Smygrasism i Sverige : En diskursiv analys om konstruktionen av smygrasism i svenska medier

Sammanfattning: This thesis focuses on the quiet racism of Swedish news channels and analyzes the language used. The aim is to explore how quiet racism is constructed and portrayed, using two Swedish news channels, Skånska Dagbladet and Expressen, using a total of 12 articles combined. The study uses a discourse analysis as well as the framing theory as tools to reach the purpose with the thesis. From a discourse perspective, language is considered to play a role in people's experiences of the world and how they behave towards their fellow humans. It is also through discourses that our social and political world is formed causing it to have an important role of study when interpreting information regarding news and racism. The thesis has a main purpose: 1) to investigate how the construction of quiet racism is practiced in two different news channels as well as a sub-purpose 2) to perform a method review on the quantitative model SCM usage in a qualitative study. The study uses muslims as the research subject where muslims in relation to racism has been problematized. The chosen articles that have been analyzed are related to the controversial and much discussed burnings of the islamic holy script, The Quran, in Sweden in order to add to the societal relevance. The results demonstrate that there are three main themes that show quiet racism in the previously named news channels. These three are: 1) Muslims as scapegoats, 2) “Us versus them” and, 3) Bad associations (paint everyone with the same brush). The result also brings to light how the news channels promote quiet racism through these themes by actively choosing to describe muslims with an aggressive attribute, as well as, describing them as a threat to the country's democracy.