The purpose of this study is to examine the impact that idealised body images found in media have on the body-image and wellbeing of young men and women. The study was carried out using questionnaires based on the BAQ and HAD scales to examine the participants' views of themselves as well as symptoms of anxiety and depression. Time spent by the participants using different kinds of media, as well as their degree of social support, was used with the purpose of examining relations and differences in body-image between men and women. The questionnaire contained advertising images to examine whether short time exposure had any impact on the participants. In order to determine this, one half of the questionnaires contained idealised body-images, whilst the other half contained images without human objects.

Denna studie grundas på huruvida media har blivit mer dömande än granskande i sina rapporteringar om högt uppsatta politiker över en tidsperiod på 20 år. Det som har granskats är tidningars rapportering då en högt uppsatt politiker bestridit över lagen. För att få en grundlig vetenskap om hur media fungerar i vårt samhälle är uppsatsen uppbyggd på kapitel som naturligt leder fram läsare till analysen. Till analysen har artiklar använts från två Svenska rikstäckande tidningar såsom Expressen och Dagens Nyheter. De politiska händelser som analyseras är Ebbe Carlsson- affären från slutet av 80- talet, Mona Sahlin från 90- talet och slutligen Laila Freivalds från 2000- talet.

Med anledning av ett antal redovisningsskandaler i början av 2000-talet har revisorers oberoendeställning gentemot klientföretagen kommit att diskuteras. I USA väcktes därför frågan om ett införande av revisorsrotation alternativt byrårotation. På grund av bristande erfarenhet inom området ansåg den amerikanska kongressen att beslut om byrårotation inte kunde fattas och således infördes endast revisorsrotation. I samband med detta införande fick U.S Government Accountability Office (GAO) i uppdrag att, genom en kvantitativ studie i form av enkätundersökning, undersöka vilka potentiella effekter ett införande av byrårotation skulle få på de amerikanska publika företagen.  Med utgångspunkt i den av GAO genomförda undersökning utformades denna uppsats för att på liknande sätt undersöka de potentiella effekterna av ett eventuellt införande av obligatorisk byrårotation i Sverige. Uppsatsens syfte bygger på att undersöka hur CFO:n, eller motsvarande befattningshavare, på samtliga företag noterade på Nasdaq OMX Stockholm ser på förslaget om ett införande av obligatorisk byrårotation, samt vilka för- och nackdelarna anses vara.

This essay focuses on strategies for acquisitions in Swedish publiclibraries. The topic has been occuring in the public debate off andon since the70s. The dominant view has been that librarians haveallowed demand direct the purchases of media and thus haveignored quality literature.This debate has caused me to reflect on the librarians constantdilemma when purchasing media. Are they supposed to chooseliterature that are in demand, or should an evaluation made bylibrarians be the decisive?The previous research has shown that the library profession istraditionally characterized by a non-judgmental approach.

In my study, I aim to examine how the printed Swedish media depicts Jews and Judaism.How the agenda is for the depiction of Jews and Judaism and how it can be related todidactic challenges within the school subject religion. The study is based on 194 articlesfrom the Swedish newspapers, Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Dagbladet, in July and August 2014. I use a qualitative and a quantitative text analysis where I put articles in different categories. The study?s theoretical framework is The Agenda-Setting Theory and my study leans against Bachner (2006), von Brömssen (2012) and Revell's (2010) thoughts on the media having great influence over our image of religion and religious groups.My study shows, among other things, that Jews and Judaism are mainly mentioned in the media in relation to the conflict in Israel and Palestine, World War II or anti-Semitism.

BakgrundEfter flera år av sjunkande elevresultat fick år 2006 Myndigheten för Skolutveckling i uppdrag att fördela ett statligt bidrag för att anordna sommarskolor. Trots bidraget har antalet elever som inte når gymnasiebehörighet fortsatt att sjunka. År 2012 togs det statliga bidraget bort för att åter införas 2014.SyfteStudiens syfte är att vinna kunskap om sommarskolors betydelse för skolors måluppfyllelse och elevers lärande. Studiens frågeställningar rör hur sommarskolor är organiserade, vilka argument som finns för respektive emot sommarskolor enligt berörd personal samt hur sommarskolors existens kan förstås och tolkas utifrån å ena sidan samhällets krav på måluppfyllelse och å andra sidan elevers behov och lärares professionella bedömningar.MetodEn kvalitativ metod med hermeneutisk ansats och intervjuer som redskap. Som teoretiskt perspektiv har Balls begrepp performativitet och fabrikation använts.ResultatUndervisning och lärande i sommarskolan skiljer sig från den ordinarie undervisningen genom större samsyn och samarbete lärare emellan och att ett individanpassat arbetssätt används i större omfattning.

The purpose of this study has been to maintain a deeper understanding of how unestablished, professional musicians can get discovered by the music industry by communication, branding and positioning of their brand at social media.We found that fans have a greater impact on unestablished musicians than we previously thought. They have to create an identity for their brand, keep active on social media and engage their fans. Musical artists must maintain an ongoing dialogue to keep their fanbase, preferably with emotions involved. No fans equals minimum attention from the industry. Uniformity and professionalism is also important, because it evokes seriousness.

