Purpose/Aim: The aim is to study the critics own views upon their profession and upon the development of Criticism, and to thereafter set this in relation to contemporary theory and debates.Material/Method: A qualitative study pursued through personal interviews. The results are categorized and split into different themes.Main Results: Through media convergence and a changed media culture the conditions for Criticism have also been altered. But in spite of various negative prophecies, these changes cause no serious threat to Criticism. New forums and new forms of Criticism actually increase the importance of the traditional ditto as the authoritative voice that holds the field together. Still, there are questions and fears about a future seemingly less and less predictable.

How does the Criticism of landscape architecture in Swedish professional journals look today? Does it exist at all? What is Criticism and what is its purpose? These questions have been the starting point for this degree project. I have found a lot of different answers among journals, books and websites, as well as in interviews with five persons that all have a relation to the landscape architecture Criticism in different ways. These answers may look a bit disjointed at first, but are at a closer examination pointing in the same direction ? that the Criticism of landscape architecture projects hardly exists today.

The aim with this study is to examine how students and teachers value source Criticism. Partly, this regards how teachers practice this in their teaching and how students work with it during lessons ? but also how students value source Criticism in situations where the teacher not has pointed out that this topic is part of the actual assignment. Moreover, there is a focus on investigating how students who are critical of the sources take this into account in their daily lives; for example, when they surf on the Internet or when they discuss news articles or other media. This essay is based on interviews with students and teachers, using a qualitative method. The results of this study show that both students and teachers find source Criticism to be of major importance.

This study examines the state of Criticism in the arts section of Sweden?s largest newspaper Dagens Nyheter. The study stems from raised concerns about the failing position of arts Criticism, dubbed ?the crisis of Criticism?. Through an overview it compares the arts section of February 1997 to the arts section of 2007.

Adam Smith?s economic theory is often subject to Criticism, in which it is claimed to be inherently inconsistent. Recently, Criticism from well-known scholars has arisen claiming Smith should be characterized a labor value theorist anticipating Karl Marx. This study seeks to analyze whether such Criticism is legitimate. Firstly, the economic theory of Smith is discussed in terms of consistency, and secondly, a number of typical and main points of the critique, from the most influential of his contemporary critics, are lifted up and analyzed.

In this essay I evaluate the legality of Karl Popper?s Criticism against psychoanalysis, regarding this theory of Freud?s being pseudoscientific. Popper?s Criticism is based on his theory of demarcation in which he states that an empirical theory must be possible to test by observations in order to be, as most important is, hypothetically possible to falsify based on other empirical statements ? often in the form of new found facts that contradict the original statement/theory. In purpose of assessing Popper?s Criticism I perform a modified idea analysis, based on a book by Evert Vedung (1977).

The paper discusses the problems contemporary Swedish art Criticism faces when judging performance art and interactive art. Problems include among others that performance art is collectively ignored in Swedish newspaper art Criticism. This prevents art critics from fair contextualising of contemporary performance art. Down in the rabbit hole, performance by Tris Vonna-Michell and its reception exemplifies these problems. Performance and interactive art seems to be disturbing art critics.

This essay examines teaching in source Criticism in upper secondary school history education. Two questions are to be answered: 1. What are the conditions like for teaching source Criticism? 2. What opportunities for further development in teaching source Criticism are there? In order to set a standard for what knowledge and skills in source Criticism the students need, I design a four step model for good source Criticism based on the historical science.

This paper, called Pupils' practice of source Criticism on the Internet, is investigating pupils? use of source Criticism. The main research question was: how much knowledge pupils from an upper secondary class have about the use of source Criticism, regarding examining data from the Internet intended for assignments. Furthermore, developing a suitable method to investigate this was included. The main research question led to further sub questions that aimed to answer to what extent pupils consider source critique criteria as sender, aim, up-to-dateness, credibility and dependence.The study has been conducted by using mixed methods, both qualitative and quantitative methods.

This study has examined how teachers in Swedish upper secondary schools work to foster a critical perspective through the education in the subject of Swedish. The study is based on qualitative interviews conducted with three teachers, who have given their views on the role of source Criticism and critical analysis of literature in the subject of Swedish. Furthermore, they have described how they incorporate these views into their own teaching.The study has shown that the teachers find that source Criticism and literary analysis are interconnected, since both depend on a general critical approach, which they both help foster. The main question the study examined was how Swedish education could help foster a critical perspective. The interviewed teachers' ways of working point out a way: teacher C has integrated source Criticism and referencing into most of their education, which makes them central to the education in Swedish.

The communication and mediation of information and news has, under the latest decades, increased into an incalculable amount. In the newsflow that has come up it has become more and more urgent to sort and select the relevant and correct news. Simultaneously as the information has become one of the most important goods for the western world, the Criticism against media has become more loudvoiced and especially the Criticism aims at the fact that publicness has become less public and the public conversation is nowadays filtrated through media. The American Joey Skaggs can be reckoned among with the group of media critics, but his course of action and methods to reach out with his critical view, stand out strikingly from the traditional media critics. Instead of, as most, aiming the Criticism against media, from an outside perspective, Skaggs chooses to attack the media from the inside.

The aim of this Master?s thesis is to examine how the literature Criticism are in the Swedish media in the reception of the novel Mosquitoes and tigers from 2007 written by the Swedish author Maja Lundgren. A second aim is to examine how master suppression techniques have been used by the literature critics in the newspaper debate. This qualitative study is based upon a total of 52 articles and reviews from five big Swedish newspapers. The theoretical approach, literature Criticism, mainly originates from the Swedish professor in Literature Science Tomas Forser and the literature scholar Gunnar Hansson.

En betydelsefull period i många tonåringars liv är gymnasietiden. Avgångsbetygen i gymnasiet spelar en viktig roll för framtida möjligheter att välja yrke eller komma in på universitet eller högskola. Kontexten kan vara avgörande för hur självbilden utvecklas. Syftet med studien var att se om det fanns en skillnad mellan pojkar och flickor i den sena adolescensen angående self-esteem, self-efficacy och sensitivity to Criticism. Speciellt intressant var att se eventuella samband mellan dessa psykologiska fenomen och betygen i engelska, matematik och idrott/hälsa samt programvalet.

En betydelsefull period i många tonåringars liv är gymnasietiden. Avgångsbetygen i gymnasiet spelar en viktig roll för framtida möjligheter att välja yrke eller komma in på universitet eller högskola. Kontexten kan vara avgörande för hur självbilden utvecklas. Syftet med studien var att se om det fanns en skillnad mellan pojkar och flickor i den sena adolescensen angående self-esteem, self-efficacy och sensitivity to Criticism. Speciellt intressant var att se eventuella samband mellan dessa psykologiska fenomen och betygen i engelska, matematik och idrott/hälsa samt programvalet.

This is a study about source Criticism in Swedish health magazines in 2014 which is based on Torsten Thuréns positivist philosophy of science and formulations about source Criticism. The thesis was based on the hypothesis that the Swedish health magazines are inadequate in their source-critical approach. To prove or disprove the hypothesis a quantitative content analysis of one hundred articles was made. The quantitative content analysis was based on twelve variables and the results showed that the hypothesis to some extent was true. The magazines reported their sources in most cases, but the majority of the sources consisted of various authorities such as doctors, psychologists, and personal trainers.