Man?s impact on the environment is something that increasingly becomes topical in today?s society. Because of this, several companies have started to take interest in the effects they?re responsible for, not least considering their image. Emissions of carbon dioxide generated from goods traffic are accountable for a large part of the total emissions of greenhouse gases in the world.

This Master´s thesis examines the conceptual ideas of science fiction and science fiction fandom produced in the Swedish fanzine Science Fiction Forum (1960-) between the years 1960 and 1980. Science Fiction Forum was and still is a fanzine published by Skandinavisk Förening för Science Fiction (Scandinavian Science Fiction Club). Both the club and the fanzine are a part of the phenomenon called fandom.A fandom is a collective of people called fans who form a community by sharing a special interest in a special object. The fanzine is one of the many material products produced by fans within a certain fandom. Science Fiction Forum and Skandinavisk Förening för Science Fiction were founded in 1959 and are a part of swedish science fiction fandom, where the object of fandom is literary science fiction..The primary focus of this thesis is the meta discussion on science fiction and science fiction fandom in Science Fiction Forum.

Internet is used today as a traditional medium for information exchange and social interaction. One of these is virtual meeting places where people meet and exchange information, socialize and exchange knowledge with each other. The group has chosen to examine the factors affecting the use of web forums, one of the virtual meeting places that exist on the Internet today. And look at how people use the web forum today in the current situation and how to design a web forum.A survey was conducted to find out how people look at web forums today, 80 people participated, and they got to talk about what they think about different web forums regarding how and why the use these them. Guidelines on how a web forum should be designed were also developed.

Syftet med den här studien är att undersöka diskurser kring våldtäkt och hur kvinnor framställs utifrån kön och sexualitet på internetforumet Flashback forum. Studiens frågeställningar är: Hur diskuteras det om våldtäkt på Flashback forum? Hur framställs kvinnor utifrån genus och sexualitet i diskussioner kring våldtäkt på Flashback forum?För att besvara studiens två frågeställningar insamlas textmaterial från Flashback forum. Studien är kvalitativ och (kritisk) diskursanalys används som metod. Materialet analyseras med hjälp av feministiska teorier med fokus på genus och sexualitet.Studiens resultat visar att diskursen som finns på Flashback forum många gånger skuldbelägger våldtäktsoffret.

Background: It has been shown that companies that lived under protected conditions for a long time have had difficulties to adapt to major changes. With that in mind an even more extensive low-cost competition in the Swedish grocery market will make a threat for the traditional grocery stores' long-term survival. The question then becomes, which strategies will be successful and lead to higher customer loyalty.Problem: Are the traditional grocery stores using strategies that can compete in addition to pricing and will those strategies lead to long-term survival?Objective: Is to analyse and evaluate two traditional grocery stores' strategies and to examine whether these are consistent with customer demand.Approach: First we have created a more fundamental understanding of the situation in the Swedish grocery market. Then we have implemented two interviews in each grocery store.

This thesis investigates if a system for small scale electricity production located in anurban environment can be profitable. The work has been divided up into two parts,one extensive literature study and one case study. The purpose of the literature studywas to investigate the area, resulting in a choice of which technology to be studied indepth in a case study.In the case study a system containing small scale wind turbines and photovoltaicsmounted on Gränby Centrums roof was examined. From data containing wind power,wind direction and total irradiation, possible production from a system weresimulated. Three products of each technology were examined in the simulations.From the simulated production an economic analysis was carried out, this toinvestigate if a system is profitable.

Titel:                Upplev Luleå Hockey - Publikupplevelser i Coop Norrbotten Arena.Författare:        Martin Gwiazdowski & Marcus Mattsson.Examinator:         Anna Hafsteinsson Östenberg.Datum:                  2013-05-24.Nyckelord:            Hockey, Upplevelser, Luleå, Publik, Marknadsföring.___________________________________________________________________________ Problemområde: Upplevelseorienterade studier har vanligtvis en företagsekonomisk utgångspunkt, detta lämnar det idrottsvetenskapliga området relativt outforskat. De studier som finns är av internationell härkomst vilket gör det svårt, för att inte säga omöjligt att överföra till den svenska folkrörelsen. Studierna är även allt som oftast generella och behandlar inte ishockeyn separat från andra idrotter vilket medför ett akademiskt tomrum. Denna studie åsyftar till att bidra med ny kunskap och utgöra en språngbräda för fortsatt forskning.Syfte:Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka vad Luleå Hockeys åskådare anser om publikupplevelsen i Coop Norrbotten Arena i dagsläget och vad - om alls något - de anser kan göras för att skapa en mer tillfredsställande upplevelse.Metod:Studien har tillämpat en hermeneutisk kunskapsteoretisk utgångspunkt och det empiriskt insamlade materialet har inhämtats genom webbenkäter, fysiska enkäter, intervjuer och observationer. I och med att mer än en insamlingsmetod har valts har metodtriangulering tillämpats i denna studie som uttryckligen har en kvalitativ ansats.Resultat:Studiens resultat påvisar att det finns utrymme för utveckling vad avser publikupplevelser i Coop Norrbotten Arena.

