This report is an analysis from a gender perspective of more than three hundred minutes in Sports broadcasting on SVT and TV4. The study explains how air time is divided between male and female athletes as well as which Sports, male or female, get the most air time. The Sports are also categorized according to attitudes about the Sports being masculine, feminine or neutral. In this way the study also shows the categories of Sports that are given the most airtime.Our view before the study was that from a media perspective, the Swedish Sports world was very male dominated. The results show that male athletes get more exposure than female athletes on both channels, this despite the fact that the membership of the Swedish Sports clubs is fairly evenly divided between men and women. .

The world today is not an equal place. We see children starve, people being discriminated and women?s rights being neglected. The media coverage of women?s Sports is no exception.

This study was made in collaboration between Umeå University and Västerbotten Sportsfederation. The study was aimed to find out how the municipalities are working with variousissues in the Sports field. A subject of interest for this study was to see if the municipalitieswere implementing strategies in the Sports field on determined goals by using policydocuments. Our study focused mostly on kids and youth that participate in organized Sports inVästerbotten. Other aspects of interest in the study were economics in Sports, how youthSports should be organized, and segregation in Sports due to financial factors.

Girls with foreign background is the group that is most left outside the Sports movement in Sweden and the ones with the least Sports habit. Sports assumed to provide an arena for integration that these girls are being left outside from. The Swedish Sports movement has adapted the conditions for them as a way to encourage them to participate in Sports, but there are still lots of girls with foreign background that stands outside the Sports movement. One input that the Swedish National Association has done for children and young adults is to adopt the Drive-in-sport, which can work as an entrance to the Sports movement. The aim of the study is therefore to investigate which barriers, motivators and requests girls in Sweden with foreign background have to participate in Drive-in-Sports.

My big interest in Sports was what shaped my choice of subject for the essay. The purpose of this study has been to explore the social meaning of team Sports for functionally impaired persons. In order to fulfil the purpose of the essay I formed following questions: How do the actives experience their participation in team Sports? And how important is the social intercourse in team Sports to the individual welfare? The methods I?ve used have been qualitative with an ethnographic approach. I have used participant observations and field interviews to gather my empirical material.

This project investigates how team Sports can be used to include young women in public space aswell as how through the addition of a sporting facility adjacent to three schools can be used as a stepping stone for the young people of Dharavi to have a chance at a brighter future..

As a soccer coach for youths with disabilities and as active soccer players, our thoughts regarding the basic principles of Sports where awakened and how it corresponds with the possibilities of disabled youths participating in club organized Sports. From that thought came the idea that, with our team as the point of original we should contribute with increased knowledge regarding the experiences of disabled youths doing Sports. Using ethnography and co-operative observations we have researched both including and excluding factors that contribute to the possibilities of disabled youths opportunity to do Sports. We have been able to distinguish that the youths in question feel that Sports can be identity-building as well as give a sense of community. The study shows that the basic principles of Sports does not correspond with reality because the lack of availability is the determinant factor. .

The purpose of this study is to show which content that is most common in the Swedish News Agency TT Nyhetsbyrån?s Sports coverage. It also shows if the coverage is concentrated to for example any special Sports, clubs, people or topics.This study uses a quantitative content analysis and the result is based on texts from 28 systematically selected days during one year. In total, the study includes 906 texts.The result of this study shows that the Sports content of TT Nyhetsbyrån?s news feed is mainly concentrated to two Sports, football/soccer and ice hockey.

Change is a recurring element in society and for Sports clubs. When there is a change in society, this change may have an impact and change the condition for Sports clubs and its leaders. Changes can be degraded into trends. This study has been delimited to study four social trends that research shows may have an impact on Sports club, which are; Increased commercialization, changing demographics, changing communication patterns and increased individualization. To help Sports clubs in their development it is of value to find out how these changes are perceived.

The purpose of this study was to study how metaphors are used in Sports chronicles . As a complement, we also chose to study whether there are gender differences in the use of metaphors. We also wanted to take a look at whether journalists tend to mythologize Sports stars with the help of metaphors. We have been using a qualitative study in our work. We chose to examine four Sports journalists who writes Sports chronicles for the newspaper Aftonbladet.

The purpose of this study was to look at teenagers' thoughts and ideas regarding Sports and doping, and what they think about information on doping.Important questions for our study were:What do Sports mean to teenagers?What thoughts do teenagers have about demands and expectations in Sports?What thoughts do teenagers have about doping?What do teenagers think about information on doping?What factors do teenagers think affects a teenager to use doping?The study was made from a qualitative approach. The material consists of twelve interviews with teenagers in the age of 16 - 18. Sports mean a lot to the teenagers in our study and they don't approve of doping in any way. Many of the teenagers asked for more information about doping.

Purpose/Aim: The aim of this study is to (1) analyze the amount of exposure disability Sports get in Swedens biggest newspaper (Aftonbladet), (2) look at how Aftonbladet portraits disability Sports and it?s athletes, and finally (3)  to see if there has occurred any change over time (during the last eight years). Material/Method: The first method used is a quantitative analysis to measure exposure.The second method is a quantitative content analysis which is used to analyze how disability Sports are portrait.The third method is rhetorical and is also used to analyze how disability Sports are portrayed. Main results: The study has shown that disability Sports get very little exposure in Aftonbladet. The articles in the newspaper that cover disability Sports are portrayed from a personal point of view without much focus on the athletes achievements regarding his or her sport.

This report is an analysis of the gender representation in Swedish Sports media, a comparison between sport in public service television for adults and children. The study explores the differences between the number of male and female Sports in the matter of air time and also the number of male and female appearances in the TV shows. The programs studied in this report are the Swedish SVT?s Sportspegeln and Lilla Sportspegeln. When we began this analysis we were under the impression that men would be over-represented, but that representation in Sports television for children would be more gender equal than the adult counterpart. The result of the analysis confirmed previous studies stating that men dominate the Sports programs in Swedish public service television.

This study was a survey of how it is possible to create conditions for good elite environments in cities with elite universities. The purpose of the study was to create an understanding of how Sports associations and National elit sportuniversities in Sweden can co-operate to create a good elite environments for people with dual careers. The study analyzed the current situation and what increased co-operation would do for the eliteSports environments. To answer the purpose of the study interviews where conducted with leaders from Sports associations and with a representative from the national Sports university in Umeå. The result showed that in the current situation were was no cooperation to a significant degree.

This study examines from a gender perspective how the gender distribution is viewed in the content of Göteborgs-Posten's Sports pages and the short and long term effects of the the newspaper's gender equality plan that was introduced in 2005. It is a quantitative study for two sample periods, 2005 and 2009, that investigates how many articles in the newspaper which is about women's Sports and male Sports. Michel Foucault's theory of discourse is central to the study, his view of identity in society and how these are represented fit well on gender issues in Sports journalism. The results show that women's sport is greatly subordinate to man's sport in terms of number of articles. The gender equality plan has not had any noticeable effects on Göteborgs-Posten's Sports pages. This is due to a variety of factors ? economic aspects weigh heavily in this problem. .