Failed system development projects are a common sight within the IT-industry. During the last ten years we have seen several more or less disastrous high profile projects being reported in the news. One aspect that might hold some of the responsibility for these failures is the fact that more organisations are knowledge intensive which makes their work processes difficult to capture in computer systems. How requirements engineering is handled becomes even more important in these cases, where processes are unpredictable and rely on individual judgement and knowledge. In this study we have examined the challenges of developing systems for knowledge intensive businesses through a method of qualitative case study of a university laboratory.

Denna underso?kning studerar specifika delar av spra?ket i sex av Sveriges sto?rsta bloggar. Bloggarna som utgo?r underso?kningsmaterialet a?r Dessie, Kenzas, Paow, SamirBadran, Hugo Rosas och The odd way. De spra?kliga fo?reteelser som underso?ks a?r icke-verbala inslag, svordomar, utrop, talspra?kliga ordformer, la?nord och fo?rkortningar.

Organizations that want to maintain a good innovation capability can seek knowledge both within and outside its boundaries. Opening up innovation processes, through so-called open innovation, allows organizations to combine internal and external knowledge sources in order to include previously excluded perspectives to the innovation process. This study examines how knowledge is created and transferred when conducting open innovation through crowdsourcing. It is done based on Nonaka?s (1991; 1994) theory of how knowledge is created through conversion processes, where implicit knowledge can be converted into explicit knowledge and vice versa.

The Swedish education system reflects the multicultural society in Sweden, therefore there is a need of school textbooks that pupils can identify themselves with to create meaning and value in their learning. According to the Swedish Education Administrations (Skolverkets) report (2006) and Selander (2003, s. 198) the school textbooks are the main source of education in class. There has been an implicit message in the older textbooks that is associated with the belief that non-Europeans are "seen" as victims, and that Europeans are privileged with a "good life".Many school texbooks has been analyzed from different points of perspectives, however, analysis from a postcolonial perspective on home economics books has practically been nonexistent.Analysis in this study are focused on how non-western people are been portrayed in six different textbooks in the subject to conclude if the colonial discourse is still maintained and reproduced in the school. To answer the question of formulation an image analysis is made of the six, previiously mentioned, textbooks.

National libraries hold large, valuable repositories of often unique materials. How can we ensure that the knowledge is accessible without endangering the materials that hold the knowledge? Digital preservation is meant to solve this problem. With more and more material being accessible digitally, users are expected to do more and more of the finding on their own, instead of being guided by librarians. What kind of knowledge do the librarians have, that cannot be mediated through a system? How is the knowledge of experienced librarians passed on to new librarians? What is the difference between physical and digital materials? I have interviewed senior and junior librarians of Det Kongelige Bibliotek in Copenhagen, Nasjonalbiblioteket in Oslo, the National Library in Helsinki, and Kungliga Biblioteket in Stockholm to learn about their journey to knowledge of their collections.

Our society is based on a heterosexual norm. This may lead to the fact that LGBT-persons have a poorer health status than the heterosexual population. The nurse education lacks information and courses that highlights sexual identity. This is defective since healthcare staff needs knowledge on the subject to be able to treat patients in a professional and respectful manner. The purpose of this study was to illustrate how heteronormativity influences the treatment of patients within a healthcare context.

In this paper my aim is to understand the trance movement from within as a collective phenomenon. I went to Turkey with my boyfriend David on a trance gathering, a festival called A Total Solar Eclipse Festival. There I did participant observations and interviews.Can Collins theory about interaction ritual be useful to raise the understanding? And is it fruitful to apply the term collective identity?The collective identity is build up by the festival as interaction ritual. It generates solidarity, emotional energy and a sense of belonging.In this paper I discuss different categories and symbols that the collective identity contains of.

Uppsatsen studerar förekomsten av kulturreferenser, det vill säga syftningar och refereringar till kulturella fenomen, i svensk dagspress kulturjournalistik. Kulturreferenser fungerar som koder som antingen kan avläsas eller är obegripliga för läsaren, och undersökningens syfte är att reda ut hur kodmaterialet skiljer sig mellan olika genrer inom kulturjournalistiken. Källmaterialet är Dagens Nyheters och Svenska Dagbladets kulturdelar, perioden 14 till 20 april 2011, vilket ska representera en vanlig nyhetsvecka. Undersökningen visar att användandet av kulturreferenser skiljer sig mellan genrer beroende på textens syfte. I opinionstexter är det vanligt förekommande med kulturreferenser som stärker skribentens förtroende.

Ämne/Kurs: Kandidatuppsats, Medie- och Kommunikationsvetenskap, 15 hpSyfte: Syftet är att undersöka en specifik förpackning, i det här fallet produkten ?Jabu?she?, om den förpackningen uppfyller vad som krävs för att kommuni cera sitt varumärke genom marknadskommunikativa uppgifter. Detta för att se om varumärket är den viktigaste grafiska nyckelkomponenten på den förpackningen. Metod: Detta är en kvantitativ undersökning, utförd med en datorstödd enkät. Studien har arbetat med en metod framtagen av DeukSoo Kim.Teoretiska perspektiv: I teorikapitlet behandlas de teoretiska utgångspunkter som ligger till grund för det valda problemområdet; Marknadskommunikation med vikt på Point of Purchase och Visuell kommunikation med vikt på Visuell HierarkiSlutsats: Studien visar hur Jabushés förpackning uppfyller de visuellt hierarkiska och marknadskommunikativa uppgifter som ställs på en förpackning vid Point of Purchase..

