Syftet med detta arbete är att undersöka om och hur en mediebild av den informella gruppen "De oberoende" skapad av tolv svenska små bokförlag återspeglar det som gruppen står för och arbetar med i verkligheten. Genom att jämföra den mediebilden med intervjuer med chefer på några av de förlag som ingår i gruppen vill jag bedöma hur kommunikationen mellan svenska media och "De oberoende" fungerar.Analysen visar att mediebilden av gruppen "De oberoende" ligger mycket nära gruppens vision. Därför kan man dra slutsatsen att kommunikationen fungerar bra mellan journalister frånDagens nyheter, Svensk bokhandel och gruppen De oberoende. Att bilden av gruppen skiljer sig mellan olika tidningar beror på typen av tidning och sättet att sortera information. Det finns inga tecken på att några störningar uppstått mellan avsändare och mottagare, det vill säga mellan journalister och gruppen De oberoende.De oberoende,.

The aim of this study is to study the construction of literary values. I have been looking at how literature awarded with sponsored literary prizes has been reviewed in four major English and American newspapers. I have been studying the reception of literature by Ian McEwan, Hilary Mantel, Colm Tóibín and Zadie Smith between 2000 and 2012. The prizes in focus are the Man Booker Prize, the Orange prize for fiction and the Costa Awards. There seems to be an increasing number of articles related to each author after they have been awarded a prize, however with little change in the content of the reviews.

The purpose of this thesis is to examine a selection of ideological publishing houses in Sweden today. We want to examine where they are situated in the literary society, their terms and prerequisites. This is achieved through interviews with informants from each of the publishing houses, which we analyze with concepts from the culture sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. The publishing houses are also put in context through information from other actors in the literary field, together with previous research and other material about the Swedish book market. The main research problem in the thesis is to examine the relations between the selected publishing houses ? which profile themselves as ideological ? and the literary field where they exist.

The increased popularity of e-books in the Swedish publiclibraries started a debate in newspapers and library journalsbecause of the increase in costs, which this popularity hadled to. The main subject of the debate was the businessmodel provided by the e-book vendor Elib, which accordingto some ruins the libraries financially. In this thesis, opinionarticles have been analyzed using a theoretical model ofcultural politics by the Danish Library and Informationscience researcher Dorthe Skot-Hansen. The results of thestudy showed that people from the library field, publishersand authors were the ones contributing to the debate. Theanalysis of the articles showed that the model of culturalpolitics which consists of four general motives: socialchange, education, economic growth and entertainment wasvisible in the articles.

Denna studie har syftat till att underso?ka hur ett antal grafiska formgivare upplever pitchenur ett yrkesrollsperspektiv; na?got som inom forskningen a?r ett relativt a?sidosatt omra?de.Studien baseras pa? tio respondentintervjuer samt en informantintervju. Samtligarespondenter arbetar pa? byra?er med en tydlig inriktning pa? grafisk form i Stockholm.Ansatsen i studien a?r kvalitativ med fallstudiekarakta?r och datainsamling och analys skeddemed inspiration fra?n Grounded Theory och abduktion. Efter empirisk insamling togstudien avstamp i tre teoretiska utga?ngspunkter; yrkesrollen, designprocessen ochkundrelationen.Underso?kningen visar att pitchen a?r ett komplext och sva?rdefinieratfenomen som framkallar ma?nga a?sikter bland de grafiska formgivarna.en o?vergripande kartla?ggning av fenomenet bland annat pa? en komplex process ?Studien visar efterpitchprocessen ? som delas upp i fyra steg: briefen, problemformulering, ide?- ochkonceptutveckling samt presentation.

The main purpose of this work was to examine the information behavior of nonfiction publishing Company editors. Three problem areas were presented and expressed in the following questions:- What is the information need of the editor in every day work?- Which sources of information do the editors use when they are looking for information and how do they make use of them?- Are there any factors that have an influence on the information behavior of the editors and in what way do the factors effect the information behavior of the editors in their everyday work? And finally, do the editors experience any factors as barriers to information behavior?Six editors, all with academical background, all employed in different publishing companies were interviewed. The result of this study have been analysed within a theoretical framework influenced by the work of Tom Wilson, Lars Höglund and Olle Persson and Block and Lagberg. The result shows that the editors had various regular needs of information in their every day work.

Mina slutsatser i mitt arbete är att rollen som finns inom Ithna Ashery inte är homogeniserad när man jämför olika individers subjektiva upplevelse av fenomenet. Däremot om man tittar på en metanivå så kan deras roll se tämligen lika ut. Men på individnivå, som detta arbete försökt behandla, så är den subjektiva upplevelsen av rollerna olika. Det som till stor grad påverkar den subjektiva upplevelse av rollen är sådana saker som den omgivande kontexten i samhället. Men även de mål den enskilda individen har med sin roll när det gäller framtiden för individen.