Agenda-Setting in an Off-Election Year

Williams, Wenmouth; Larsen, David C.

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“…The term “media agenda” refers to issues selected by journalists and political elites to be reported more frequently and at greater length in public mass media (McCombs & Shaw, 1972). Research has examined the media agenda through the use of content analysis for newspaper articles and television news programs (Matthes, 2008; McCombs & Shaw, 1972; Williams & Larsen, 1977).…”

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How citizen journalists impact the agendas of traditional media and the government policymaking process in China

Luo

Harrison

2019

Global Media and China

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“Citizen journalism” is a term used to refer to ordinary individuals who act as journalists during some part of the process of creating content for mainstream journalism coverage. In China, besides ordinary citizen journalists, some professional journalists have been regarded as citizen journalists if they write stories online that would otherwise not be publishable in traditional media. Unfortunately, since the real name registration system was launched on the Internet in 2012, the activities of both professionals and average citizens in China are frequently limited. So, is citizen journalism a role that can only be practiced in very limited ways in China? This article adopts a broader definition of citizen journalism, in which, through the use of social media to discuss and comment on news and social issues, ordinary citizens in China act as collective citizen journalists, which insulates them against individually targeted criticism for their opinions. We applied agenda-setting theory to explain citizen journalist contributions to the content of traditional media and the policymaking process in China. Using several forms of Chinese media and rank-order cross-lagged correlations, we found that online public opinions in social media influenced the agenda of traditional commercially oriented media, but not the agenda of traditional government-sponsored media. The policy agenda was partially influenced by the online public. The online public acted collectively to influence and contribute to the content of the traditional media and policies the government considers, thus changing the nature of journalism and public sphere.

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Section: Defining “Media Agenda” “Public Agenda” and “Policy Agenda”mentioning

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How citizen journalists impact the agendas of traditional media and the government policymaking process in China

Luo

Harrison

2019

Global Media and China

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“…The MIP data have most commonly been used to measure the public agenda in the agenda-setting literature (e.g. McCombs and Shaw, 1972;Eyal, et al, forthcoming;Winter, 1979;Funkhouser, 1973b;Palmgreen and Clarke, 1977;and Williams and Larsen, 1977). A second common application has been to relate time trends on one topic to related events or other survey results (e.g.…”

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America's Most Important Problem-A Trend Analysis, 1946-1976

Smith

1980

Public Opinion Quarterly

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HE PROVERB "if you want to understand a man, understand his problems" rings as true for a nation as it does for an individual. The areas that the public worries about tell a great deal about how society perceives and interprets a given historical moment. Moreover, by analyzing the problem priorities of subpopulations it is possible to investigate how different socioeconomic and demographic backgrounds affect the evaluation and ranking of problems. Likewise, by examining changes in the cluster of problems over time we can chart the flow of history from the perspective of the participants in the ongoing process. In sum, studying the problem profile of a society and its important components provides significant insights into the working of society, and following trends over time gives an important measure of social change.

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“…In the end, the researcher stated, "there is a relationship between media coverage and public frequency of mention in a state campaign" (Tipton, et al, 1975:13). Williams and Larsen (1977) brought the agenda-setting research outside an election time. They tracked three broadcast channels and had telephone interviews with 350 participants in Illinois.…”

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First and Second Level Intermedia Agenda-Setting between International Newspapers and Twitter during the Coverage of the 266th Papal Election

Bakan¹,

Melek²

2018

Akdeniz Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi Dergisi

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This article's main purpose is to understand whether the intermedia agenda-setting effect occurs between the online versions of international newspapers and Twitter during the Papal election in 2013. The researchers have tracked each available country's trending topics on Twitter to understand the popularity of the subject in various countries. The researchers then followed each country available on Twitter at the time when the study was conducted, starting right after the announcement of the new Pope at the Sistine Chapel in Vatican on 12 March 2013 till 15 March 2013 for four days and collected all available data. Later, the researchers collected data from the websites of international newspapers, The New York Times, The Daily Mail, The Guardian, The Telegraph and The Wall Street Journal. Two computer-based content analysis were conducted. In order to understand the relationship amongst these media entities, the cross-lagged panel design with the Rozelle-Campbell (1969) baseline was used. In the end, researchers examined the second level agenda setting effect between media by looking into what was said about the Papal election-positive, negative, or neutral. The results supported both first and second-level agenda setting influence between media.

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Agenda-Setting in an Off-Election Year

Cited by 12 publications

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How citizen journalists impact the agendas of traditional media and the government policymaking process in China

How citizen journalists impact the agendas of traditional media and the government policymaking process in China

America's Most Important Problem-A Trend Analysis, 1946-1976

First and Second Level Intermedia Agenda-Setting between International Newspapers and Twitter during the Coverage of the 266th Papal Election

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