Diskursen kring misshandel : En studie av Aftonbladets framställning av förövare och offer i misshandelsfall.

• Main Authors: Jan, Annika, Nord, Emma
• Format: Others
• Language: Swedish
• Published: Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för socialt arbete (SA) 2014
• Subjects: Discourse; discourse analysis; media; gender; assault; Diskurs; diskursanalys; genus; misshandel
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-37027

The aim of this study was to examine the existing discourse of assault in Aftonbladet from the years 2012 and 2013. We have studied news articles and analysed them by using discourse analysis as theory and method.The study shows that the portrayal of perpetrators and victims in assault cases tend to differ depending on gender. The women is portrayed as weak and part of a homogeneous group while the man is portrayed as dominant and offered a more individual role. The study also shows that the normative group is separated from the deviate groups in society. The analyze show that media, through this representation, maintains the normative power in society. A power where the normative group and men are superior to women and the deviate society groups.