The ethnicity of convicted sex offenders, racism in everyday life and journalism ethics has recently been discussed more frequently in the Swedish media and society. Previous research has established that ethnicity is constructed in news media while reporting of sexual violence and that ethnicity is used as an explanation for the committed crime. The aim of this study was to investigate how ethnicity is constructed in news media over time. The central questions of the study were how ethnicity is constructed in news reporting of sexual violence and if this construction has changed over time, and if so, how it has changed. This study was based on a discourse analysis of news articles published in Dagens Nyheter in 1997, 2007 and 2017. The results of this study have concluded that ethnicity is constructed in different ways during each of the three years, and there has therefore been a change in the discourse, from ethnicity as attribution of the perpetrator to rewriting ethnicity into other words such as refugee or immigrant.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:oru-73028 |
| Date | January 2019 |
| Creators | Mattson, Anny, Ramnerö, Moa |
| Publisher | Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap |
| 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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