Communicating Sustainability A qualitative analysis of corporate communication of sustainability in the ICT-sector

Master´s thesis in Social Communication (KOM501)The purpose of this thesis is to gain a richer understanding of how an IT corporation view, value and communicate sustainability, with regards to stakeholders. This is based upon an increased focus on sustainability and sustainable development in society. There is a lot of academic studies concerning the concept of sustainability or organizational sustainability, furthermore there is extensive research with regards to Green IT and how this can contribute to a sustainable future. However, this thesis position itself in between, exploring the effects of communicating sustainability specifically in the IT industry. This study is based upon one medium-sized IT corporation with Norwegian owners. In total, 12 interviews were conducted. These were qualitative interviews, performed based upon a structured/semi-structured method, and further analyzed with thematic analysis. The study based itself on sustainability theory, stakeholder theory and corporate communication theory. The study provide support for sustainability theory. Financial sustainability seemed to be one of the main drivers. As of now, profit still seems to be the stronger sustainable factor, compared to people or planet, however the study showed willingness and understanding from informants and corporation strategy that all dimensions need to be supported for a sustainable future. The study also showed support for stakeholder theory, however with an increased focus in communication towards contractual stakeholders, compared to community stakeholders. The study showed that even though the corporation has increased its focus on sustainability, several employees, especially those not in the management, had less knowledge about the green shift and sustainability. This can be an indication that corporate identity and corporate strategy has not been communicated thoroughl

Når døde børn er livets gave - Unisex moderskab og organdonation i USA

Dead children as ";the gift of life";. Unisex motherhood and organ donation in America The focus of this article is how American women, especially mothers of organ donors dominate organizational support efforts for donor families, the implications this has for men, and the many new understandings of motherhood this medical context gives rise to. Based on anthropological field studies from the US, this article analyses the efforts of American organ organizations to support and comfort families in the time after the organ donation and explores the limited options for men to engage in this interaction, except by acting like ‘mothers'. By exploring how women speak about donation and engage in many different social relations to organ recipients and others, this article give rise to new perceptions of motherhood and discusses how gender is acted out in this particular field

Facilitating Peer-feedback as Competence in Project-Oriented Online Teaching

Peer-feedback is a popular activity in the competence-oriented university education, which has been significant in Denmark since around 2000 (Christiansen et al., 2015). Learning not only how to receive, but also how to provide peer-feedback facilitates so-called “deep learning”, in which the students reflect on their own learning process and develop their own selfevaluation competences (Nicol et al., 2014). As such, peer feedback feeds into concepts of student centered and dialogue based leaning, which prescribe that students’ leaning outcome increase, when they act as active participants and co-producers of the teaching and learning situation (CookSather et al., 2014). Furthermore, in imitating the academic peer review process, peer-feedback has been highlighted as a way to construct research based learning that helps the students to develop a critical approach to academic knowledge production (Horst, 2018)

Kirkegaardens Træer - Pyramideelm

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