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Previous research has highlighted the limitations encountered in representing the dynamism of language use and contacts. Here, linguistic landscapes from five towns in Northern Sweden are the point of departure for investigating novel perspectives through the geovisualization of multilingualism, with the ultimate aim of understanding how languages in our surroundings help construct public spaces. As an outcome, a web GIS application, based on 6865 thematically analyzed photographs, was developed as an interactive resource for visualizing and sharing the data and enabling new modes of analysis and new research questions. The article describes the data collection and curation processes, app development using GIS software and software-as-a-service, the eventual app design and interaction, and the update and maintenance plans, as well as discussing challenges and considerations related to temporalities, spatialities, and technicalities. The web GIS has potential applications in spatial analysis, research communication, and education., Platsskapandets språk. En studie av språkliga landskap

Series (2)Studia Fennica: ISSN 0085-6835 EISSN 2669-9605

Bakgrund: Diabetes typ 1 är en kronisk sjukdom som ökar globalt. Att drabbas av diabetes i barndomen medför både stora begränsningar och utmaningar. Sjuksköterskans roll i mötet med barnen är av stor vikt och kräver förståelse och kunskap om sjukdomen.Syfte: Syftet var att belysa barns upplevelser av att leva med diabetes typ 1.Metod: En litteraturstudie genomfördes baserat på nio kvalitativa artiklar. Artikelsökningen gjordes i två databaser, CINAHL och PubMed. Artiklarna analyserades sedan med inspiration av Lundman och Hällgren Graneheims kvalitativa innehållsanalys (2017). Resultatet presenteras i tre huvudkategorier och sju subkategorier. Resultat: Resultatet delades upp i tre huvudkategorier och sju subkategorier. Huvudkategorierna var 1) Uppleva förlust av självständighet, 2) Uppleva behov av olika former av stöd och 3) Uppnå medvetenhet om vad som krävs för att hantera egenvården.Konklusion: Diabetes typ 1 kan orsaka psykisk ohälsa och begränsningar i barns liv. Barns upplevelser av att leva med sjukdomen förbättras med hjälp av stöd från vänner och familj samt att få ökad självständighet och att involveras i vården. Det behövs mer forskning om barns upplevelser av att leva med diabetes typ 1 samt om hur deras psykiska mående kan påverkas av sjukdomen., Background: Type 1 diabetes is a chronic disease, which is increasing globally. Being affected by diabetes as a child brings both great limitations and challenges. The role nurses have in the meeting with the affected children is of great importance to the child and requires the nurse to possess great understanding and knowledge about the disease.Aim: The aim was to illuminate children’s experiences of living with type 1 diabetes. Methods: This study is a literature review with a qualitative approach based on nine qualitative articles. The articles were found in two databases, CINAHL and PubMed. The articles were analyzed with inspiration from Lundman and Hällgren Graneheims qualitative content analysis (2017). The results are presented in three main categories and seven subcategories. Results: The results are divided into three main categories and seven subcategories. The main categories were 1) To experience the loss of independence, 2) To experience the need for various forms of support and 3) To gain awareness of what is required to manage self-care.Conclusion: Type 1 diabetes can be the cause of mental illness and limitations in children's lives. Children's experiences living with the disease are improved with the help of support from friends and family, with gaining increased independence and being involved in the management of the disease. More research is needed on children's experiences of living with type 1 diabetes and how their mental health can be affected.

This study aims to investigate how attitudes are expressed and discussed in group interaction. The background to this study is based on the debate about children's exposure on social media. Our methodological approach is of qualitative sort and the research is carried out with focus group interviews, using a photo elicity method. This study uses the theoretical perspective of symbolic interactionism and the concepts of attitudes, norms and role taking to analyze group interaction. Mead and Blumer's theories of interaction and symbolic interaction were further of great importance in gaining a deeper understanding of how attitudes were expressed and discussed in the groups. Previous research about conformity was also of importance in our study. Our result shows that the definition of the situation, role taking and compliance with social norms impact the way attitudes are expressed in groups. Further on, our result shows that the participants' attitudes are especially in need for discussion when the attitudes are not in line with the remaining group members. Last but not least our result shows that attitudes are based on attitude components and are expressed in line with these.

