Gotland is an island with a rich history. One unique thing about it is the picturestones. There are, today, 565 known stones and fragments found on the island of various Dating. The Dating time spans from 400 ad to 1100 ad. This essay is meant to discuss the Dating issue of the early picture stones dated to 400-700 ad and discuss the relevance and validity of the today?s Dating.

The purpose of this study has been to investigate the virtual world that people are part of on online Dating sites. To do this we have investigated two different research questions, which are the following: What functions do the online Dating sites provide? Why and how are the online Dating sites being used by their members? In order to gather information about these matters, we have used a qualitative method consisting of participating observation, scrutinizing and single person interviews. Our results indicate that people have different goals with their usage of online Dating sites; some are looking for love, a long-term relationship while others are looking for sexual contact. There are many different online Dating sites to choose from depending on the users? objective.

Gotland is an island with a rich history. One unique thing about it is the picturestones. There are, today, 565 known stones and fragments found on the island of various Dating. The Dating time spans from 400 ad to 1100 ad. This essay is meant to discuss the Dating issue of the early picture stones dated to 400-700 ad and discuss the relevance and validity of the today?s Dating.

ABSTRACTPurpose/aim: The aim of this essay is to make a comprehensive study of the phenomenon of net Dating, both among those who have dated on the internet and among those who haven?t tried it at all. Key questions to be answered are what attitudes are associated with net Dating? How do the attitudes differ between those who have tried compared to those who haven?t? What kind of positive and negative aspects is there with net Dating? Are there any prejudices against net Dating and ? if so, what kind of prejudices? How does the future look for net Dating?Material/method: Qualitative method with eight interviews divided into two groups depending weather the person has tried net Dating or not.Main results: The study shows that net Dating is a phenomenon that will continue to grow and attract more users. The most significant result from the interviews are the different prejudices that are articulated.

Online Dating and ?People nearby applications? (PNA) has become more popular in today?s society. With PNA you can easily find people who are nearby you that you can socialize with and maybe even meet. In this paper we study the mobile application Badoo and explore how it is used for Dating in clubs in Stockholm through observations that we participated in. We also had a group interview with five Badoo users about their usage of the application.

ABSTRACTTitle: ?Dating Online. Self-Marketing Through Sweden's Biggest Dating Site ? Match.com?Number of pages: 34Author: Joanna StokowskaTutor: Amelie HössjerCourse: Media and Communication Studies CPeriod: Autumn term 2005University: Division of Media and Communication Studies, Department of Information Science, Uppsala UniversityPurpose/aim: The aim of this paper is to study the online Dating phenomenon. The questions to be answered are: how do people form their personal profiles? Does the method of how one markets him/herself, within an online Dating service, vary among different age groups?Material/method: 100 personal profiles have been downloaded and analysed from Sweden's largest Dating website, Match.com.

Abstract Author: Kristin NäsTitle: The technology society?s love letters ? a qualitative analysis of communication through internet Dating.Level: BA Thesis in CommunicationLocation: University of KalmarLanguage: SwedishNumber of pages: 53 Keywords: communication, Dating, web Dating, gendering talk, interaction, flirting, the internet, contact, communities.Summary: A qualitative study on the subject of internet Dating and how people using internet Dating chooses to present them self and how they choose to communicate with others to create contact. Internet Dating is a phenomenon that is continually growing. 2 million people in Sweden are singles today and more than half of them have tried internet Dating at least once. The purpose of this study was to research the way people choose to present them self and how the communication on an internet Dating site is used.

Internet Dating is a relatively new phenomenon that, in using the opportunities of the internet, has taken traditional Dating to a new level. The business idea is simple as such. The company provides its customers with a platform that enables interaction, leaving the value creation to the customers. A qualitative study is conducted investigating and mapping the Swedish market for Internet Dating. It is researched what the characteristics of the companies are, what the Internet Dating businesses in Sweden offer, what the prevailing market conditions are, and lastly what challenges lie ahead for the industry and how they can be solved.

Title: Nätdejting för olika åldrar (NetDating for different ages)Author: Henri NekmouchePurpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate what influence the medium Internethas had on building up relationships between people who have dated online, and tocompare two different age groups.Method/Material: In this study the author has conducted personal interviews with sixpeople who all have experienced Internet Dating, and had their first contact with agirlfriend/boyfriend online. The questions asked were designed to help answering thepurpose of the study.Main results: This study shows that in general there is a positive view of Internet Datingamong both groups. They appreciate the opportunities it provides, as they get to knowthe other persons personality first. Even so, it should be noted that they still tend to be abit ashamed to talk about Internet Dating, and some don?t want to be associated with it.The communication pattern tend to be pretty much the same among both groups.

