This master thesis deals with events, dynamics and problems of mediated information seeking within the context of a new information service called "Book a librarian". The study, based on a survey and interviews both in academic and public libraries and participant observations in academic libraries, has its theoretical base in the cognitive theory of information retrieval interaction. The cognitive view is used to throw light upon the need of an ongoing dialogue during the session in order to detect the information needs of the user and to conduct a successful retrieval of information. The communicative interaction is seen as threepart interaction between the intermediary, the user and the information system, where the current cognitive states of all three participants are involved. The study shows that the cognitive obstacles for a successful mediation and information retrieval are mostly connected to participants current knowledge of the subject and of the retrieval techniques.

Syftet med denna kandidatuppsats är att studera hur den Olympiska parken i Peking respektive London planeras för att hantera de Olympiska spelen samt hur de planerats för att användas efteråt. Vidare är syftet att se vilka förutsättningar och vilken problematik som därefter uppstår. Undersökningen har skett genom en kvalitativ innehållsanalys av den Olympiska parken i Peking respektive London. Resultatet från studien har därefter analyserats och diskuterats utifrån ett par teoretiska huvudpunkter som är viktiga vid planeringen av mega-event. Planeringen av de Olympiska spelen är ett komplext projekt med många olika aspekter att ta hänsyn till. Detta då det bl.a.

Media has an influence on millions of people around the world, this influence can be positive as well as negative as a consequence of how phenomena and a certain event are interpreted. Mass media tend to magnify and dramatize events in form of attractive headlines in order to get as many readers as possible. One of the countries that the media spotlight focused on in recent years is Greece. However these attractive headlines, have not contributed anything positive for the country and one can say that it has done more damage than good. In the media the Greeks have been stereotyped, radicalized and labeled as "lazy" due to the representation of media.

Sociala medier innebär både stora hot och möjligheter. Möjligheterna är större än någonsin för organisationer att interagera med sina intressenter och utifrån det bygga starka relationer. Samtidigt innebär den snabba spridning av information som sociala medier innebär ett hot för organisationer. I sociala medier kan ett rykte eller missnöje uppstå väldigt snabbt och bli en sanning som orsakar stor skada för ett företag och ett varumärke. Syftet är att belysa och problematisera hur företag använder sociala medier i sin kriskommunikation. Syftet bröts ner i tre frågeställningar:Hur använder Parken Zoo Facebook i sin kriskommunikation?Hur utvecklas kriskommunikationen i de olika faserna förebyggande-, förberedelse-, akut-, återhämtnings- och lärofasen?Vilken roll spelar Facebook i dessa faser? De teoretiska ramverken som har använts i uppsatsen är krisens olika faser och relationsskapande.

AbstractThe purpose of this essay is to investigate the priority rules in the event of termination due to redundancy, the rules functions according to the Swedish labour market and which other alternatives that exist besides the priority rules. The alternatives to the priority rules which are introduced in the essay are the Danish Flexicurity-model and a proposal from the Långtidsutredningen 2011. The rule of priority is a very controversial law at the Swedish labour market, which makes the essay also describing the criticism against the rules. The criticism that the essay presents claims that the rules of priority contribute to immobility effects for particularly older employees. Further on the essay presents the criticism towards the rules, that they disadvantage young employees on the labour market.  The essay investigates also what the researchers say about the criticism.The results that are presented in the essay points to the fact that the rules of priority contributes to the immobility effects of employees but the rules can not be claimed to be the only reason.

I denna uppsats kommer vi undersöka hur artiklar i tre olika tidskrifter gestaltar/konstruerar idéer om socialt samspel mellan barn i förskolan/skolan. Här reds svar ut hur sociala samspel eller så kallade kamratkulturer eller toddlarkulturer mellan barn ges näring att gro inom den vanliga förskolan och inom inriktningen Reggio Emilia samt inom Montessori. Metoden som vi har använt oss av när vi har samlat in material är textanalys genom två delstudier i form av diskurs och ideologianalys. Materialet som har undersökts är olika tidskrifter inom de tre pedagogiska traditionerna. Frågeställningen som vi har förhållit oss till är; Hur representeras kamratkulturer/toddlarkulturer eller socialt samspel inom de olika pedagogiska tidskrifterna? Vilka teman representeras i de olika pedagogiska tidskrifterna? Vilka likheter och skillnader representeras i de olika pedagogiska tidskrifterna? I vår undersökning har vi sett vissa likheter men även skillnader om hur socialt samspel och synen på barn representeras inom de undersökta tidningarna.

This essay is a survey of thirteen user studies performed in the field of image retrieval. The purpose is to try to distinguish principles that should be kept in mind when wanting to make image databases available for a wide and varied group of users. The essay tries to answer two questions, namely: Are there any results in accordance among the different studies? What in the user studies should be considered when it comes to how content description, interface and functions for searching can be designed when creating systems for image retrieval? Each study is first reviewed on its own, and then a comparative analysis of all the studies is carried out. Derived from the result of this analysis, the conclusion is presented in the form of a row of suggestions to which aspects are to be suitably included in the design of image databases.

