This is a qualitative study of how some journalists on the Swedish national media are using social media in news work. The study, carried out by using interviews, also covers how these journalists' work is influenced by social media. For the journalists in the study social media has become a tool to do research, get news ideas and find interviewees. At the same time social media affects the work of the journalists, as the social media increases the speed of news and flow of information. Even though they involve some challenges, social media facilitates news work and the journalists in this study have a positive attitude towards the phenomenon.Keywords: Social media, news journalism, the national media..

Problembeskrivning: Allt fler människor åker till olika resmål med målet att lära sig något. Det finns ett problem i den nya trenden då företagen måste vara medvetna om den kritiska hanteringen av balansen mellan nytta och nöje i utformningen av tjänsten. Syfte: Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur företag inom utbildningsturism frambringar värdeskapande upplevelser. Frågeställningar: På vilket sätt medverkar kunderna i upplevelsen? Hur skapas tjänsternas värde? Hur förhåller sig företagen till nytta och nöje i sitt tjänstekoncept? Metod: Vi använder oss av metoderna kvalitativ intervjuer och textanalys i form av en innehållsanalys.

Sammanfattning- Att skapa uppmärksamhet på turismmarknaden ? En studie om Trosa Rederi:s kommunikationskanaler Datum:30 maj, 2012 Nivå:Kandidatuppsats i företagsekonomi, 15 hp Institution:Akademin för hållbar samhälls- och teknikutveckling, HST, Mälardalens Högskola Författare:Anna Andersson, Malin Hällblad och  Lina Wahlén Lindqvist28 november 1989, 2  september 1990, 21 februari 1988 Handledare:Finn Wiedersheim-Paul Nyckelord:Kommunikationskanaler, uppmärksamhet, kostnadseffektivitet, turism, påverkan. Syfte:Syftet med studien är att undersöka hur Trosa Rederi, genom kommunikationskanaler, kan skapa uppmärksamhet kring sitt varumärke hos sin målgrupp. Frågeställningar:Vilka kommunikationskanaler bör Trosa Rederi använda för att skapa uppmärksamhet kring sitt varumärke hos sin målgrupp, med hänsyn till företagets ekonomiska situation?Hur bör företaget använda kommunikationskanalerna för att skapa uppmärksamhet kring sitt varumärke hos sin målgrupp? Metod:Studien var av kvantitativ karaktär där intervjuer med företagsledarna bidrog till fakta om företaget och en marknadsundersökning låg till grund för undersökningen av målgruppens medievanor. Resultaten av undersökningen analyserades sedan mot den teori som samlats in genom sekundär datainsamling i form av litteratur, vetenskapliga artiklar, elektroniska källor och andra avhandlingar. Slutsats:Den genomförda studien påvisar vikten av att anpassa ett turismföretags kommunikationskanaler till målgruppen. Studien har även visat vilka kommunikationskanaler Trosa Rederi bör använda; annonser i dagstidningar, Word of Mouth, broschyrer, PR, samarbeten och sökmotoroptimering, samt hur dessa kostnadseffektiva kanaler bör användas för att lyckas skapa uppmärksamhet om sitt varumärke hos målgruppen..

The purpose of this study was to examine social workers apprehensions about institutional placement of youths and what determines when these proceedings are used. When research not always shows that institutional placements lead to positive changes for youngsters, we wondered how social workers act on their assessment to institutional placement. We wanted to find out if the social workers meet any dilemmas along the way. To find out about that we used qualitative interviews with ten social workers, who worked in social service and came from different places in the southern parts of Sweden. To analyze our material we used the theory of human service organization and street-level bureaucrats work situation.

This study focuses on the use of animals in social work from the perspective of social workers. The purpose of this study is to examine social workers? experiences of animal assisted social work and how social workers view the integration of animals in various fields of social work. The research is based on a qualitative method and four semi-structured interviews were conducted with social workers. The theories incorporated in the study are Attachment Theory and Sense of Coherence (SOC).The following results are presented: Social workers are considered to have a more comprehensive understanding of clients compared to their associates who do not hold a degree in Social Work.

Hållbart semesterresande är en utmaning med flera dimensioner. På systemnivå finns det tekniska och organisatoriska utmaningar, och på individnivå handlar det ofta om psykologiska hinder för beteendeförändring. Men ytterligare en utmaning kan sägas finnas, och det på samhällsnivå. Det handlar då om hur olika sociokulturella strukturer och aktörer i samhället formar individers identitet, livsstil och normer. I denna uppsats har tonvikten lagts på den sistnämnda utmaningen, med media i fokus.Media i form av texter och bilder om resande kan vara till inspiration för många turister, och bidra till skapande av mer eller mindre miljövänliga livsstilar och konsumentbeteenden.

The aim of this study is to understand the collaboration at a child investigation and the actions that may be encountered as a result of the investigation, based on the Social Secretaries experiences of collaboration with other agencies such as schools, police, health visitor and child psychiatry. In the study, eight social workers from different municipalities was interviewed at a total of six occasions. One of the occasions was a group interview with three social workers at the same time. Through the interviews, it appears that the collaboration has an important role in social work and the necessity is something that manifests itself in the social secretaries stories but also in the earlier research done in this area. The results show that social workers extensively want to interact but that the purpose of interaction varies depending on the nature of the matter.

