The aim of this Master?s thesis is to investigate and increase the understanding of Swedish Public Library Websites and to determinate which activity they mediate. To analyse the Public Library Websites Andersson and Skot-Hansen?s model of roles for the Public Library has been used. This model in¬cludes four roles for the library: the library as a cultural centre, a knowledge centre, as an information centre and as a social centre.

Campaign Websites are a growing Internet based type of advertising, dependent upon the advertisement being actively pursued by consumers. The popularity of campaign Websites stands in sharp contrast to the increasing advertising boredom among consumers often discussed in both public media and academic contexts. Despite the increasing importance of this kind of communication, little academic research has been conducted on the subject. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the value of campaign Websites for advertisers and consumers. Through a quantitative web based field study combined with an exhaustive qualitative study, we can draw conclusions concerning campaign Websites and contribute with a theoretical framework for this type of advertising.

The aim of this master thesis is to study if the Websites of the Swedish public libraries are accessible to all people. According to the library law all people must have access to the public libraries and their information services. Today, when the Internet is one of the largest sources of information, it is important that all people, including those with different kind of disabilities, children, elderly, immigrants and people with old technical equipment, have access to the public libraries Websites.We have in this study considered the graphic user interface, the language, the structure and the navigation possibilities at ten public library Websites. We have from a checklist of our own, based upon the opinion of different experts such as Jacob Nielsen and Tommy Sundström, investigated the Websites.The main finding of our study is that the Websites are generally accessible even thou we found a lack of accessible for immigrants. Most of the Websites had some pages in English, but none hade all pages in this language.

This essay is inspired by an earlier essay written in 2012 by Sanna Johansson and Erika Winther. In their essay they examined Sweden?s municipalities? tourist Websites and graded these based on a number of Web 2.0 criterias. In this essay we examine tourist Websites belonging to the 15 most popular tourist destinations in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales and Ireland. The purpose of this study is to give a general overview of how far these countries? tourist Websites have come in terms of web development, in relation to Web 2.0.

Mediation of fiction has always been one of the main tasks of the public library. The focus on information technology is often seen as a threat and competitor to this task. But technology can also offer new ways to mediate fiction, and the aim of this thesis is to examine how library Websites and blogs can be used for this purpose. The research questions are:? What forms of fiction mediating material exist on library Websites and blogs?? How is the fiction mediating material presented?? Are there any differences between the fiction mediating working methods on Websites and blogs compared with those in physical libraries?The thesis is based on a qualitative content analysis of eight Swedish public library Websites and three blogs, and on a theoretical frame work including literature and research on mediation of fiction, library Websites and blogs, web design and usability.

Advertising in responsive Websites is a quite new phenomenon and has therefore, previously not been a target for any mayor research. Todays society, where new technological innovations persistantly supersede others must be seen as a possible changer for how companies advertise to this society. This paper sheds light on many of the difficulties connected with advertising for responsive Websites, but also possibilities and advices for the future. Through a litterature review and a focus group with respondents from a large communication agency in Umea?, insights, implications, solutions and thoughts both connected to specific Websites but also around advertising for the future as a whole is presented.

The public libraries were quick to adapt to the changes that the Internet brought on, and today library Websites are an important part of the public library. To meet the needs of teens today, the library website could offer a range of contents to make it an attractive place on many levels; both the academic needs as well as social and recreational needs should be addressed.The aim of this thesis is to evaluate public library Websites for teenagers in Sweden, and to examine how well the Websites address the developmental tasks and needs that teenagers have. The method used is website evaluation, one quantitative and one qualitative. A total of 60 public library sites for teenagers were evaluated, using 11 criteria based on Havighursts developmental tasks. The quantitative evaluation measured how many functions each website had per criteria, and showed that the majority of the sites had one or two functions for most of the criteria.

Comparing your own work with art has been an obvious standpoint for landscape architects, especially during the midst of the 20th century. With this as background this essay intends to find out if there are any change to this condition visible today. This essay discusses the two notions of ?landscape architecture? and ?art? with the intention of describing what they mean. A connection to todays active landscape architects is given through an examinating part of the essay.

