Are there cultural differences in how the public responds to media agendas?

Jul 22, 2016 ... Abstract page for arXiv paper 1607.06819: Social Politics: Agenda Setting and Political Communication on Social Media. ... theory as a tool ... ... news—particularly political news—as well as agenda-setting theory and its implications for digital media. In the following subsections we describe previous ... Agenda setting as defined in “ Mass Media, Mass Culture” is the process whereby the mass media determine what we think and worry about. The Contingency of the Mass Media's Political Agenda-setting Power: Towards a Preliminary Theory. Journal of Communication, 56(1), 88–109. Article Google ... Apr 15, 2009 ... Shaw, along with Maxwell McCombs (University of Texas-Austin), developed the agenda-setting theory of the press in a seminal 1972 Public Opinion ... The agenda-setting theory states that the mainstream media sets the agenda of public discourse. It does this not so much by telling people what to think but ... In general, agenda-setting theory would suggest that the press is more likely to be influential where the issues they portray are less well-known and ... and partisan media on public opinion. Agenda-setting theory asserts that the news media can determine the public's perception of the most important problems ... ... mass communication, public opinion, and political elections—to the corporate world. Agenda-setting theory says that through patterns of media coverage, the ... Agenda setting is one of the major theories in mass communication research, offer- ing a way of understanding the influence of news coverage on audience members ...