“Det är särskilt farligt för unga att röka cannabis eftersom hjärnan inte har hunnit växa färdigt“
(2023) SOPB63 20231School of Social Work
- Abstract
- The aim of this study is to investigate how newspaper articles from the Swedish newspaper Expressen have presented cannabis in the years 1992 and 2022. The objective was to compare the coverage between these years. After applying selection criteria and random selection, 70 articles were chosen for analysis. The method on which this work is based is qualitative text analysis. The content from the articles as well as previous research was analyzed using the theories of social constructivism and the framing theory. By analyzing newspaper articles from Expressen, we found that there were more similarities than differences between the portrayal of cannabis in 1992 and 2022. The most frequent depiction of cannabis and cannabis use is that of... (More)
- The aim of this study is to investigate how newspaper articles from the Swedish newspaper Expressen have presented cannabis in the years 1992 and 2022. The objective was to compare the coverage between these years. After applying selection criteria and random selection, 70 articles were chosen for analysis. The method on which this work is based is qualitative text analysis. The content from the articles as well as previous research was analyzed using the theories of social constructivism and the framing theory. By analyzing newspaper articles from Expressen, we found that there were more similarities than differences between the portrayal of cannabis in 1992 and 2022. The most frequent depiction of cannabis and cannabis use is that of cannabis being a harmful substance. A commonly occurring portrayal in both years was the portrayal of cannabis as a gateway to harder drugs and other crimes. (Less)
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- author
- Petersson, Jessica LU and Gonzalez, Joanna LU
- supervisor
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- Carina Gallo LU
- organization
- course
- SOPB63 20231
- year
- 2023
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Cannabis, Marijuana, Hashish, Legalization, Addiction, Social Construction, Framing Theory, Sweden, Media, Discourse
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9135756
- date added to LUP
- 2023-09-01 08:58:17
- date last changed
- 2023-09-01 08:58:17
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