BACKGROUND: Today?s societal changes, including high rate of change and increasing information flows, are increasing the demand on the individual mental capacity. It becomes increasingly difficult to analytically process all the different dilemmas and everyday decisions as individuals have a limited mental capacity available to make these decisions. Thus, it has been suggested that ego-depleted relies more heavily on intuition, which is less burdensome, when making decision. However little is known about to what extent intuitive decisions differ from analytic.

AbstractTitle: The ?Investigator? and the ?Updater? ? new patterns of news use among young adults.Number of pages: 48Author: Anna StrinnholmTutor: Amelie HössjerCourse: Media and Communications, D- levelPeriod: Fall of 2005University: Division of Media and Communication, Department of Information Science, Uppsala UniversityPurpose/Aim: The aim of this essay is to provide an description of how daily newspaper, TV, radio and the Internet are used by young adults in order to contribute to Lennar Weibulls model ?a typology of the Swedish mediasystem from an audience perspectiv?.Method/Material: The method of gathering of empirical material has been conducted by interviewing eight people of how they use daily newspapers, TV, radio and The internet to inform themselves of the daily news. The empirical material has then been analysed by applying a two step method, of first making a summary of the interviews and secondly making a comparison with a model of Lennart Weibull ?a typology of the Swedish mediasystem from an audience perspectiv? .Main results:Two different types of ideal media users can be drawn from the empirical research, the ?Investigator? and the ?Updater?. The updater search for news to stay updated and relies on the Internet as main source of information.

The purpose of this thesis is to analyze and identify a selected number of key factors in successfully implementing open innovation. More precisely, it looks at how value is maximized using open innovation practices. The scientific approach taken is based largely on the network perspective, which puts relations to other companies in focus. An extended view of the resource based view (RBV), different from the traditional one by taking also external resources into account, is in addition central to understanding the use of external resources to create internal value. The two main research questions strive to look at how the company locates relevant partners and what the relations that are established with these partners should look like to get the most of open innovation.

This rapport aims to examine the difficulties in presenting a complex game in a way that will invite new players by making the game more accessible. We discuss and present our process on how to create an application named ?Digi?-war that is easy and fast to, both, learn and use. Our solution to this issue includes RFID-tags and readers together with four buttons, as input devices. This simple input device, placed in a gun-type control unit, aims to provide an intuitive interaction..

Denna studie grundas i tankar kring vilka individer som ligger bakom en filmproduktion. Dådet i en filmproduktion arbetar en stor skara människor blev det intressant att undersöka ochlyfta fram diskussion om hur dessa samverkar för att slutföra en produkt som baseras på envision. Studien visar också på vad som ligger bakom samverkan och hur den hierarkiskastrukturen påverkar filmarbetarnas yrkesroll. En observation har gjorts på enlångfilmsinspelning. För att fördjupa observationen har även två intervjuer gjorts medfilmarbetare.

The potential of information technology as a means to invigorate democratic practise is constantly under discussion. Regardless of the differing opinions as to the most suitable way to utilise IT, there are certain democratic core values that have to be considered. One of these is freedom of information, defined by us as the right of every citizen to seek, obtain and express information. The aim of this study is to explore whether the use of IT as a means to enhance democracy can strengthen the citizens right to freedom of information. As an instrument for analysis we use an article by Jan van Dijk, professor of communication science.

AbstractTitle: The ?Investigator? and the ?Updater? ? new patterns of news use among young adults.Number of pages: 48Author: Anna StrinnholmTutor: Amelie HössjerCourse: Media and Communications, D- levelPeriod: Fall of 2005University: Division of Media and Communication, Department of Information Science, Uppsala UniversityPurpose/Aim: The aim of this essay is to provide an description of how daily newspaper, TV, radio and the Internet are used by young adults in order to contribute to Lennar Weibulls model ?a typology of the Swedish mediasystem from an audience perspectiv?.Method/Material: The method of gathering of empirical material has been conducted by interviewing eight people of how they use daily newspapers, TV, radio and The internet to inform themselves of the daily news. The empirical material has then been analysed by applying a two step method, of first making a summary of the interviews and secondly making a comparison with a model of Lennart Weibull ?a typology of the Swedish mediasystem from an audience perspectiv? .Main results:Two different types of ideal media users can be drawn from the empirical research, the ?Investigator? and the ?Updater?. The updater search for news to stay updated and relies on the Internet as main source of information.

Undersökningens syfte är att studera video som inslag på matematiklektioner genom att titta på elevers kunskapsutveckling, åsikter och lärares åsikter.En video om Pythagoras sats har producerats och visats i klassrummet och det har sedan gjorts diagnostiska prov i experiment- och en kontrollgrupper. Det har även gjorts en elevenkät och lärarintervju. Resultatet visade att eleverna var ganska positiva till video men att filmen inte hjälpte något märkbart. Lärarna ansåg det vara svårt att få in video i matematiken eftersom det går så fort. Slutsatsen är att video kan användas som tillsats till undervisningen ibland, men inte som ensam ersättning till annan undervisning..

