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On closer inspection, the so-called iconic turn in recent media history is a multimodal turn. Media communication has not only been enriched by pictures but has turned from a text-medium into a multi-medium, i.e. into a complex system of different modes like design, colours, pictures, graphics, and typography. Along with the multimodal turn, the linear structure of media communication has become n
The “nya gymnasielagen” brought with it a risk that teacher’s marks and attendance rate reports can be a basis for whether or not newly arrived immigrant students can have a continued residence permit. Many teachers who have criticized the law have had worries for the power given to them concerning individual student’s possibilities to obtain residence permits. A striking feature in the debate is
The queer experience has only become relatively recently a topic of study within migration scholarship. Despite it being seen as a ‘special interest’ field, a lot can be learned about processes of migration decision-making overall, by applying queer theory to it. Furthermore, the concept of place image, which is most often applied to research concerning tourist destinations and the ‘country of ori
Crises today are a constant threat to organizations and are likely to cause major consequences for the organization, its members and other stakeholders affected by the event. Most of the previous research on crisis communication has focused on the urgent crisis phase and organizations' efforts to restore its reputation. Only recently has research begun to engage in proactive crisis communicati
Build more, build better, and build faster are concepts that more and more people become aware of. Can Construction Management (CM) achieve the right price and quality in a time and cost-effective way? Construction Management is a form of a project delivery method that may occur under different types of construction contracts. The purpose of this survey is to identify the strengths and weaknesses
Studien ämnade att undersöka vilka faktorer som påverkar individers inre motivation för träning och hur sambandet mellan dessa faktorer såg ut. Faktorerna som undersöktes var upplevd kompetens, upplevd autonomi, upplevd samhörighet, utseende-motiv, ansträngning, fitness-motiv, genomsnittligt spenderade timmar på träning, genomsnittligt spenderade timmar på arbete eller studier och generell self-efThis study was aiming to investigate which factors influence individual’s intrinsic motivation for exercise and what their correlation to it was. The factors examined was perceived competence, perceived autonomy, perceived relatedness, appearance motives, effort, fitness motives, average hours spent on exercise, average hours spent working or studying, and general self-efficacy. The study chose to
As a foster parent, within the Swedish foster care system, you are granted support and have access to interventions such as educational programs and counselling. Considering this, past research still suggests that a substantial number of foster carers express how these types of interventions can lack a sense of meaningfulness and/or be inadequate. With our research we’ve ventured to better underst
The left-wing governments that possessed the power of the executive in Latin America for almost two decades are now under duress. The event that has posed the initial threat to the “reign” of the Pink Tide is believed to be the 2015 election of Mauricio Macri in Argentina. This event triggered a chain reaction of conservative changes in government and a backlash against left-leaning dominance. Hav
The following study was conducted in order to answer the following questions: 1) Why do students start taking drugs in early adulthood?, 2) What does the ratio between students with early versus late onset drug use look like?, 3) Do students know where they could get professional help in case of drug use- related negative outcomes? and 4) What do they think of the healthcare available? Using the s
Den här kandidatuppsatsen är en kvalitativ studie som undersöker fotboll som arena för integration. Den utgår från teorier om socialt kapital, norm och språk för att kunna analysera och skapa förståelse kring empirin som är hämtad genom fyra intervjuer. Resultatet visar att fotboll har en styrka i att den innehåller ett språk som talas av alla världen över. Men för att fotboll även ska fungera soThis essay is a qualitative study examining football as an arena for integration and the method I’ve used is semi-structured interviews to collect my empirical information. The participants in this study are four different leaders from four different sports associations, which all are different in size and are from different places in Sweden. What they have in common is that they all have experien
When we look into adolescents sexual behavior and selling of sex, we can see that there has been a greater interest for girls than for boys. We can also see historically that there has been a normative difference and that the subject is not examined in a greater extend. The aim of this study was to gain increased knowledge about how social workers in their work within the framework of LVU(The Care
The purpose of this study was to look at two autobiographies through qualitative methods. The main purpose has been to highlight how individuals describe themselves, the consequences of social aspects (family and friends) in depression they have experienced and their turning points: the way out of the depression. To study this, I have used the following questions as starting points: How do the dep
In this thesis the subject has been to investigate if there is any connection between government agency presence and tax revenue in the municipality. Previous studies in Sweden have more focused at the intergovernmental relation between state and local level and especially they have focused on government grants and the effects. But this thesis recognizes that the government can also shift the dist
In an effort to combat illegal cartel activities taking place in the European Union, in 1996 the European Commission decided to implement a leniency program for self-reporting firms who, in return for information about their cartel, could receive a substantial reduction, or a total exemption from any fines that would have otherwise been imposed on them. The wellbeing and survival of cartels is dep
This study seeks, with an internet based survey containing ten pages taken from five different manga, to identify if people who read manga (Japanese comics) absorb every part of a presented manga page. It will attempt to see how well they understand various aspects of the Japanese language and what the readers focus lies on within each page, as well as touch upon the subject of using manga as a to
Syftet med denna studie var att utforska upplevelser av låg affektmedvetenhet hos unga vuxna med erfarenhet av mobbning. Det övergripande syftet var att öka förståelsen för vad denna grupp kan behöva hjälp med i psykoterapi. Åtta studenter (18-22 år) med låg affektmedvetenhet intervjuades. Låg affektmedvetenhet kallas också alexitymi och innebär svårigheter att identifiera känslor, att beskriva käThe purpose of this study was to explore experiences of low affect consciousness in students who have been bullied in school. The overall purpose was to increase understanding of what this group might need help with in psychotherapy. Eight students (18-22 years old) with low affect consciousness were interviewed. Another name for affect consciousness is alexithymia, a condition which implies diffi
The purpose of this study was to explore and learn how the Second Generation Women of Bangladeshi Origin relate themselves to the culture of their host society and the traditions of their parental country of origin. Predominantly, how they look for their choice of a future life partner. This study was carried out in Malmoe, Sweden and New York City, USA, and from both locations, there were total n
Every single child has the right to a childhood as well as a future. The labor regulations within the international conventions exist in order to make sure that these rights are looked after, but the ratification of the conventions is just the beginning. In order to receive the results which are set by the conventions, it is crucial that the implementation is successful. The politics of the countr
The role of the school library in Swedish schools has been a subject for debate in recent years. The debate typically focuses on the impact of school libraries on student reading ability and information literacy, as well as the legitimacy of the school librarian as a profession. Additionally, society faces an alarming trend in the form of steadily declining mental health among children and teens s
