The purpose of this study was to examine the media?s portrayal of young people that gamble with money. Young in this study refers to people in the age 13 to 30. The following questions were examined: How does the press, in this case three newspapers, portray young people who gamble with money? What discourses in the selected newspapers, regarding young people who gamble with money, are the most prominent?The method used in this study was Faircloughs three dimensional model for critical discourse analysis which was used together with a social constructionist point of view.

Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka kvinnobilden i argentinsk press på ett kvalitativt sätt. Jag har undersökt om det finns språkliga och innehållsliga mönster kopplat till konstruktionen av ?kvinnlighet? och stereotyper i ett antal tidningsartiklar.     Materialet består av sex artiklar från två argentinska dagstidningar; Clarín och La Nación. Anledningen till valet av just dessa tidningar är att de är har den största upplagan i Argentina och att de är rikstäckande. Kriteriet för att en artikel skulle väljas ut är att en kvinna måste vara huvudsubjekt i texten.     Jag har utgått från teorier om genuskonstruktion och könsbundna stereotyper och hur dessa uppstår i massmedierna.     Metoden som tillämpats på de sex artiklarna är kritisk diskursanalys baserad på Teun A van Dijk.

The society of consumption exposes us to a lot of information, where advertisement constitutes an extensive part. Due to its expanding, advertisement receives a natural and obvious space in our everyday life. This study aims to investigate how social and cultural values can be mediated in advertisement. The focus has been put to ideas related to health and fitness in the advertisement of power drinks. The thesis takes social constructionism as a starting point, and combines image- and critical discourse analysis in purpose to analyze the pictures.Sociology of consumption, construction of identity, lifestyle and everyday life all constitute an essential part of my analysis.

Uppsatsen syfte är att undersöka hur normalitet skapas på låst institution, detta genom att undersöka hur kategorier som kön och sexualitet skapas genom talet. Våra frågeställningar är:Hur skapar behandlingspersonalen, genom sitt tal, ungdomars kön på låst institution, hur skapas kön i behandlingspersonalens beskrivningar av ungdomarnas problematik, hur skapas kön i behandlingspersonalens beskrivningar av ungdomarnas sexualitet? Vi använder oss av diskursanalys som metod med en teoretisk utgångspunkt i socialkonstruktionismen. Vi använder oss av och problematiserar begreppen kön, sexualitet, makt och diskurs. Vårt material utgörs av intervjuer med behandlingspersonal på två låsta institutioner, en för flickor och en för pojkar.

This essay will try to analyze how Syria?s official news agency, SANA, describes events taking place in Syria in the days between 1.4 and 18.4.2012. This will be contrasted with how BBC and CNN describe the events. These other two news agencies were chosen, because they represent media from democratic countries in Europe and the USA. This rebellion became a full scale civil war over time.

This thesis examines young people's thoughts about their presence on social media. With asocial constructive approach the study focused on how young people think and act on socialmedia in relation to constructions of gender and normality. The analysis is based on fourgroup interviews with 13-year old boys and girls. The theoretical approach is based partly onsocial constructionism where discourses and ideas of normality are identified and analyzed.Erving Goffman's theory of social interaction was central to illustrate how young peoplepresents themselves based on the prevailing discourses. It is clear that they adjust theirrepresentations of themselves depending on the context.

Vår bild av omvärlden skapas utifrån det vi vet om den. Min undersökning har närmat sig frågan vem som är skapare av dessa bilder med hjälp av i huvudsak diskursanalys och semiotik. För att ringa in frågan har jag valt att studera ett specifikt fenomen som förekommit flitigt i svensk media på sista tiden, nämligen Bonden. I skrivande stund har denna yrkeskategori sedan en tid tillbaka fått stor medial uppmärksamhet, och undersökningen belyser hur detta gjorts genom att analysera ett antal texter där bonden förekommit. Dessa texter är hämtade från TV4 och deras underhållningsprogram Bonde söker fru och Let?s Dance som visats under hösten 2007 och våren 2008.Syftet med studien är att genom att belysa dessa texter med dels diskursanalysens perspektiv och semiotikens teorier, i huvudsak med hjälp av Barthes mytbegrepp, lyfta fram svaret på frågan Vem och hur är bonden i svensk nutida media? Utifrån mitt perspektiv som mediepedagog är det centralt att uppmärksamma mediernas roll i samhället, och detta arbete ger ytterligare verktyg för att gripa media.I stora drag visar studiens resultat på att programmen uppvisar kommersiellt gångbara bilder där mytbildningen innehåller både konservativa och populistiska drag.

