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On Martin Johansson's Blog – Theme 2, Reflection

Hi Martin Johansson!

I also found the culture industry part to be the most interesting, with their standardized products and focus on the money aspect. You wrote a little bit about the Internet as a new media, but also that it is an interactive one. Since the Internet is becoming more and more used as a distribution channel (skipping the traditional CD-production for example) and with high quality recording and editing-equipment becoming cheaper everyday, I think it's pretty interesting to see if we will witness a change from big companies deciding what culture is, to the individuals deciding it. Maybe we won't even have big music corporations trying to put artists in the "boyband" or "Idol"-folder that you wrote about, which will leave the whole (or at least most of the) process to the artists and therefore getting a more diverse, non-standardized, media culture.

On Gustav Boström's Blog – Theme 1, Reflection

Hey Gustav!

I agree with you on the point that we should question things more than we do. But I don't think that it applies more to you than others, I think that almost everybody (including myself) should spend more time questioning things in our everyday life. It's pretty clear when reading the commentator's field or forum posts that most of them only have one reference supporting their claim, for example referring to an article on Aftonbladet when questioned by another commentator. And since mass media usually has their own agenda and choose a specific point-of-view on a topic - whether deliberately or not - I think it's important to form our opinions using more than one source if possible, and try to stick to unbiased media. And stretching it a bit more, maybe it would be a good thing for us to not just question our "truths" but also ourselves and our actions.  - Gustav Boström, Theme 1 Reflection

On Ingrid Larsson's Blog – Theme 4

Hi Ingrid!

I agree with you that loneliness is a bit more complex topic than a question of setting points to a 4-point scale. I think that setting points on this topic doesn't put much effort into deep reflection and might be more affected by how you're feeling at that specific time. But I think that it's okay to use to get a more general - even though far from ideal - pattern on how it correlates to social media usage since there is a large amount of users answering the questionaire. But since it's a four-scale system you HAVE to claim that you're either less or more lonely than the normal which may be a bit misrepresenting if you really feel like you're in the middle (even though these problems might be "solved" when summing and taking an average) . But then again, if it would have been a 5-point system people might be more prone to place themselves in the middle than really taking a stance, which is also a problem. It's not an easy task. - Ingrid Larsson, Theme 4

On Adam Rosén's Blog – Theme 6, Reflection

Good afternoon Adam!

Great to stumble upon your text, since I've never heard of the narrative method before neither and wouldn't have considered it being a valid source of information. But then again, maybe statements in an interview doesn't differ that much from the autobiographies since the amount of truth to the story is still a responsibility from the interviewee/writer. In one way I think autobiographies might even be more reliable since many of them are critically reviewed by several people, not just the ones doing the research. Of course, as always, it depends on the case. You wrote that you didn't think that the conclusion part was that good, was it due to the narrative method that they used or was it because the ones writing the paper did a bad job drawing conclusion from the material?