This thesis explores the relationship between news media and trust from the perspective of the individual audience member using the term “fake news” to do so. This thesis set out to understand how audiences were engaging with and defining the term “fake news” in our contemporary media environment and if and how this was affecting their overall engagement with news media. To do so, the study used a

Cambodian migrants in the Thai construction sector, work in precarious working environments, with limited safety conditions and low wages. The use of social protection schemes has increased in recent decades, as a method of reducing the vulnerable against poverty and livelihood risks. However, despite the transformative potential of social protection, migrant workers face difficulties in accessing

With the emergence of the digital spaces, modern society has been witnessing the transformation of the public sphere, which is mostly altered by the new means of communication. Simultaneously, civic discussions that are taking place within the public sphere, are inevitably going through the same transformation and are now more and more often found in the digital spaces. This thesis is taking on th

To colonize novel environments, species need to adapt. However, if suitable phenotypes are not already present in the population, the population may go extinct before adaptive mutations emerge. Phenotypic plasticity offers a mechanism for species to mitigate effects of selection and to maintain a viable population size under stressful conditions. This may in turn increase the chances of future ada

Teaching quality is a vital key to education quality and student learning outcomes but few can agree on how to achieve it. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to analyse the efficiency of short-term training provided to teachers working in schools (i.e. in-service teacher training) with the objective of improved teaching quality in Cambodia. This was achieved in three steps. First, teac

Through qualitative interviews with ten study participants, this research investigates connections between the theme of artificial intelligence on HBO’s Westworld, and issues of identities of its audience members. The thesis critically examines audience engagement with complex television dramas. It begins by the analysis of industrial contexts of narratively complex serialized fiction. First, it p

The release of Beyoncé’s 2016 visual album Lemonade was one of the most talked about pop culture moments of the year. The album went on to become the highest-selling album of the year. Aside from commercial acclaim, the album was also successful in generating much talk within various circles about its focus on Black women and its political nature. The album’s release came at the height of increase

Indonesia has a history of hundreds of years revolving around the racism against its 3% Chinese ethnic minority—who are also known as Tionghoa. This circumstance engenders the racial-social order that has been shaping the attitudes and behaviours of the Chinese, both individually and collectively, in social, cultural, and political realms. The Chinese have become self-controlled and self-regulated

This research touches upon the influence of the museum as a media and the scepticist political framing of climate change in a U.S. context. By use of a two-step methodological approach, the thesis attempts to create a framework by which to understand the inner workings of the scepticist framing from a qualitative perspective. The thesis approaches the case from the onset that the case is the resul

This study serves to explore the usage of mobile financial technology amongst MSME owners and operators. Taking the form of a case study in a town of higher-than-average poverty in rural Ghana, it represents a rare mixed-methods investigation of technology acceptance, in addition to serving as an empirical test of the well-worn Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) in relation to a specific, often-ove

This qualitative case study of the ADB-financed Kawakareik to Eindu road improvement project explores the ways in which a single development intervention interferes with local conflict dynamics in an ethnic minority area affected by subnational conflict, in the context of the unfolding peace-process in Myanmar. The main research guiding this research is; In what ways does the ADB financed Kawkarei

This thesis seeks to answer the research question: How can we understand the experiences of Burmese female migrants working in Thailand’s seafood-industry through the lens of interdependent reproductive, productive and virtual economies? The purpose is to increase understanding of Burmese female migrants’ experiences, illustrating how these are influenced by complex social relations and power-dyna

Fair Trade is considered a successful alternative to traditional trade systems. The aim of this study was to examine the impact of Fair Trade on women’s empowerment by showcasing a case study of 18 women involved in handicraft production in Nepal. The study applied a qualitative approach and semi- structured interviews as the primary method for generating data. A thematic analysis was applied to t

This study investigates how the official security doctrine of the Russian Federation has developed during Vladimir Putin´s third presidency. In order to capture the development, a comparison is made of the doctrine´s character in the years before, 2008-2011, and after Putin´s return to the presidency, 2012-2015. The utilized theoretical framework is a development of Katarina Brodin´s and Wilhelm A

Since the quick entry of the Sweden Democrats in contemporary Swedish politics, several studies have been made on the party in order to analyze its different aspects. This study seeks to examine the ideological positioning of the nationalist political party Sweden Democrats. By textual analysis of its official principle programme and complementary qualitative interviews, the study aims to bring to

Vad betyder det att arbeta förebyggande mot våldsbejakande extremism? Synen på kommunikation som något som planteras hos en mottagare oberoende av mottagarens kontext anses idag alltmer förlegad. Istället blir det viktigt hur budskap förankras i den kontext det söker påverka. Den här masteruppsatsen undersöker den lokala organiseringen av ett förebyggande arbete mot våldsbejakande extremism, sådanSensemaking within communications theory is underestimated in its ability to explain complex nowadays societies. This master thesis examines the internal organisation of the preventive work against violent extremism at local level in Sweden. Through a case study of interviews and textual analysis the local preventive work is analysed through sensemaking processes that internally construct the foun

2015 genomgick den svenska polisen en omorganisering och efter det har en debatt uppstått där röster från både allmänheten och politiker höjts för en decentralisering av myndigheten. Vi har utifrån etablerade teorier kring decentralisering identifierat fyra värden som vi använder i ett analysschema för att kategorisera de argument som framförts i debatten. På så sätt benar vi ut den pågående deba

Det är vanligt att märka ut produkter med ett visst märke men gränsdragningen mellan certifiering, standardisering och märkning av produkter är inte enkel att göra. Det finns inte någon enhetlig definition av certifiering men i rättspraxis, Kommissionens riktlinjer samt i Konkurrensverkets rapport definieras certifiering som att en produkt bedöms enligt en viss förutbestämd standard och att ett inCertifying products with the purpose to better position products on the market is common. To distinguishing certification from standardization and labeling of products is difficult. There is no uniform definition of certification. According to case law, the Commission's guidelines, and the Swedish Competition Authority's report; certification is defined as a product being assessed accordin