Market capitalism sets the conditions for how the world is conceived, experienced and organized at various spatial scales (global to local). Currently, competitiveness, entrepreneurship and economic growth are key values that shape how the world is conceived, experienced and organized. Discourses of place marketing, place branding, and the construction of places as (economic) products, are part and parcel of the heightened commodification of space. Tourism has been a major factor in the commodification of place and space. More often than not, tourism has been seen as a possibility for peripheral places, in their struggle finding new ways towards development.

This study focuses on the use of animals in social work from the perspective of social workers. The purpose of this study is to examine social workers? experiences of animal assisted social work and how social workers view the integration of animals in various fields of social work. The research is based on a qualitative method and four semi-structured interviews were conducted with social workers. The theories incorporated in the study are Attachment Theory and Sense of Coherence (SOC).The following results are presented: Social workers are considered to have a more comprehensive understanding of clients compared to their associates who do not hold a degree in Social Work.

Our purpose with this study was to look at the connection between social capital and integration. Particularly if meetings between people from different cultures can increase social capital and in that way affect integration. We start by identifying the social integration perspective we are going to use through out the study and then we introduce social capital theory as a way of narrowing down the field even more. The study was done through six semi structured interviews. We interviewed three women that was established in the Swedish society and three women that had immigration background.

Ystad har under lång tid varit en populär turistdestination för svenska och utländska besökare. Staden med dess omnejd har genom den fina miljön och dess historiska byggnader goda förutsättningar att attrahera turister till regionen. Efter filmatiseringarna av Henning Mankells romaner om kriminalkommissarie Kurt Wallander, som utspelas i Ystad, har antalet turister ökat än mer till regionen. Förhållandet mellan böcker och filmer är en väsentlig del av den turism som uppstår efter en berättelse om en fiktiv karaktär i en existerande miljö. Vi ville följaktligen undersöka film- litteraturturism och dess påverkan på en plats.

The purpose is to examine social workers view of vulnerable children and their needs. We are also interested to know how social workers think and discuss concerning the help these children are given. Our main questions in our study are; How do social workers define vulnerable children? Which needs do vulnerable children have according to social workers? Which opportunities and difficulties might there be in the decision making when trying to help these children? Which public authorities do social workers cooperate with? Which opportunities and difficulties do social workers find in the cooperation?This study is based upon interviews with ten social workers in the social childcare division in different municipalities in Skåne region, Sweden. Our results are explained and analyzed with a qualitative approach through different aspects of power- and Human Service Organization theories.

Social media has become an important marketing and communication tool worldwide, mostly through the largest social platforms Facebook and Twitter. With two-way communication via Internet companies has gotten the opportunity to interact and communicate directly with their customers. Facebook has been the focus point through the study because it has shown to be the most efficient and frequently used platform for communication. Our study aimed to confirm how communication via social media actually looks like. To be able to reach the best results, we have conducted the study from a phenomenological approach, which means; usage of qualitative semi-structured interviews to reflect the respondents experience on the phenomenon social media as a communication tool. Social media has shown to be a great way of communicating externally for companies who are willing to spend time engaging in the platform.

Social enterprises make up one of the groups of participants that provide welfare services financed by public funding. The object of this study is to describe and analyze from a theoretical point of view which conditions, in what fields, by which division of responsibility and finally through what decisions these social enterprises are allocated a place in the market for social welfare services. The company that has been the object of study offers services in the field of social welfare and in employment. In the study a triangulation of qualitative methods has been used: studies of literature on the subject, recurrent interviews and observations and also reviews of documents. The results have been analyzed from theories on the space available on the market for social services, on social economy and on social capital in the form of strong, weak and bridging bonds.

Uppsatsens titel: Ledarskap – En studie om ledarskap inom hotellbranschen Universitet/institution: Lunds universitet, Campus Helsingborg, Institutionen för Service Management/Retail, Turism, Hälsa och Hotell & Restaurang Kurs: Kandidatuppsats, VT 2007, SMT 302, 10 poäng Författare: Malmqvist, Britta; Mujcin, Amela; Pedersén, Åsa Handledare: Heide, Mats; Kruzela, Pavla Nyckelbegrepp: Ledarskap, Roller, Ledarskapsstil, Kontext, Kommunikation Problem: Forskningen kring ledarskap är omfattande och många forskare har kommit med förslag på definitioner och teorier men ingen har lyckats fullt ut. De få som existerar är generella och tillämpas oavsett kontext. Detta sker även inom hotellbranschen vilket vi inte anser ger en rättvisande bild av ledarskapet då det är en bransch som till stor del bygger på relationer, är dynamisk samt består av komplexa system. Syfte: Vårt syfte med denna uppsats är att beskriva hur ledarskap uppfattas och kommuniceras av ledare i en serviceverksamhet. Vi vill belysa ämnet för att öka intresset för fortsatt forskning inom området.