Syftet med denna studie har varit att få fördjupad kunskap om lärares uppfattning om sittledarskap i klassrummet och vilken betydelse lärare anser att ledarskapet har förklassrumsklimatet/miljön och elevers studieresultat. Utifrån syftet med studien har jag tagitdel av relevant litteratur och tidigare och aktuell forskning i ämnet samt fördjupat mig igenerell systemteori och utvecklingsekologisk systemteori som fått utgöra grunden föruppsatsens teoretiska förankring.Studien har en kvalitativ forskningsansats, där individuella kvalitativa intervjuer använtssom datainsamlingsmetod. Sammantaget intervjuades sju grundskollärare med erfarenhet avundervisning i årskurserna 1-9, inom den ordinarie grundskolan. Studiens resultat utgörsendast av dessa lärares uppfattningar om sitt ledarskap i klassrummet och dess inverkan påklassrumsklimatet/miljön och elevers studieresultat.Enligt studiens resultat präglas ett bra ledarskap generellt sett av tydlighet. Utmärkandeför ett bra ledarskap direkt kopplat till lärares ledarskap präglas framförallt av det som ärutmärkande för ett demokratiskt ledarskap.

This thesis explores how public art is received by the general public in Borås, Sweden. As a point of departure it was assumed that a study of the local papers would offer an accurate insight in to the debate of public art. Hence, press clippings were chosen as primary source material together with the works of art. The questions addressed in the study are: what is written in the local daily press about public art? Who writes in or makes statements to the local dailies about public art? Textual analysis is the predominant method employed while hermeneutics is the underlying theory.

The main purpose of this study is to investigate the unintentional learning that happens during the use of computer games. With the use of interviews with students in the ages 13-15 who all have played the game series Assassin?s Creed, and then compared them with students who does not play the game, we have been able to identify that some learning is taking place, but that the student?s attitude towards the subject, and their maturity, also is vital for the learning. Even tough, the students who didn?t really enjoy history as a subject showed better knowledge after playing the game, than the students who hadn?t played at all, which indicates that computer games can be a good source for learning.

The gas turbines in the Swedish secondary reserve are reaching the end of their technical lifetime, hence alternative solutions need to be considered. One of the solutions thought to have the greatest potential is the use of so called consumptionreduction. By entering contracts with large consumers, agreements are made to reduce consumption in the event of major disturbances in the power system and thus being used as a secondary reserve. This thesis investigates the feasibility of consumption reduction as part of the secondary reserve. This has been achieved by developing a requirement specification for the disturbance reserve and by studying the technical and economic potential for consumption reduction among a range of consumers.The technical potential for consumption reduction that fulfils the requirements for participating in the secondary reserve are on average 750 MW in SE 3 and 98 MW in SE 4.

I denna uppsats kommer vi undersöka hållbara musikfestivaler. Syftet är att få en djupare förståelse om arrangörernas och besökarnas roll inom hållbara musikfestivaler. Vi har inriktat oss på tre musikfestivaler i Sverige, Öland Roots, Urkult och Way Out West för att undersöka hur och varför de arbetar med sådan hållbar utveckling. Det som även kommer att undersökas är besökarnas roll inom hållbarhetsområdet. Genom telefonintervjuer har vi fått en uppfattning om arrangörernas roll inom hållbarhetsarbetet.

The use of entertainment in various kinds of business events has recently increased in popularity among Swedish firms. Often, stand-up comedians are hired to entertain the employees or customers during these happenings. Generally, the firm invests a considerable amount of money in this service and is furthermore willing to pay a premium for a famous comedian. Although the market for this type of service is fairly large, the knowledge of the motives behind the investments is yet limited.A grounded theory study is carried out exploring the purpose of the entertainment as well as the rationales behind the preference for a famous comedian over an unknown. Two general types of contexts (internal and external) are identified and a number of objectives related to each type are distinguished.

The aim of this study has been to describe and clarify the phenomenon violence from patients within neuropsychiatric institutions, as experienced by staff members. The study has adopted an actor perspective and phenomenology as a philosophic and theoretical framework. The method used for data collection and analysis has also been influenced by phenomenology. Data consisted of five semi-structured interviews of a descriptive nature, and the goal of the analysis has been to articulate the general structure of the phenomenon. The results showed that the violence from patients is characterized by a professional commitment which includes always staying ahead and being able to help, protect and express a high level of emotional self-control.

This survey's main purpose is to highlight how the two Swedish newspapers Aftonbladet and Dagens Nyheter writes and describes four different school shootings. We wanted to find out if there is a general pattern of how school shootings are reported by the media. Two of the shootings occured in USA, Columbine and Virginia Tech, and two in Finland, Kauhajoki and Jokela. The analysis aims at three areas: the whole event, the perpetrator and the victim. We have used a qualitative content analysis with a semiotic model to examine the articles in the survey. The theories in the study is based upon views on social constructionism, media logic, stereotypization, representation, morale panic/media panic and media events.