Depth and structure of international news in Swedish press 1974

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Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Lowe Hedman - Uppsala University, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History.

Description

The material has been collected from 13 Swedish dailies (Aftonbladet, Expressen, Göteborgs-Posten, Dagens Nyheter, Svenska Dagbladet, Arbetet, Kvällsposten, Västerbottens-Kuriren, Norrtelje Tidning, Dala-Demokraten, Gotlands Allehanda, Västernorrlands Allehanda and Östersunds-Posten). The issues that the study intends to elucidate is: amount of international material; amount of international material in comparison with the total material; differences between various newspapers; distribution among various countries, international organizations etc.; type of events; space allocated to different types of events; origin of news, news sources; sources referred to when using foreign material; one-sided, diversified or ´neutral´ reports; use of summaries merely; the extent of background descriptions, explanations, analyses etc.

Subject area

Media, International politics and organisations (CESSDA Topic Classification)
Social Sciences (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)

Principal organisation

Uppsala University

Responsible department/unit

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Lowe Hedman - Uppsala University, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History.

Identifiers

SND-ID: SND 0139

Description

The material has been collected from 13 Swedish dailies (Aftonbladet, Expressen, Göteborgs-Posten, Dagens Nyheter, Svenska Dagbladet, Arbetet, Kvällsposten, Västerbottens-Kuriren, Norrtelje Tidning, Dala-Demokraten, Gotlands Allehanda, Västernorrlands Allehanda and Östersunds-Posten). The issues that the study intends to elucidate is: amount of international material; amount of international material in comparison with the total material; differences between various newspapers; distribution among various countries, international organizations etc.; type of events; space allocated to different types of events; origin of news, news sources; sources referred to when using foreign material; one-sided, diversified or ´neutral´ reports; use of summaries merely; the extent of background descriptions, explanations, analyses etc.

Language

Swedish

Time period(s) investigated

1974-11-01 — 1974-12-01

Geographic spread

Geographic location: Sweden

Unit of analysis

Population

13 daily newspapers in Sweden (6 big-city papers and 7 provincial papers).

Time Method

Data contains personal data

No

Subject area

Media, International politics and organisations (CESSDA Topic Classification)
Social Sciences (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)

Associated documentation

0139q.pdf

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Depth and structure of international news in Swedish press 1974

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Lowe Hedman - Uppsala University, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History.

Data format / data structure

Numeric

Data collection

Time period(s) for data collection: 1974-11-01 — 1974-12-01

Source of the data: Communications: Public

Variables

89

Number of individuals/objects

1150

Published: 1983-01-01
Last updated: 2019-02-06