Denna uppsats syftar till att undersöka hur reklamens utbredning i staden ser ut och koppla det till det offentliga rummet och invånarnas rätt till att komma till tals. Genom att studera hur reklam och skyltning förekommer i Göteborg samt hur man från stadens sida ser och reglerar frågan vill jag konkretisera ämnet. Genom att studera litteratur som behandlar utomhusreklam, det offentliga rummet och demokratiaspekter i detsamma försöker jag sätta in mina frågeställningar i en relevant kontext. För at kunna svara mer specifikt på mina frågeställningar har jag studerat policydokumentet, hemsidor och avtal från de olika aktörerna. Det visade sig att Göteborg stad hade slutit ett avtal med en stor aktör som specialiserat sig på att förse städer med olika typer av nyttigheter (gatumöbler i form av offentliga toaletter, väderskydd till busshållplatser mm). Dessa har jag genom kontakt med trafikkontorets markupplåtelse avdelning fått ta del av så att jag i närmare detalj kunnat studera inneborden i samarbetet mellan reklambolag och kommun. Mina frågeställningar har varit; hur reklambolagen och stadens strategier för annonsplatser i det offentliga rummet ser ut, vem som ger tillstånd, vad som är tillåtet, demokratisk hänsynstaganden och vad som kan regleras från stadens sida. Jag har kommit fram till att reklambolagen försöker nå en särställning där de genom att sluta avtal med staden kan förhandla sig till bättre och större exklusivitet kring sina annonsplatser. Ämnet är också beaktat från stadens sida och då framför allt utifrån ett arkitektoniskt kulturmiljöhänseende och att det skall vara ett trivsamt gaturum som allmänheten känner sig välkomnad och trygg i. I fråga om demokratiska yttringar så har det i stadens regi placerats ut anslagstavlor för att tillgodose mindre köpstarka aktörer på en icke kommersiell marknad.

Information technology inflicts upon us in our everyday life. It is a natural part of our work and of our spare time. The education system is not excluded from this development, IT is becoming an important part of education at all levels. In university, learning platforms is one of these new ways of using IT in education. Learning platforms becomes a valuable tool for teachers and students.

The aim of this master?s thesis is to examine the roles ofthree different public libraries in three differentcommunities. In order to get some answers about the roles ofthe public libraries I have used the following questions: Howis the local cultural policy formulated? How is the locallibrary structured? What or which profiles has the publiclibraries in the three communities?I have made three qualitative case-studies in three differentcommunities. These three communities are somewhatlocated in the same area in order to identify any cooperationbetween them.

Det faktum att Sverige blir allt mer internationaliserat och samhället mer mångkulturellt väckte ett intresse av att skriva om bröstarvingars arvsrätt ur ett såväl nationellt som internationellt perspektiv, där resultatet avsågs ställas i relation till svensk IP-rätt om ordre public. Idag tar alla barn lika lott enligt 2 kap. 1 § ÄB. Principen om istadarätt inträder om arvlåtarens barn avlider innan honom eller henne, då arvlåtarens barnbarn ärver istället. Bröstarvingar har alltid en rätt till hälften av sin arvslott enligt laglottsskyddet i 7 kap.

Syfte: Vi vill undersöka hur betydelsefull populärmusik är för att attrahera konsumenten i reklamfilm. Syftet med vår undersökning är därmed att undersöka hur livsstil påverkar konsumentens preferenser, att förstå vad konsumenten uppmärksammar i reklamfilmer, hur förebilder påverkar konsumenten samt hur reklamfilm och populärmusik tillsammans förmedlar ett budskap. Utifrån dessa områden vill vi besvara vår forskningsfråga.Metod: En kvalitativ forskningsansats med ett hermeneutiskt perspektiv. Teoretiska perspektiv: På grund av forskningsfrågans karaktär har vi valt att använda teorier inom följande områden: Livsstilsreklam, Selektiv uppmärksamhet, Referensgrupper, Celebrity endorsement, Musikens inverkan på individen, Reklam och musik.Empiri: En semistrukturerad intervjuguide användes för att genomföra tolv djupintervjuer med möjliga konsumenter. Valet av intervjudeltagare baserades på ett bekvämlighetsurval eftersom det inte var nödvändigt med expertkunskaper.

The purpose of this thesis is to study to what extent the methodological theories are being reflected in the construction of user surveys at public libraries in Sweden. The study has been conducted as a qualitative literature study in two parts. The first part is an examination of literature concerning survey methodology; the second part is a study of three user surveys conducted at Swedish public libraries after 1995. Our main results indicate that the theories about methodology are followed in part, though it cannot be determined whether this is due to any actual methodological studies, common sense, or just copying other surveys. In our study we have found some areas of user survey construction that need further attention and that would benefit from more extensive methodology studies on the part of survey designers.

