<!--StartFragment-->The purpose of this thesis was to study how four swedish lifestyle magazines: Veckorevyn and Cosmopolitan for women, King and Café for men, represent three groups of people and how often these people appear in the magazines. These groups are HBT, homosexuals, bisexuals and transsexuals, disabled and immigrants. The years we studied were 2007 and 2008. Our main questions were: How often do the three groups appear in the four magazines? How are the groups represented? In order to answer these questions we used a qualitative analysis. We used tools from semiotics, narratology and discourse. We also used a quantitative analysis in order to find out how often the groups appeared. We based our study on theories about representation, stereotypes, social construction, identity and masculinity. We chose these theories because the magazines used this to present their stories about the groups, in a social constructed world. These theories helped us to analyze our results and gave a deeper meaning to our conclusions. Our results showed that all groups appear very little in the magazines. We found that all groups except for immigrants are stereotyped in well-known patterns. Disabled persons are often represented as heroes. We also found that HBT- persons often are stereotyped and appear in articles where sex and relationships is the main subject. Many of the immigrants are famous and they are portrayed as themselves and as “one of us”. <!--EndFragment-->
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:hik-1229 |
| Date | January 2008 |
| Creators | Hermansson, Emilie, Held, Stina, Ekstrand, Kristin |
| Publisher | Högskolan i Kalmar, Institutionen för kommunikation och design, Högskolan i Kalmar, Institutionen för kommunikation och design |
| 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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