The aim of this two years master´s thesis is to examine discourses about electronic books in relation to libraries that occur in the Swedish library journal Biblioteksbladet by using critical discourse analysis (CDA). The thesis also aims to discuss changes in the discourse practice, and discuss the relationship between discourse practice and social practice in the field of library and information science (LIS). A main point of CDA is that language is a form of social practice that helps shape social reality. Furthermore the concept of ideology, as understood with-in CDA, brings understanding to the way discursive events help reproduce and transform social relations of pow-er. The text samples span from 2005 up to and including 2011 and were examined by using Norman Fairclough´s three-dimensional conception of discourse, which allows for interpretation of text on a linguistic, discursive and social level.The result of the analysis showed that there are several different discourses about electronic books and li-braries, none of which can be said to be particularly representative.

Titel: Friendvertising - De som delar men inte tror sig delaFörfattare: Sofia Fris Åsum, Angelica Gustafsson och Matilda HallUppdragsgivare: Institutionen för journalistik, medier och kommunikation, Göteborgs universitetKurs: Kandidatuppsats i medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap vid Institutionen förjournalistik, medier och kommunikation, Göteborgs universitetTermin: Vårterminen 2014Handledare: Gabriella SandstigSidantal: 61 sidor inklusive bilagorAntal ord: 17 953Syfte: Att undersöka unga vuxnas förhållningssätt till friendvertisingMetod: Kvalitativa fokusgruppsintervjuerMaterial: Fem fokusgruppsintervjuerHuvudresultat: Resultatet visar att den undersökta gruppen unga vuxna har ett positivt förhållningssätt tilltillvägagångssättet friendvertising, men att det är komplext. De anser att friendvertising är effektivt, attdet har större påverkan än traditionell reklam, att filmerna skapar starka känslor samt att personer somdelar friendvertisingmaterial blir volontärer för varumärket i fråga. Däremot menar de att de inte delarmaterial i sociala medier i särskilt stor utsträckning. Av svaren att döma är det tydligt att orsakerna till detta handlar om identitetsskapande. De ser sociala medier som en offentlig sfär och det som delas är synligt för många.

The purpose with this thesis is to investigate how Swedish clothing companies create and communicate a personality for their brand. Case studies were conducted with three companies: Nudie Jeans, Koppartrans and J.Lindeberg. These firms can be considered as established clothing brands nationally as well as internationally. The study found that individualism, logotype and moral standpoints play an important role in the creation and the communication of a brand?s personality.

The effect of moderate incongruency between a celebrity endorser and an advertised brand is considered in an experiment with celebrities, both congruent and moderately incongruent with the investigated brands. In addition, the influence of possible moderator variables was examined, as well as the potential impact of the celebrities? gender. It was found that an ad exposing a moderately incongruent combination of celebrity and brand generated a more positive result on attitude towards the ad, brand attitude and word of mouth. Furthermore, under some conditions certain moderator variables influenced the relationship between moderate incongruency and responses evoked by the ad..

Previous research has confirmed that the ability to repeat non-words has a close connection to a child?s language acquisition (Adams & Gathercole, 2000; Gray, 2003; Sahlén, Reuterskiöld-Wagner, Nettelbladt & Radeborg, 1999). It is also known that a repetition task is aided if the word is well known to the child (Roy & Chiat, 2004; Sahlén, m.fl., 1999). A relatively under-investigated area is that of the influence of prosodic variables on repetition of words and non-words.In the current study, 44 Swedish children between the ages of four and six years with typical language development were tested regarding word- and non-word repetition abilities. The words and non-words were matched based on stress, tonal word accent and number of syllables.

Institutional repositories are now being created to manage, preserve, and maintain the digital assets and intellectual output of a university. The incentives to change the process of scholarly communication have also begun serving as a strong motivator. There are problems to consider and questions to be solved when dealing with electronic publishing and the implementation of institutional repositories. At present time no summary exists regarding the activities of scholarly electronic publishing at Swedish universities and university colleges.This Master's thesis aims to describe the current situation regarding electronic publishing and the development of institutional repositories at Swedish universities and university colleges. To investigate the situation, a questionnaire was sent out to 38 academic libraries since they are normally responsible for the electronic publishing within institutions of higher education.

AbstractThe purpose of this study has been to provide a deeper understanding of how companies in the travel industry works with social media and Electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) by analyzing and investigating social media and eWOM and how it effects customers? expectations on the companies service quality. In connection with the purpose we have chosen the following research questions: 1. In which way can companies in the travel industry interact with their customers participation on the Internet through social media. 2.

AbstractThe purpose of the study was to examine if manual signs used as support to spoken and written language can be a god mnemonic for learning of word-pictures. I performed my study as an experiment in which I made a Memory game with word-pictures. I played the game with the children twice. The first time, we played without manual signs and the second time I used sign as a support. I observed the children and noted the words they learned to read with and without the support of manual signs.

