The Authorities attitudes towards Gypsies have been characterized by prejudice for a long time. This has lead to the relief actions of the Authorities being formed by discriminating acts. In purpose of eliminating the discrimination of the Gypsies, the Delegation for Gypsy matters formulated a strategy for solving this problem in the report ?Gypsy rights ? a strategy for Gypsies in Sweden?. Despite the goodwill of the Authorities this report has been criticized by Gypsies in Sweden. In the investigation of the derivation of this criticism the aim of this essay is to look at how the Authorities attitude towards Gypsies is shown in this report and how it affects the creation of their ethos.

Based on the concept of rhetorical situation, the purpose of this study is to compare and describe the three Socialist leader's May Day speech from the years 1954, 1978 and 2011. The results of the analysis showed that there is a big difference in how the leaders chooses to appeal to the rhetorical audience. Erlander, 1954, never appealed directly to his audience which Palme, 1978, did both initially as repeatedly throughout his speech. Juholt, 2011, has a personal and frequent appeal which is repeated throughout his speech, which is interpreted as a sign of the intimization of the public language. It proved difficult to discuss the Socialist rhetoric as one unified form.

Studien undersöker hur ICA:s reklamfilmer är utformade utifrån ett retorisk perspektiv och diskuterar även varför vissa grepp väljs framför andra i samtidens reklamfilmer. Undersökningen utgår från Marshall McLuhans medieförståelse som teoretisk förankring och diskuterar Chaïm Perelmans topiker samt ethos för vidare förståelse av reklamfilmerna. Uppsatsens slutsatser och resultat förklarar att ICA-filmernas främsta mediekanal; tv-mediet i sig är en betydande faktor för att lämna känslosamma avtryck hos publiken. Studien identfierar samhällsnormer och företagshierarkier och hur ICA nyttjar dessa i sina filmer. Avslutningsvis diskuteras filmernas färgstarka karaktärer och hur de etablerar ett sant ethos inför konsumenterna..

Ethos har inom retoriken alltid haft en stark aristotelisk prägel, ett arv sprunget ur hur talares karaktär framhölls i rättegångar i antikens Grekland. Eftersom retorikens uttryck och användningsområden har utvecklats enormt sedan dess, inte minst inom den politiska retoriken, finns en risk att vi idag begränsas av den uppfattning av ethos beståndsdelar som lever kvar efter Aristoteles. Genom att enbart se till vad som kan ses som god moral, sunt förnuft och välvilja hos talaren kan vi missa viktiga kontextuella faktorer som talaren kan använda sig av i sitt ethosbyggande, speciellt inom politisk retorik: exempelvis det ämbete som personen besitter, de regler och normer som omger situationen eller partiets värderingar och traditioner. Alla dessa är faktorer som en politiker ofta använder sig av för att inge förtroende för sig själv som politiker idag, vilka en aristotelisk ethosanalys inte ger utrymme för. I denna uppsats prövas, med den teoretiska inspirationen från Kenneth Burkes ?terministic screens?, sociologen Max Webers tre legitimitetstyper på begreppet ethos, vilka sedan appliceras på den socialdemokratiska retoriken, i hopp om att kunna bidra till utvecklingen av ethosbegreppet.

På Facebook når polisen många människor och kan ge sin bild av olika händelser och av sig själva. Jag har studerat två poliskontors  ? Täbys och Sollentunas ? närvaro på Facebook under en tvåmånaders period, och utifrån deras inlägg kartlagt vilken typ av händelser som de väljer att berätta om. Därutöver har jag också gjort en retorikanalys för att utifrån den diskutera vilken bild som polisen ger av sig själv på Facebook. Eftersom polisen själv anser att deras trovärdighet är av stor betydelse har jag i analysen koncentrerat mig på hur polisens ethos framträder i inläggen.Resultatet skiljer sig delvis åt mellan de två kontoren.

A politician on the peak of his career suddenly sees himself in the middle of not one or two, but five different crisis, that demand a fitting response and a well planned crisis management strategy. While focusing on ethos and its development, the following paper analyses the communicative strategies used by Germany's ex-minister of defense, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg. Within his one and a half year tenure he had to handle continuing accusations against policy and character. Guttenberg, who in many eyes was seen as Germany's most popular politician and whose ethos, therefore, prior to the first crisis could be described as strong, is loosing his trustworthiness among the military and other politicians the longer each crisis continues.The purpose of this study is to identify the communicative pattern of Mr. Guttenberg, which in the end lead to his resignation, while his popularity continues to be strong.