The aim of our bachelor thesis was to study how the personnel incharge of the mobile Websites at two University Libraries and thestudents at those Universities viewed the mobile Websites, and iftheir views in any way differed.Our research questions were:Why have the examined Libraries chosen to offer mobileWebsites?How do the students at the examined Universities experience anduse respective mobile website?Are there differences between the staff?s intentions with themobile Websites and how they are used and experienced by thestudents, and how could they be explained?Semistructured interviews were conducted with six staff membersresponsible for the mobile Websites and eleven students that hadexperience in using these. The theoretical framework for thisthesis consists of Klasson?s three models for University Librarianspersonas, and the parts of Rogers theory about diffusion ofinnovations that concerns the attributes of innovations and thecommunication channels.The result of the study indicates that there are some differencesabout how the students use and experience the mobile Websitesand the staffs intentions for them. The students required contentwhich the staff had discarded.

The purpose of this thesis was to investigate if Swedish agencies preserve their Websites according to the Swedish archival legislations and guidelines. As a theory the OAIS Reference Model (Open Archival Information System, developed by US Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems, CCSDS) has been used as a model to show how important it is to develop strategies for public digital information which has to be preserved for long term. The ingest function in the OAIS Reference Model demands that files are prepared for long term preservation and requires that the digital information fulfils established technical requirements.In the study the Swedish National Archive and their advices about preserving Websites to archivists on the Swedish agencies are being studied. To control if the agencies meet the requirements for their management and preservation of their Websites a survey was sent out to investigate if Swedish agencies preserve their Websites. According to the survey result, 84 of 113 agencies preserve their Websites in some way. If the technical requirements really was met could not be verified in this thesis, the results was relied on the responses from the authorities.

In a Swedish classroom today there will be students with different ethnicities, world views and religious beliefs.  The students will be taught religion through a non-denominational education, where as a teacher you are meant to be objective, open-minded and fair in the representation of different traditions. This representation is colored by the outsider-perspective and the students then learn about religion from a party which is not involved in the religion being taught. This essay discusses how to balance the outsider-perspective in religious education in the Swedish school with insider-voices. More specific, the use of Muslim Websites when teaching about Islam.The material this essay studies are three Muslim Websites: al-islam.se, islaminfo.se and islamguiden.se. In order to make a didactic analysis of the Websites, they are compared to a standard Swedish textbook.

In a web environment the library and the librarian continue to function in their role as information provider even when the physical library is closed. Research question is to describe how and in what extent the public libraries Websites are integrated in their daily activity and what the causes are for that. The empirical material consists of a survey of number of public libraries Websites and qualitative interviews with responsible librarians. I have delimited the study by only investigating the Websites of Gothenburg public libraries. In my survey of the Websites I have studied four spheres; Services, Contact, Structure and General viewpoints.

The purpose of this master´s thesis is to examine how the cultural exchange function of Swedish libraries may be perceived on their Websites. A further intention is to examine how the library Websites are used at the present. Two quantitative web-based surveys have been sent out to a great number of Swedish public libraries. The first survey was directed to the webmasters of the libraries, in order to review the different services offered by the Swedish library Websites of today. The second survey was conducted with library directors, in order to visualise what services they consider ought to be present on their own library website.

The aim of this study is to investigate the public libraries use of their Websites in their marketing. Our study is based on the Websites of 60 public libraries. The libraries are chosen because of their geographical location in three different provinces? Skåne in the south, Östergötland in the middle and Norrbotten in the north. These three choices enable us to cover densely as well as thinly populated areas, the agricultural district, the woodland and cities of various sizes.

Engelsk titel: Greater opportunities than interests : Civic culture and deliberative discourse on Swedish NGO WebsitesThis is a critical and normative study, which examines a selection of Swedish NGO Websites as potential forums for civic culture and deliberative discourse in the public sphere. Sociocultural, political and sociological and media and communication theories are combined.The work is made within a Habermasian tradition, but the importance of a hermeneutic methodology is stressed, along with the sociocultural perspective to reach an understanding of why citizens engage in politics. In contrast to much of the earlier research concerning deliberative discourses on the Internet, a more informal understanding of how people discuss politics is stressed.The questions are: What kind of civic role do the Websites discursive dimensions address? What kind of civic identity do the users address in the Websites resource dimensions?The empirical results are both discouraging and encouraging for advocates who put their trust in the Internet as a potential civic tool, in these times when neoliberal models of citiziens are prioritizing citizens as consumers, thus neglecting citizens as political actors. The study reveals that the Websites show good results in general, regarding the civic roles and identities of the Websites as both discourse and resource for the users.