For many young people across societies, precarity is the condition of life that they have to confront in their path to adulthood. As this condition is further intertwined with the rise of the digital age, attempts have been made by youth and media scholars to theorize and investigate the role that digital media plays within this socioeconomic conditions. This research project is an empirical contr

The Swedish Navy conducts reconnaissance in an ongoing maritime surveillance operation with ships at sea. This study aims to create a greater understanding of factors for why naval surveillance is not carried out to a greater extent with modern efficient flying reconnaissance sensors to freeing up time for more qualified naval activities. Furthermore, it seeks an increased understanding and whethe

The worlds shipping must reach a 55 percent reduction in carbon dioxide by 2050. This is a massive challenge that will have an effect on every ship, every shipowner and every yard all over the world. At the same time, it appears to be challenging to implement new technologies and the transition is so far too slow for the industry to reach its target. The purpose of this study examines how shipping

This thesis focuses on the critical exploration of compositional modality on the film representation of collective memory and imagined nationalism construction in contemporary Chinese context. It aims at a further understanding of the surrounding societal and political contexts in the contribution of nationalism propaganda. Guided by the critical visual methodology proposed by Rose (2016), this re

Recent research has noticed that the picture of the second-generation immigrants negotiating their identity in media space is different and far more complex than the first generation. With their emergence in the new age of digitalisation, the second-generation immigrant is offered more media choices and freedom of access to the two most important cultural sets of host and homeland country to make

In 1999 Shaun Clarke presented a theory called SPOT-bombing. SPOT means Strategic Persuasion Oriented Targeting, it’s an offensive denial strategy for small states use of airpower. The theory is how they can use limited resources and forces, to go for the enemy´s supreme leadership and change their mind about how they wag the war. This study is about Clarke’s offensive strategy is applicable in a

This thesis explores a new source of sexual education, which some express concerns about and others are not worried about it at all. The source is social media. Whereas before, young individuals could use informal sources such as friends, family, the media or formal sources such as doctors, teachers, and other health workers. Now young individuals can log on to Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok

The 13th of October 2006, the Swedish parliament approved a change in the Foreign Policy. For the first time the Government choose to use a maritime unit in peace-time operations. This had never been done before. The Swedish navy was trained and ready for this, due to the new overall policy, regarding the Armed Forces of Sweden from 2004. The aim of this study is to analyse the process of agenda s

This thesis has two aims. One is to situate COVID-19 in a macro narrative that characterizes our time as a risk society or reflexive modernization. The other is to bring public health emergencies such as the COVID-19 pandemic into the sharp focus of cultural trauma study which is closely related to media representations. The research scope is set in media and communication studies. Through the the

Extreme climate events compound existing conditions and coping strategies in society. These pre-existing conditions combine to produce vulnerabilities that create human security and child protection concerns. Applying alternative approaches to address vulnerability provides insight into the interaction of multiple conditions of vulnerability that exacerbate violence against children. This thesis u

Food is political: from seed over production to distribution and consumption. Large scale agriculture infused multi-layered social, ecological, and economic issues. The need to change the dominant food system approach is widely recognised. Alternatives in food production and distribution emerged and persisted over time. This thesis shows that narrative research in Alternative Food Networks provide

The main challenge to future scenario construction is to help people see themselves as part of a larger system in a way that empowers them rather than reinforces the belief they are helpless. This thesis aims to overcome this challenge by investigating what can be learned from the Japanese tradition of repair called Kintsugi and the underlying Wabi-Sabi philosophy. Subsequently, the research explo

In the face of climate change, governments in the Global North have decided on various decarbonisation plans. With the transport sector causing more than a quarter of the global greenhouse gas emissions, its decarbonisation has become a central debate. Yet, plans for a sustainable mobility system are largely focused on local and regional scales, neglecting the global entanglements of the supply ch

This bachelor's thesis analyses the transformation of the Finnish Armed Forces between 2004 and 2017. The aim is to answer the question of what the changes have been like and in what way these changes have affected the Finnish Navy. In the long run, could the changes affect the Swedish-Finnish defence cooperation? The thesis is mainly based on the four defence policy reports published during t

Under the capitalist growth imperative, mainstream housing is connected to high social and ecological consequences. In light of the need for an alternative approach to housing, my thesis adopts a degrowth perspective to critically explore an alternative housing model: the Swedish kollektivhus (‘collective house’; co-housing). In the kollektivhus, residents have their own private apartment which is

Developments in mobile technologies and social networks promote the mushrooming of self-presentation practices in virtual space, stimulating individuals to create idealized self-images and maintain desired social impressions. Posting fitness selfies is a popular mode of selectively constructing visual self-presentation in the fitness culture and digital age. Previous studies have demonstrated that

This research aims to fill the lacuna in the literature concerning the application of ecovillage praxis in spaces other than intentional communities by focusing on urban community gardens (UCGs) in Malmö, Sweden, as communities of practice where this could be integrated. It introduces both ecovillages and UCGs, as well as their associated praxis. Data was gathered about the first using semi-struct

The case study in focus for this research is the Women’s Strike in Poland movement during its articulation in late 2020. This movement was organized to campaign for reproductive rights and women’s rights in Poland after a restrictive abortion law was proposed in 2016, put into motion in 2020, and passed in 2021. This is an example of a contemporary movement supporting body autonomy and gender equa