Vem är skyldig för skjutningarna?
(2022) STVK02 20212Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- This study analyses how the Swedish news media has been reporting on the gang shootings in Stockholm 2021 as well as if it has turned the question into a security matter. The study first answers the question of which identities that can be found in the reproduction of reality that is being written by the Swedish media. The second question answers in what ways a securitization of the subject of gang shootings in the media can be identified. To do this Norman Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis is used to answer the first question, both as a method and theory. Continuing the same methodology, security theory is then used for the analysis answering the second question. The analysis shows that the subject of gang shootings in the media is... (More)
- This study analyses how the Swedish news media has been reporting on the gang shootings in Stockholm 2021 as well as if it has turned the question into a security matter. The study first answers the question of which identities that can be found in the reproduction of reality that is being written by the Swedish media. The second question answers in what ways a securitization of the subject of gang shootings in the media can be identified. To do this Norman Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis is used to answer the first question, both as a method and theory. Continuing the same methodology, security theory is then used for the analysis answering the second question. The analysis shows that the subject of gang shootings in the media is constituted mainly by three categories of discursive identities, those who protect, those who do wrong and those who suffer. The study then concludes that the three newspapers examined, Aftonbladet, Svenska Dagbladet and Dagens Nyheter, is creating an understanding of the gang shootings as a threat to society and that this is not non-problematic in the sense of creating fear in society. (Less)
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- author
- Nyström, Moa LU
- supervisor
- organization
- alternative title
- En kritisk diskursanalys av säkerhetiseringen av gängskjutningar i svensk media
- course
- STVK02 20212
- year
- 2022
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- gängskjutningar, skjutning, gängkriminalitet, Stockholm, media, massmedia
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9070034
- date added to LUP
- 2022-03-14 12:23:26
- date last changed
- 2022-03-14 12:23:26
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abstract = {{This study analyses how the Swedish news media has been reporting on the gang shootings in Stockholm 2021 as well as if it has turned the question into a security matter. The study first answers the question of which identities that can be found in the reproduction of reality that is being written by the Swedish media. The second question answers in what ways a securitization of the subject of gang shootings in the media can be identified. To do this Norman Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis is used to answer the first question, both as a method and theory. Continuing the same methodology, security theory is then used for the analysis answering the second question. The analysis shows that the subject of gang shootings in the media is constituted mainly by three categories of discursive identities, those who protect, those who do wrong and those who suffer. The study then concludes that the three newspapers examined, Aftonbladet, Svenska Dagbladet and Dagens Nyheter, is creating an understanding of the gang shootings as a threat to society and that this is not non-problematic in the sense of creating fear in society.}},
author = {{Nyström, Moa}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Vem är skyldig för skjutningarna?}},
year = {{2022}},
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