The newly launched Vogue Scandinavia has presented their values which we have defined as “female empowerment” and “sustainability”. This essay explores, through a qualitative content analysis and discourse analysis, how these values are expressed in the first issue and in what ways they correspond with the magazine’s content. The results show that Vogue Scandinavia does in some way promote female

This thesis explores the ideal of objectivity in Swedish Public Service journalism. It does this through a Weberian perspective in which his theory of rationalization and ideal type for rational-legal authority serve as lenses through which the material is analyzed. The material examined in this thesis consists of rulings from the Swedish Press and Broadcasting Authority where the standards of fac

Environmental issues are continuously getting more attention in the media. A great part of the media content about environmental issues is produced by environmental journalists working both in public service and commercial media organizations. In order to identify the potential and pitfalls of environmental journalism, this study focuses on exploring the journalistic values of environmental journa

This study aims to analyze the gender representation of experts in the local newspaper Sydsvenskan during the covid pandemic. Furthermore, this study seeks to gain insights about the results of the processes that determine who is interviewed as an expert during a crisis situation such as the covid pandemic. A total of 369 articles were examined during the period from 1 May 2021 to 31 October 2021

This thesis analyses the Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman’s impact on Argentine film and identity formation from the first South American premiere of Sommarlek (1951) in 1952 to the fall of the argentine dictatorship in 1983. Based on the Science's Blood Flow Theory developed by sociologist Bruno Latour the essay reconstructs the technological conditions for Bergman's breakthrough. In

This paper examines how five news media magazines in Sweden, Aftonbladet, Dagens Nyheter, Expressen, Upsala Nya Tidning and Svenska Dagbladet, tell the story of how and when the Swedish police decided to ban flags at Uppsala football club IK Sirius home stadium Studenternas IP in September 2021. Qualitative method was used to examine and analyze 25 articles from a perspective of narrative theory a

Denna c-uppsats undersöker yrkesidentiteten hos den svenska frilansjournalisten genom kvalitativa intervjuer med fyra journalister vars huvudsakliga sysselsättning utgår från frilansande. Syftet är att kartlägga yrkesidentiteten utifrån yrkesrollens beståndsdelar och journalisternas egna berättelser. Således ämnar vi att lyfta fram en yrkesroll inom journalistiken som saknar forskning i samma utst

Syftet med denna uppsats är att studera hur vaccinmotståndare gestaltas i tidningarna Aftonbladet, Expressen, Svenska Dagbladet och Dagens Nyheter. Studien undersöker vilken tonalitet, vilka formuleringar och vilka ordval journalisterna använder för att beskriva och framställa vaccinmotståndarna. Uppsatsen tar utgångspunkt i gestaltningsteorin som behandlar hur nyhetsmedier lyfter fram och gestalt

The purpose of this thesis is to examine the document “Hur kan det vara så här?” made by Swedish minority journalists on Sveriges television. The document was composed to shed light on how the journalists perceive the newsroom culture on the Swedish public service television company from their minority point of view. The question that the journalists raise is interesting, as SVT as the public serv

A multitude of academic studies show that women have been, and still are underrepresented in journalistic products. A global study from 2020 covering the news content in 116 countries showed that women constituted only 25 percent of persons occurring in the content. The number for Sweden was 38 percent. Other studies show similar results. This study aims to shed light on the gender aspects of the

This essay explores how two of Sweden’s most famous influencers, Bianca Ingrosso and Margaux Dietz, can be perceived through Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of capital. Furthermore, the essay also examines what position influencers have in a contemporary class society. By incorporating theories of consumerism and post-feminism, the study interprets how class is constructed through contemporary social med

Cottagecore är del av en bredare uppgång av olika estetiska stilar på sociala medier som har ökat i popularitet under coronapandemin. Med bilder på idylliska landskap, traditionella kläder och levnadssätt kan det beskrivas som en nätkultur där ett pastoralt liv i harmoni med naturen idealiseras. Trots denna idealisering av gamla levnadsvanor har fenomenet dock främst anammats av unga kvinnor och q

In the global north, we seem well informed of the pending climate crisis, but despite criticism of un-sustainability, it seems as if we lack alternatives to eco-modernist solutions. Although not unproblematic, degrowth and other alternatives do exist, but are somehow non-existing in the public debate. Within political ecology and ecological economics this can be explained in terms of “capitalistic

The purpose of this paper is to, based on theories around gender, study how female and male artists are portrayed in interviews in the music journalist Fredrik Strage's podcast Hemma hos Strage. By examining the topics that are talked about and how these topics are discussed in the various interviews, the paper intends to show how the artists' gender is created in the interview environment

This thesis studies discourses and the creation of values in a Swedish governmental report regarding forest management. Critical discourse analysis is conducted in order to understand how values of forests are shaped discursively. The general idea is that discourses reflect assumptions and affect understandings. How the relationship between nature and society is constructed can thus be analyzed. I

The current food system has undergone crisis after crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic brought yet another disturbance. Due to the industrial food system’s lack of resilience new alternatives emerge in order to develop the food chain, such as alternative food networks(AFN). Based on earlier research on AFN this study aims to focus on the alternative food network “Reko-ring”(Reko) in Sweden based on t