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- Strömbäck, Jesper, et al.
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Structural Bias in British and Swedish Election News Coverage : A Comparative Study
- 2006
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Ingår i: Midwest Political Science Association. - Chicago. ; , s. 1-20
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Election campaigns in advanced democracies around the world are highly mediated events. Thus, the electorate has come to depend upon the media for information regarding the election, the candidates, the parties and their policies. At the same time, previous research indicates that the news coverage of elections tends to be structurally biased, in the sense that the media coverage is episodic rather than thematic and that it is focused on the horse race and the political strategies of the competing parties rather than on the issues at stake. However, since most of the previous research has been carried out in the United States and Britain, the prevalence of this kind of structural bias in other countries with other media systems and political systems is still rather unknown. Therefore, the purpuse of this study is to compare the election news coverage in Britain and Sweden, two countries that are part of different models of media and political systems. Whereas Britain is part of the liberal model, Sweden is part of the democratic corporatist model. The study investigates the election news coverage in two major broadsheets and one major tabloid in each country, the last three weeks before the Swedish Election in 2002 and the British Election in 2005.
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- Strömbäck, Jesper, et al.
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Structural Biases in British and Swedish Election News Coverage
- 2007
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Ingår i: Journalism Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1461-670X .- 1469-9699. ; 8:5, s. 798-812
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Election campaigns in advanced democracies are highly mediated events. Thus, the electorate has come to depend upon the media for information regarding the election, the parties and their policies. At the same time, research indicates that the news coverage of elections tends to be structurally biased, in the sense that the media coverage is episodic rather than thematic and that it is focused on the horse race and the political strategies of the competing parties rather than on the issues at stake. However, comparative studies of election news coverage in different countries are still somewhat lacking. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to compare the election news coverage in Britain and Sweden, two countries that are part of different models of media and political systems. The study investigates the election news coverage in two major broadsheets and one major tabloid in each country, during the last three weeks before the Swedish Election in 2002 and the British Election in 2005. The results show several significant differences between the Swedish and the British election news coverage.
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- Dahlgren, Peter, 1983, et al.
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Reinforcing spirals at work? Mutual influences between selective news exposure and ideological leaning
- 2019
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Ingår i: European Journal of Communication. - : SAGE Publications. - 0267-3231 .- 1460-3705. ; 34:2
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The growth of partisan news sources has raised concerns that people will increasingly select attitude-consistent information, which might lead to increasing political polarization. Thus far, there is limited research on the long-term mutual influences between selective exposure and political attitudes. To remedy this, this study investigates the reciprocal influences between selective exposure and political attitudes over several years, using a three-wave panel survey conducted in Sweden during 2014–2016. More specifically, we analyse how ideological selective exposure to both traditional and online news media influences citizens’ ideological leaning. Findings suggest that (1) people seek-out ideologically consistent print news and online news and (2) such attitude-consistent news exposure reinforces citizens’ ideological leaning over time. In practice, however, such reinforcement effects are hampered by (3) relatively low overall ideological selective exposure and a (4) significant degree of cross-cutting news exposure online. These findings are discussed in light of selective exposure theory and the reinforcing spirals model.
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- Ekström, Mats, 1961, et al.
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Spaces for public orientation? : Longitudinal effects of Internet use in adolescence
- 2014
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Ingår i: Information, Communication and Society. - 1369-118X .- 1468-4462. ; 17:2, s. 168-183
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The article departs from an overarching research question: How does young people's engagement in different Internet spaces affect the development of their public orientation during adolescence? It analyses longitudinal panel data in order to explore how young people's public orientation develops during a phase in life (13-20) which is critical for political socialization. Data are derived from three waves of data collection among young people who were 13-17 years old at the time for the first data collection. The concept public orientation is measured by three indicators: young people's values, interests and everyday peer talk. These indicators are analysed with reference to respondents' Internet orientations, which we conceptualize as four separate but inter-related spaces (a news space, a space for social interaction, a game space and a creative space). The results primarily emphasize the importance of orientations towards news space and space for social interaction. Overall, the findings strongly suggest that orientations towards these spaces are related to adolescents' public orientation. The findings confirm the centrality of news and information in political socialization, but they also challenge the idea that social media facilities - such as Facebook, Twitter and blogging - enable forms of social interaction and creative production that have an overall positive impact on young people's public orientation.
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- Falasca, Kajsa, 1976-, et al.
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Priming Effects During the Financial Crisis : Accessibility and applicability mechanisms behind government approval
- 2013
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study investigates priming effects during the global financial crisis that erupted in September 2008. Using two longitudinal data sources on public opinion dynamics in Sweden between 2007 and 2010, we find no evidence of a basic priming hypothesis. Despite a substantial increase in negative media coverage of the economy and a clear growth in public concern, citizens did not attach greater weight to economic considerations in their government approval assessments following the outbreak of the economic crisis. Drawing upon the distinction between accessibility and applicability mechanisms, however, additional analysis shows that priming of economic considerations was moderated by citizens' attributions of responsibility for current economic developments. Citizens who primarily considered the ups and downs of the Swedish economy as being a result of the financial crisis were substantially less inclined to let their economic perceptions influence government approval than those who viewed economic developments as caused by government action. These results support the notion of priming as a two-step process, whereby heavy news coverage of the financial crisis increases the accessibility of economic considerations among the audience, but whether these considerations are used in government approval assessments depends on their perceived applicability as well.
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- Holt, Kristoffer, et al.
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Age and the effects of news media attention and social media use on political interest and participation : Do social media function as leveller?
- 2013
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Ingår i: European Journal of Communication. - London : SAGE Publications. - 0267-3231 .- 1460-3705. ; 28:1, s. 19-34
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article investigates how media use differs across age groups- and whether this matters for people's inclination to participate politically. More specifically, the study investigates the impact of social media use for political purposes and of attention to political news in traditional media, on political interest and offline political participation. The findings, based on a four-wave panel study conducted during the 2010 Swedish national election campaign, show (1) clear differences in media use between age groups and (2) that both political social media use and attention to political news in traditional media increase political engagement over time. Thus, this study suggests that frequent social media use among young citizens can function as a leveller in terms of motivating political participation.
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