Study title

Cultural Distinctions, Generations and Change 1960-2010: Coverage in European Newspaper Issues

Dataset ID Number

FSD3386

Persistent identifiers

https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3386
https://doi.org/10.60686/t-fsd3386

Data Type

Quantitative

Authors

• Purhonen, Semi (University of Helsinki)
• Heikkilä, Riie (University of Helsinki)
• Lauronen, Tina (University of Helsinki)

Abstract

This study consists of data on the culture sections of the following leading daily newspapers: Helsingin Sanomat (Finland), Dagens Nyheter (Sweden), The Guardian (Great Britain), Le Monde (France) and ABC (1960-1975)/El país (1976-2010) (Spain). The articles were published between the years 1960 and 2010. The data were collected as part of the Cultural Distinctions, Generations and Change: A Comparative Study of Five European Countries, 1960-2010 (CUDIGE) project, which examined cross-national differences in cultural distinctions and their temporal changes in six different European countries. The project received funding from the Kone Foundation (2013-2016), University of Helsinki (2013-2015) and Academy of Finland (2013-2018, project numbers 291619 and 309181). This dataset contains aggregate data that complements the dataset FSD3385 Cultural Distinctions, Generations and Change 1960-2010: Coverage in European Newspaper Articles.

The data contain information on the publication date of the newspaper issue, total number of pages in the issue, the number of pages of the culture section, page number of the first culture page, number of pages in supplement(s), and number of culture pages in supplement(s). Additionally, the number of pages in the core newspapers was divided into quarters and information was collected on which of the four quarters the cultural news appeared in.

Keywords

arts; cultural life; cultural research; mass culture; mass media; news; newspaper press

Topic Classification

• Humanities (Fields of Science Classification)
• Social sciences (Fields of Science Classification)
• Media (CESSDA Topic Classification)
• History (CESSDA Topic Classification)

Series

Individual datasets

Distributor

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Access

The dataset is (C) available only for research including master's theses.

Data Collector

• Purhonen, Semi (University of Helsinki)
• Heikkilä, Riie (University of Helsinki)
• Lauronen, Tina (University of Helsinki)

Time Period Covered

• 1960
• 1970
• 1980
• 1990
• 2000
• 2010

Collection Dates

2013-03-01 – 2014-06-01

Nation

Finland, Great Britain, France, Sweden, Spain

Geographical Coverage

Finland, Great Britain, France, Sweden, Spain

Analysis/Observation Unit Type

Media unit: Text

Universe

Issues of the following newspapers: El País (previously ABC), The Guardian, Dagens Nyheter, Helsingin Sanomat, Le Monde

Time Method

Cross-section

Sampling Procedure

Probability: Stratified

The newspaper issues included in this dataset are the same (excluding Milliyet from Turkey) as in dataset FSD3385, which studied individual articles in the issues. The sample was formed so that the calendar year was divided into three four-month periods and all days of the week from Monday to Sunday were randomly drawn for each period. 21 issues of each newspaper were included in the sample per year (3x7), with the exception of The Guardian and Le Monde which are not published every weekday. For The Guardian and Le Monde, 18 issues were drawn for the sample per year (3x6). Similarly, 18 issues per year were drawn for the ABC newspaper, later named El País, until the 1980s. After the year 1990 the newspaper began publishing every weekday and subsequently 21 issues of the newspaper were drawn per year for the sample.

Collection Mode

Content coding

Research Instrument

Data collection guidelines: Secondary data collection guide

Data File Language

Downloaded data package may contain different language versions of the same files.

The data files of this dataset are available in the following languages: English.

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Number of Cases and Variables

17 variables and 585 cases.

Data Version

1.0

Weighting

There are no weight variables in the data.

Citation Requirement

The data and its creators shall be cited in all publications and presentations for which the data have been used. The bibliographic citation may be in the form suggested by the archive or in the form required by the publication.

Bibliographical Citation

Purhonen, Semi (University of Helsinki) & Heikkilä, Riie (University of Helsinki) & Lauronen, Tina (University of Helsinki): Cultural Distinctions, Generations and Change 1960-2010: Coverage in European Newspaper Issues [dataset]. Version 1.0 (2020-09-29). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3386

Deposit Requirement

Notify FSD of all publications where you have used the data by sending the citation information to user-services.fsd@tuni.fi.

Disclaimer

The original data creators and the archive bear no responsibility for any results or interpretations arising from the reuse of the data.

Related Materials

FSD3385 Cultural Distinctions, Generations and Change 1960-2010: Coverage in European Newspaper Articles

Related Publications

Fernandez Rodriguez, Carlos J.; Heikkilä, Riie ja Purhonen, Semi (2018) Hacia una mayor apertura cultural? Un analisis de la cobertura de articulos sobre musica en la prensa de referencia de cinco paises europeos (1960-2010). Revista Internacional de Sociologia 76(2): e092.

Heikkilä, Riie ja Gronow, Jukka (2018) Stability and change in the style and standards of European newspapers' arts reviews, 1960-2010. Journalism Practice 12(5): 624-639.

Heikkilä, Riie; Lauronen, Tina ja Purhonen, Semi (2018) The crisis of cultural journalism revisited: The space and place of culture in quality European newspapers from 1960 to 2010. European Journal of Cultural Studies 21(6): 669-686.

Lauronen, Tina; Heikkilä, Riie ja Purhonen, Semi (2019) Cultural globalization on the printed page: Stability and change in the proportion of foreign cultural products in European quality newspapers, 1960-2010. Acta Sociologica 62(2): 211-227.

Purhonen, Semi; Heikkilä, Riie ja Karademir Hazir, Irmak (2017) The grand opening? The transformation of the content of culture sections in European newspapers, 1960-2010. Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts 62: 29-42.

Purhonen, Semi; Heikkilä, Riie; Karademir Hazir, Irmak; Lauronen, Tina; Fernandez Rodriguez, Carlos J. ja Gronow, Jukka (2019) Enter Culture, Exit Arts? The Transformation of Cultural Hierarchies in European Newspaper Culture Sections, 1960-2010. London and New York: Routledge.

Purhonen, Semi; Lauronen, Tina ja Heikkilä, Riie (2015) Into the great wide open? A comparative study of the contents of newspaper culture sections in the UK and Finland, 1970-2010. Research on Finnish Society 8: 5-8.

Purhonen, Semi; Lauronen, Tina ja Heikkilä, Riie (2019) Between legitimization and popularization: The rise and reception of U.S. cultural products in culture sections of quality European newspapers, 1960-2010. American Journal of Cultural Sociology 7(3): 382-411. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41290-018-0064-z