This study problematizes the fact that media is part of creating the reality of which the society relies on. More specific it focuses on former chief of police Göran Lindberg and medias reports about him before he was arrested for sexual asult, versus after. The purpose of the study was to see how identity is constructed in news media, and also how that affect the public perception of sex offenders. It also makes a comparison between a daily newspaper and a tabloid newspaper. To answer the questions of this study semiotics and narrative analysis was used. These methods were combined with theories about journalistic writing such as framing and media logic put together with theories about story-telling. These theories and methods were chosen for their accuracy and suitability on the subject. News articles about the former chief of police Göran Lindberg was selected and divided into three sections based on time periods relevant to the events. After that the selection was narrowed down to include three articles from each period and each newspaper. These articles were analysed to see how news media uses story-telling to form identity with the tools provided by the selected theories and methods. In conclusion this study shows that media construct the identity of Göran Lindberg in a similar way of how characters are constructed in fictional stories. This contributes to a reproduction of a general perception that the most occurring sexual offender is some kind of monstrous outsider and not in fact the common man, when, at the same time, research show that most sexual abusers are known to their victim.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:umu-118907 |
| Date | January 2016 |
| Creators | Ehrby, Jessica, Gustavsson, Louise |
| Publisher | Umeå universitet, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper, 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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