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Bjork, Ulf Jonas – 1986
A study analyzed the coverage by 15 American newspapers of a single foreign news story, the assassination of Sweden's Prime Minister Olof Palme on February 28, 1986. Issues of the newspapers for the first week after the murder were examined and total coverage of the event, measured in number of words, was calculated for each paper. In addition,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Journalism, Media Research, News Media
Ohlin, Thomas – 1977
The studies described in this paper were undertaken to evaluate the usefulness of information-exchange techniques for promoting the quality of life within given regions of a society. The first analysis describes the investigation of projects to enhance the functions of small businesses, joint regional planning, health care, education,…
Descriptors: Community Development, Foreign Countries, Geographic Regions, Information Dissemination
Roe, Keith – 1984
This empirical review of the relationship between Swedish youth and music begins with a brief overview of the place of music as a communications medium in Swedish society in general, and among Swedish youth in particular. An analysis of the findings of a large-scale, longitudinal study of media use by Swedish adolescents, the Media Panel study, is…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Children, Elementary Secondary Education

Aldemark, Lars; Weibull, Lennart – 1974
An investigation of the political and social content of mass media and the manner in which individuals and groups evaluate and use mass media is summarized in this report. The first section provides a brief overview of the development of the mass media system in Sweden, while the second section outlines the theoretical framework for the present…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Communication (Thought Transfer), Foreign Countries, Information Dissemination
Roe, Keith – 1983
This report provides a detailed analysis of the video use and preferences of Swedish adolescents based on data drawn from the Media Panel project, a three-wave, longitudinal research program on video use conducted at the Department of Sociology, The University of Lund, and the Department for Information Techniques, the University College of Vaxjo,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Olson, Scott R. – 1987
The media have often been related to nation-state building and the generation of national sentiment, but because few ethnic minorities can afford to maintain their own media systems, they generally remain relatively powerless. Indigenous land claims, legal settlements that guarantee territorial sovereignty to an ethnic group, are one way of…
Descriptors: Cultural Background, Indigenous Populations, Land Acquisition, Land Use