Med denna uppsats vill vi synliggöra hur lärare i dans på gymnasiet definierar, tillämpar och undervisar koder och konventioner utifrån ämnes- och kursplaner i Dansteknik (Skolverket, 2011b). Med en fenomenografisk forskningsansats har vi genomfört fyra kvalitativa intervjuer med danslärare verksamma på olika gymnasium runt om i Sverige. Resultatet visar att lärarna är överens om att koder och konventioner handlar om uppträdandet i en danssal, om förväntningar på elevens eget ansvar för sin dansträning, respekt för de meddansande, dansgenres estetik och kroppens relation till rummet och riktningar. Gemensamt är också att lärarna utifrån sina egna dansbakgrunder och uppfattningar väljer ut de koder och konventioner de vill upprätthålla och reproducera i sin dansundervisning. Huruvida de förmedlar dessa explicit eller implicit varierar och tas upp i diskussionen, där vi även ser djupare på hur dåtidens traditioner relaterar till nutidens klassrum, dansundervisning i relation till tyst kunskap, koder och konventioner i förhållande till ordning och uppförande samt betygssättning..

Syftet med denna uppsats är att kritiskt analysera hur den koloniala diskursen tar sig uttryck i tre svenska läromedel i religionskunskap för gymnasiet. Som teori och metod använder jag mig av diskursanalys.I min studie framkommer det att den koloniala diskursen tar sig uttryck genom att innehållet i läromedlen struktureras utifrån en västerländsk/kristen syn på religionsbegreppet, vilken har sin grund i en essentialistisk religionssyn. Böckerna är organiserade runt centrala kristna begrepp, vilka implicit bär på kristna värderingar, och kristendomen är den religion som får överlägset mest utrymme.?Vi? framställs som en enhetlig grupp som i första hand är just kristna, men även västerländska, i betydelsen moderna, demokratiska och jämlika humanister. ?Dom? kategoriseras utifrån ?Vår? utblickspunkt som en motpol, eftersom ?Vi? ytterst definierar oss själva utifrån ?De Andra?.

This thesis deals with questions about competences and qualities that librarians inpublic libraries find that they need to be qualified suppliers of literature (books andmagazines).Our aim is to problematize the competence of the profession in relation to promotingliterature, knowledge in literature and reading habits. We want to know what librariansthemselves think about their own competences when it comes to supplying andpromoting literature. Does it have to be a leisure interest or do they get the possibility toread during working hours?What do librarians think it means to be a qualified promotor of literature and how dothey acquire the right competence? Do they believe that their competence correspondswith the occupational requirements? How much of their knowledge about literature andpromoting literature comes from personal interest and commitment?We primarily used the theories about competence by Per-Erik Ellström. One of thetheories is the one of implicit and explicit knowledge.

A new curriculum, Lgr11, was introduced in Sweden during the Autumn Semester 2011. My aim in this paper is to investigate whether an integrated and interdisciplinary approach is possible within this new Swedish curriculum.Firstly, I will describe the approach to integration and interdisciplinary work used in the new Swedish curriculum. Secondly, I will analyze whether the curriculum allows for an integrated and interdisciplinary work.The method used in this paper is a qualitative textual analysis and analyzing the new curriculum´s approach to integration and interdisciplinary education has been the focus. The analysis has been based on the explicit and implicit basics of integration and interdisciplinary work in the curriculum.I assume theories of subject integration and curricula to come up with my results in the paper.To conclude, the results of my analysis of the curriculum show that an integrated and interdisciplinary approach is not only possible, but it is also each school Principal's responsibility as well as part of each teacher`s objective. The Principal's responsibility is to ensure that the integration and interdisciplinary approach is undertaken in school. The curriculum is clear that teachers should let their students work interdisciplinary as well as vary their methods of teaching.

The subject of this master thesis is the school library and how we find its potential unutilized. We look at this problem in connection to the democratic assignment that the Swedish school has. The purpose is to elucidate what the democratic assignment consists of and to establish the role that the school library ought to have in this assignment. To describe the democratic assignment we examine and interpret the documents that regulate school and library activities today, including UNESCO/IFLA School Library Manifesto and United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. We use critical ideology analysis because we consider democracy to be a sort of ideology and have a critical view of how the school library is used or rather not used in school.

The purpose of this study was to examine in depth and analyze how and on what basis selection of guests managed by doormen primarily in an exclusive bistro in Stockholm. Qualitative methods in the form of personal interviews with door staff and participant observations were made. Interviews with doormen who work at two other similar places have also been carried out in order to find the differences and similarities in the selection process. To connect the results in a scientific way, we have mainly used Pierre Bourdieu's theories of capital forms and the field, and Göran Ahrne and Apostolis Papakostas organization theories. Previous research related to the phenomenon of selection in one way or another, along with the overarching theories, are used to answer the questions and purpose of this study.