This study examines how two newspapers in Sweden, the local newspaper Nyhetsbyrån Järva and the nationwide newspaper Aftonbladet, differentiated in their discourse during the reporting of the spread of Covid-19 in the Järva-area of Stockholm. The Järva-area is made up of several suburbs to the inner city of Stockholm that have been stigmatized in the mainstream media ever since a lot of the housing in the area was built during the million programme (Miljonprogrammet) in Sweden. With the use of Fairclough's critical discourse method the newspapers were analysed through the lens of Goffman's theory of stigma and Wacquant's theory of territorial stigma. The empirical study consisted of 39 articles from the newspaper Aftonbladet and Nyhetsbyrån Järva. The newspapers were analysed and compared showing the difference in discourse of how the Järva-area is constructed as well as those who live there. The study found that Aftonbladet uses a discourse focusing more on the cultural differences of the Järva-area and the people living there as a possible cause for the spread of Covid-19. Meanwhile Nyhetsbyrån Järva uses a discourse that instead focuses on how the governmental agencies failed to supply support and meet the needs of the inhabitants of the area to hinder the spread of Covid-19. The results shows that the use of stigmatized names and associations to the Järva-area is much higher in Aftonbladet compared to Nyhetsbyrån Järva.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:uu-482344 |
| Date | January 2021 |
| Creators | Mulki, Adan, Palin, Elias |
| Publisher | Uppsala universitet, Sociologiska institutionen |
| 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 |
Page generated in 0.0024 seconds