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Framing av hållbar utveckling. En undersökning av Dagens Nyheters rapportering under Earth Summit 1992

Öhlund, Hanna LU (2015) STVK02 20151
Department of Political Science
Abstract
In Rio de Janeiro 1992 the first UN Conference on Environment and
Development was held. Where governments and leaders from the private
sector addressed guidelines for the environment and sustainable development.
Since the media has a great power over how information is portrayed, the
aim of this thesis is to examine how Swedish media portrayed the concept of
sustainable development during the UN Conference. The hypothesis was
constructed from a dominance of liberal ideas, more specifically the norms of
liberal environmentalism, in environmental policies during these years. I have
used the method of frame analysis in examining Dagens Nyheters articles.
The scientific base of the thesis, media logic, shows that there is an impact on... (More)
In Rio de Janeiro 1992 the first UN Conference on Environment and
Development was held. Where governments and leaders from the private
sector addressed guidelines for the environment and sustainable development.
Since the media has a great power over how information is portrayed, the
aim of this thesis is to examine how Swedish media portrayed the concept of
sustainable development during the UN Conference. The hypothesis was
constructed from a dominance of liberal ideas, more specifically the norms of
liberal environmentalism, in environmental policies during these years. I have
used the method of frame analysis in examining Dagens Nyheters articles.
The scientific base of the thesis, media logic, shows that there is an impact on
the news content. The main results show that the framing of sustainable
development was in line with the norms of liberal environmentalism. (Less)
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author
Öhlund, Hanna LU
supervisor
organization
course
STVK02 20151
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Sustainable development, Frame Analysis, Media logic, Liberal environmentalism, Earth Summit
language
Swedish
id
5426156
date added to LUP
2015-07-14 11:41:22
date last changed
2015-07-14 11:41:22
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  abstract     = {{In Rio de Janeiro 1992 the first UN Conference on Environment and
Development was held. Where governments and leaders from the private
sector addressed guidelines for the environment and sustainable development.
Since the media has a great power over how information is portrayed, the
aim of this thesis is to examine how Swedish media portrayed the concept of
sustainable development during the UN Conference. The hypothesis was
constructed from a dominance of liberal ideas, more specifically the norms of
liberal environmentalism, in environmental policies during these years. I have
used the method of frame analysis in examining Dagens Nyheters articles.
The scientific base of the thesis, media logic, shows that there is an impact on
the news content. The main results show that the framing of sustainable
development was in line with the norms of liberal environmentalism.}},
  author       = {{Öhlund, Hanna}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Framing av hållbar utveckling. En undersökning av Dagens Nyheters rapportering under Earth Summit 1992}},
  year         = {{2015}},
}