Idenna uppsats granskades de fem popula?raste sociala na?tverksspelen pa? den sociala na?tverkstja?nsten Facebook. Syftet var att genom att studera speldesignsmo?nster urskiljaeventuella skillnader mellan sociala na?tverksspel och andra digitala spel. Dessa skillnader analyserades fo?r att kontrollera om de kunde vara bidragande faktorer till sociala na?tverksspels popularitet.

Undersökningens syfte är att beskriva och förstå hur medelålders personer kommunicerar på Facebook. Jag undersöker hur de anpassar sig till mediet, vilka mål har de med sin kommunikation och hur deras språk ser ut. Mitt material är konversationer på Facebook från tre informanter under tre veckor, samt från tre yngre jämförelseinformanter. Jag använder en induktiv metod för att analysera materialet. Huvudinformanterna använder mer formella hälsningar än de yngre, och riktar ibland meddelanden till fler än en person, vilket inte ungdomar gör.

The period of church awakening in Sweden during the first half of the nineteenth century, has had a great influence on the Swedish society. During that time certain persons are to be noticed. Peter Fjellstedt and Peter Wieselgren, priests in the Swedish Church, are among those who were of special importance. But even the British preacher George Scott and later the Swedish layman Carl-Olof Rosenius became aware of the importance of networking. They all felt a call from God to preach a message of redemption and restoration.

This essay follows a Media Teacher in her work as a coordinator and an artistic leader for a European project called Legalopoli concerning laws and ethics in a senior level school for 13-16 year-olds in Mora, Sweden. The students write film stories about how their characters have to make choices in ethical dilemma situations. Then the learners create interactive computer games together through practical film work. At the same time we can see how the educator also gets into difficult ethical situations, when she is working with the students. This forces her to self-reflection.

SAMMANFATTNINGSociala medier har sedan uppstarten år 2004 använts flitigt världen över. Till en början var det ett nätverk designat för privatpersoner, men år 2007 började även företag utnyttja verktyget och till sist fick även myndigheter upp ögonen för kommunikationsverktyget. Sociala medier är ett ypperligt kommunikationsverktyg som har en egen karaktär och arbetssätt. Verktyget innehåller en rad olika kanaler, exempelvis Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, som var och en kan användas på sitt unika vis. Det finns oändliga möjligheter i sociala medier, men det är inte helt lätt att använda verktyget till dess fulla potential.

Previous research on Twitter use among nonprofit organizations has been centered on the US, thisessay Nonprofits on Twitter: a content analysis of Swedish nonprofits working for gender equalityseeks to expand that research to include nonprofit organizations operating in Sweden. By studying tenSwedish nonprofits all working to achieve gender equality this study can begin filling a gap in theexisting research. Focusing on both what kind of messages the organizations publish, and what kind ofmessages engage the organizations? followers. This is achieved by quantitative content analysis:categorizing messages into the categories Information, Community and Action, and measuring whichof these categories got the most shares, comments and likes.

The overall purpose of this study is to make a survey of the extent as to which youths have witnessed acts of violence and or violence in close relationships, and which underlying factors, sex, class, and ethnicity ? characterize youths with such experiences. The study also aims to explore their attitudes and strategies and what the consequences are for youths of witnessing acts of violence, with respect to attachment to adults and other social networks. The primary data have been collected in two upper secondary schools. The study includes 101 students.

Den här uppsatsen handlar om sociala medier som konkurrensmedel i telekombranschen för att skapa lojala kunder. Telekombranschen har under det senaste decenniet utvecklats snabbt i takt med mobiltelefonins genomslag. Kommunikationen via mobiltelefon har blivit en del av det vardagliga livet. Internetanvändningen har fått en större betydelse. Fler människor är aktiva inom internet och att googla, blogga, skicka snabbmeddelande, använda Twitter/Facebook har blivit en vardagssyssla för många.

The communication and mediation of information and news has, under the latest decades, increased into an incalculable amount. In the newsflow that has come up it has become more and more urgent to sort and select the relevant and correct news. Simultaneously as the information has become one of the most important goods for the western world, the criticism against media has become more loudvoiced and especially the criticism aims at the fact that publicness has become less public and the public conversation is nowadays filtrated through media. The American Joey Skaggs can be reckoned among with the group of media critics, but his course of action and methods to reach out with his critical view, stand out strikingly from the traditional media critics. Instead of, as most, aiming the criticism against media, from an outside perspective, Skaggs chooses to attack the media from the inside.

