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När döden blir underhållning: Dödens placering i vardagsrummet - den digitala estetiken och dess influens på människan
Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Education and Sociology.
Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Education and Sociology.
2026 (Swedish)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesisAlternative title
When death becomes entertainment : Death's placement in the livingroom - the digital aesthetic and its influence on man (English)
Abstract [sv]

Denna studie avsåg att förstå hur döden blir till underhållning gällande konflikten i Ukraina på Reddits underforum UkraineWarVideoReport, i syfte att fördjupa förståelsen av hur autentiska dödsrepresentationer uppfattas och tolkas av användare, samt hur dödsrepresentationerna medieras och estetiseras. Studien samlade in data genom skuggande netnografiska observationer på underforumet. I analysen användes ett abduktivt förhållningssätt, där teorier av Baudrillard (1994), Debord (2002) och Goffman (1959), ständigt konsulterades med empirin i enlighet med en fenomenologisk metodologi. Huvudresultatet visar på att den medierade döden bär på ett underhållningsvärde. Videorna vilka analyserades estetiserades ofta på ett sätt för att uppmana eller framkalla ett underhållningsvärde hos tittare, medan kommentarsfälten ofta var präglade av teman såsom humor, beundran och fiktiva referenser, men även moraliska bekymmer. Slutsatserna var att användare ofta uppfattar och tolkar videomaterialet som underhållning, och att videorna i sig ofta förmedlas på en förskönad, estetiserad och fiktiv nivå; växelverkan mellan kommentarerna och videorna möjliggjorde ett förstärkande av inneboende underhållningsmening i kontexten.

Abstract [en]

This study aimed to understand how death becomes entertainment in relation to the conflict in Ukraine on Reddit’s subforum UkraineWarVideoReport, with the purpose of deepening understanding of how authentic representations of death are perceived and interpreted by users, as well as how these representations are mediated and aestheticized. The study collected data through shadowing netnographic observations on the subforum. The analysis employed an abductive approach, in which theories by Baudrillard (1994), Debord (2002), and Goffman (1959) were continuously consulted alongside the empirical material in accordance with a phenomenological methodology. The main findings show that mediated death carries entertainment value. The videos that were analyzed were often aestheticized in ways that encouraged or evoked entertainment value among viewers, while the comment sections were frequently characterized by themes such as humor, admiration, and fictional references, as well as moral concerns. The conclusions were that users often perceive and interpret the video material as entertainment, and that the videos themselves are often conveyed on an idealized, aestheticized, and fictionalized level; the interaction between comments and videos enabled a reinforcement of the inherent entertainment meaning within the context.

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2026. , p. 71
Keywords [en]
Death, Entertainment, War, Ukraine, Reddit, UkraineWarVideoReport, Aesthetics, Suffering, Media, Netnography
Keywords [sv]
Död, Underhållning, Krig, Ukraina, Reddit, UkraineWarVideoReport, Estetik, Lidande, Media, Netnografi
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Sociology (Excluding Social Work, Social Anthropology, Demography and Criminology)
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URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-220691OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-220691DiVA, id: diva2:2031268
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Sociology
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2026-01-14, KG42, Linköpings universitet 58329, Linköping, 09:15 (Swedish)
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Available from: 2026-02-03 Created: 2026-01-22 Last updated: 2026-02-03Bibliographically approved

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