Syftet med uppsatsen var att undersöka och belysa socionomstudenters beskrivande av klienter. Studien har en socialkonstruktivistisk utgångspunkt och syftar till att genom diskursanalys studera om och hur de benämningar av klienter, som vi kunde identifiera i valda c-uppsatser producerade på Institutionen för socialt arbete vid Göteborgs Universitet kan ses som en del av objektifierande diskurser. Genom att dekonstruera användandet av benämningen klienter ville vi se ifall alternativa framställningar av klienter är möjliga i det empiriska material som vår studie grundade sig på. Studien har en kvalitativ ansats. Studiens empiriska material består av fem c-uppsatser som är producerade av socionomstudenter på Institutionen för socialt arbete i Göteborg.

Den ha?r uppsatsen analyserar demokratidiskursen i de parlamentariska dokument som fra?n och med 2002 ledde fram till spra?klagens stiftande 2009. Den go?r detta utifra?n teorifa?lten kritisk diskursanalys och systemisk-funktionell grammatik. Materialet besta?r av utdrag ur de parlamentariska dokumenten. Utdragen besta?r av de tillfa?llen da? vissa nyckelord knutna till demokrati anva?nds ga?llande omra?det klarspra?k.

We live in a world where the resources are not equally divided and that is why charity work is needed. The United Nations Children?s Fund, UNICEF, is a global organization that works for children?s human rights around the world. But perhaps even charity work, which´s often glorified in the society, need to be looked at from different directions. Research about intercultural education, globalization and charity shows that even good deeds can end up reproducing the problem that was supposed to be solved in the first place.

Purpose: The purpose with this study is to analyze if the Swedish authorities and media had different ways of discussing the new influenza, in connection with the pandemic classification June 11, 2009. This is the first time an influenza has been classified as a pandemic since the Hongkong-influenza in1968. Methodology: The method used for the study is discourse analysis, aqualitative method that gives the opportunity to study not only what is said, but how things are said. In this thesis, the aim is to study how the image ofthe new influenza is transmitted via the texts. The texts have been analysed based on:- General and underlying themes- Words and concepts used- Persons/sources quoted or referred to- Historical connections/historical backgroundTheoretical perspectives: The study is based on theories about socialconstructionism and discourse analysis.

This thesis has focused on the construction of homosexual parenthood in Swedish law and preparatory work. The purpose was to describe the norms about legal parenthood and examine if and how homosexual parenthood was included in the normative parenthood. The study was jurisprudential and based on methods such as sociology with a juridical focus and critical discourse analysis of the juridical texts. The theoretical framework was the critical discourse analysis as well as a queer perspective, both influenced by social constructionism and a poststructional theory. The conclusion of the study is that parenthood is described from what is presumably best for the child, which is two parents of different sexes and biological origin.

This paper is based on observations made in the classroom, interviews and studies ofliterature.The observations that I made during my practical training period made me believethat pupils with writing and reading problems succeeded more often with the methodsof teaching used in media education than with more traditional teaching methods.Through this study I hope to specify and define the factors that were the reasons for this. In doing so I wanted to show that you could adapt the teaching methods to reach more pupils with different kinds of learning styles.I have come to the conclusion that the following factors made the pupils with writing and reading problems succeed more often in subjects related to media education:Variety, time spent, the pupils? interests and the equipment used..

Today the right of the child to participate freely in cultural life and the arts is a goal on the political agenda. As a consequence, in 2011, twenty-six government agencies and institutions of culture were assigned to formulate strategies for activities for children and young people. These strategies are the empirical basis of this thesis. The aim of the study is to elaborate and problematize three issues concerning children?s culture from the viewpoint of a social constructionist understanding of childhood as constructed in various, often political, practices.

The aim with this study is to identify and discuss discourses in public service policy documents to clarify that public service policy is political and not self-evident. The study's theoretical as well as methodological starting point is the discourse theory of Laclau and Mouffe, which ontological position is that all meaning is constructed by discourses. In the studied material, two discourses have been identified in policy concerning the content in public service media. The responsibility-discourse construct meanings of what content the policy wants to see in public service media and in the quality-discourse meanings of how the content should be is constructed. Public service policy is consistent over the period that has been studied and the study shows that there is consensus in the parliament about the regulation of the content in public service media.