Many institutions currently work with visitor participation. Participatory culture is basically to invite visitors to participate and to give an opportunity to co-creation. In my research I have studied two projects. The first one is the exhibition Hej! produced by Postmuseum (the Swedish mail museum) and the second one is Present by Riksutställningar (a Swedish government).This development indicates that the museums are on their way towards a new definition. Earlier museums were defined as a source of knowledge which purpose was to spread lore to the people.

Studien syftar till att undersöka hur kommunikationen ter sig mellan chefer och medarbetare gällande förmedlande av policys och riktlinjer angående anställdas användande av sociala medier. Dessa chefer och medarbetare arbetar inom Sollefteå och Sundsvalls kommun i Västernorrlands län. Studien utgår ifrån ett antal kommunikationsteorier som främst berör internkommunikation. Dessa teorier har fått ligga till grund för hela vår studie. Studien är en icke generaliserbar fallstudie som besvarar nedan skrivna frågor: Hur förmedlas policys och riklinjer? Vilka sociala medier- policys och riktlinjer finns hos kommunerna idag angående de anställdas användande av sociala medier? Har de två kommunerna sett över e-delegationens riktlinjer gällande sociala medier? Vilka likheter och olikheter finns i kommunikationen av policys gällande sociala medier mellan de olika kommunerna och de anställda inom de olika kommunerna? Vi valde att undersöka ämnet genom att utföra kvalitativa samtalsintervjuer över telefon med två anställda på informationsavdelningen, fyra chefer och åtta medarbetare i de båda kommunerna. Resultatet visar att det skiljer sig mellan de båda kommunerna i deras sätt att kommunicera policys och riktlinjer.

The name of the study means ?The short arm - a study in diversity and arm?s length in the cultural collaboration model?. Right now there is a reform in the Swedish cultural administration where the responsibility for handing out state funds and grants to cultural organizations is changing from the state government to the local regional governments. The purpose of this study is to map the organisational changes caused by the reform and investigate how this affects the regional policies concerning cultural diversity and the arm?s length principle.

Efter en lång medial debatt gällande bonus och ersättning till bankpersonal har Swedbank stoppat sina bonusutbetalningar och börjat ett förändringsarbete beträffande sitt ersättningssystem. Under samma period beslutade sig banken för att se över alla sina policys och processer. Denna studie har sin utgångspunkt i detta förändringsarbete med fokus på Swedbanks HR-policys och på hur ledningen arbetar och tänker kring skapandet och implementeringen av nya policys. Är detta förändringsarbete på Swedbank en effekt av det mediala pådraget och ett sätt att säkerställa organisationens legitimitet?Institutionella myter skapas av omgivningen och definierar vad som anses vara effektivt och rationellt i samhället och organisationer.

This paper examines the concept of heritage and which factors that determines how we evaluate and select what should be considered cultural heritage. This has been examined using a qualitative study involving interviews with seven people working within different parts of the cultural heritage sector. The purpose was to get a picture of what the public sector?s cultural heritage consists of and why so. The research question was: What gives the status of cultural heritage? This was examined by looking at further questions: What defines the concept of cultural heritage? Who decides what should be considered cultural heritage? What is significant when discussing cultural heritage? One conclusion is that the concept itself is experienced as diffuse but that the meaning can be summarized as the traces we leave behind to be preserved by future generations.

The purpose of this master?s thesis is to examine the use of the concept cultural heritage in Swedish governmental cultural policy. Ten official reports, reaching over a time period of seven years (1997-2004) are examined in the following way: What is cultural heritage? What functions/ values does the cultural heritage have? Whose heritage is a cultural heritage? With some simplification you can say that there are two different views on cultural heritage in the documents. The most common way to refer to cultural heritage is a category of chosen historical objects whose preservation is motivated by their function as sources of information and knowledge about the history and development of the Swedish society.

Syftet med detta examensarbete var att undersöka och kartlägga organisationskulturen inom Socialförvaltningen i Luleå kommun ur de anställdas perspektiv. Tidigare forskning beskriver hur en organisation består av både öppna och dolda värderingar, där de öppna är organisationens syfte, policys, mål och uppdrag. Dolda värderingar är det som styr hur det fungerar i praktiken i en organisation, det vill säga hur uttalade öppna värderingar och policys tillämpas. Frågeställningarna är följande: Vilka attityder och värderingar har de anställda till sitt arbete och hur upplever de anställda sin roll i nuvarande organisation? I semistrukturerade intervjuer ställdes frågor till tre enhetschefer och sex medarbetare om: bemötande, tydlighet, tillgänglighet, engagemang, ansvarstagande och kompetens.

