Since 2007 the American sitcom the Big Bang Theory has spread throughout the world. With its twenty million watchers it is one of the most popular sitcoms of our time. The starting point for this essay is that the humourus series with the more or less geeky main characters is more than just entertainment - it is a part of the mediatization of religion. This means that media is affecting the recipients? view on religion in general and the personal religion.

Utbildningsdepartementet la år 2000 fram ett förslag om ett nytt kärnämne i den svenska gymnasieskolan. I detta ämne ska religion, samhälle och delvis historia ingå. Skulle detta förslag gå igenom så skulle det påverka både elever och lärare. Hur skulle det påverka ämnet religion? I dagens kursplan för religion belyser man vikten av etik och moral, förståelse och respekt för andra människor.

Thesis purpose: The main purpose of this study is to empirically verify the applicability of Kozinets´ model on an interest, activity or lifestyle based online community, in order to develop an adaptive segmentation approach for segmenting online communities. Methodology: This research is deductive by nature, cross-sectional by design and undertakes a quantitative approach using self-completion questionnaire as a part of a web survey to collect the empirical data needed. Theoretical perspective: The main theories guiding our work and supporting the findings of this study include: market segmentation (descriptive and behavioural) and communities (consumer communities and online communities). Empirical data: A web survey with self-completion questionnaire used to gather empirical data from members of interest, activity or lifestyle based online communities. Conclusions: This study took the specific characteristics of online communities into more consideration than previous research and literature has done and also recognized that an adaptive segmentation approach is needed, depending on the communities of study.

This study aims at using discourse analysis to analyze SFI students attitudes to religion and religiosity in an SFI-context. The questions are: How is the discourse constructed and maintained by religion and religiosity of SFI students in an SFI context? How do SFI participants experience that their religion has affected their time at SFI?Using a case study approach, interviews were conducted with a group of SFI students. The results show that the religious discourse in SFI is influenced by the SFI-context and affected based on the current education discourse that exists there. Furthermore, the discourse is designed and maintained by the participants private religious beliefs and the religion of the majority of the group, One canhere speak of a strong social unit forming a plausibility structure The power structure that emerges is that the majority has the power to define the significance of religion and place within the SFI context. In the SFI-context the participants view is that religion is something private that should not be expressed in the school environment.

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This thesis addresses online marketing within gaming industry. Some customer identifying methods and website development were introduced as well as examined over the Internet. An empirical study focusing on two gaming companies has been carried out. The purpose has been to describe the use of internet by online gaming companies for online marketing. The thesis will focus on finding out how online gaming companies identify their target groups on internet and how they use internet to reach out to their consumers.

Syftet med vår studie har varit att undersöka idrottslärares inställningar till, och uppfattningar om, situationer som kan uppstå i mötet mellan religion och idrottsundervisning. För att komma åt vårt syfte samt skapa oss en bild av verkligheten använde vi oss av en kvalitativ metod i form av intervjuer med idrottslärare. Intervjuerna har sedan analyserats och på så vis har vi fått fram det vi anser vara lärarnas uppfattningar och inställningar inom vårt område. Resultatet visade att lärarna inte anser att religion påverkar idrottsundervisningen nämnvärt även om deltagandet till viss del tycks påverkas. Överlag verkar religion ha mindre påverkan på idrottsundervisningen än vad vi inledningsvis, och utifrån vår teoretiska bakgrund, trodde..

Sammanfattning:I studien intervjuas sju religionskunskapslärare angående undervisning om fornskandinavisk religion och samisk religion. Studiens utgångspunkt är att fornskandinavisk religion och samisk religion kan ses som en del av Sveriges kulturarv. Informanternas utsagor studeras utifrån didaktikens tre översiktliga frågor: undervisningens vad?, hur? och varför? Deras utsagor diskuteras även mot tidigare läromedelsforskning som anknyter till pedagogiska texters framställande av fornskandinavisk religion och samisk religion. Sammantaget diskuteras informanternas utsagor mot utmålad fond.Studien visar att undervisning om religionerna anknyter till både gällande och annalkande nya styrdokuments yttranden om kulturell mångfald och identitet.

