Bara en viktig signal? - En diskursanalys av mediers gestaltning av den svenska samtyckeslagen
(2025) GNVK22 20251Department of Gender Studies
- Abstract
- The purpose of this essay has been to examine how consent, victims and perpetrators are constructed in the Swedish daily press in connection with the introduction of the Consent Act in 2018 and five years later, in 2023. Through a critical discourse analysis, based on Fairclough's three-dimensional model, articles from Aftonbladet, Expressen and Dagens Nyheter have been analyzed. The results show that the reporting is characterized by competing discourses: on the one hand, the law is highlighted as a feminist victory and norm-changing social reform, on the other hand, its legal application and the risk of legal uncertainty are problematized. The analysis also highlights how representations of victims and perpetrators reproduce traditional... (More)
- The purpose of this essay has been to examine how consent, victims and perpetrators are constructed in the Swedish daily press in connection with the introduction of the Consent Act in 2018 and five years later, in 2023. Through a critical discourse analysis, based on Fairclough's three-dimensional model, articles from Aftonbladet, Expressen and Dagens Nyheter have been analyzed. The results show that the reporting is characterized by competing discourses: on the one hand, the law is highlighted as a feminist victory and norm-changing social reform, on the other hand, its legal application and the risk of legal uncertainty are problematized. The analysis also highlights how representations of victims and perpetrators reproduce traditional rape myths, but in some cases also challenge them by making gray areas in sexual relationships visible. The essay thus contributes to gender research by showing how media both shape and convey the understanding of consent in the field of tension between law, norms and power relations. (Less)
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- author
- Strand, Mathilde LU
- supervisor
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- Maja Sager LU
- organization
- course
- GNVK22 20251
- year
- 2025
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- The Consent law, critical discourse analysis, victimhood, perpetrator, media representation, Samtyckeslagen, kritisk diskursanalys, brottsoffer, förövare, medieframställning
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9212948
- date added to LUP
- 2025-09-22 16:18:18
- date last changed
- 2025-09-22 16:18:18
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