Attityder till nya medier. En metastudie av attityder till nya medier i uppsatser vid Högskolan i Borås.
This essay is a meta study of essays published at theInstitution of Library and Information Sciences at theUniversity of Borås in 2009. It aims to answer the followingquestions:What attitudes about new media can be found in essayswritten within SSLIS and are there traces of media panic inthe discourse?The theoretical framework of the essay is based on a theoryof the concept of media panic as defined by Kirsten Drotneret al, and the concept of moral panic as defined by StanleyCohen.The method used is derived from Klaus Krippendorff?sideas on content analysis, as published in the book ContentAnalysis. The method in this study uses computerizedsearches for target words. The target words used were:Internet, web, e-, blogg, facebook and twitter. The materialwas analysed using a four field model, consisting of fields ofpositive or negative attitude towards a specific mediumregarding usefulness and reliability.The study shows attitudes found in the material were mainlypositive about new media, and only to a lesser degree werethere clearly negative attitudes. It also reveals that there arefew signs of media panic in the discourse.