In recent years, there has been a noticeable increase in media coverage regarding the use of psychedelic drugs. The purpose of this thesis is to explore the development of the psychedelic discourse between 1990 and 2019 using critical discourse analysis as a methodological and theoretical tool. Furthermore, this thesis hopes to explain how Swedish media, and the daily press in particular, has presented the image of the typical user of psychedelic drugs, and if this image has changed over time, by looking at articles and news coverage of the psychedelic discourse. The result of this study indicates that there have been several changes in the discourse, both in terms of how psychedelics and its users are presented in the media, but also in the types of discourses that are used to describe them.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:mau-62918 |
| Date | January 2023 |
| Creators | Robin, Bruhn |
| Publisher | Malmö universitet, Institutionen för samhälle, kultur och identitet (SKI) |
| 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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