Summary information

Study title

Views of Violence in a Changing Media Landscape 2017

Creator

Haara, Paula (University of Tampere. Faculty of Communication Sciences)
Reunanen, Esa (University of Tampere. Faculty of Communication Sciences)

Study number / PID

FSD3346 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3346 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd3346 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Individual datasets

Individual datasets that do not belong to any series.

Abstract

The study charted views and notions of violence in Finland. The interview participants shared their opinions on safety in their neighbourhood and Finland in general. They were also asked where they searched for and received information on violent crime and which media sources they considered reliable. Four focus groups were formed with the goal of having as different media users as possible: people involved in harness racing, elderly women's arts and crafts club, young men working for the Defence Forces and 20-year-old university students. The study also examined the effect of the group's age and gender distribution on the fear of violence and the discussion about it. Group size varied from three to eleven participants, and there were 24 participants in total. The data contain transcribed group interviews and they were collected as a part of a project entitled 'Views of Violence in a Changing Media Landscape', funded by the Helsingin Sanomat Foundation (grant ID: 201600122). The dataset is only available in Finnish.

Methodology

Data collection period

13/03/2017 - 11/05/2017

Country

Finland

Time dimension

Cross-section

Analysis unit

Individual

Universe

Finnish users of media

Sampling procedure

Non-probability: Respondent-assisted

Kind of data

Qualitative

Data collection mode

Face-to-face focus group

Access

Publisher

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Publication year

2019

Terms of data access

The dataset is (B) available for research, teaching and study.

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