E-commerce is becoming more common in Sweden and many Swedes buy clothing and sporting goods online. Online fashion retailers offer a visually pleasing range of products, which places greater emphasis on the aesthetic design of the online retailer. This paper examines how the perceived credibility of an online fashion retailer is influenced by the aesthetic design through a first impression. This study was conducted through ten interviews where the informants observed, assessed, and then discussed the online fashion retailers that were used in this study. Results show that recognition of an aesthetic design and a perception of usability and professionalism affects the perceived credibility in a positive way.

Religious phenomena, such as prayer, have more or less always interested and engaged people, but most likely for different purposes. Since the early 20th century, starting notably with Edmund Husserl and especially Martin Heidegger, phenomenologists have taken an interest in understanding and expounding the meaning of religious phenomena. The attention of such a discourse have not ceased but is rather current, and also of importance seeing that religious themes, such as prayer, still occupy a great extent of human life and practice.Phenomenology of religion is not a science of religion: the former approaches religion in terms of its meaningfulness, whereas the latter as an object of inquiry and in the same manner as an economist approaches economical indicators in order to understand and explain how the whole economy functions. In other words, phenomenology of religion expounds religion, as it were, from within, while science of religion does it from without or externally.When approaching prayer phenomenologically, it shows itself to be a process or structure through which the one praying empty himself in order to be able to receive the valuable presence of the other. The value that is received from the other will also be reflected by the one praying and in that sense effect his surroundings and fellow humans..

With the expansion of the internet, the conditions for the online journalists have changed. Feedback is faster and more blatant than offline. The online abilities of anonymity and dispersion attracts people to both use and misuse. During 2013, the online expressions of hate towards women has been brought to attention in the media more than ever before. Nevertheless, the phenomenon is far from new.Our qualitative research including interviews intends to find out how the afflicted women journalists are affected in their exercise of their profession.

Studiens syfte var att unders?ka hur engagemang inom dejting online p?verkas av anknytningsstil, singelr?dsla och k?n. Det totala antalet deltagare var 86 individer best?ende av 50 kvinnor och 36 m?n mellan ?ldrarna 19-54 ?r. Unders?kningen baserades p? en enk?t och engagemang inom dejting online m?ttes genom ett egenkonstruerat formul?r.

Syftet med denna uppsats var att först redogöra för västvärldens allmänna syn på muslimer och islam och därefter kontrastera den bilden med hur muslimer själva väljer att bli porträtterade i den kanadensiska komediserien Little Mosque on the Prairie. Om Little Mosque on the Prairie är mer än bara en komediserie, hur verkar den då för att beskriva det muslimska samfundet och islam? Vilka generaliseringar och fördomar är den tänkt att bekämpa? Med den hermeneutiska metoden som forskningsverktyg tolkade jag de åtta avsnitten i seriens första säsong och kunde därmed identifiera sex olika teman som serieskaparna arbetar med för att nyansera omvärldens bild av muslimer och islam. Slutsatsen blir att Little Mosque on the Prairie framställer islam och dess utövare som en fredlig religion, en mångfacetterad religion, en tolerant religion, en religion i ständig förändring, en alldaglig religion samt en annorlunda religion..

This study aims at using discourse analysis to analyze SFI students attitudes to religion and religiosity in an SFI-context. The questions are: How is the discourse constructed and maintained by religion and religiosity of SFI students in an SFI context? How do SFI participants experience that their religion has affected their time at SFI?Using a case study approach, interviews were conducted with a group of SFI students. The results show that the religious discourse in SFI is influenced by the SFI-context and affected based on the current education discourse that exists there. Furthermore, the discourse is designed and maintained by the participants private religious beliefs and the religion of the majority of the group, One canhere speak of a strong social unit forming a plausibility structure The power structure that emerges is that the majority has the power to define the significance of religion and place within the SFI context. In the SFI-context the participants view is that religion is something private that should not be expressed in the school environment.

This work deals with the introductory course for immigrants (Introduktionskurs för invandrare ? IVIK) in the Swedish municipalities. I have studied how the participants in this education are brought into a Swedish understanding of religion, both in the formal SO (social studies) and when it comes to informal transferring of values.I have interviewed teachers and school leaders, interviews which I have then analysed.To understand the educational environment, I have used Antonio Gramsci´s theory of hegemony, as I perceive it, as well as Michel Foucault´s ideas of power and knowledge.I have found that fostering into a ?Swedish? view on religion appears in the education, implicitly as well as explicitly, though the informants tend to have an ambivalent opinion as to how this should be carried out, and to which extent..