Creator/Principal investigator(s)

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

Description

This is a detailed campaign survey of the news covering in press, radio, and television during the last four weeks before the election day. Surveys similar to this have been conducted in connection with each parliamentary elections since 1979, and at the referendum on nuclear power in 1980. 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 1998.

Language

Swedish

Research principal, contributors, and funding

Research principal

University of Gothenburg

Responsible department/unit

Department of Journalism Media and Communication

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

Time period(s) investigated

1998-08-23 – 1998-09-20

Geographic coverage

Geographic spread

Geographic location: Sweden

Topic and keywords

Research area

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

Keywords

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

Publications

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Johansson, Bengt, Asp, Kent & Nilsson, Åsa (2001). Medievalsundersökningen 1998. Göteborg University
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Asp, K., Johansson, B., & Nilsson, Å. (2000) Medievalsundersökningen 1998 : teknisk rapport. Work report. Göteborg: Department of Journalism and Mass Communication.
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Dataset

Media election survey 1998

Associated documentation

0633kb.pdf

Version 2.0

2014-06-27
https://doi.org/10.5878/002099

Citation

Kent Asp. University of Gothenburg (2014). Media election survey 1998. Swedish National Data Service. Version 2.0. https://doi.org/10.5878/002099

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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

Time period(s) investigated

1998

Data collection

Mode of collection: Content coding
Time period(s) for data collection: 1998-08-23–1998-09-20
Data collector: University of Gothenburg, Department of Journalism Media and Communication
Source of the data: Communications: Public

Variables

100

Number of individuals/objects

6256