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Book The Public and the National Agenda

Download or read book The Public and the National Agenda written by Wayne Wanta and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-09 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the agenda-setting function of the news media from an information processing standpoint, this volume examines how individuals expose themselves to news media content and how this content translates into issue salience. It utilizes the individual as the unit of measurement. Many agenda-setting studies have used the issue, rather than the individual, as the unit of measurement. By employing an "agenda-setting susceptibility" index, the book details how individuals who actively process information in the news media are most susceptible to agenda-setting effects. Merging agenda-setting with research in information processing and uses and gratifications, it proposes and tests a causal model of media agenda-setting influences by examining demographics, psychological factors, and behavioral variables of individuals.

Book The Oxford Handbook of Political Communication

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Political Communication written by Kate Kenski and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-23 with total page 977 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its development shaped by the turmoil of the World Wars and suspicion of new technologies such as film and radio, political communication has become a hybrid field largely devoted to connecting the dots among political rhetoric, politicians and leaders, voters' opinions, and media exposure to better understand how any one aspect can affect the others. In The Oxford Handbook of Political Communication Kate Kenski and Kathleen Hall Jamieson bring together leading scholars, including founders of the field of political communication Elihu Katz, Jay Blumler, Doris Graber, Max McCombs, and Thomas Paterson,to review the major findings about subjects ranging from the effects of political advertising and debates and understandings and misunderstandings of agenda setting, framing, and cultivation to the changing contours of social media use in politics and the functions of the press in a democratic system. The essays in this volume reveal that political communication is a hybrid field with complex ancestry, permeable boundaries, and interests that overlap with those of related fields such as political sociology, public opinion, rhetoric, neuroscience, and the new hybrid on the quad, media psychology. This comprehensive review of the political communication literature is an indispensible reference for scholars and students interested in the study of how, why, when, and with what effect humans make sense of symbolic exchanges about sharing and shared power. The sixty-two chapters in The Oxford Handbook of Political Communication contain an overview of past scholarship while providing critical reflection of its relevance in a changing media landscape and offering agendas for future research and innovation.

Book 21st Century Communication  A Reference Handbook

Download or read book 21st Century Communication A Reference Handbook written by William F. Eadie and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 993 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlights the most important topics, issues, questions, and debates affecting the field of communication in the 21st Century.

Book The Mass Communication Process

Download or read book The Mass Communication Process written by Keith R. Stamm and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shaping Political Attitudes

Download or read book Shaping Political Attitudes written by Silvo Lenart and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1994-07-19 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent research in the area of public opinion has focused most of its attention on the effect of the mass media, television in particular, as an influencing agent. The author argues that media effects are only half of the equation; the mass media cannot be seen as the exclusive source of political information. In a model of `total information flow', the media must share the political information environment with interpersonal communication. This volume bridges the gap between media and interpersonal communication and their combined effect on political attitudes and cognition.

Book Clarifying Communication Theories

Download or read book Clarifying Communication Theories written by Gerald Stone and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1999-03-22 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A textbook and workbook introducing several theories of human and mass communication in a straightforward manner. Relying heavily on examples and exercises, the chapters are relatively short and include a founding or early journal article and reference to a more recent article that can be assigned. