Creator/Principal investigator(s)

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

Description

This is the fifth study of the political contents in press, radio and television within the research projects ´Mass media and the electorate´, ´Swedish election campaign´ and ´Parliament, elections and the representative democracy´ and it was carried out in connection with the 1988 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. See {Media election survey 1979} for more information about the research project.

Purpose:

To describe, identify and analyse media's reporting of the election campaign 1988.

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

Other

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

1988-08-22 – 1988-09-18

Geographic coverage

Geographic spread

Geographic location: Sweden

Topic and keywords

Research area

Media, Elections (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, internal political conflict, party politics, politicians, press, mass media coverage

Publications

Asp, K., & Hedberg, P. (1989) Massmedieundersökning valet 1988. Göteborg: Department of Political Science.

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Media election survey 1988

Associated documentation

0463kb.pdf

Version 2.0

2014-08-12
https://doi.org/10.5878/002148

Citation

Kent Asp. University of Gothenburg (2014). Media election survey 1988. Swedish National Data Service. Version 2.0. https://doi.org/10.5878/002148

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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, internal politics, party politics, politicians, press, mass media coverage

Time period(s) investigated

1988

Data collection

Mode of collection: Content coding
Time period(s) for data collection: 1988-08-22–1988-09-18
Data collector: University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science
Source of the data: Communications: Public

Variables

Number of individuals/objects

7049