Titel: Skapandet av lojalitet - en utvärdering av marknadsföringsstrategier.Författare: Emma Hautanen & Eve-Marie RoweHandledare: Lars VigerlandÄmne: MarknadsföringDokumenttyp: Kandidatuppsats 10p.Publiceringsår: VT-2007Nyckelord: Lojalitet, Word-of-mouth, Involvement theory, Marketing mix, Medicintekniskverksamhet, Medicintekniska avdelningen analys på Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset.Syfte: Syftet är att utvärdera om MTA-analys marknadsföringsstrategier skapar lojalakunder?Metod: I studien har författarna genomfört både en kvantitativ och en kvalitativundersökning. Författarna har använt sig av abduktion i studien. Den kvantitativaundersökningen bestod av prestrukturerade svarsalternativ som utarbetas utifrån redanbefintliga teorier för att på så sätt kunna koppla samman empirin och teorin kring studien.Således har studien gjorts enligt en abduktiv ansats. Undersökningen utfördes genom attenkäter skickades ut till MTA-A?s kunder, både avdelningar på sjukhuset och utomståendekunder.

Syfte:På empiriska och teoretiska grunder vill vi förstå vad det är som bidrar till att lågprisvaruhuset Ge-Kås dragningskraft. Metod:Vi har genomfört en fallstudie om varuhuset Ge-Kås i Ullared. För att uppnå uppsatsens syfte har vi använt oss observationer av varuhusets kunder och intervjuer av bussresenärer. Den framtagna empirin har sedan jämförts med relevant teori. Teorin har hämtats ur böcker och artiklar inom ämnet.

Event marketing's ability to create strong communication effects is a well-known fact and a contributing factor to its popularity in the world of marketing today. But while we know that it is the interaction between consumers and the brand within the scope of live marketing that gives rise to loyalty and purchase intention, we have no knowledge in how the company's efforts affect the outcome. As the investments in event marketing are growing at a comparatively high pace, it is urgent to obtain a deeper understanding and a sense of direction of the elements infuencing its success.In this study we investigate in what way and to what extent the amount of effort that a company puts into the making of an event is used as a signal of manufactor credibility, ability (i.e., expertise) and consumer care. And in what way and to what extent the perceived effort influence purchase intent, attitude and word-of-mouth. We also analyze marketing events in terms of the theory of equitable exchange and "desperation", a subject matter thus far only touched upon.As we identify two different types of events on the market today, we include both in our study: the in-store promotion related event and the party event, which is held in an external venue.

The accounting scandals that have attracted attention in recent years have led to internal control becoming a more central part of business activity. Doubts about what firms actually do have increased, all caused by the attention of accounting scandals. To counter this, frameworks and laws evolved and gained a significant role in the organization and its surroundings. The aim of the present study is to find out how four companies in the Kristianstad region are working to ensure its internal control and how they work to minimize risk and reduce uncertainty. We have used a qualitative method and interviewed a person in a senior position in each company.

Documentation in electronic journals is perceived as time consuming and sometimes technically difficult to handle, but also leads to an improved quality of care. Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate nurses' perceptions of documentation with a focus on timing, technique and quality of care and whether any differences in these perceptions were dependent on age. Method: Quantitative descriptive cross-sectional study in the survey form, 28 nurses at a university hospital in central Sweden participated in the study. Regression analysis was performed with Spearman's rank correlation coefficient. Results: Electronic documentation takes 30 to 60 minutes for most nurses and half of them considered it a reasonable time.

Syftet med studien är att undersöka hur Nudie Jeans kommunicerar sitt varumärke i olika kanaler, hur konsumenter uppfattar det, samt hur förhållandet mellan den kommunicerade och uppfattade bilden av varumärket ser ut. Teorierna utgår från ett varumärkesperspektiv med begrepp som identitet, image och kärnvärden. Även teorier rörande konsumentperspektiv innefattande aspekter som lojalitet, ansträngning och påverkan behandlas. Metoder som används i studien är dels text- och bildanalys av Nudie Jeans hemsida, intervju med sälj- och marknadschefen på Nudie Jeans samt en enkätundersökning, som besvarats av 177 konsumenter. Urvalet till enkäten är ett bekvämlighetsurval. Kommunikation från och om varumärket sker dels via hemsidan och dels hos distributörer, ofta i form av butikssäljare.

This is a Master´s Thesis based on my own idea instead of that of a company. It is a survey that focuses on finding out more about which part of the development process that is blocking the establishment of electronic scorecards on the golf market. Why has it not been introduced on the market in a larger scale yet, considering the technology we possess today? This question is investigated through interviews with the Swedish Golf association, and three companies that have chosen different paths to implement an electronic scorecard. The interviews focuses on finding out what developers and the association believe to be the main problem, before taking the next step in releasing electronic scorecards on a larger scale.