Who Influences Whom? The Agenda-Building Relationship Between Political Candidates and the Media in the 2002 Michigan Governor's Race

Lancendorfer, Karen M.; Lee, Byoungkwan

doi:10.1080/15377857.2010.497737

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“…Time series analysis shows Twitter and traditional news media appear to have a symbiotic relationship that varies in intensity and duration depending on the issues being analyzed. The reciprocal relationship between political Twitter feeds and news media is similar not only to previous intermedia agenda‐setting studies (Dunn, ; Ku et al, ; Lancendorfer & Lee, ; Sweetser et al, ; Walgrave & Van Aelst, ), but also a growing line of research examining the relationship between social and traditional media (Groshek & Groshek, ; Metzgar & Maruggi, ; Sayre et al, ). It suggests traditional media and Twitter feeds of politicians, campaigns, and parties are involved in a source cycle.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 82%

“…We, therefore, employ an intermedia agenda-setting framework while also taking into account findings on campaign press releases. 1 Press releases deliberately supplied to media practitioners often have agenda-building effects (Dunn, 2009;Kiousis, Mirook, Wu, & Seltzer, 2006;Lancendorfer & Lee, 2010;Tedesco, 2001;Tedesco, 2006). Though press releases have a stronger influence on the media agenda than the reverse, in most cases these relationships are reciprocal.…”

Section: Sns Influence On Media Outputmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Rise of Twitter in the Political Campaign: Searching for Intermedia Agenda-Setting Effects in the Presidential Primary

Conway

Kenski

Wang

2015

J Comput-Mediat Comm

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Questions exist over the extent to which social media content may bypass, follow, or attract the attention of traditional media. This study sheds light on such dynamics by examining intermedia agenda-setting effects among the Twitter feeds of the 2012 presidential primary candidates, Twitter feeds of the Republican and Democratic parties, and articles published in the nation's top newspapers. Daily issue frequencies within media were analyzed using time series analysis. A symbiotic relationship was found between agendas in Twitter posts and traditional news, with varying levels of intensity

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 82%

Section: Sns Influence On Media Outputmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Rise of Twitter in the Political Campaign: Searching for Intermedia Agenda-Setting Effects in the Presidential Primary

Conway

Kenski

Wang

2015

J Comput-Mediat Comm

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“…Empirical evidence is quite strong that influences through information subsidies on journalistic news selection and media coverage exist. Particularly during election times, it was demonstrated that public relations efforts by political candidates-also in the online sphere-influence media coverage (Kiousis et al 2015;Kiousis et al 2006;Lancendorfer and Lee 2010). Similar results can be found for routine, nonelection communication by political institutions, such as the U.S. Congress (Kiousis et al 2011).…”

Section: Theoretical Background: Agenda-building and Twittermentioning

confidence: 69%

“…The information subsidy approach mainly considers one direction of influence in the agenda-building process-influence from the political system on journalists and media coverage. Political communication researchers followed this approach by analyzing the influence of political public relations on media coverage (Berkowitz 1987;Kiousis et al 2015;Kiousis et al 2006;Turk 1986), investigating the influence of press releases by politicians or political parties on journalists' information selection and news media coverage (Lancendorfer and Lee 2010;Turk 1986). That there is an influence of political information on journalism is natural since journalists need political sources for their coverage.…”

Section: Theoretical Background: Agenda-building and Twittermentioning

confidence: 99%

Journalists’ Use of Political Tweets

Metag

Rauchfleisch

2016

Digital Journalism

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Many politicians as well as journalists are using Twitter regularly and are connected on the microblogging platform. We use the agenda-building approach as conceptual background because political tweets can serve as information subsidies if they are used by journalists, indicating an agenda-building influence by politicians. It has not yet been systematically investigated which functions of a political tweet make it more likely for it to be used by a journalist and to which extent the journalist's Twitter network plays a role in this process. We analyze which functions of political tweets explain their use as information subsidies and integrate the influence of the journalists' Twitter networks. The study is based on a unique combination of an online survey of Swiss journalists in 2014 with an analysis of the journalists' Twitter metrics. It demonstrates that political tweets are most likely to be used by journalists if they can quote the politicians' tweets, which fosters their significance as information subsidies. Also, journalists who have many politicians as followers perceive that they can influence politicians they do not know personally. This underscores that if the Twitter network is included in the analysis of agenda-building processes, potential reciprocal influences can be detected.

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“…Those studies that do examine this topic primarily focus on election periods, explaining how through campaign communications, parties can influence election news coverage (Brandenburg, 2002;Hopmann, Elmelund-Praestekaer, Albaek, Vliegenthart, & de Vreese, 2012;Lancendorfer & Lee, 2010). As a result, we know very little about the influence of parties over the media agenda in routine periods.…”

Section: Media Agenda-setting By Partiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Political Parallelism in Media and Political Agenda-Setting

Pas¹,

Brug

Vliegenthart

2017

Political Communication

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This article investigates whether agenda-setting relations between newspapers and political parties are influenced by political parallelism. Our case is the Netherlands, a country characterized by high levels of journalistic professionalization and independent media. We focus on newspaper coverage and oral parliamentary questions and use time series analysis to inspect influence both of parliament on newspapers and of newspapers on parliament. The results show that parties respond only to issues raised in newspapers their voters read, and that newspapers only respond to the agenda of parties their readers vote for. This demonstrates that even in mediatized, professionalized media contexts, parallelism is still of importance to understand the relationship between media and politics.Keywords political parallelism, agenda-setting, parliamentary questions, newspapers, the Netherlands IntroductionIn recent years, the political agenda-setting approach toward studying the interaction between parliament and media has become increasingly popular. Extant research in this tradition shows that the effect of media on politics and vice versa is a contingent one, where direction and size depend on a wide variety of factors. These factors cover a whole range of issue characteristics, media characteristics and political party characteristics (see Walgrave & Van Aelst, 2006 for an overview). Until recently, however, maybe one of the most obvious moderating factors has received hardly any attention: political parallelism. Political parallelism refers to the ties between a medium and a political actor (Hardy, 2008;Seymour-Ure, 1974). It is quite remarkable that political parallelism has been ignored as a moderating factor, since Hallin and Mancini identify it in their seminal work Comparing Media Systems (2004) as one of the most important elements that characterize the media system of a country.Daphne J. van der Pas is Postdoctoral Researcher, and Wouter van der Brug is Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam. Rens Vliegenthart is Professor, Department of Communication Science, University of Amsterdam.Address correspondence to Daphne J. van der Pas, Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam, Postbus 15578, 1001 NB Amsterdam, the Netherlands. E-mail: d.j.vanderpas@uva.nl This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/ 4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. 491As far as we are aware, there is only one study that focuses on the extent to which political parallelism moderates agenda-setting effects: a study by Vliegenthart and Mena Montes (2014) on the coverage of the economic crisis. They show that in Spain, a country with high levels of political parallelism, political agenda-setting effects are particular...

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Who Influences Whom? The Agenda-Building Relationship Between Political Candidates and the Media in the 2002 Michigan Governor's Race

Cited by 21 publications

References 55 publications

The Rise of Twitter in the Political Campaign: Searching for Intermedia Agenda-Setting Effects in the Presidential Primary

The Rise of Twitter in the Political Campaign: Searching for Intermedia Agenda-Setting Effects in the Presidential Primary

Journalists’ Use of Political Tweets

Political Parallelism in Media and Political Agenda-Setting

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