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Communicating Politics. Political Communication in the Nordic Countries
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Modern politics is mediated politics, and the media constitute the most important source of information and channel of communication between the governors and the governed. Media and politics are thus inextricable linked together, with the media playing an important role in contemporary democracies and for political processes. While this is true for virtually all advanced democracies, there are still important differences between countries depending on, for example, their media systems and political systems. The purpose of Communicating Politics: Political Communication in the Nordic Countries is consequently to de-scribe and analyze both the political communication systems and cases of political communication processes in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Taken together, the chapters explore differences as well as similarities between the Nordic countries, and provide a broad view of political communication systems, practices and research perspectives in the Nordic countries.
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- Dimitrova, Daniela V., et al.
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Exploring Structural Differences in Television News between the United States and Sweden
- 2008
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Ingår i: International Communication Association’s Annual Conference.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of this study is to explore structural differences in television news format and news framing between the United States and Sweden. The study focuses on the top three television networks in the United States and the top two public service channels and the leading commercial television channels in Sweden: CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News and ABC World News, and Rapport, Aktuellt and TV4 Nyheterna, respecively. The results of the content analysis reveal significant differences between the two countries across a number of important variables: amount of domestic versus foreign news coverage, level of journalistic visibility, length of politician’s sound bites, attribution of responsibility, and thematic versus episodic framing of the news. The discussion addresses the possible causes for these cross-cultural differences as well as the potential implications for news audiences in both countries.
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- Dimitrova, Daniela V., et al.
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Foreign Policy and the Framing of the 2003 Iraq War in Elite Swedish and US Newspapers
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Ingår i: Media, War & Conflict. - : SAGE Publications. - 1750-6352 .- 1750-6360. ; 1:2, s. 203-220
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study investigated the framing of the Iraq War in the elite newspapers in Sweden and the USA during the offi cial war period, 20 March–1 May 2003. The content analysis revealed signifi cant cross-cultural differences in the framing of the war in terms of tone, frames and use of sources. The differences in framing were consistent with the characteristics of the national political environment and foreign policy stances in each country.
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- Johansson, Bengt, et al.
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The Dynamics and Information Value of Election News : A Longitudinal Study of Swedish Election News, 1979-2006
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Ingår i: International Association for Media and Communication Research’s Annual Conference.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- While there are numerous studies on how the media cover election campaigns, there is still a lack of longitudinal studies of the dynamics of election news over time and within election campaigns. At the same time, partisan dealignment and increasing electoral volatility suggest that people’s need for orientation – and hence their need for news media providing them with the information they need to cast informed votes – has increasing over time. Against this background, the purpose of this study is to investigate the information value of Swedish election news, both across and within the nine last parliamentary elections, held between 1979 and 2006. Based on a quantitative content analysis of more than 36,000 news stories, the general conclusion of this study is that the information value of Swedish election news has decreased, over time as well as within election campaigns and as Election Day approaches.
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- Maier, Jürgen, et al.
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Rhetorical Strategies and Effects of Negative Campaigning : A Comparative Study of Political TV-debates in Germany and Sweden
- 2008
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Ingår i: 2nd European Communication Conference. ; , s. 1-34
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Although televised debates belong to the most important campaign events in countries where they are being held, there is still a dearth of cross-national studies. This is particularly true with respect to research on both the rhetorical strategies used in, and the effects of, televised debates. Against this background, the purpose of this article is to study the use and effectiveness of negativity as a rhetorical strategy in televised debates in Germany and Sweden. Combining content analyses and experiments using real-time response measurements, the study finds that negative statements are common in both countries, and more so in Sweden than in Germany. With the exception of negative statements in Germany, the debates focused overwhelmingly on issues and policies rather than character. However, the study found no consistent support for the notion that negative messages are more effective than positive messages. There was one important exception though, suggesting the contingent nature of the effectiveness of negativity as rhetorical strategy used in televised debates.
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