Daily press journalists and the foreign information 1974/1975

Creator/Principal investigator(s):

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

Description:

This study is a part of a research project about trials to spread information on developing countries through multimedia (see SND 0146). The purpose of this survey was to describe some important characteristics of people within the daily press who are responsible for the foreign material. Some of the questions dealt with evaluation of news, problem awareness in relation to the work, opinions on the news supply, and the purpose of the selection of information about developing countries. Other questions were similar to those put in Information about developing countries (SND 0146) and World picture of opinion leaders (SND 0126); threats against the future, attitudes to different kinds of help to developing countries, and reason for not being concerned with developing countries.

Subject area:

information society, international politics and organisations, media (CESSDA Topic Classification)
Social Sciences (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)

Keywords:

developing countries, international relations, newspaper readership, periodicals readership, development aid, newspaper press, news, journalism, news flow, international politics

Principal organisation:

Uppsala University

Accessibility status:

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Creator/Principal investigator(s):

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

Identifiers:

SND-ID: SND 0170

Description:

This study is a part of a research project about trials to spread information on developing countries through multimedia (see SND 0146). The purpose of this survey was to describe some important characteristics of people within the daily press who are responsible for the foreign material. Some of the questions dealt with evaluation of news, problem awareness in relation to the work, opinions on the news supply, and the purpose of the selection of information about developing countries. Other questions were similar to those put in Information about developing countries (SND 0146) and World picture of opinion leaders (SND 0126); threats against the future, attitudes to different kinds of help to developing countries, and reason for not being concerned with developing countries.

Language:

Swedish

Time period(s) investigated:

1974-11-01 — 1975-02-01

Geographic spread:

Geographic location: Sweden

Unit of analysis:

Population:

People within the daily press responsible for foreign material

Time Method:

Subject area:

information society, international politics and organisations, media (CESSDA Topic Classification)
Social Sciences (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)

Keywords:

developing countries, international relations, newspaper readership, periodicals readership, development aid, newspaper press, news, journalism, news flow, international politics

Available documentation:

Questionnaire telephone interview (Swedish)

Questionnaire (Swedish)

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Hedman, L. (1978) Svenskarna och u-hjälpen. En studie av den svenska allmänheten, lokala opinionsbildare och journalister. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International. (Swedish public opinion on development aid. A study of the Swedish public, local opinion-makers and journalists; with a summary in English). ISBN: 91-554-0829-X.
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Version 1.0:

1989-02-01 doi:10.5878/000884

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Daily press journalists and the foreign information 1974/1975

Citation:

Lowe Hedman. Uppsala University, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History. (1989). Daily press journalists and the foreign information 1974/1975. Swedish National Data Service. Version 1.0. https://doi.org/10.5878/000884

Data format / data structure:

Numeric

Data collection:

Mode of collection: Telephone interview

Time period(s) for data collection: 1974-11-01 — 1975-02-01

Data collector: Uppsala University, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History.

Source of the data: Population group

Variables:

173

Number of individuals/objects:

189