This essay follows a Media Teacher in her work as a coordinator and an artistic leader for a European project called Legalopoli concerning laws and ethics in a senior level school for 13-16 year-olds in Mora, Sweden. The students write film stories about how their characters have to make choices in ethical dilemma situations. Then the learners create interactive computer games together through practical film work. At the same time we can see how the educator also gets into difficult ethical situations, when she is working with the students. This forces her to self-reflection.

Words like pirates and anti-pirates are becoming common features in the cultural political debate of today, and the file-sharing phenomenon has become a more and more delicate and disputed subject. The fact that people are organizing in networks to swap computerfiles with each other has, among other things, led film and music companies from all over the world to initiate a number of anti-piracy organizations, assigned to protect the right to culture and information. The industrial organization Antipiratbyrån (the Anti-pirate Bureau) and the network Piratbyrån (the Pirate Bureau) have on several occasions been used to represent the prevailing conflict in Sweden. The purpose of this study is to apply a sociological perspective to the collective act of file sharing. Additionally, the purpose is to argue that the activity can be understood as a social movement, although it is rarely referred to as such.

This paper examines the consequences of membership and participation in immigrant associations on individual immigrants? political integration and indirect political participation with reference to Swedish society. The theoretical underpinnings consist of a social structural outlook on social capital, combined with the Civic Voluntarism Model, both of which focus on the potential role of social networks for moving people into political action. After a presentation of parallel qualitative data over the experiences of individual members in a Finnish and Bosnian-Hercegovinian organisation, it is suggested that immigrant associations support the political integration of their members into the host society. Firstly, the case studies indicate that members of immigrant associations gain the opportunity to augment their civic skills, which is a significant prerequisite for political participation.

AbstractTitel: En ytlig nödvändig glättighet ? En kvalitativ studie av hur medieanvändare i åldrarna 40-69 ser på sitt användande av sociala medier med särskild tonvikt på Facebook.Nivå: C-uppsats i Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap, 15 högskolepoängFörfattare: Fanny Lindholm och Elin HolmHandledare: Gabor BoraExaminator: Anna EdinSyfte: Syftet med den här uppsatsen var att undersöka hur medieanvändare i åldrarna 40-69 år ser på sitt användande av sociala medier med särskild tonvikt på Facebook, samt hur de ser på sin omgivnings användande av sociala medier. Det undersöktes även om eller hur dessa personers sätt att kommunicera med vänner och bekanta har förändrats i och med att sociala medier blev aktuellt.Frågeställningar:Hur ser medieanvändare i åldrarna 40-69 på sitt användande av sociala medier med särskild tonvikt på Facebook?Upplever dessa personer att deras sätt att kommunicera med sina vänner har förändrats i och med att sociala medier blev aktuellt?Metod och material: I uppsatsen har kvalitativa intervjuer genomförts. Intervjuerna har bestått av tre fokusgrupper indelat i åldrarna 40-49, 50-59 och 60-69.

The free press is an invaluable part of the democratic society and a pillar stone in the creation of ideas, opinions and norms. According to theories such as agenda-setting and framing the media have a significant influence on people?s perspectives and opinions. With this view of media along with the gender system provided by Yvonne Hirdman as a framework, this study intends to examine the gender representation in Swedish domestic news journalism. The study consists of a quantitative analysis of two major Swedish morning papers, Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Dagbladet, where the gender representation regarding journalists, main news sources and pictures are being accounted for.

In the light of the problems the media industry are struggling with, local news reporting is only one of the challenges the news organizations are facing. When local editors is being moved to the cities the tie with the local community is being severed.The aim of this study has been to analyze how the inhabitants of Vilhelmina municipality talks about their experiences of local journalism. With methodological inspiration from the Critical discourse analysis (CDA) this study examined the discourses of local journalism, social media, journalism's role and municipal policy. The theorectical framework consisted theories of media and democracy, convergence culture and discourse theory.The survey was conducted with four focus groups interviews. The focus groups were divided in different cathegories based on the participants experiences, ages and employment.