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- Olsson, Tobias
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A marginal resource for civic identity : Swedish working class households’ use and perception of internet
- 2006
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Ingår i: Javnost: The Public. - : Euricom. - 1318-3222. ; 13:01, s. 73-88
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Within research as well as policy debates, much effort has been put into analysing the Internet’s significance for democracy. These discussions have certainly contributed to progress in the area by, for instance, statistically pointing out the differentiated access to the new ICT among various social groups and – mainly theoretically – suggesting in what ways the Internet can become a tool for democracy. However, these analyses also hold a few blind spots, of which this article discusses two. Firstly, they have paid only minimal attention to the everyday users’ experience of new ICT. Secondly, they have usually focused quite exclusively on the Internet rather than looking at it as part of an already-established media environment. This article is an initial effort to compensate for these shortcomings. It departs from the concept ‘civic identity’ and analyses qualitative data on Swedish working class users’ use and perception of the Internet as well as ‘traditional media.’ For those who believe the Internet to be an inclusive medium and as such a tool for democracy, the article’s empirical results are somewhat discouraging. For instance, the empirical and analytical discussions reveal that the traditional media – TV, newspapers and radio – are far more important than the Internet to the working class users’ civic identities.
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- Strömbäck, Jesper
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Vox Populi or Vox Media? : Opinion Polls and the Swedish Media, 1998-2006
- 2009
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Ingår i: Javnost - The Public. - 1318-3222. ; 16:3, s. 55-70
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- While the histories of opinion polling and the newsmedia have been closely intertwined ever since the inventionof polling, the question as to whether the media’sreporting on opinion polls should be considered as detrimental or beneficial from a democratic perspective is still open and contested. The purpose of this paper is thus to investigate the publication of opinion polls in the Swedish media during the last three election campaigns, with a focus on how the media used opinion polls and whether or not the media, at the end of the day, mainly used opinion polls to give voice to the people – or to the media and the journalists themselves. Among other things, the results suggest that more often than not, polls serve as vox media rather than vox populi.
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