AbstractTitel: Self-presentation at online Dating ? through a gender perspective and an age perspective.Number of pages: 44Author: Karin WestlundTutor: Amelie HössjerCourse: Media and Communication Studies CPeriod: Autumn term 2009-12-21University: Division of Media and Communications, Informatics and Media, Uppsala UniversityPurpose/Aim: The aim of this essay is to examine the phenomenon Internet Dating through a gender perspective and to some extent through an age perspective. What do the members? presentations look like? Do men and women select different ways to present themselves, and how does it look between the different age groups?Material/Method: Qualitative method with 42 presentation texts, half men, and half women in three different age groups collected from a Swedish Dating site.Main results: The study shows that men and women choose to highlight their good points at self presentation in the student forum. The differences between the various age groups proved not to be significantly large.

This study investigates how tagging is being used in a new way when members of a Swedish Dating site get to tag themselves in an act of self-presentation with the aim of meeting new people. In the study seven members of the Dating site Mazily were interviewed about their self-presentation, tagging and identity formation there. The questions concerned how they formed their own tags, but also how they interpret and use other members' tags in their search for a potential partner.I have been using queer theories for this study, in order to find out what kind of norms and structures that lie behind and affect the members' behaviour on the website. My study finds that the interviewed members to a high degree reflect about both their own and other members tagging and self-presentations. Although they spend quite some time trying to analyse other people on the website they have a great sense of understanding that a person may give two very different impressions on the site and offline.

Title: Nätdejting för olika åldrar (NetDating for different ages)Author: Henri NekmouchePurpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate what influence the medium Internethas had on building up relationships between people who have dated online, and tocompare two different age groups.Method/Material: In this study the author has conducted personal interviews with sixpeople who all have experienced Internet Dating, and had their first contact with agirlfriend/boyfriend online. The questions asked were designed to help answering thepurpose of the study.Main results: This study shows that in general there is a positive view of Internet Datingamong both groups. They appreciate the opportunities it provides, as they get to knowthe other persons personality first. Even so, it should be noted that they still tend to be abit ashamed to talk about Internet Dating, and some don?t want to be associated with it.The communication pattern tend to be pretty much the same among both groups.

The aim of this master thesis is to investigate changes within four discourses identified in the curriculum material of the Swedish library education in Borås Bibliotekarielinjen Dating from 1977 and 1985 and its successor Library and Information Science Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap Dating from 1995, 1999. My method used is a text analytic method primarily derived from the discourse theory of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, yet with addition of tools from the critical discourse analysis of Fairclough. By identifying three floating signifiers within the material, i.e information, library, and librarian, and thereafter identifying their fixation, a pattern of resemblance and diversity in the fixating signs appeared between different courses of the curriculum Dating from 1999. Hence I could establish an order of discourse consisting of four library discourses, a knowledge organisation discourse, a user discourse, a society discourse and a management discourse. Using this discursive order as a pattern, I could trace these four discourses back in time within the material Dating from 1995, 1985 and 1977.

This essay represents a chronological and contextual analysis of clay pipes that have been found in the urban settlement of Västergarn during seminary excavations between 2006 ? 2012, conducted by Gotland University. Clay pipes can be dated closely and are useful means for Dating and interpreting archaeological contexts from the early modern period, such as house foundations. There have been excavated four house foundations in Västergarn with different sorts of clay pipes Dating to the post-medieval period. Can they tell which people used them or which country they were produced? By discussing the meaning of clay pipes in early modern society on Gotland this essay tries to answer these questions..

The aim of this study was to examine the current and historic mercury(Hg) load of the lake Storjuktan due to its recent exposure to a local potential source of Hg in form of the Sulphide mine Blaikengruvan(2006) and an earlier potential sources of Hg-load, the damming of the lake(1960s). Sediments were extracted using a HTH-sampler, freeze-dried, and analyzed for tot-Hg, LOI and activity of 210Pb and compared to samples extracted prior to the opening of the mine(2006). Constant initial concentration (CIC)-Dating model was used for Dating the samples. Low levels of Hg (100ng/g) were found throughout the lakes sediment. The highest levels of Hg(220ng/g) was detected at a depth of 4-5cm Dating back to the mid 1970:s, suggesting that increased levels of atmospheric Hg rather than damming of the lake has caused the increase of Hg.