This thesis aims to develop a theory in the under researched field of international comparative cultural policy studies. lt does so by combining theories from the fields of political scienceand cultural studies, researching how and to what extent the concepts of culture of different states have an impact on the way cultural policies are constructed.The thesis uses this theoretical development in order to research a specific problem, namely the perceived possibility that Swedish and German cultural structures are slowly converging. Two recent official policy documents from each country are the objects of study. Through comparative idea analysis and with Michiel S. D Vries theories on decentralization, the thesis explains the convergence between the countries by differing cultural views between them.

Vietnam genomgick i slutit på 1980-talet en ekonomisk reform som kallades Doi Moi. Ett steg i denna reform var att utländska direktinvesteringar (FDI) tilläts komma in i landet, något som tidigare ej var möjligt. FDI inflödet har haft en viktig roll gällande den ekonomiska tillväxten i Vietnam och har fungerat som en byggsten under landets övergång från en planekonomi. Det finns olika faktorer som påverkar investerares beslut att investera utomlands. För att påverka dessa beslut och därmed försöka öka inflödet av FDI har Vietnam utformat och reformerat flertalet investeringspolicys.

The aim of this thesis is to map the intellectual base, and identify the general research interests, of Cultural Policy studies. In addition to this the thesis also aims to trace the uses of theoretical and conceptual approaches within the identified research interests. This is done by analysing citations from 130 articles published in the leading scientific journal International Journal of Cultural Policy between the years 2002-2007 using the bibliometric method author cocitation analysis (ACA). The results of the ACA confirm the overall notion that the research field of cultural policy studies is an ambiguous one, even when it?s studied with a quantitative method specialised in uncovering hidden structures within a given field as ACA.

The aim of this study has been to explore local cultural policy documents in some municipalities in the geographical region of Västra Götaland. Do the municipalities have these kinds of documents for their local cultural activities, and how are they designed? These are questions which the study has focused on. The study has been concentrated on the library activity in the local cultural policy documents. The research has been a comparative one.

Det finns många teorier som talar om vad som bör ingå i olika policys men ytterst lite få teorier som säger hur man gör för att förankra dem. Bland dagens organisationer verkar inte förankring av policys vara något som prioriteras och de policys som organisationer har följs sällan fullt ut av de anställda. För att undersöka hur man förankrar en policy har vi använt oss av bl.a. utbildningsteorier och kommunikationsteorier. Vi har gjort en kvalitativ undersökning på en organisation där man har en klart definierad IT-säkerhetspolicy.

The purpose of this study has been to examine what approach and experience pedagogues at pre-schools, with a limited amount of nationalities, have regarding cultural promoting work in pre-schools. The concept ?cultural promoting? mainly regards the children's cultural backgrounds. The first question formulation focussed on the what the concepts ?cultural promoting? and ?cultural diversity? meant to the pedagogues.

This Master thesis aims to study the relation between Swedish governmental cultural policy and cultural events at two Swedish public libraries. The Masters thesis demonstrates how national cultural policy regulates every part of the public library. This demonstration is a result based upon national cultural policy documents and interviews with employees at two public libraries in Sweden. The conclusion that national cultural policy regulates this part of the public library is drawn with help of the circle of culture as applied in Culture Studies and Michel Foucault theories of power. The thesis contains the answer of four questions, two involving cultural policy and the other two events at the library.

This graduate essay treats how the cultural heritage of Gothenburg is mediated in different respect.The various sources that have been studied are literary such as guidebooks and books that tell thehistory of Gothenburg. Internet pages and citywalks have also been studied, as well as theinformation the visitor can extract in the area.The introduction presents the subject of the essay, as well as its significance. In the second chapter isthe mediation of the history behind cultural heritage as well as its present interpretation described.Therefore, in chapter three, is a short version of the history of Gothenburg described. The main partof the essay, the main examination, is treated in chapter four where literary sources, citywalks andsigns in the area are examined. Chapter four ends with a suggestion of how the cultural heritage inVästra Nordstaden could in a better way be mediated to residents and visitors in Gothenburg.The results and concluding discussion in chapter five reflects on what was represented in chapterfour.