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This bachelor's thesis examines how the Swedish low-price company Lager 157 communicates feminist and sustainability-related messages through a campaign launched in connection with the International Women's Day 2025. The campaign offered T-shirts for eight SEK to celebrate women, which sparked strong criticism in the media. The aim of the study is to analyze how the company performs its br
In the face of climate change, environmental migration has become a pressing issue, particularly for countries like Mexico, which are highly vulnerable to climate-related risks and have a long-standing history of structural inequality. Although the environmental drivers of migration have been widely acknowledged, the institutional capacity to address the challenges that accompany them remains unde
This thesis investigates the strategic use of fear speech, political communication designed to evoke fear by presenting threats, by Swedish political parties and lead candidates during the 2024 European Parliament election campaign on Facebook. Departing from audience-focused studies, the analysis centres on political actors’ intent, examining who employs fear speech, how frequently, and on which
Queer housing collectives in Sweden are places of living that are generally designed to encompass shared values regarding community building and notions of care and support through providing a safe space. Through semi-structured interviews and queer theory, this study analyzes what queerness produces in those collectives through subtle everyday embodiments of queerness by its residents. It highlig
This paper examines how the role of Systembolaget, Sweden’s state wine monopoly has evolved in relation to market dynamics, public health objectives, and consumer preferences. Using a combination of survey data and an analysis of retail statistics, the study examines how different sales channels – Systembolaget, online retailers, and farm sales – are perceived by consumers. This is done through th
Detta examensarbete introducerar ett nytt förslag på användning av nedlagda skolor, fabrikslokaler, vårdinstitutioner, och andra övergivna anläggningar som står tomma runt om på Sveriges landsbygd. Behovet av funktioner dessa byggnader en gång var ämnade för saknar idag efterfrågan och jag vill lyfta potentialen sådana platser kan ha för särskilda användningsområden, i jämförelse med att bygga nyt
The room impulse response (RIR) is an important function describing how sound reflects and propagates in a room. The inverse problem of estimating the impulse response from source and measurement signals is often of interest in various audio applications, but can become ill-posed if there is not enough information. Using regularization, one can impose prior physicality assumptions to the estimator
The textile industry’s linear business paradigm fuels excessive resource extraction and generate vast amounts of waste. Despite the EU Circular Economy Action Plan and growing industry awareness of these environmental concerns, many firms struggle to implement transformative Circular Business Models (CBMs) that provide a sustainable countermodel. Underlying socio-technical dynamics further amplify
As cities increasingly turn to nature-based solutions (NBS) as panaceas for addressing climate challenges and other social, economic, and environmental issues, questions of urban governance and justice have become more prominent. While much of the existing literature on NBS justice assessments focuses on distributional aspects through quantitative methods, procedural justice remains underexplored,
Coherent Diffraction Imaging (CDI) is an imaging technique that allows getting a high contrast image from phase interactions within a sample. However, the field of X-ray CDI has been dealing with a common issue known as the phase problem. Upon interaction with the sample, the incoming photons get absorbed or scatter and therefore, the wavefield gets altered. It continues to propagate towards the d
This thesis examines how audiences engage with mediated intimacy in sports documentaries through the lens of Break Point, a Netflix series offering backstage access to elite tennis players. The study develops the concept of gossip-based engagement which is a hybrid participatory mode in which affective responses and cognitive speculation are structurally fused. In online discussions, particularly
Women’s representation in media has been a critical topic of research. In a nation where gender scripts have undergone radical shifts according to state policy and ideological shifts, the current moment where birth rate declines and policies changes abruptly, once again sounds the alarm. This thesis examines how the Chinese reality TV See you Again construct postfeminist sensibility through gender
This thesis explores the development of a digital twin for a real-life tunnel facility in Revinge, Skåne, using fire simulations and machine learning. The study aimed to identify preferred machine learning algorithms and compare fire simulation tools in terms of efficiency and performance. A literature review highlighted Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) networks as a suitable choice. Fire simulations
This thesis analyzes the construction and reproduction of ideal motherhood discourse on the Chinese social media platform Red Note, focusing specifically on the discursive strategies of mum bloggers, user interactions, and the platform's influence in this process. Employing Fairclough's three-dimensional critical discourse analysis framework, the thesis analyzes the textual, discursive, an
Through the analysis of the case of the Age of Empires IV community, this qualitative study investigates how the communal efforts of the audience can foster inclusivity, and the meaningful participation of women, in the context of contemporary video game play. Through the analysis of nine semi-structured qualitative interviews, this paper reconstructs the ‘Age of Empires IV tale’: as it evolved fr
Denna studie syftar till att undersöka hur svenska nyhetsmedier gestaltade den nationella matbutiksbojkotten som genomfördes under vecka 12, 2025. Bojkotten uppstod som en reaktion på stigande livsmedelspriser och konsumenter uppmanades att undvika de marknadsdominerande livsmedelskedjorna till förmån för alternativa butiker eller befintliga resurser. Metoden som har använts är kvalitativ innehåll
Biological diversity faces a global crisis with increasing extinction rates and the loss of variety within species and across ecosystems. Increasingly, large companies are committing to address their impacts on biodiversity, but research shows that corporate reporting remains inconsistent, shallow, and difficult to compare. While biodiversity-related disclosures have largely been driven by various
Tunnel structures play an important role in Sweden’s infrastructure. At shallow depths, a common construction method is the so-called “Cut-and-Cover” tunnel, where the tunnel placement is excavated, cast in concrete on-site, and then backfilled. Such tunnels are typically subjected to constant water pressure, which yields high demands on crack control. Cracking in elongated concrete structures oft
The extreme volatility and pronounced non-stationarity of cryptocurrency prices challenge traditional time-series models and motivate the use of deep learning. This thesis addresses three focused research questions: (i) Do gated recurrent neural networks (GRNNs) produce more accurate one-day-ahead Bitcoin return predictions than feedforward neural networks and linear benchmarks? (ii) Can a GRNN ba
