Depth and structure of international news in Swedish press 1974

SND-ID: SND 0139

Description Data and documentation

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.

Language

Swedish

Research principal, contributors, and funding

Research principal

Uppsala University

Responsible department/unit

Uppsala University, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History.
Protection and ethical review

Data contains personal data

No

Method

Unit of analysis

Population

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

Time Method

Time period(s) investigated

1974-11-01–1974-12-01

Geographic coverage

Geographic spread

Geographic location: Sweden

Topic and keywords

Subject area

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

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Depth and structure of international news in Swedish press 1974

Associated documentation

Data format / data structure

Numeric

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

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

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