Skip to main content

LUP Student Papers

LUND UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

Lex Liberalism - En kvalitativ studie om hur Lexbase gör politik

Olsson, Astrid LU and Skarin, Astrid LU (2021) RÄSK02 20211
Department of Sociology of Law
Abstract
The Swedish website Lexbase was launched the year of 2014, by the publisher Jonas Häger.
They market themselves as a database with public documents from Swedish courts for the
general public. Through their search engine, Lexbase offer private persons to find private
and legal persons who have been facing legal proceedings since 2008. The aim of this study
is to examine how Lexbase, as a private body, perform politics as well as a contextualization
of Lexbase, in a wider point of view than social media. The empirical data is retrieved from
Lexbases Facebook page, consisting of their publications, through a subjective selection.
The ambition of this study is to schematize their publications and ultimately perform
politics, based on a... (More)
The Swedish website Lexbase was launched the year of 2014, by the publisher Jonas Häger.
They market themselves as a database with public documents from Swedish courts for the
general public. Through their search engine, Lexbase offer private persons to find private
and legal persons who have been facing legal proceedings since 2008. The aim of this study
is to examine how Lexbase, as a private body, perform politics as well as a contextualization
of Lexbase, in a wider point of view than social media. The empirical data is retrieved from
Lexbases Facebook page, consisting of their publications, through a subjective selection.
The ambition of this study is to schematize their publications and ultimately perform
politics, based on a specified definition of the term politics. A qualitative content analysis
has been applied. The result of the empirical findings has been categorized within six
themes. They are as follows: the self, performative feminism, popular appeal, the market,
criminality and risk. The conclusion of this study is that Lexbase perform politics through a
positioning of themselves in a moral framework. They make statements on criminality,
elected representatives, and the functions and transparency of society. Lexbase can be
contextualized by being embedded into the period characterized by the aftermaths of a
decentralization of power, which entailed a categorical dissolution of societal frames of
reference where new policies, from private bodies, could be performed. The theories used
in this study are reinvention of politics, the risk society and governmentality. (Less)
Please use this url to cite or link to this publication:
author
Olsson, Astrid LU and Skarin, Astrid LU
supervisor
organization
course
RÄSK02 20211
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
digitalisering, Facebook, Lexbase, politik, risk
language
Swedish
id
9058238
date added to LUP
2021-08-16 10:35:55
date last changed
2021-08-16 10:35:55
@misc{9058238,
  abstract     = {{The Swedish website Lexbase was launched the year of 2014, by the publisher Jonas Häger.
They market themselves as a database with public documents from Swedish courts for the
general public. Through their search engine, Lexbase offer private persons to find private
and legal persons who have been facing legal proceedings since 2008. The aim of this study
is to examine how Lexbase, as a private body, perform politics as well as a contextualization
of Lexbase, in a wider point of view than social media. The empirical data is retrieved from
Lexbases Facebook page, consisting of their publications, through a subjective selection.
The ambition of this study is to schematize their publications and ultimately perform
politics, based on a specified definition of the term politics. A qualitative content analysis
has been applied. The result of the empirical findings has been categorized within six
themes. They are as follows: the self, performative feminism, popular appeal, the market,
criminality and risk. The conclusion of this study is that Lexbase perform politics through a
positioning of themselves in a moral framework. They make statements on criminality,
elected representatives, and the functions and transparency of society. Lexbase can be
contextualized by being embedded into the period characterized by the aftermaths of a
decentralization of power, which entailed a categorical dissolution of societal frames of
reference where new policies, from private bodies, could be performed. The theories used
in this study are reinvention of politics, the risk society and governmentality.}},
  author       = {{Olsson, Astrid and Skarin, Astrid}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Lex Liberalism - En kvalitativ studie om hur Lexbase gör politik}},
  year         = {{2021}},
}