Container Security Initiative was launched in 2002 by the US Customs and Border Patrol in order to secure the global flow of containers destined for USA. This thesis attempts to analyze Container Security Initiative in relation to a possible future scenario made by the weapons industry where the state's global traderoutes are being subject to militarization. A development which is partly based on the threat posed by global illegal trade. The latter is discussed and defined based on current research made by Carolyn Nordstrom, Moíses Naím and theories on the cosmopolitan perspective made by Ulrich Beck. Strategy documents concerning Container Security Initiative are then analyzed in terms of discourse to try to say something about what the program indicates.

The terrorist attack that shocked the world the 11th of September 2001, when two hijacked aircrafts flew into the World Trade Center's twin towers in New York, came to change the world view for many people especially Americans that felt that the world around them where about to collapse. A new time had begun, a more frighten one. A new kind of terrorism where seen in the dawn, a kind that never had been more evil, and there for was passed to be extremely dangerous. The United States followed by the United Kingdom decided quickly to declare war against the terrorism. Unavoidable this decision led to the development of new interpretations of public international law when the US where unwilling to follow the rule of law.

There is a need for examining the accessibility of public web sites and for several reasons. First, public organizations possess considerable amounts information of interest to its citizens and which ought to be easily accessible. Secondly, international and national guidelines for web publishing support the different types of requirements experienced by web users and, in particular, with regard to accessibility for people with disabilities. The thesis examines the design of public web sites from two different aspects. Web sites can be built up and structured from the management view of the public organization, or, they can be constructed with a view to user needs and requirements.

The breakdown of the ratification process of the EU constitution was in Sweden blamed on a lack of a debate concerning European issues. The constitution can be seen as the best and latest, but in no way the only, example of this problem. The breakdown can also been seen as proof of a larger legitimacy crises within the EU. The aim of the study is to determine whether or not there really was of lack of debate concerning the constitution in Sweden. This question is theoretic¬ally connected to EU legitimacy through Habermas idea of a public sphere.

When the producers? responsibility for packaging was introduced in Sweden in 1994 the industry set up public recycling stations to facilitate the collection of the waste material. In order to establish recycling stations at suitable locations the municipalities assist the industry?s service organization for operation of the recycling stations, the Package and Newspaper Collection Service (Förpacknings- och tidningsinsamlingen, FTI). The objectives of this thesis are to improve the service of the public recycling stations within Lidingö town and to increase the accessibility to these stations for the inhabitants of Lidingö.

This masters thesis takes the providers perspective on public library story times for children. The main questions are: What perspectives can the providers have? How does the perspective affect the content and how is the story time drawn up? Five story time providers were interviewed about the purpose of their story times, the methods they used and the content they chose. A model with four criteria was used to analyze the result of the interviews. The criteria were: adult criteria, consideration of the childrens view, pedagogical criteria and literary/story time criteria.

Globalization has lead to evolvement of teamwork between companies and their customers. One reason for this change is the growth of the IT community and the propagation of the Internet. This in turn has lead to faster communication within business networks and also a higher degree of integration between companies.The purpose of this thesis is to describe IT can be used to develop and support networks formed around IT corporations. IT also aim at describing what impact usage of IT within personal networks has on usage of IT within business networks. The thesis is limited to IT-companies using IT artifacts, not only for communication within its organization, but also communicating with its customers and other IT-companies.

The purpose of this thesis is to examine how semantic relations in a document collection can be visualized with a Kohonen self-organizing map. It can be seen as a map of the information space which can be used to support information retrieval. The study makes a comparison of the possible differences between a map that is based on morphologically unprocessed text and a map where the text has been lemmatized. The text that is being processed is the definitions of all the existing instances in WordNet of a random selection of indexing terms from the Times-collection. The purpose is to see if morphological processing somehow can show different semantic connections between term instances based on their definitions.

Hur hanteras genus i modebranschens marknadsföring? De senaste åren har det funnits en påtaglig strävan mot ett mer genusmedvetet, jämlikt och jämställt samhälle. Vissa forskare menar att de har märkt en ökad sexualisering av utbudet i media och att medierna spelar stor roll för hur samhället definierar kvinnligt och manligt. Ökar den könsstereotypiska reklamen eller är det vi som blivit mer kritiskt tänkande? Syftet med denna uppsats var att undersöka hur modeföretag gestaltar genus i sin marknadsföring samt hur företag kan arbeta med att motverka könsstereotypisk reklam.