We are currently more aware than ever about the impact of food on our health, but in the same time this trend put more pressure on the food retailers to do as much as possible to help their customers manage their weight and be healthy in general. This study aims to examine the corporate social responsibility for consumer health in food retailing, in which ways the companies promote healthy eating; in what extent they do it and also the motives for companies for corporate responsibility. The empirical study is limited to the market leading companies in Sweden, Coop and ICA, because the performance of the leading companies puts them in the strongest position to profit from shifting consumer trends, grow revenues and penetrate new markets and also enable them to make a strong case for the effectiveness of voluntary action, obviating the need for government intervention. A qualitative method was used in this study to get an accurate understanding how the food retailers take social responsibility for consumers health. The study is based on interviews with experts in the food retailers Coop and ICA, and the companies reporting in this area, annual reports, corporate responsibility reports and websites.

The aim of this essay is to examine the attitudes towards publication of short stories, carried by the employees of Bokförlaget Forum, a randomly chosen Swedish publishing house. The study seeks to investigate the causes behind and consequences of the attitudes, as well as their generality. Through qualitative interviews, carried out with five of the company?s employees, the short story is defined as a problematic genre, mainly due to its low commercial success. The conclusions drawn from the interviews are put into a historical perspective, where the developments of the short story-genre, as well as that of the modern Swedish book market, are discussed.

Syftet med uppsatsen är att urskilja faktorer i distributionskanalen som för varumärkesinnehavaren kan vara betydelsefulla för att bygga varumärke, samt att undersöka hur dessa faktorer tar sig uttryck för varumärkesinnehavare av LMV respektive EVM. Metod: I vår undersökning har vi använt en abduktiv förklaringsmodell. Skapandet av den teoretiska modellen har vuxit fram genom en pendling mellan teori och empiri, även om den haft sin utgångspunkt i teorin. Den empiriska undersökningen har genomförts i form av fallstudier av två fallföretag, Coop Sverige och Findus. Dessa har valts främst utifrån sin position som varumärkesinnehavare av EVM respektive LMV.

Sustainability reports are drawn up for the company's stakeholders and declare the company?s corporate social responsibility. Consumers are one of the companies' most important stakeholders for food companies. This study is aimed to describe how consumers perceive sustainability reporting in the food industry and if the application level of the GRI framework has an impact on how consumers perceive sustainability reports. Consumer perception is described in the GRI principles and the basis is the ICA and Coop's sustainability reports, which are two of Sweden's largest food company.

I den här undersökningen har vi tagit del av diskussioner på två nätforum. Det ena är Flashback, ett privat, kommersiellt och mer eller mindre icke-kontrollerat forum. Det andra är Soctanterna på nätet, som drivs av Malmö stad och inom vilket professionella socialsekreterare verkar. Vårt material består av trådar där unga beskriver och diskuterar problem med den egna psykiska hälsan och som därför har sökt hjälp på dessa forum. I studien jämförs de två forumen med utgångspunkt i forumets kontroll, vertikal och horisontell dialog, samt den professionella ansatsen som Soctanterna på nätet har, respektive den icke-professionella ansatsen som förekommer på Flashback.

By means of text creation I approach, reflect upon and try a number of aspects of my own professional existence as a joker in forum theatre and as a forum play pedagogue.This essay is structured like the days of a week and it specifically relates three problematic situations: first, a Monday containing a case of discrimination during the performance, then, a glimpse from a Wednesday when I failed to use the time with enough consideration of our common work and, finally, a Thursday when I was professionally questioned.These three situations are described thoroughly and then they are tried by me. This is carried out partly by reasoning, partly by using for example sociological, pedagogical and above all philosophical texts in order to widen my understanding of my existence as joker and forum play pedagogue. When writing this essay I really realized the importance of taking the reactions of the spec-tators into consideration. I have had the opportunity to develop thoughts about the way in which reflection is created and thoughts about different layers of reflection. I have also pondered over the way in which I distinguish between forum play and therapy as a forum play pedagogue.

Theatre is often seen as an act to entertain or provoke, however the main argument of this paper is that theatre also can be seen as a process to build peace. This study focuses on and explores how artistic processes, such as Forum Theatre developed by Augusto Boal, can be used as a method to promote psychosocial reconciliation in war-shattered areas. With the use of Forum Theatre the spectators becomes the spect-actors, the subjects that act and not the objects that are acted upon. Subjects that are encouraged to try and find solutions to social problems by acting out possible solutions and evaluating them. By analyzing how a number of organizations have worked with Forum Theater on the Balkans and with a theoretical approach combining Homi K.

Syfte: Syftet med vår uppsats är att undersöka hur ett företags utbud av egenmärkta varor påverkar företagets image, samt imagens överensstämmelse med företagets profil. Vi vill i vår undersökning gå djupare in på om kunderna upplever att kedjornas EMV ger dem ett mervärde, vilken image kunderna förknippar med livsmedelskedjorna och deras egenmärkta varor, samt om det finns ett gap mellan den faktiska imagen och företagets profil. Metod: För att lättare kunna applicera våra teorier har vi valt att arbeta med två fallföretag, och då ICA och Coop är två av de största aktörerna på livsmedelsmarknaden valdes just dess två företag. Vår uppfattning är att det är lättare att se tydliga mönster i konsumtion och beteende om man studerar två företag som har stor kundmedvetenhet, vilket vi anser att ICA och Coop har. De empiriska studierna består av en kvantitativ enkätundersökning med 50 slumpmässigt utvalda respondenter, samt två kvalitativa intervjuer med EMV- ansvariga på ICA och Coop.