Decoupled agendas under repression: social media and state media during COVID-19 in Iran
Journal: Frontiers in Communication
Year: 2025

Despite a growing body of research on intermedia agenda-setting (IAS) in the contemporary hybrid media landscape, this line of inquiry remains mainly Western-centered. Furthermore, there is a lack of studies across different social platforms and between social media and official online media in authoritarian regimes. We combined computational, quantitative, qualitative, and discursive methods to address these gaps by investigating intermedia agenda-setting between three popular social media in I