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Media, Trust and Information

SND-ID: 2022-93

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Anne Kaun - Södertörn University, School for Culture and Education orcid

Peter Jakobsson - Uppsala University orcid

Fredrik Stiernstedt - Södertörn University, School for Culture and Education orcid

Description

The proposed urgent project has the purpose to collect thick, qualitative material on how citizens’ media trust evolves during the Corona pandemic. During the last two decades discussions of a crisis of trust have been emerging in democratic societies. Contemporary debates about fake news and disinformation have contributed further to the challenges of shrinking trust in especially the media. The Corona pandemic has made research into media trust even more important. In turbulent times, the amount and speed of misinformation, i.e. false information that is spread unknowingly, and disinformation, i.e. false information that is spread deliberately, accelerates. The proposed project will document the development of media trust in Sweden with the help of diaries and in-depth interviews. It is a unique opportunity to see media trust rapidly changing that will allow us to learn for future crises, but also help to re-conceptualize media trust more generally. The collected material will be made accessible for other research projects.

Language

Swedish

Research principal, contributors, and funding

Research principal

Södertörns högskola

Principal's reference number

2020/2325

Responsible department/unit

School for Culture and Communication

Funding

  • Funding agency: Formas
  • Funding agency's reference number: 2020-00632_Formas
  • Project name on the application: Media, trust and information during the Corona crisis
Protection and ethical review

Data contains personal data

No

Method and time period

Unit of analysis

Population

Swedish population, aged 18-65 year

Time Method

Sampling procedure

Non-probability: Quota sample
Non-probability: Availability
Participants were recruited from Kantar Sifos online panel

Time period(s) investigated

2020-08-15 – 2021-01-31

Geographic coverage

Geographic spread

Geographic location: Sweden

Topic and keywords

Research area

MEDIA, COMMUNICATION AND LANGUAGE, Media (CESSDA Topic Classification)
Media and Communications, Media Studies, Communication Studies (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)

Keywords

trust, communication (information exchange), pandemics, information sources, media trust, covid 19, trust

Publications

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Stiernstedt, F. (2021). The voices we trust : Public trust in news and information about COVID-19 on Swedish Radio. Radio Journal, 19(2).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/rjao_00047_1

Kaun A. Ways of seeing digital disconnection: A negative sociology of digital culture. Convergence. 2021;27(6):1571-1583. doi:10.1177/13548565211045535
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565211045535

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Media, Trust and Information

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Associated documentation

Description

The data consists of 6 files, containing the answers to the interview questions for each survey round. The background variables and questions asked in each round are described in the Readme document.

Version 1

Citation

Anne Kaun, Peter Jakobsson, Fredrik Stiernstedt. Södertörns högskola (2022). Media, Trust and Information. Swedish National Data Service. Version 1. https://doi.org/10.5878/k7xc-4h49

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Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Anne Kaun - Södertörn University, School for Culture and Education orcid

Peter Jakobsson - Uppsala University orcid

Fredrik Stiernstedt - Södertörn University, School for Culture and Education orcid

Keywords

trust, communication (information exchange), pandemics, media trust, trust, covid 19, information sources

Data collection

  • Mode of collection: Self-administered questionnaire
  • Description of the mode of collection: Open questionnaire, has been sent to respondents in 6 waves
  • Time period(s) for data collection: 2020-08-15–2021-01-31
  • Data collector: Kantar Sifo
  • Instrument: Semi-structured questionnaire (Semi-structured questionnaire)
  • Sample size: 100
  • Source of the data: Population group

License

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Published: 2022-09-20