Agenda Trending: Reciprocity and the Predictive Capacity of Social Network Sites in Intermedia Agenda Setting across Issues over Time

Groshek, Jacob; Groshek, Megan Clough

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2199144

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“…This finding also suggests that the wide patterns of dominant phrases and key words were not overwhelmingly critical—in fact, the treatment of both candidates could be described as quite balanced. Though this finding is at odds with some previous research that suggests social media, namely blogs and YouTube, may be highly partisan and confrontational (Baum & Groeling, 2008; Brundidge, 2010; de Boer et al, 2012; Wojcieszak, 2010), it also aligns with other key findings in reiterating other social media channels—Facebook in particular—is often less a source of original content creation (Groshek & Clough Groshek, 2013; Robertson, 2011; Robertson, Vatrapu, & Medina, 2010) and more of second-hand sharing that may result (relatively speaking) in less outwardly and personally critical content. This may be due to the fact that Facebook users are not—by terms of service and convention—anonymous or difficult to identify.…”

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Public Sentiment and Critical Framing in Social Media Content During the 2012 U.S. Presidential Campaign

Groshek

Al-Rawi

2013

Social Science Computer Review

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By being embedded in everyday life, social networking sites (SNSs) have altered the way campaign politics are understood and engaged with by politicians and citizens alike. However, the actual content of social media has remained a vast but somewhat amorphous and understudied entity. The study reported here examines public sentiment as it was expressed in just over 1.42 million social media units on Facebook and Twitter to provide broad insights into dominant topics and themes that were prevalent in the 2012 U.S. election campaign online. Key findings include the fact that contrary to what one might expect, neither presidential candidate was framed in an overly critical manner in his opponent’s Facebook space nor on Twitter’s dedicated nonpartisan election page. Beyond this, similarities and divergences in sentiment across social media spaces are observed that allow for a better understanding of what is being communicated in political social media.

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Public Sentiment and Critical Framing in Social Media Content During the 2012 U.S. Presidential Campaign

Groshek

Al-Rawi

2013

Social Science Computer Review

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“…Hence, news gathering and distribution today may not necessarily follow the classic stimulus-response model of communication. Following both Vonbun et al [41] and Groshek and Groshek [15], intermedia relationships may be especially complex for events and topics. So who sets the cyber agenda?…”

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“…On the one hand, Groshek and Groshek [15] examined the intermedia influence of leading traditional online media (the online editions of the New York Times and CNN) and leading SNS, finding event-oriented reciprocal effects while Sweetser et al [40] found strong correlations between the agendas of news media and campaign blogs during the 2004 election, suggesting a transfer of agendas from the media to the blogs. Similarly, Lee et al [20] found higher correlations in support of newspaper influence on online bulletin board conversations in South Korea and Cornfield et al [8] found a correlation of 0.78 for traditional media-to-blog influence as opposed to 0.65 for blog-to-traditional media influence.…”

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Who sets the cyber agenda? Intermedia agenda-setting online: the case of Edward Snowden’s NSA revelations

2018

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Since the early introduction of the notion of agenda-setting, researchers have attempted to determine the factors that shape media agendas. One of the key sources of media agenda has been identified as intermedia flow, which various studies revealed in the offline-to-online-to-SNS media context. While most of them focused on the offline-online flow, the present study examines agenda-setting within the new online platforms in various countries, thus allowing for cross-country and crossmedia comparisons. We applied time-series analysis to new online media and to traditional online media samples in the context of Edward Snowden's NSA revelations. Our findings of intermedia agenda-setting effects show a moderate but consistent flow from new online media to traditional online media. This highlights the importance of studying these new directions of agenda flow. Apart from that, no profound agenda-setting patterns can be found elsewhere. Possible reasons and implications are discussed.

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“…In addition, some hypothesize a “trickle down” effect, whereby social media replicate and amplify the already-polarized elite media (Longhurst, 2013). This view implies that elite media still dominate the flow of information, and the information typically flows from top to bottom (Groshek & Clough Groshek, 2013; Harder, Sevenans, & Van Aelst, 2017). Despite ample research about partisan media and polarized opinion about climate change (Feldman et al, 2012; McCright & Dunlap, 2011; Pew Research Center, 2017), few studies have examined this polarization in a social media context.…”

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Diversifying or Reinforcing Science Communication? Examining the Flow of Frame Contagion Across Media Platforms

Jones-Jang

Hart

Feldman

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Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

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This study investigated whether increased technological affordances, characterized by the rise of social media, diversified communication in climate change discourse. Extending the literature of intermedia agenda setting, this study examined agenda and frame contagion across Twitter and online news media. Using a large dataset of media content about climate change, time-series analysis showed that news media played a major role in setting agendas and frames, but Twitter has increased its dominance in climate change discussions. The findings address both opportunities for strategic science communication and challenges resulting from unverified scientific claims (e.g., hoax frames) spread on social media.

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Agenda Trending: Reciprocity and the Predictive Capacity of Social Network Sites in Intermedia Agenda Setting across Issues over Time

Cited by 22 publications

References 43 publications

Public Sentiment and Critical Framing in Social Media Content During the 2012 U.S. Presidential Campaign

Public Sentiment and Critical Framing in Social Media Content During the 2012 U.S. Presidential Campaign

Who sets the cyber agenda? Intermedia agenda-setting online: the case of Edward Snowden’s NSA revelations

Diversifying or Reinforcing Science Communication? Examining the Flow of Frame Contagion Across Media Platforms

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