AUTNES Manual Content Analysis of the Media Coverage 2013 (SUF edition)

This is a dataset on the media coverage on the 2013 Austrian National Election. 9000 contributions from 14 print and TV media (selected according to various criteria in order to represent the Austrian media landscape as accurately as possible) were examined by means of manual content analysis. All contributions refer either to a political party or to a political candidate of the Austrian National Election 2013.

All contributions have been published between 18th August and 29th September 2013 (= election day). Articles were provided by the APA database. Central variables (selection): Metadata: Title and subtitle, medium, publication date; Formal coding: visualisation, contribution type, presentation elements of the television contribution; Content coding at the article level: topic, actor, frames; Content-related coding at the sentence level: subject actor, subject, topic, topic evaluation, object actor, actor evaluation.