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.

The purpose of this study was to investigate hove some suburban areas image is shown to the public in the media coverage of suburban areas, and this is why I in this paper want to look more closely at the image of Tensta in the news media and how people in Tensta perceive themselves. News media has a very important role in the creation of human worldview. It influences our own identity and affects what a person believes is the difference in us and them. In the post-colonial theory, identity creation is a central role in philosophy, us and them. Based on the above purpose, I formulated an overall main question that this essay should answer.

During the time of membership in The European Union Swedish domestic policy has gone through many changes. A lot more political areas are being influenced by the EU policy. Today every ministry has got some sort of EU office. Swedish politicians are functioning on two arenas, domestic and European. At the same time Swedish membership has gone from being highly discussed to being a state of normality.

Syfte med denna uppsats har varit att se hur det skrivs om självskadebeteende i media. Vi har genomfört uppsatsen genom att granska ett urval av debattartiklar från svenska tidningar där det på något sätt skrivs om självskadebeteende. Artiklarna är skrivna av politiker, en överläkare, en sjuksköterska och en journalist såväl som flera personer med egen erfarenhet av självskadebeteende. Utifrån dessa artiklar och våra teoretiska perspektiv har vi reflekterat kring hur det skrivs om självskadebeteende i Svensk media.Vår uppsats har ett diskursanalytiskt angreppssätt där vi främst utgår från den franske filosofen Michel Foucaults tankar kring diskurser och diskursanalys. Vi problematiserar även diskurserna utifrån begrepp som makt och genus.Under vårt uppsatsarbete har vi identifierat tre diskurser i artiklarna: en patologidiskurs, en könad diskurs samt en resursdiskurs.

Media has the power to influences society. Some call them the third power of a state. Through amongst others, the agenda setting theory and the framing theory, this report seeks to understand how media describes the swine influenza and how it uses its power to influence people to vaccinate. As this report will show, there is no doubt that media has had an impact on the Swedish population of which 60 per cent followed through with the vaccination. Media used an information discourse and attempted to present its articles in an impartial manner and used governmental authorities and experts to support its arguments.

The purpose of this essay is to investigate how the crisis communication was perceived between SAS, massmedia and citizens during the volcano crisis in 2010. The questions posed are: - How did the communication between SAS, media and citizens function during the crisis? - How did senders, intermediaries and beneficiaries experience the information and communication during the crisis? - How important was the internet communication for SAS, media and citizens during the crisis?The collected material consists of interviews and desktop research of material from Internet.The study shows that the communication between SAS, the media and citizens worked well on the social medias but was weaker in all other mediachannels. SAS was also weak in following up information received by media and travelers, and they therefore they had a different picture of the situation during the crisis. SAS thought that the communication worked fine between the parties involved.

Den här uppsatsen handlar om hur religiösa friskolor behandlades i media efter debattprogrammet i TV "Dokument inifrån" som sändes den 8/5 år 2003. Programmets journalist kritiserade både muslimska och arabiska friskolor för att inte följa svensk skollag och den läroplan som finns för friskolorna samt för de allmänna skolorna. Journalisten kritiserade även Skolverket för bristande kontroll. Mitt syfte var att ta reda på hur media beskrev de religiösa friskolorna och om den beskrivningen fick några konsekvenser för någon av de skolor som behandlades i TV-programmet..

This research intends to study the media's representation of unaccompanied refugee children on the basis that the media has a power in the construction of society. The focus is on whether children's vulnerability and needs are presented in the media and whether the children?s voices are heard. It is also of interest to study the agents that speak in the media concerning unaccompanied refugee children. The study is based on a theory that social reality is a construction of interaction between individuals and groups. Furthermore the study also incorporate the idea that the media, through its control of language, has power to create discourses which may affect the way different groups in society are looked upon.

Uppsatsen syfte är att undersöka hur och om etnicitet framställs på ett stereotypt sätt i svensk TV-reklam. Utifrån en kombination av kvalitativa och kvantitativa metoder analyserades reklamfilmer på TV3 och TV4 som kartlade hur pass ofta etniska grupper visades i reklamen, samt genomgick 10 reklamfilmer en semiotisk inspirerad innehållanalys för att se om det fanns underliggande budskap som doldes utifrån begreppen stereotyper och ?de Andra?. Resultatet i den kvantitativa analysen påvisade att etniska grupper var underrepresenterade i TV-reklamen, endast 6 procent av materialet. Resultatet i den kvalitativa analysen visade att de etniska reklamfilmerna oftare spelade på komiska och kulturella stereotyper än positiva stereotyper.