Few religious denominations in the US enjoy the degree of central governance that Mormonism does. The biggest church within the religion, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, traces its roots back to the founding of the movement and the subsequent migrations across the contiguous United States. At the same time, the organization currently exists within a secular democratic system that does not bind itself to legislating according to the church’s will. This paper seeks to understand the church’s position within this democratic system. To this end, official communications from the church are analyzed using qualitative content analysis to place them within an ideal type of view of democracy, Habermas deliberative and Mouffe’s agonistic theory of democracy. This paper found that the church has undergone a shift from an agonistic to a deliberative rhetoric when speaking of itself in a democratic context. However, the data pool used for this could be expanded to produce a higher quality result.

In this paper, we have focused on possible connections between Esports, more narrowly League of Legends, and increased Computer Literacy Skills. The purpose of this study was to research Esports and Computer Literacy skills and analyse the possible link and how it might overall help one’s day-to-day life, job prospects and more by using Esports as a tool for learning Computer Literacy Skills. This study is guided by the theoretical perspective of transfer of learning. Using a cross-sectional observational study, we have come up with a 10-exercise test which analyses the computer literacy skills (CLS) of Esports players and Non-Esports individuals. Data were collected from 20 participants through observations to gauge participants’ performance, supplemented by a post-test survey to gather additional insights. Results between the two groups were similar, with a slight edge towards the Esports players group which has shown greater efficiency at completing the test overall and each individual task. Overall, our results show that people who enjoy these titles do tend to be more efficient at completing daily computer duties. However, both groups possess capable computer literacy skills in order to handle the ever-evolving digital world. Further research is mandatory to explore the causal relationship between League of Legends and computer literacy skills, as well as to identify strategies for incorporating Esports in educational settings regarding computer literacy skills.

This article explores processes of place-making through the study of the linguistic landscape of a small-size town in Northern Sweden. The analysis of signs is used as a tool for examining the role and visibility of actors in the landscape. For this purpose, we examine who the authors are, what forms of multilingualism can be observed, and who has agency in the place-making of the public space. Our documentation consists of photos and fieldnotes from observations, encounters, and conversations with people during ethnographic fieldwork in 2019. Using a mixed-methods approach, all signs were first analysed quantitatively according to the categories of authors and function. Regression analysis was used to explore correlations between the categories. Secondly, multilingual signs were analysed qualitatively regarding their function and purpose in relation to their contexts. Our results illustrate a city centre with a strong presence of the Swedish language. Multilingual signs target specific groups and are intended for information, advertisement, rules and regulations; moreover, our findings indicate that the opportunities for private actors to influence the linguistic landscape are limited. The form of multilingualism in this context—visible multilingualism present mainly through English—is different from the one we can see in the socio-demographic data.

