fanny |
| Publisher | Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV) |
| 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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