Agenda-setting theory | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-29

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00:05:31 1 Core assumptions and statements
00:06:51 1.1 Three types of agenda-setting
00:09:02 1.2 Accessibility
00:10:30 1.3 Agenda-setting vs. agenda-building
00:13:07 2 Research on policymakers and public
00:13:19 2.1 Role of policymakers in agenda-setting process
00:16:31 2.2 Role of public in agenda-building process
00:22:53 3 Contingency factors
00:23:03 3.1 Issue obtrusiveness
00:26:21 3.2 Need for orientation
00:29:12 4 Theory development
00:29:22 4.1 Second-level agenda-setting: attribute agenda setting
00:31:24 4.1.1 Second-level agenda-setting vs. framing
00:38:24 4.1.2 Accessibility (agenda-setting) vs. applicability (framing)
00:45:03 4.1.3 An emotion dimension
00:46:19 4.2 Agenda setting between media and other sources
00:46:39 4.2.1 Power relations between media and other sources
00:47:12 4.2.2 Intermedia agenda setting
00:48:50 4.3 Third-level agenda-setting: network agenda setting model
00:50:14 5 Application
00:50:24 5.1 Twitter application
00:52:23 5.2 Non-political application
00:56:07 5.3 Outside US
00:56:55 6 Contributions
00:58:13 7 Future
00:58:22 7.1 Advent of the Internet
01:00:38 7.2 Agenda-melding
01:02:27 8 Critique



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Agenda-setting theory describes the "ability (of the news media) to influence the importance placed on the topics of the public agenda". With agenda setting being a social science theory, it also attempts to make predictions. That is, if a news item is covered frequently and prominently, the audience will regard the issue as more important. Agenda-setting theory was formally developed by Max McCombs and Donald Shaw in a study on the 1968 American presidential election. In the 1968 "Chapel Hill study", McCombs and Shaw demonstrated a strong correlation coefficient (r  .9) between what 100 residents of Chapel Hill, North Carolina thought was the most important election issue and what the local and national news media reported was the most important issue. By comparing the salience of issues in news content with the public's perceptions of the most important election issue, McCombs and Shaw were able to determine the degree to which the media determines public opinion. Since the 1968 study, published in a 1972 edition of Public Opinion Quarterly, more than 400 studies have been published on the agenda-setting function of the mass media, and the theory continues to be regarded as relevant.
Studies have shown that what the media decides to expose in certain countries correlates with their views on things such as politics, economy and culture. Countries that tend to have more political power are more likely to receive media exposure. Financial resources, technologies, foreign trade and money spent on the military can be some of the main factors that explain coverage inequality.Agenda-setting can be traced to the first chapter of Walter Lippmann's 1922 book, Public Opinion.  In that chapter, "The World Outside And The Pictures In Our Heads", Lippmann argues that the mass media are the principal connection between events in the world and the images in the minds of the public. Without using the term "agenda-setting", Walter Lippmann was writing about what we today would call "agenda-setting". Following Lippmann, in 1963, Bernard Cohen observed that the press "may not be successful much of the time in telling people what to think, but it is stunningly successful in telling its readers what to think about. The world will look different to different people," Cohen continues, "depending on the map that is drawn for them by writers, editors, and publishers of the paper they read." As early as the 1960s, Cohen had expressed the idea that later led to formalization of agenda-setting theory by McCombs and Shaw. The stories with the strongest a ...