En film om en lärare, hans personlighet och mötet med eleverna.

In the year of 2012, a police project called ?REVA? was established in Sweden. The goal was to increase efficiency in deporting undocumented migrants from Sweden. Two articles relating to the project were published in Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter. One was an open letter to Attorney General Beatrice Ask, written by the famous author Jonas Hassen Khemiri.

I den h?r uppsatsen presenteras en kartl?ggning av vilka teser som drivs i debatten om hur och om AI kan anv?ndas i skolan och undervisningen, och vilken typ av argument som anv?nts f?r att underbygga dessa teser. Det analyserade materialet urg?rs av sex artiklar h?mtade fr?n facktidningen Vi L?rares webbsida, vilarare.se, och behandlar alla ?mnet? AI som en del av undervisningen? p? olika s?tt. Analysen utg?r fr?n de retoriska dimensionerna logos, ethos och pathos, vilka premisser som g?r att identifiera samt huruvida de argument som anv?nds utg?rs av sak- eller v?rdeargument.

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.

Wermland was affected by the Spanish flu like the Swedish national average, about a half percentage of Wermlands population would lose their lives to the flu during the autumn 1918. The flu has for many fallen into oblivion. This oblivion is so wide spread that it´s possible to talk about a "collective forgetfulness". The society have selected to remember 1918 for "when the guns went quiet on the western front" and not for the millions who died from the treacherous Spanish flu. The world had already suffered enough from the four years of war that had been fought, thus the victims of the flu would be honored but would soon fade in to oblivion.  When you investigate deeper you get the picture that the national average don´t do Wermland and its cities or rural areas any justice when a large variations seems to occur within regional areas.

I uppsatsen studeras hur skribenter med hjälp av olika retoriska grepp framställer sig själva i texter..

The purpose of this paper is to perform an in-depth analysis of how New Public Management reforms have impacted management practises in two publicly financed elderly care providers in Sweden. The paper studies one public and one private elderly care provider and analyses to what extent they have implemented New Public Management methods. The results are based on interviews with several persons within the two organisations and analysed using the seven New Public Management doctrines as described by Christopher Hood (1991; 1995). The major finding in the thesis is that the level of exposure towards New Public Management reforms differs between the two studied organisations where the private provider is exposed to the reforms to a greater extent than the public. The paper concludes that the main reasons for the low extent of exposure in the public provider could be attributed to the lack of measurable standards performance as well as the proximity to the political leadership..

This Bachelor thesis is a qualitative study of the public debate regarding the role of Public service in the media converged society today. The purpose of this thesis is to examine how the public debate, that is the Swedish Public service television and people with broad representative knowledge about Public service, motivates a change of the function of the Swedish Public service television.Our issues are: What does the public debate say about the function of Swedish Public  service television in our society today and how is a change motivated in this debate? How does the public debate look upon today´s media convergence and the fragmentation of the audience which, according to Denis McQuail, is a consequence of this?The method of this thesis is a qualitative analysis and we have analyzed ten opinion articles and Swedish Public service television magazine ?DittSvt?. The theoretical background was obtained from Henry Jenkins and Håkan Hvitfelts theories and thoughts about mediaconvergence. We have supplemented this with Denis McQuails theory regarding the fragmentation of the audience.In this thesis, we see that the public debate is a lot about diversity in Swedish Public service television programming and that the democratic base is still very important.

AbstractTitle: To work or not to work, an essay about information and inspiration on www.ams.se.Number of pages: 39Author: Ann HöglundTutor: Peder Hård af SegerstadCourse: Media and communication Studies DPeriod: Fall 2005University: Uppsala University, Department of information science, Division of Media and CommunicationPurpose/Aim: To investigate the frequency of ethos, logos and pathos in the work-guides on www.ams.se, and study how they match the needs of the respondents in the essay-interviews.Method/Material: To investigate the needs and wishes for information I have made three group-interviews with university students. In order to analyse the texts and films on www.ams.se I have used tools from the modern rhetoric analysis. In the last part of my analysis I compared the results of the rhetoric analysis and the requests from the interviews to see if and how they match.Main Results: The respondents requested inspiration for their future work lives, and information that could de-dramatize the image of working. The texts on www.ams.seconsist mostly of facts, while the films made a slightly more emotional contribution to the image of the occupation. The films showing relaxed and satisfied people can be seen as a way to de-dramatize the image of working-life.