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Through a quantitative content analysis of 4548 comments from the American based online community Reddit, the thesis tries to shed a light on whether or not the users obtain more power over the news process by taking over a series of journalistic core functions, like setting an agenda or intervening in the gatekeeping process. By transferring the content analysis from earlier studies of online media (Milioni et al. 2012) as far as possible; and from the social network Facebook (Eberholst & Hartley 2014), the thesis provides knowledge about how the users of Reddit use the technologies of the internet and the actions of the platform to break with the role as a passive audience. The thesis concludes that the content on Reddit’s front page often times is characterized by having few sources , by being short in format and generally downplaying complexity. This corresponds with one of this thesis’ main theoretical approaches by Poell & van Dijcks and their criticism of how social media insinuate a certain behavior in its users, resulting in an increased priority on less complex news. The content analysis of the comment reel on a selection of posts from the front page of Reddit shows that the users contribute with new information, and often times set an agenda themselves, independently of the articles on which they comment. Doing this the users use the opportunities of web 2.0. The platform provides the audience with the structural possibilities of action to take over a series of the journalistic core functions, from which they were previously cut off. This corresponds with this thesis’ second main theoretical approach by Axel Bruns who agitates for the possibility of users of gate watching sites to approach news like unfinished artefacts or “open news”. Even so, this thesis argues that this “producer”-role is not able to free the users of new types of gate keepers and the knowledge hierarchies that they work in. In this fashion a complex game takes place between the administrations decisions on how to organize and prioritize UGC through algorithms and possible technological actions, and the users own submissions and voting. The users have more power to get involved in the gate keeping processes and set a new agenda, all the while being subjugated by series of twisted structures and choices outside their own influence, affecting their actions.

Trust-based management is a popular trend in public sector management. After decades of New Public Management-reforms based on distrust between public sector agents, trust is now rediscovered in a functional perspective as a method of reducing transaction costs and increasing social capital. This thesis explores how trust-based management is implemented as a management concept in the municipality of Copenhagen through a case study of a cluster of day-care and afterschool centres that have been exempted from selected parts of the municipal regulation. Based on Scandinavian institutionalism and on methods of interviews and participant observation the case study analyses how trust-based management is translated in the local context and how this reflects back on the concept. The exemption of regulation aims to reduce bureaucracy and paperwork to make room for professional innovation. However the thesis concludes that this goal is not met. Instead the local actors turn the concept to meet their own needs and so existing agendas is ascribed to the concept. The case study shows a risk of ‘projectification’ of trust. Trust-based management is a very flexible and vague concept and as such it is in high risk of undergoing radical transformation in the local translation. The theory of trust-based management is proclaimed to be in opposition of prevalent top-down management concepts, but as the case study shows, an introduction of trust-related projects is no guarantee of increasing trust nor does it necessarily involve a ‘bottom-up’-perspective.

A new reform has come into force in the Danish Folkeskole, which means that a great deal of organizational modifications has to be implemented. This process of implementation, led by the school principal, can mean a radical change for teachers as well as supervisors. Prior to the new reform, the Danish Folkeskole teachers partook in a conflict facilitated by their trade union – a conflict that ultimately resulted in a lockout. This incident has caused severe dissatisfaction among the Danish Folkeskole teachers who believe that the decision was forced upon them. Consequently, considering this background history and adding a reform with a short time period for adaption, this thesis presumes that internal critique in the Danish Folkeskole has unfavourable conditions. This thesis investigates assumptions about critique in interpersonal communication between the teachers and the principal of a school north of Copenhagen. The empiricism of the thesis is constituted of individual interviews with four teachers and one principal from said school. This thesis aims to discuss the role of the critique-assumptions in the school’s organizational development. Already existing research within the field critique in organizations, including possibilities and limitations for having one’s say in a work context as well as critical reflection in organizations, makes up a theoretical point of departure for the thesis’ analysis. The theory section is largely divided into two sections: limitations to and possibilities for critique in organizations. These sections support and facilitate the numerous pages of transcriptions by asking the question: where do the informants express the possibilities of critique and when do they verbalize the limitations of critique in interpersonal communication? Through anecdotes and examples from the informants’ work lives, the analysis proceeds to examine the teachers’ and the principal’s assumptions of critique. The thesis finds that a great amount of limitations of critique are perceived among the interviewees. This can to some extend be ascribed to the fact that the school principal does not regard critique to be progressive and that she does not see potential for development in the critical reflection. As the primary change agent and bearer of cultural values in the organization, the principal risks depicting critique as illegitimate to her employees by setting forth these negative assumptions.

Mols Bjerge National Park was established in 2009 as one out of three national parks in Denmark, soo far. Most of the surface of the the park is landbased, and 80% of this is privately owned. The landscape of the park has been shaped by several glacial advances during the last ice‐age, and consists of coastal cliffs, flat plains and lateral moraine, among others. The areas have been cultivated since the middleage, but around the year 1700, intensive land use was abandoned on the most washed out and sandy soils. Some of these areas have been used for grazing, and today they harbour the naturetype grasslands. The town of Ebeltoft is situated within the limits of the park; and a cultural environment in the shape of an old maltfactory lies within the town. This report seeks to investigate the objectives concerning culture and nature listed in the basis for Mols Bjerge National Park, and try to uncover how differences in interests and views on nature affect the fulfillment of these objectives. We have chosen to take our starting point in two cultural environments, the maltfactory in Ebeltoft, and the grasslands in the core‐area of Mols Bjerge National Park. The investigation is based on theory of views on Side 2 af 81 nature, geografical observation in the two cultural environments as well as interviews with three key persons i relation to the maltfactory and the grasslands. The report discusses the weighting between use and conservation of nature and cultural management within the park.

Specialet undersøger, hvordan køn konstrueres blandt unge trænere i dansk elitesport. Til undersøgelsen er der udviklet et brætspil, som i specialet fungerer som interviewmetode.