Nyhetsanvändning på Karlstads Universitet : -En studie av vilka nyhetsmedier som är mest använda och har högst förtroende bland studenterna på Karlstads Universitet

Sammanfattning: This essay deals with the subject of the use of news medium amongst the students in Karlstads University. The presentation of the problem is about illustrating the or those medium that is the most used amongst the students, and also which one, ore which ones of the news medium the students puts largest trust in. This subject was chosen with the purpose to illuminate patterns and attitudes of and to news medium, to make it easier for eventual research in the future to connect these patterns and attitudes with the participation in political elections. The subject in question is interesting because of the fact that the news medium is one of the largest sources of information for the citizens knowledge’s about the society, and the citizen’s attitude to the news medium might possibly have the ability to affect people’s commitment in politics. The methods that have been used are quantitative methods, partly in the way the data has been collected, which has been done through a questionnaire and a quantitative analysis of those data, and also through qualitative methods as an interview in depth, and a qualitative analysis of that. The results of the analyses did partly square with those theories that have been laid as a ground for the analysis’s, which dealt with the subjects of the medium role in the democratic society and the news medium today and also the trust in medium. The results showed that those medium that has high trust amongst the students are those who are classified as more “serious” for example the news within public service and morning papers. Those are not yet the medium that are used in first place by the students with an exception to television, where papers on the Internet and free papers are those medium that the students use most. The conclusion of this is that the economical aspect and the access of different medium plays a big part in the use of medium as a student.