In today's digitized society, some phenomena need to be addressed in research in order to build knowledge and understanding that can be used to maintain integrity and safety for individuals. In this paper, we address the problematic issue of smartphone bystanders in accident scenes. Photographs and videos of victims in difficult circumstances, often with no possibilities to claim their own integrity, are widely posted on social media - and the phenomenon seems to be spread in many cultures. Photographs and videos become communicative "data" in content analysis of social media platforms, but what do researchers need to be aware of in analyzing and reporting research findings in this particular area? We believe that interdisciplinary approaches are useful when it comes to exploring and developing ethically informed methodologies in order to safeguard researchers working with sensitive data drawn from social media and the Internet in areas of social complexity.

In Sweden, during the last decade, the artist has come to function as a creative resource in workplaces. There are two organisations, Skiss (Contemporary Artist in the Contemporary Society) and Airis (Artist in Residence), that organise projects for artists and coworkers. These projects are intended to have a positive effect on the well-being of organisations and their employees through artistic means, and the artist often focuses on the social interaction between the employees in their work. The artists’ work involves frequent interaction with coworkers. The aim of this article was to describe how visual artists’ roles as artists are affected by their engagement in artistic and social projects at workplaces in Sweden. The focus in the article is on the social interaction between artists and employees. The study is a qualitative narrative interview study with fine artists participating in different projects in work life. Since the artist’s intervention is usually directed towards social relations in the workplaces, a social perspective on well-being is from a micro-sociological point of view. The categories in the interviews were how the artists worked with the projects, how the social interaction between artists and coworkers worked out, and how the artists evaluated the projects in relation to their ambitions. The results show that, many times, the artistic projects promote well-being in organisations and to some extent benefit the artist, but that the ability of the artists to actually function as artists can be problematic. ©2016 H. Stenberg et al.

In Sweden today, it is customary for visual artists to perform artistic and creative projects in work places. The artists are supposed to bring thoughts, ideas and activities that are not otherwise common in to the work place to strengthen social relations, to influence employees to reflect on their work situation and to promote creativity and well-being. The projects can also at best help artists to establish themselves in new fields in the labor market and to further their development as artists and their artistic methods.

 The aim of the study is to examine visual artists’ new role as creative inspirers at workplaces in perspective of a changed view of the artist as a participant in and a resource for society, rather than art as an internal artistic affair that takes shape based on primarily subjective artistic motivations. This changed view exists in the cultural policy as well as in the art field itself. Focus is on how artistic creativity and activity empirically and theoretically can be described and understood.

 The results show that the projects can benefit organizations and to some extent benefit the artist, but that the possibilities to actually perform as artists also can be limited.

Kapitlet presenterar Erich Fromms socialpsykologiska tänkande. 

Sociala relationer är avgörande i all social och personlig utveckling. Vi befinner oss ständigt mitt i dem - när vi möts ansikte mot ansikte, när vi kommunicerar mobilt och när vi i vår ensamhet begrundar våra liv. Arbete, kärlek, familj, vänskap, ovänskap, konkurrens, avund, försoning - allt är uttryck för sociala relationer.

I denna bok presenteras teorier som betraktar sociala relationer som samhällets viktigaste element. Vi kallar detta perspektiv för relationell socialpsykologi. Det relationella perspektivet sätter människors samspel i förgrunden medan samhälleliga och psykologiska villkor utgör bakgrund. Bokens teorier är redskap för att analysera möten, situationer och interaktioner samt de sociala, emotionella och psykiska konsekvenser dessa kan få.

I boken presenteras klassiska och samtida företrädare för socialpsykologin: George Herbert Mead, Erich Fromm, Simone de Beauvoir, Erving Goffman, Thomas J Scheff, Randall Collins, Arlie Russel Hochschild, Jack Katz, Johan Asplund och George Simmel.

Kapitlet presenterar Simone de Beauvoirs genusteori i ett socialpsykologiskt perspektiv

Utmärkande för människan som social varelse är strävan att skapa och ingå i gemenskaper för att kunna dela och utbyta tankar och känslor med andra. Att skapa gemenskap är inte alltid så lätt i dagens individualiserade samhälle där individer och grupper kontinuerligt söker förändring och utveckling. När sociala villkor förändras kan individens förhållande till gemenskaper komma att bli problematisk samtidigt som nya möjligheter att skapa gemenskap med andra uppstår.

I boken undersöks sociala och relationella förutsättningar för etablerandet av gemenskap i vår samtid; hur gemenskap kan vara meningsfull för deltagarna, hur gemenskap bidrar till gemensamma handlingar och social förändring, hur individen med stöd i gemenskapen kan reflektera över gemenskap och sociala relationer i ett vidare perspektiv samt hur svårigheter att etablera gemenskap i vår tid kan förstås.

I boken presenteras och diskuteras en rad teorier och begrepp användbara för att belysa gemenskapens villkor och betydelser med stöd i berättelser om gemenskap. Perspektivet är i första hand socialpsykologiskt men undersökningen utgår även från sociologiska och psykoanalytiska teorier.