Agenda setting in a 2.0 world : new agendas in communication : a tribute to Maxwell McCombs / edited by Thomas J. Johnson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Johnson, Thomas J.

McCombs, Maxwell E.

Series:

New Agendas in Communication Series

New agendas in communication

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--Political aspects.

Mass media.

Digital media--Political aspects.

Digital media.

Mass media and public opinion.

Mass media--Research.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (317 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<P>This volume explores agenda-setting theory in light of changes in the media environment in the 21st century. In the decades since the original Chapel Hill study that launched agenda-setting research, the theory has attracted the interest of scholars worldwide.</P><P><I>Agenda Setting in a 2.0 World </I>features the work of a new generation of scholars. The research provided by these young scholars reflects two broad contemporary trends in agenda-setting: A centrifugal trend of research in the expanding media landscape and in domains beyond the original focus on public affairs, and a centrip

Contents:

Cover; Agenda Setting in a 2.0 World; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Introduction; 1 Media Agenda Setting in a Competitive and Hostile Environment: The Role of Sources in Setting Versus Supporting Topical Discussant Agendas in the Tea Party Patriots' Facebook Group; 2 Agenda Setting, Elections, and the Impact of Information Technology; 3 Value Resonance and the Origins of Issue Salience; 4 Contingent Factors of Agenda-Setting Effects: How Need for Orientation, Issue Obtrusiveness, and Message Tone Influence Issue Salience and Attitude Strength

5 Setting the Political Culture Agenda: The Impact of Media Use on Political Trust and Participation in Kosovo6 Toward the Third Level of Agenda-Setting Theory: A Network Agenda-Setting Model; 7 It's Not Just a Laughing Matter: How Entertainment News Programs Influence the Transfer of the Media's Agenda to the Public's Agenda Similarly to Traditional Hard News; 8 From What the Public Thinks About to What the Public Does: Agenda-Setting Effects as a Mediator of Media Use and Civic Engagement

9 The Public Agenda Along the Life Span: Testing the Life-Cycle Effect of Age on the Agenda-Setting Process10 Online Agenda Setting: A New Frontier for Theory Development; 11 Consensus-Building Function of Agenda Setting in Times of Crisis: Substantive and Affective Dimensions; 12 Agenda Setting in the Corporate Sphere: Synthesizing Findings and Identifying New Opportunities in this Growing Domain; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed August 27, 2013).

ISBN:

0-415-83700-6

1-135-00778-0

0-203-73587-0

1-135-00779-9

9780203735879

OCLC:

854977120