This paper investigates how compassion with and understanding for the suffering of the other is constructed by the media and why certain choices are made with respect to coverage and framing. Articles published in the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter in relation to three different cases that all take place in Haiti have been surveyed by using quantitative content analysis and qualitative textual a

Denna uppsats kommer undersöka vad Facebook har för inverkan på gränsen mellan privat och offentligt. Virtuell kommunikation gör att man kan välja att visa valda delar av sin personlighet och detta behöver inte betyda att man är ärlig i sitt framträdande. Därför valde vi att undersöka hur ens framträdande påverkas i denna offentliga miljö och vilka risker detta medför. Dessutom undrar vi varför ma

India is the home of over 1 billion people and is a mixture of ethnicities, religions, languages, castes and tribes. In the 1980’s the country was one of the poorest countries in the world but during the last twenty years India has gone through a huge economic growth, bigger than the world had ever seen before. According to these measures, India has no similarity with any other country in the worl

Syftet med denna uppsats är att närmare granska hemsidan Politiskt Inkorrekt, och hur de rapporterar nyheter. Till grund för detta ämnar vi att använda traditionella medier som jämförelseverktyg för att se om skillnader finns. Fokus ligger på olikheter hur de försöker sätta allmänhetens dagordning för kriminaljournalistik och huruvida de följer eller bryter mot pressetiska regler. De mest utmärkan

The ambition of this thesis is to discuss state – making from an historical point of view. The aim is also to point out the historical lineages in the world. This has been done by comparing the state – making of today in Afghanistan with the state – making in medieval Europe. Charles Tilly’s four stages of state – making has been applied and the result is that Afghanistan’s state – making is divid

Vi har gjort en kvalitativ undersökning som behandlar tre nationers kommunikationsarbete inför kommande nationsobligatoriets fall. Nationerna är Göteborgs Nation, Östgöta Nation och Malmö Nation. Vår studie behandlar huruvida respektive nation använder sig av och kommer att använda sig av intern och extern kommunikation för att behålla och rekrytera medlemmar efter obligatoriets fall samt vilken i

The essays purpose is to highlight the complexity of illicit weapons and it´s usage during conflicts that can be argued as just. The criteria’s of Jus in Bellum and Jus ad Bellum from the Just War theory is used to examine if conflicts containing illicit weapons can be argued as just. Apart from the theories view on what is just the illicit arms trade and the UN: s efforts to combat the arms trade

Many minority groups are subjected to discrimination in today’s society. The reasons behind this unfair treatment are often based upon morally irrelevant grounds. These grounds are in most cases shared by all the members of the minority group. The focal points of this essay are in the court cases that concern affirmative action at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and Lund University

Titel: ” Jag märker att människor som kanske inte skulle ha pratat med mig annars gör det nu.” En kvalitativ undersökning om bloggars betydelse för individen efter dess ankomst i människors vardag Institution: Enheten för medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap, Lunds universitet Kurs: MKVA21:4, B-uppsats Författare: Marie-Louise Nilsson och Sandra Nilsson. Handledare: Veselinka Möllerström Problemomr

Civil-military cooperation is nowadays a core function in peace support operations (PSOs). This is a result of changes in the global political context, in part due to such things as the end of the Cold War, and the increased number of intrastate conflicts. Furthermore, the introduction of the concept of human security has had an impact on which grounds PSOs are initiated. The new context in which

The development of the constitution of Zimbabwe reflects many aspects of the political turmoil currently troubling the country. The constitution as an institution can therefore be analyzed in a perspective of historical institutionalism where the theory of path dependency provides an understanding of the choices made by different political actors throughout Zimbabwe’s independent history. The adop

The garment industry is one of the most vulnerable sectors in the world, with bad working conditions. Low wages and not allowed union organizing is every day for most workers, especially in Bangladesh. The workers are considered to living on a minimum wage, which does not cover the basic needs for workers and their family; therefore we need to talk about a living wage. This study is to examine ab

Kommunikationschefen Johan af Donner som arbetat på Röda Korset blir häktad, misstänkt för att ha stulit flera miljoner kronor från Röda Korset. Detta är starten till en hetsig nyhetsrapportering, där Röda Korset granskas in i minsta detalj av journalister. Vi har lagt vikt i att kritiskt granska journalisters utförande av artiklarna som publicerades. Vi har gått ner i artiklar och lyft fram detal

Vi har genom kvalitativ metod undersökt huruvida bloggen, i vårt fall tre kvinnliga bloggar, agerar som en arena för genuskonstruktion och om detta kan härledas till en diskussion om bloggen som utmanande och skapande faktor av genusmönster, kvinnoideal och kvinnlig identitet. Vi har genom ett kvalitativt tillvägagångssätt använt oss av innehållsanalys på tre av de största kvinnliga bloggarna i de

This thesis examines the complex humanitarian intervention (HI) situation involving the African Union (AU) and Zimbabwe. It attempts to 1) analyze why there has been no intervention regarding the atrocities caused by Operation Murambatsvina 2005; 2) conduct an explorative study on different reasons that work to prevent an intervention to occur in Zimbabwe. These reasons consist of contradictions w

The purpose of this essay is to give an image of the importance of humanitarian demining, it's difficulties and to what extent GPS can be a tool for this. A human rights perspective is used towards this through the entire work for what IMAS gives the parameters. GPS is a tool among others in the humanitarian demining process. GPS can be a tool in humanitarian demining especially in mapping min

The purpose of this thesis is to examine how trade affects human rights. By assuming that the liberalisation of trade affects the economic growth positively, its enforcement mechanism of human rights is somewhat doubtful. By examining a not yet official copy of a free trade agreement recently signed between the human rights-promoter the European Union, and the infamous human rights-violator Colomb

This paper takes on the some of the problems surrounding threats from pandemic flu, more specific the tendencies of a threat to escalate or being made deliberately exaggerated. Former American president Eisenhower explained the constant ongoing wars with a theory of a military industrial complex. Fuelling conflicts with personal interest, foremost economic gain. With the same theory, although broa

The purpose of this essay is to examine whether Sweden acts under the realist theory or the liberal theory in the fight against terrorism by using the deportation of the Egyptians as a case. By analyzing conventions and Sweden’s foreign policy in relation of the deportation, the answers will reveal if human rights have been given a secondary role in Sweden’s actions against terrorism. The theories

En kvalitativ studie av Disneyfilmen Prinsessan och Grodan skriven av Josephine Rapp, Jonna Nordheim och Viann Jalal, enheten för medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap på Lunds universitet. Disneys fantastiska och magiska värld kan vid en första anblick te sig oproblematisk och fulländad. Vid en närmre titt och metodisk undersökning finner vi dock ett annat svar. De budskap Disney sänder ut i sin