Syftet med studien var att undersöka hur äldrevårdspersonal upplever sin yrkesroll utifrån sig själva och hur de tror att samhället ser på åldringsvård och på dem som arbetar inom äldrevården. I begreppet samhälle ingår samhällsmedborgare, media och andra yrkesgrupper. En kvalitativ metod i form av intervjuer har genomförts och spelats in samt transkriberats. För att sedan tolka svaren för att försöka finna svar på syftet. Undersökningen syftade till att ta reda på om empowerment kan tillämpas i yrket.

The purpose of the study is to investigate how much interest media has shown selected topics in the corporate governance systems in Germany and Sweden. The four selected aspects are: ownership structure, employee representation on the boards, disclosure of board members? compensation and female directors on the boards. The reasons for and consequences of the similarities and differences will also be discussed. The German and Swedish corporate governance systems construct the key basis of the study, emphasised on the four chosen aspects.

The purpose of this essay was to investigate the experience of being young and living in Herrgården in Rosengård, Malmö, from the aspects of six adolescents, two police officers, one social worker and one youth leader; and also what the cause is according to them, of disturbances arousing like those in the spring of 2007. At this moment there were antagonisms between adolescents and policemen. The research was performed with a qualitative method based on partly structured interviews. Four kinds of main themes were notable from the interview results. Those were: Growing up in Herrgården, Other peoples' view of Herrgården, Identity and Causes of the disturbances.

The tsunami in Thailand in 2004, 9/11 and hurricane Katrina in New Orleans 2005 are all reminders that no organization is immune to crises, which also means that all organizations should be prepared and know how to handle a crisis if one was to occur. A case study has been conducted, on a crisis regarding a fire that occurred on the 31st of July 2014 in Västmanland, Sweden. Through Qualitative interviews empirical data was gathered and then analyzed together with our theories and previous research. The purpose of the study is to analyze how the municipalities affected and the County Administrative Board of Sweden handled and communicated with/to the public during the fire that spread in Västmanland 2014. Our study shows that a risk analysis and analysis of surroundings is crucial in anticipating a crisis event and that it is essential for organizations to undergo training to prepare organization members on how to handle a crisis. Another conclusion is that the need for information is large during a crisis event and grows throughout the entire course of the crisis. The crisis that we studied had a lack of information, but at the same time the public?s need for information is a need that can?t be satisfied during a crisis.

Title: Constructing identity on Facebook.com ? A qualitative ethnographyNumber of pages: 40 (34)Author: Clara LindholmTutor: Amelie HössjerCourse: Media and communications studies CPeriod: HT (Autumn) 2009University: Division of Media and Communication, Department of InformationScience, Uppsala University.Purpose/Aim: The purpose is to study how the social community Facebook.com canbe used in order to construct identity. The study follows three Facebook users in anobservation where they are able to document their thoughts and reflections in anprivate media diary. This study investigates their use of the medium and focuses onthe functions with which they are able to alter their profiles. The result consists of acombination of these reflections, interviews and a selection of literature relevant tothe subject of new media, the use of social internet communities and social sciencetheories.

The purpose of this thesis is to present a number of examples of how the debate concerning same-sex marriages in Sweden was conducted in religious media between the year of 2005 and May 1st 2009. I intend to examine if and how these debate articles can be descibes as examples of religion taking part in the public sphere according to José Casanovas theory of deprivitization and public religion (1994) and Jürgen Habermas theory of religion in the public sphere (1964, 1989, 2006, 2008). I will apply the theories to the material by using four criteria for public religion, based on Casanovas and Habermas two theories, designed by Marta Axner. I also intend to compare the arguments used in the material to the arguments found in Marta Axners dissertation Public Religions in Swedish Media (2013). To identify these arguments a textanalysis containing seven argumentschemes, designed by Gunnar Björnsson (1994), is applied.

Facebook is the most widely used social media in Sweden. It allows the user to easily share the latest from their everyday life, their opinions, as well as communicate with their acquaintances. According to the latest poll from the Foundation for Internet Infrastructure, 33% of teenagers in the ages 12-15 spend their Internet time being active on social media. 63% of these teenagers visit Facebook on daily basis.Herein, we examined how Facebook can be exploited as a complement to the education of the mother tongue. The investigation was performed with a questionnaire as well as a test group that has been supplemented with semi-structured interviews. In conclusion, the study showed promising results in the usage of Facebook with the education.

AbstractVi har undersökt självkänslans bakomliggande diskurs i artiklar från dags- och populärpress i Sverige. Vi har gjort en diskursanalys av begreppet självkänsla gentemot andra samhälleliga fenomen. Fokus i uppsatsen har varit att lyfta fram hur begreppet självkänsla skildras i media och hur det kan påverka vår identitet, och vårt beteende i dagens individuella samhälle. Vi har också ställt oss frågan om medias fokusering på begreppet självkänsla enbart är positiv eller om den kan få negativa följder i form av stress hos mottagarna av budskapet. Efter att vi har granskat artiklar om självkänsla, upptäckte vi att många skildrade självkänsla som en lösning på många av dagens sociala problem så som stress, utbränning och problematiska förhållanden människor emellan.