Medan vi äro i krig för demokratin : Svenskspråkiga tidningar i USA och dess gestaltning av obligatorisk värnplikt år 1917

Sammanfattning: This thesis aims to explore how the Swedish-language newspapers in the USA fraimd the debate regarding compulsory conscription that came with the law selective service act in 1917. Furthermore, the thesis aims to show whether any identities are addressed in the newspaper articles. The thesis aims to explore if the newspapers politics were decisive for which identity was addressed, and if different identities were addressed because of politics in the newspapers. Robert M Entman wrote aboute framing and his thoughts are important to the thesis´s method and theory. Entmans four codes Promote a particular problem definition, causal interpretation, moral evaluation, and treatment recommendation will be used in the thesis´s analysis. The newspapers which is used in the thesis is Svenska Amerikanaren, Svea, Svenska Tribunen, Svenska Folkets Tidning, Svenska Amerikanska Posten, Svenska tribunen-nyheter, Svenska Monitoren, Alarm and Svenska Socialisten. The results of the thesis shoes tow diffrent framings in the newspapers. Both patriotic to the country they live in but in diffrent ways. One framing is talking about protect democracy and peace and working against compulsory conscription. The other is talking about protecting democracy and honor by joining compulsory conscription. Tow patriotic identities are portrayed in the newspapers that are called "Loyalty to democracy and the new fatherland" and "Protect democracy" in the thesis. The first patriotic identity is addressed in the liberal and conservative newspapers through their framing of compulsory conscription. The second patriotic identity is addressed in the socialist newspapers through their framing of compulsory conscription.