This master’s thesis examines the digital work performed on video-sharing platform YouTube. This study aims to analyse the business model of Web 2.0 social media platforms, by using the methodologies of interface affordances, Marxist labour theory, and perspectives on participatory culture, along with interpretations of the economic and social value production of the users (i.e. viewers and video

With the shift from collective to individual, people started to increasingly reflect on their position in the society and potential for individual growth. Previously inaccessible services and initiatives promoting self-development emerged. However, women were found to have rather limited access to those opportunities, due to boundaries of social and cultural nature. In tourism and risk studies, th

Bakgrund: Fallerande kommunikation inom ett operationsteam ökar risken för morbiditet och mortalitet vid kirurgi. WHO har utarbetat Surgical Safety Checklist vilken har associerats med ökad patientsäkerhet och förebyggande av vårdskador. Dock finns det påvisade skillnader i hur checklistan används och följs mellan sjukhus. Syfte: Att jämföra operationssjuksköterskans uppfattning avseende delaktigh

I takt med den globala urbaniseringen växer städerna. I storstäderna finns en stor brist på obebyggd mark vilket leder till att städerna förtätas, något som medför nya risker när en större mängd människor befinner sig på en mindre yta. Att inkludera riskhantering i stadsbyggnadsprocessen är därför en av flera viktiga delar i utvecklingen av städerna. Processen för stadsbyggnad kan ses som en proceThe global urbanisation is causing cities to grow. A shortage of unused land in the metropolises, cause a concentration of the cities, presenting new risks as a bigger population occupy a small area. For this reason, including risk management in the urban planning process is one of many important factors in the development of cities. In order to ease the process of risk management and improve tra

During the last three years the Malmö City Library made a transition from the Swedish classification system SAB to the internationally established Dewey Decimal Classification. The Malmö City Library is the first public library of a larger magnitude to make such a transition in Sweden. The aim of this thesis is to contribute with knowledge and reflections about how the Dewey Decimal Classification

The aim of this paper is to conceptualise the integration of designed retail applications into retail settings, through selected case studies, and to contribute to an increased understanding of what happens when the retailers try to integrate smart tools into the retail setting, by looking at retailers’ practices from the consumers’ point of view, and how do they change the interactions with servi

"Here, there is only love" - A qualitative interview study about the players experience of the football team Gatans Lag The aim of this study was to describe and analyse how the players on the Swedish football team Gatans Lag experience how the organisation contributes to their life situation. The study was based on eight semistructured interviews with players from the team. During the

The new-economy encompasses a variety of industries, particularly pharmaceuticals and online-based companies. These may hold strong market positions, or be strong future competitors, despite having low turnover. Where foreclosure techniques to curtail competition are employed, the concentration may result in a long-lasting anti-competitive impact on the market. However, due to low or insufficient

Many driving schools request cheap, safe alternatives to driving lessons. Some VR (Virtual Reality) car simulators already exist today, but they are either too expensive or not adapted to the Swedish trac system. The purpose of this master thesis has been to investigate whether a virtual environment can be realistic enough for a driving school student to actually benet from using it. To answer the

Based on self-perceived stories described in literature and documentary films, this study aims at analyzing how individuals, from an attachment theory perspective, feel that have been affected by growing up in a family in which one or both parents have an intellectual disability. Since the purpose of the study was to understand a context rather than explain and generalize it, a qualitative documen

“Silences haunt every archive”, says Rodney Carter, words that illustrate the significance of the archival practice in selecting and arranging the documents that reflect the past. This study begins in the notion that the archivist’s profession represents a certain form of power, manifested in this practice. What sort of history and which stories that will be known in the future lies very much in t

The purpose of this study was to explore professional therapists’ experiences of personal therapy in an attempt to understand its purpose. The study applied a qualitative approach combining phenomenological and hermeneutic perspectives through the model of IPA (Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis). Six psychodynamically oriented therapists were interviewed, using one broad and open question.

This study explores author texts on public libraries in the United Kingdom between the years 2010 and 2018. The texts appear in a national public debate about the value, purpose and direction of the library service following a significant number of library closures and funding cuts. These were the result of the global financial crisis of 2007 and 2008 and the subsequent implementation of the auste

The aim of this master’s thesis is to examine how fiction authors seek information in their writing, which still is a vastly under-researched subject within Library and Information Science. Why then are there so few of us in this discipline who ask themselves which information behaviour and information needs that exist among the ones writing the literature filling our libraries? This study was car

Academic libraries provide support to researchers, but this group is diverse and the particular situation of doctoral students is often overlooked or seen as uniform. To inform the development of such research support, to meet the needs of all doctoral students, it is of utmost importance to grasp the diversity within the group. The purpose of this study was thus to map this research field and sys

This thesis connects agricultural technology (ag-tech) within a Danish context to a world system of production in which rare earth elements (REs) play a crucial role. These elements are essential for modern technology. By applying the concept of machine fetishism this thesis investigates how ag-tech in Denmark is fetishized through political discourse. The concept of fetishism here signifies that

By employing seven semi-structured interviews with local judges and prosecutors in Kosovo, this study aims at examining how the European Union Rule of Law Mission (EULEX) has impacted the legal order in Kosovo and the practice of the judges and prosecutors. In addition, this study examines how the impacts of EULEX, and how the judges and prosecutors will be affected after the EULEX are withdrawn f

Moral decision-making has a long history within philosophical theory and has recently become a domain for empirical research. Modern neuropsychological research provides support for moral decisions being influenced by two distinct systems. According to Dual-process theory, moral decisions take place through two parallel and independent systems, one emotional and one rational (utilitarian). Our bas

Denna uppsats syftar till att undersöka hur EU-rätten har påverkat svenska arbetstagarorganisationers möjligheter att använda sig utav stridsåtgärder och vilka effekter denna påverkan kan ha på den svenska arbetsmarknadsmodellen. För det första måste det sägas att EU-domstolens genom Laval och Viking har gjort det svårare för arbetstagarorganisationer att vidta stridsåtgärder då domstolen ansett aThis thesis has the aim of investigating how EU-law has affected the legal position regarding Swedish trade union’s possibilities of undertaking industrial actions. It also aims at determining whether the influence of EU-law on the right to undertake industrial actions has had any effects on the Swedish model. According to CJEU’s judgements in Laval and Viking it must be said that the possibilit

Purpose: The purpose of this paper was to explore how the companies which have prioritized sustainability on their business agenda have designed their management control systems (MCSs) to support sustainability-driven innovation and if and how these companies are using the sustainability metrics internally within their cybernetic control systems. In order to do so, an additional purpose of our the