Media affects our views of the world and plays a large part in creation and dissemination of social representations. Through media?s increasing importance, people and organizations need to work harder to stand out among the large amounts of brands that exists today.In 2013, Umea? Energi launched a commercial concept about Dolf and Ja?rven, two characters living in Lill-Grobban, a fictional village outside of Umea?. The aim of this qualitative study is to examine how Umea? Energi uses stereotypes in the commercial concept Dolf and Ja?rven and how this affects the respondents, and in the long run the stereotypification of norrlandians.

There are numerous questions to be asked when your task is to plan a small community?s future development. Is it possible to suggest something new and modern? What considerations should be taken concerning the existing situation? What is an appropriate size for the new development? Where is it possible to build and what is the most appropriate method to use?In this masterŽs thesis I have tried to develop and describe a working-process where I execute a complete landscape character analysis for the whole community in question to get the answers to where and how it would be most appropriate to develop a village like FlÀdie without destroying its current character.FlÀdie is a typical small village in the countryside of SkÄne, Sweden. It is strongly effected by the expansive and urban region it?s located in but is still rural in character.

Daily citizens are informed by the media about the environment and the climate changes. The schools purpose is to educate students according to events that are of current interest and take place in present time. According to Swedish curriculum, Lpf94, all Swedish education should include and discuss the problems surrounding durable development. The purpose of the study is to se how the textbooks in History, Social studies and Geography and their contents meet the demands of the curriculum. The study shows that only the textbooks in geography meets the demands that the curriculums have on durable development.

New innovation and technology have influenced the development of product development processes and the four largest banks in Sweden have more or less been forced to adapt their products and services along new customer requirements. It may therefore be considered appropriate to involve customers in this process. This by collecting customer information and allow customers to influence the process to a greater extent. The payment solutions of Sweden?s largest banks' continue to evolve and to pay with electronic money has come to change banks' product development processes of payment solutions.

The objective of this thesis has been to investigate the approval process for an image. This investigation has been carriedout at four catalog-producing companies and three companies working with repro or printing. The information wasgathered through interviews and surveys and later used for evaluation. The result of the evaluation has shown that allbusinesses are very good at technical aspects but also that the biggest problem they have is with the communication. Theconclusion is that businesses need a clear construction for the image process.

The energy sector of modern time is currently faced with several challenges. These are both production oriented and environmental oriented in nature. The energy of the future is intended to support an increasing demand while at the same time reduce its environmental affection. This stresses a development towards production methods of renewable energy. Among the existing methods, biogas is presented as an attractive alternative.

The aim of this study is to examine how librarians experience implementations of changes in the physical space of the public library. The study seeks to answer the following questions from the librarians? perspective: What are the underlying reasons for changes in the physical space of the library? What are the important functions of the public library to the community residents? What reactions do librarians get from community residents after changes in the physical space of the public library? The study is based on semi-structured interviews with librarians working at seven small public libraries in Sweden. A model of four library spaces, which was developed by Andersson and Skot-Hansen in 1994 and refined in 2012, is used as a theoretical framework to help analyzing the results. The majority of the libraries are structured according to the older version of the model.

This essay presents a comparative study of the Swedish articles of war of year 1621 and 1683 which aims to, through analysis, assess the extent of the development in Swedish army legislature during the 17th century and to derive the likely underlying causes for this development. The study is in large comprised by a detailed comparison of the two collections of articles of war in order to determine the practical changes to the legislature that occurred between the years that they came into force..

Dagens samhÀllsutveckling innebÀr att lÀnder, regioner, kommuner och stÀder idag vÀljer att satsa pÄ nya nÀringar för att fÄ en stadig inkomst och tillvÀxt. Karlstad Àr inget undantag i detta dÄ staden hÀlsar sÄ vÀl invÄnare, besökare som företag Varmt VÀlkomna med varumÀrket ?Grader Karlstad?. VÄra frÄgestÀllningar för detta arbete handlar om hur Karlstad framstÀlls som evenemangsstad av Visit Karlstad och lokala evenemangsbolag samt vilka satsningar som kan göras i framtiden för att Karlstad ska bli en Ànnu mer framgÄngsrik evenemangsstad. VÄrt syfte med arbetet Àr att titta pÄ hur Karlstad framstÀlls som evenemangsstad och vilken roll platsvarumÀrket ?Grader Karlstad? spelar i den framstÀllningen.

