What factors influence media agenda setting?

Aug 31, 2021 ... The contingency of the mass media's political agenda setting power: Towards a preliminary theory. Journal of Communication, 56(1), 88–109. The study emphasizes the need for scholars to adapt traditional media theories to the participatory nature of modern platforms. This research enhances ... salience of attitudes toward the political issues. METHOD. To investigate the agenda-setting capacity of the mass media in the. 1968 presidential campaign, this ... ... agenda setting during the Arab Spring, and thus how the traditional theory of agenda setting should expand to consider the rise of new modes of communication. Mar 2, 2017 ... Research trends, topics, media, methods, and utilization of other theories in agendasetting studies were discussed along with the evolution of ... Abstract. Drawing on components of agenda-setting theory and the two-step flow of information from mass media to news audiences, this study examines the ... 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. Mar 27, 2025 ... Agenda-setting theory is one aspect of mass communication that determines what news is important and deemed worthy of public attention.In this ... Jul 22, 2016 ... Abstract page for arXiv paper 1607.06819: Social Politics: Agenda Setting and Political Communication on Social Media. ... theory as a tool ... This paper examines the characteristics of disaster reporting, starting with why disaster reporting is necessary and is supported by agenda-setting theory.