Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Kent Asp - University of Gothenburg, Department of Journalism Media and Communication

Description

This is the third study of the political contents in press, radio and television within the research projects ´Mass media and the electorate´ and ´Swedish election campaign´ and it was carried out in connection with the 1982 general election. It is a detailed campaign study of news reporting in the press, radio and television during the last four weeks before the day of the referendum.

Purpose:

To describe, identify and analyse media's reporting of the election campaign 1982.

Language

Swedish

Research principal, contributors, and funding

Research principal

University of Gothenburg

Responsible department/unit

Department of Political Science

Funding

Funding agency: Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation

Protection and ethical review

Data contains personal data

Method and time period

Unit of analysis

Media unit: Text

Population

Nyhetsanalysen: Artikel (storstadstidningar), inslag (radio/TV) Ledaranalysen: Ledarartikel (storstadstidningar)

Time Method

Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross-section

Sampling procedure

Non-probability: Purposive

Time period(s) investigated

1982

Geographic coverage

Geographic spread

Geographic location: Sweden

Topic and keywords

Research area

Media, Elections, Political ideology (CESSDA Topic Classification)
Social Sciences, Political Science, Media Studies (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)

Keywords

elections, mass media, politics, mass media exposure, newspaper press, election broadcasting, radio news, news, television news, news flow, internal politics, party politics, politicians, press, mass media coverage

Publications

Asp, K., Hedberg, P., & Esaiasson, P. (1985) Massmedieundersökning : valet 1982 : teknisk rapport. Göteborg: Department of Political Science. ISSN 0282-311X.
ISSN: 0282-311X

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Dataset

Media election survey 1982 - News analysis

Associated documentation

0200kb.pdf

Version 2.0

2014-08-14
https://doi.org/10.5878/002153

Citation

Kent Asp. University of Gothenburg (2014). Media election survey 1982 - News analysis. Swedish National Data Service. Version 2.0. https://doi.org/10.5878/002153

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Data format / data structure

Numeric

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Kent Asp - University of Gothenburg, Department of Journalism Media and Communication

Keywords

elections, mass media, politics, mass media exposure, newspaper press, election broadcasting, radio news, news, television news, news flow, internal politics, politicians, press, mass media coverage

Time period(s) investigated

1982

Data collection

Mode of collection: Content coding
Time period(s) for data collection: 1982-08-19–1982-09-19
Data collector: University of Gothenburg, Department of Statistics
Source of the data: Communications: Public

Variables

128

Number of individuals/objects

5861