Syftet med denna studie Àr att undersöka vad destinationsmarknadsföringsorganisationerna (DMC) Stockholm Visitor Board och Destination har för syn gÀllande sociala medier. Samt att titta pÄ hur dessa tvÄ arbetar med sociala medier i sin marknadsföring och Àven vilka fördelar och nackdelar en sÄdan marknadsföring kan ha.Studien har haft en kvalitativ utgÄngspunkt nÀr det gÀller metodval. Men ett inslag av kvantitativa aspekter har förekommit dÄ en enkÀtstudie har utförts. Flertalet kvalitativa intervjuer har Àgt rumt med relevanta personer för denna studie. En vardera representant frÄn Stockholm Visitor Board och Destination Sigtuna har intervjuats.

Syftet med denna uppsats har varit att öka förstÄelsen för kunders perception av företags miljödesign och hur detta pÄverkar deras uppfattning om företags image. Uppsatsen grundar sig pÄ ett fallföretag, SEB i Lund. Den emiriska analysen har sin grund i kalitativa djupintervjuer gjorda med SEB och med SEBs kunder. Att kunder reflekterar över miljödesign Àr nÄgot som framkommer i studien. Studien indikerar att de krav kunderna har pÄ en bank framförallt Àr helhetskÀnslan, som skall vara inbjudande och intressant.

Dagens samhÀllsutveckling innebÀr att lÀnder, regioner, kommuner och stÀder idag vÀljer att satsa pÄ nya nÀringar för att fÄ en stadig inkomst och tillvÀxt. Karlstad Àr inget undantag i detta dÄ staden hÀlsar sÄ vÀl invÄnare, besökare som företag Varmt VÀlkomna med varumÀrket ?Grader Karlstad?. VÄra frÄgestÀllningar för detta arbete handlar om hur Karlstad framstÀlls som evenemangsstad av Visit Karlstad och lokala evenemangsbolag samt vilka satsningar som kan göras i framtiden för att Karlstad ska bli en Ànnu mer framgÄngsrik evenemangsstad. VÄrt syfte med arbetet Àr att titta pÄ hur Karlstad framstÀlls som evenemangsstad och vilken roll platsvarumÀrket ?Grader Karlstad? spelar i den framstÀllningen.

The aim of this thesis is to study different aspects of the public libraries' investment in public access computers connected to the Internet. What level of accessibility can be found at the surveyed libraries concerning the number of computers open to the public, as well as chat and email services? What activities have been taking place with the computers in focus, and what have the goals of these activities been? Is there any control of content, and what aspects of the Internet are, if that is the case, subject to censorship. And how do the governmental policies relate to the surveyed libraries' intentions and activities regarding the Internet? In order to answer these questions, each main library in the 42 largest towns of Sweden was surveyed response rate: 100 %.

Title: A hosting service for software development projects that use the Git revision control system. To learn using tools to make software development more effective should be self-evident at a high level institution as the competitive industry races on. The absence of directives for programming students in Sweden to use source code management (SCM) was the basis for this report. The report describing the developing of a hosting service for software development to use SCM of Git, which includes a web application, storage, API and authentication of students. The project resulted in a hosting service and a smaller survey of how the today Swedish students using habits of SCM during their studies..

In this thesis the survival and development of a yearly recurring event will be examined. The purpose of this work is to examine how the festival Stockholm Pride has developed and to find out what underlying factors and conditions that lays behind the development. Also being examined is how the event affects Stockholm city?s tourism industry. To be able to fulfill the purpose of the thesis a qualitative research has been used and two persons with allot of knowledge about Stockholm Pride and Stockholm?s tourism industry has been interviewed.