How does media coverage shape our understanding of social groups and identities?

Mar 26, 2014 ... We utilize “big data” to explore attention and framing in the traditional and social media for 29 political issues during 2012. This paper examines six major terrorist attacks that occurred in France and Nigeria between 2011 and 2016. Agenda-setting theory shows the ability of the news media to influence the salience of topics on the public agenda. The aim of this paper is to review the literature that discusses the basic premises of theoretical and empirical studies on Agenda Setting theory. Agenda-setting theory, proposed by Maxwell McCombs and Donald Shaw (1972), suggests that media doesn't dictate what to think but what to think about. Jul 13, 2022 ... Scholars have found that agenda setting's ultimate legacy as a theory relies on whether it still helps people understand the current media environment. Setting the Agenda describes the mass media's significant and sometimes controversial role in determining which topics are at the centre of public attention ... The agenda setting theory was formally developed by McCombs and Shaw (1972) when they studied the US Presidential Election of 1968. Agenda-setting theory asserts that the news media coverage will tend to emphasize some issues while neglecting others, which makes some issues more prominent. Agenda-setting theory refers to how the media's news coverage determines which issues become the focus of public attention. This theory of mass communication ...