The aim of this study is to examine to which degree Swedish news media reported about food consumption during the coronavirus pandemic 2020 and how it was framed. The coronavirus pandemic caused several countries to shut down and citizens consuming behaviour started to change into purchasing more food and household supplies than usual. Pictures of empty shelves and consumers with full shopping carts were published on social media. The pictures eventually made the news in Sweden and several newspapers wrote about the risk of food and household supplies running out in stores due to citizens stacking up. The methods used in this study was a quantitative and qualitative analysis. The study used the theories agenda setting, framing and news value to examine 93 articles about the food consumption in Sweden's four biggest newspapers. These were Aftonbladet, Dagens Nyheter, Expressen and Svenska Dagbladet. The study examined the time frame between 26 February - 25 March 2020, which was when the spreading of the coronavirus increased in Sweden. The results showed that the Swedish news media reported in different ways. Some news articles presented the lack of food and households supplies while other news articles said that there was no risk of food and households supply running out. Despite this the news media mainly framed the news in an alarming and fear/scaremongering way.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:lnu-100389 |
| Date | January 2021 |
| Creators | Mokhtarian, Susan, Lundvall, Simon |
| Publisher | Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för medier och journalistik (MJ), Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för medier och journalistik (MJ) |
| 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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