The purpose of this study is to examine who were given the opportunity to express their opinions in the government proposition concerning the future of the school system ? particularly regarding the proposal that pupils do compulsory military service - submitted to the Swedish parliament 21 March 1941. Our focus is mainly on three parts of the proposition: the proposal to introduce shooting- and grenade practice for all pupils, the proposal to introduce an obligatory military leadership training course for teachers and the proposal to introduce an obligatory summer camp for all pupils.Using primarily a qualitative method we examine how different opinions and views are expressed in the statements and utterances responding to the pending proposition and who the responders are. We will attempt to clarify who were considered to be undisputed authorities and experts, and whose opinions, for that reason, carried a lot of weight in the decision making process, comparing them to the statements and utterances submitted on a voluntary basis by non-experts. And finally, to what extent the opinions in the statements and utterances were allowed to guide the propositional work.Results show that the statements and utterances were submitted by authorities, chapter, county administrative boards and religious, non-profit and political organizations as well as different types of schools, representatives from the Board of Education and elementary school boards not a part of county councils or other types of associations.

This essay focuses on the construction of so called "computer game addiction" or "computer game abuse" in the Swedish press during 2000-2006. During this period computer game addiction went from an obscure phenomenon to a legit reason for the involuntary commitment of a fourteen-year-old.The study's theory is based on several social constructionist ideas. Kitsuse and Spector's theories about constructing social problems as claims-making activities are used for understanding the actions of the individual and groups involved. Hewitt and Hall's article about quasi-theory is used to explain the construction of explainations for the new social phenomenon. Blumer's five-stage model is used for categorizing the construction of the new social problem.

Den här uppsatsen handlar om sexualitet och sexuella normer i vårt samhälle och kring sexuella bilder på spelfilmer. Om man kan visa starka sexuella bilder i spelfilmer utan att man går över normernas gränser och hur långt man kan gå innan man gör det. När lagstiftningen anser att bilderna blir ett brott emot lagen eller när censur lagen går in och klipper bort scener. Det ingår även en analys på Larry Clarks filmer Kids, Bully och Ken Park, där alla filmerna har starka sexscener med tonåringar. Jag har valt att sätta bilderna i olika kontexter för att finna ut vart gränsen går innan en erotisk bild blir pornografi..

I detta arbete undersöks identitetsskapande i en lärarledd skolkontext. Syftet är att undersöka och gestalta hur två pedagoger på en skola för grundskolans senare år säger sig arbeta med och förhålla sig till elevernas identitetsskapande under de aktiviteter som de leder. Undersökningen har gjorts genom kvalitativa intervjuer som berört pedagogernas uppfattning av hur de arbetar med och förhåller sig till identitetsskapande. Därefter har vi tolkat och gestaltat innehållet i intervjuerna i panoramabilder som animerats till film. Estetik, genus, elever i årskurs sju och styrdokument är tydligt återkommande teman i intervjuerna. Undersökningen visar att våra informanter tycker sig arbeta med identitetsskapande och att arbetssätten som inrymmer identitetsskapande har mestadels estetisk form och ett innehåll som erbjuder rollprövande och/eller ställningstagande..

The public service within health and care has changed remarkably during the last 30 years. It has been inspired by management ideas from profit-making businesses. Those thoughts are an umbrella term called Nex public management. In what way has New public management influenced the public service in Sweden? Important concepts in the change of public service are quality, effektivity and goals.

This degree project was conducted in collaboration with Husqvarna AB, the headquartersof which are located in Jönköping. The aim was to further develop the filler cap found onmore or less the whole of the company?s range of chain saws, in order to make it moreuser friendly.The present filler cap is not easy to open and close, especially when wearing gloves, andunder difficult conditions, which creates problems and prolongs filling time.On the basis of market surveys, different prototypes and tests, we have created anergonomically improved cap of a new shape, which can be moved in the axial direction,thus making filling easier..

SammanfattningSyftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka relationen mellan historiska spelfilmer och historiemedvetandet. Vi fokuserar på hur ett antal lärare på högstadiet och gymnasiet förhåller sig i relationen mellan spelfilm och historiemedvetande i syfte att framställa en matris för undervisning med hjälp av film. För att göra detta har vi använt oss av en kvalitativ metod med semistrukturerade intervjuer.Vi har alla ett historiemedvetande vilket innebär att vi kan förhålla oss till ?då-nu-framtid? och applicera tidsperspektivet på våra egna liv. Det samlade kulturarvet och de gemensamma såväl som individuella livserfarenheter blir en del av vårt historiemedvetande.