Virtual reality, VR, has become more popular in the last decade thanks to the rapid development of the technology, and thanks to becoming more accessible. One of the demands that users have is that the VR experience should be immersive, which means that the computer-generated world should be perceived as if it was real. This is achieved by taking all senses into account. In addition to the visual impression, the sound is essential and contributes information to the user. When locating audio sources, a three-dimensional sound image is necessary. A part of the localization includes estimating the distance to the audio source. Our perception of distance is based upon two impressions, the volume and the relationship between direct and diffuse sound. The direct sound is the sound that reaches the listener directly, and the diffuse sound is the sound that arrives at the listener after being reflected against the surroundings [4]. This study aims to explore how the relationship between direct and diffuse sound affects the perception of distance to audio sources in VR. The study consisted of two phases: A design phase for building the test environment and a test phase where physical tests were conducted. The test environment was built in Unity and consisted of four scenes, two of which were for educational purposes and two for test purposes. It was also analyzed whether any previous experience of VR or playing an instrument affected the result. No evident trends could be seen in the results, and therefore no conclusions could be drawn from the study. Noticeable from the data was that the answers became more extreme when the reverberation was increased. And that the answers were more evenly distributed when the reverberation was reduced. It was also noted that the reverberation affected the participants' perception of space more than the perception of distance. The most prominent reasons for the vague result are believed to be that the study group was too small and that the, Virtuell verklighet, VR, har blivit mer och mer populärt under det senaste årtiondet tack vare att tekniken utvecklats och tack vare att den har blivit mer tillgänglig. Ett av de största kraven som användarna ställer på VR-upplevelsen är att den ska vara omslutande, vilket innebär att den datorgenererade världen ska uppfattas som om den var verklig. För att det ska uppnås måste alla sinnen tas i beaktning. Förutom synintrycket, är ljudupplevelsen ett viktigt stimuli som bidrar med information till användaren. För att kunna lokalisera ljudkällor är en tredimensionell ljudbild nödvändig. En del av lokaliseringen innefattar att uppskatta avståndet till ljudkällan. Vår avståndsuppfattning bygger på två intryck, ljudstyrkan och förhållandet mellan direkt och diffust ljud. Det direkta ljudet är det ljud som når lyssnaren direkt och det diffusa ljudet är det som når lyssnaren efter att ha reflekterats mot omgivningen [4]. Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur förhållandet mellan direkt och diffust ljud påverkar avståndsuppfattningen till ljudkällor i VR. Studien har bestått av två faser: En designfas där testmiljön byggdes, och en testfas där det utfördes fysiska tester på deltagarna. Testmiljön byggdes i Unity och bestod av fyra scener, varav två var i utbildande syfte och de andra två utgjorde testet. Det analyserades även om tidigare erfarenhet av VR eller instrumentspelande hade någon påverkan på resultatet. Det gick inte att se några tydliga trender i resultatet och därav kan inga slutsatser dras av undersökningen. Det mest utmärkande i datan var att svaren blev mer extrema vid ökad efterklang och mer jämt fördelade vid minskad efterklang. Det noterades att efterklangen påverkade deltagarnas rumsuppfattning mer än uppfattningen om avståndet till ljudkällan. De mest framträdande anledningarna till det vaga resultatet tros vara att studiegruppen var för liten och att testet var för svårt. Den använda programvaran har även haft påverkan på utfallet. Trots att inga

Denna uppsats är skriven som en del av Medie och Kommunikationsvetenskap fortsättningskurs (MKVA22) vid Institutionen för kommunikation och medier vid Lunds universitet. Uppsatsens författare är Hugo Granstedt Hillve och Cecilia Malmberg. Uppsatsen ämnar att närmare undersöka och analysera ett antal artiklar berörande det nyligen uppkomna kriget mellan Ukraina och Ryssland, våren 2022, samt den roll medieplattformen Meta har spelat i sammanhanget. Urvalet föll på fyra artiklar, två uppenbart kritiska mot facebook eller västvärlden och två som till synes stämmer överens med rådande ideologisk hegemoni i väst. Analysen gjordes i relation till begreppet framing, som innebär att skaparen, medvetet eller omedvetet, presenterar information via ett bestämt system värderingar och antaganden. Begreppet hegemoni utifrån Antonio Gramsci behandlades även för att förstå sambandet mellan ideologi, politik och medier. Arbetet gjordes genom en kvalitativ textanalys och vilar på hermeneutisk grund. Genom analysen kunde ett flertal slutsatser av de undersökta artiklarna dras. Till exempel konstaterades det att en av artiklarna motsätter sig vad som skulle kunna kallas en väst-hegemonisk dominerad frame, medans en annan passar mycket bekvämt in i en västvänlig och antirysk frame. På grund av dess uppenbara utpekning av dolda maktstrukturer kunde en av artiklarna även klassificeras som anti-hegemonisk.