Functions of the press: Organizations´ study - Study of associations
SND-ID: snd0132-1. Version: 1.0. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5878/3ye3-yd31
Citation
Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Lennart Weibull - University of Gothenburg, Department of Journalism Media and Communication
Lars Aldemark - University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science
Research principal
University of Gothenburg
- Department of Political Science
Description
This study is part of the research programme The Role of the Press in Society, a project initiated by the 1972 Commission of tbe Press. The starting point for the research programme was the situation in the Swedish press at the beginning of 1970ies. At the time the newspaper market in Sweden seemed to be at some sort of changing point. The party press structure had been broken up by the concentration process on the newspaper market. On the other hand new types of newspaper were expanding. At the same time millions of SEK went to the newspaper industry from the government. For many newspapers this money seemed to be the only way of keeping alive. At this point the question put by the 1972 Commission of the Press was: how meaningful are those subsidies? According to which principles shall subsidies be given? To answer these questions other questions had to be asked: Which role do newspaper play in the Swedish society of today? Which significance do they have for the work of a democratic political system? For the reporting of political news? For the public opinion formation?
The survey illustrate
The survey illustrates how organizations regard their relation to the local area, to the general public and members and which part various types of media play in the work of the organization. Further some questions were put about which role the daily press should have in political life. Show less..
Data contains personal data
No
Language
Unit of analysis
Population
Unavailable
Time Method
Sampling procedure
Utgångspunkten för forskningsprojektets val av geografiska områden för intensivstudium var de sk blockregionerna. Dessa bedömdes vara de mest lämpliga urvalsenheterna, bl a därför att de också utnyttjas i den officiella tidningsstatistiken. Blockregionerna är också lätthanterliga för mer detaljerade studier på kommunnivå. Urvalet av undersökningsenheter skedde i två steg. Först uppställdes en urvalsram. Denna bestämdes av tre huvudvariabler: socioekonomisk struktur, politisk situation och konkurrensläge på tidningsmarknaden, både regionalt och lokalt. Som mått på den socioekonomiska strukturen utgick man från tätortsgraden i respektive blockregion. Politisk struktur bestämdes genom att andelen socialdemokratiskt/kommunistiskt (vpk) röstande jämfördes med andelen som röstade på borgerliga (m,fp,c) partier. Någon hänsyn till partier utan riksdagsrepresentation togs ej. Med utgångspunkt från graden av lokal och regional konkurrens på tidningsmarknaden gjordes därefter en indelning av de 70 blockregionerna. Utifrån fördelningen av blockregioner valdes 30 regioner som preliminära undersökningsenhet
... Show more..Time period(s) investigated
1973-05-18
Variables
170
Number of individuals/objects
725
Data format / data structure
Geographic spread
Geographic location: Sweden
Geographic description: Malmö, Trelleborg, Göteborg, Lerum, Västerås, Hallstahammar, Falun and Leksand
Responsible department/unit
Department of Political Science
Research area
Social sciences (Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2011)
Media (CESSDA Topic Classification)
Aldemark, L., & Weibull, L. (1974) Attitudes of political organizations to mass media. A report from the research programme 'The Role of the Press in Society'. Paper prepared for the European Consortium for Political Research Workshop on The Political Role of Mass Media, Strasbourg, March 1974. Göteborg: Department of Political Science.
Svensk press. Pressens funktioner i samhället. SOU 1975:78. Stockholm: LiberFörlag.
Libris
ISBN:
9138024756
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