Mass Communication

• Crime, Violence, Justice
• The Press
• Campaigns, Elections, Voting
• Miscellaneous

• Educating the Public About Police Through Public Service Announcements in Lima, Ohio, 1995-1997 This study was designed to analyze the impact of four televised public service announcements (PSAs) aired for three months in Lima, Ohio.
• National Survey of Police-Media Relations, 2000 This study was undertaken to examine the influence police officers have in creating an image of law enforcement through media relations and public information offices/officers (PIO).
• Study of Political Violence Attitudes, Personal Experiences with Violence, Emotional Reactions to Assassination and Violence in the Media, 1968 This study, conducted in October 1968 by Louis Harris and Associates, Inc., focused on respondents' opinions about violence in the United States as well as their personal experiences with violence. In addition, several questions were asked concerning both news and entertainment media, including respondents' media preferences and which form of news media they relied upon for obtaining information on specific issues.

• Pew Research Center for the People and the Press an independent opinion research group that studies attitudes toward the press, politics and public policy issues.
• Free Press, Fair Trial Data, 1970 This data collection contains information gathered in a 1970 survey of 623 newspaper editors, police chiefs, bar associations, prosecuting attorneys, and defense attorneys from a sample of 166 cities across the country.
• Media Access to the Presidency: 1974-1977 These data were collected through a systematic study of the Ford Administration's White House central files, located at the Gerald R. Ford Library in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The collection catalogs the various requests for contact with the president which were made during his administration. To be included in the dataset, a given request had to be made by a professional journalist or news organization, specifically for a news interview with the president.

• Elmira Community Study, 1948 This four-wave data collection contains information on the social and psychological aspects of political behavior among voters in Elmira, New York, in 1948.
• Televised Presidential Campaign Impact on Voters: 1972 Panel, Syracuse, New York The major purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of television on voters during a presidential campaign. Of particular interest were the effects of television news and televised political advertising on people's political images and information.
• Presidential Campaign Impact on Voters: 1976 Panel, Erie, Pennsylvania and Los Angeles This study's purpose was to assess the impact of a presidential election campaign, particularly the media campaign, on the electorate. In order to do so, a panel survey was administered in several waves to the same respondents over the course of the 1976 presidential campaign year.
• Media Content Analysis Study, 1974 This data collection contains an analysis of the contents of 96 of the daily newspapers read by nationally sampled respondents in AMERICAN NATIONAL ELECTION STUDY, 1974 (ICPSR 7355). Articles or graphics on the front and/or editorial pages of newspapers appearing on ten sampled dates before and immediately after the November 1974 congressional election were coded for this study.
• Media Content Coding Analysis, 1980 Presidential Campaign, Los Angeles Times This dataset contains a content analysis of stories covering the 1980 presidential election campaign in the Los Angeles Times. The data are referenced in Chapter 9 of INFORMATION AND ELECTIONS, R. Michael Alvarez, University of Michigan Press, 1997
• Congressional Campaign Study, 1978 The focus of this study is campaigns waged for election to the United States House of Representatives. The districts selected were those in which contested races were conducted for seats in the 96th Congress and in which interviewing for the American National Election Study of 1978 had occurred. The collection includes information obtained from personal interviews with the candidates' campaign managers, content analysis of newspapers in the districts, campaign expenditure data, and information about each district's makeup, history and recent electoral results.

• Perceptions of Symbols in Foreign Policy: Data from the Vietnam Case, 1964-1968 This data collection contains a content analysis of 367 speeches made by United States President Lyndon Johnson that are about or contain references to Vietnam in the period 1964-1968.
• Operational Code Belief System of President Nasser of Egypt, 1952-1970 This study includes data derived from a content analysis of all publicly available verbal articulations by Egypt's President Nasser made between 1952 and 1970.
• United Nations and the News Media Data, 1968 This study consists of three data files -- Channel, Central, and Peripheral -- used in the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) project concerned with the relations between the United Nations (UN) and the news media in 50 nations in 1968. In particular, the study deals with the role of the news media in spreading information on the UN and with coverage of UN policies and activities by the press, radio, and television in these nations.
• United Nations Mideast Debate Study, 1953-1965 This study is a content analysis of 1,243 speeches on the Middle East situation in the United Nations General Assembly among 87 member nations of the United Nations in the period 1953-1965.
• Content Analysis of Asian Newspapers: 1962, 1966, 1970, 1972 This study examined the content of news items that appeared in newspapers from Japan, Thailand, Indonesia, and Singapore during the last three months of 1962, 1966, 1970, and 1972.
• News Story Characteristics from Scandal News, 1986-1998: [United States] These data examine features of news coverage, through the content analysis of transcripts and newspaper articles, describing four scandals that broke during the 1980s and 1990s to ascertain the difference between news coverage in the two decades. Articles and broadcast transcripts were drawn from three sources: THE NEW YORK TIMES, ABC News, and CNN News.