What are the long-term societal consequences of media agenda setting?

Keywords: Agenda-setting; convergence; Internet media. Perhaps agenda-setting theory (McCombs & Shaw,. 1972) is the most dominant theory in mass communication ... The authors are associate professors of journalism at the University of. North Carolina, Chapel Hill. IN OUR DAY, more than ever before, candidates go before ... 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 ... The associate professors of journalism at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, conducted a study on how impactful the news media was with potential ... Communication and Democracy: Exploring the intellectual Frontiers in Agenda-setting theory book cover ... media's agenda. In the current volume, a ... Nov 5, 2013 ... Exciting intellectual frontiers are open for exploration as agenda-setting theory moves beyond its 25th anniversary. Mar 31, 2011 ... The agenda-setting theory details how the media affect public opinion by noting that there is a positive correlation between how often a ... 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 study uses agenda-setting theory to show that the themes and tones that were salient in coverage of the Trump campaign transferred to the public as they ... 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 ...