Social media constitutes an increasing part of organizations and businesses today, regardlessif its segment is B2B (Business to business) or B2C (Business to consumer). The use ofsocial media has been self-evident for many companies, especially throughout the B2C area.The study examined attitudes towards Web 2.0 and social media in the B2B-segment, andwhat advantages and disadvantages that might exist with the use of the implementation. Inorder to answer the research question a qualitative case study on the company IFS (Industrialand Financial Systems) was made..

Title: ?When The Line Between Transmitter and Receiver Blurs? ? A Study of how organizations look at social media as part of their external communication and how they respond to the environment in the new media toolNumber of pages: 49 (51 including enclosures)Author: Ida Hansson KällTutor: Cecilia StrandCourse: Media and Communication Studies D 30hpPeriod: Spring 2010University: Division of Media and Communication, Department of Informatics and Media,Uppsala UniversityPurpose/Aim: The aim of this essay is to study how five organizations look at social media as part of their external communication and how they respond to the environment in the new media tool.Material/Method: A qualitative method has been used. Five interviews as primary sources have been conducted with representatives from each organization.Main results: The main results of the study is that organizations have to integrate social media as part of their external communication plans in order to face and respond to their surroundings in a new interaction and multi-way communicative platform. Results also show that organizations are well aware of the importance of making use and participate in social media.Keywords: blogs, external communication, facebook, respond to the environment, social media.

Den här studien är en inventering av hur svensk elithandboll ser ut idag. Skälet till detta är att vi är två, väldigt handbollsintresserade personer som helt enkelt vill få en inblick i hur svensk elithandboll ser ut idag. Studien är en blandning av en kvalitativ och kvantitativ studie baserad på information av tränare och sportchefer inom svenska elitföreningar, förbundspersoner samt även en handbollsjournalist. Då detta i sig inte är ett vetenskapligt område har vi valt att utgå från teorier kring utvärdering samt att vi även lyfter vissa teoretiska begrepp och modeller i den avslutande diskussionsanalysen för att försöka knyta ihop allting. Det tydligaste resultatet av studien har varit att respondenterna ansett att media har en stor inverkan på handbollens framtid och ett av nyckelorden som använts är marknadsföring av sporten.

The purpose of this study is to examine the mediatization of Swedish politics on a municipal level. We live in a world were media affects many aspects of life. One of those aspects is the communication between the citizens and the politicians.Our main research questions are:To what extent do politicians communicate with journalists and who initiates these contacts?Do politicians talk to some types of media rather than others?What factors make a politician choose to speak to media?To what extent do leading Swedish municipal politicians use media strategies?To answer these questions we have used various theories to help us understand media?s role oftoday. First we explain the transformation that has taken part in Swedish media over the last century, from political party press to independent media companies.

The purpose of this study was to examine how Swedish newspapers framed the campaign Earth Hour. Did media encourage their audience to join in and how did they create a sense of togetherness regarding the campaign?The theories connected to the study are media logic, media events, identity and the media, collective togetherness, symbolic interactionism and discourse. The method used was a qualitative discourse analysis. We analysed three Swedish newspapers: Aftonbladet, Barometern and Svenska Dagbladet.

På bara några år har svensk reklam gått från nionde plats till tjugotredje plats bland världens mest prisbelönade länder. Uttalanden i media om en försämrad traditionell svensk reklam påstås bero på ett flertal faktorer, den hårda konkurrensen om svensk talang inom reklam är en. Den digitala framgången visar å andra sidan en ny sida av svensk reklam; fyra av världens tio mest framgångsrika byråer inom digital kommunikation är svenska. Såväl yttre som inre mer branschspecifika krafter påverkar den svenska reklambranschen.Av uttalanden i media är det tydligt att förändringar ses på olika sätt. Det torde i sin tur ha en inverkan på hur en aktör med ledande befattning sedan förhåller sig till dessa i den egna verksamheten.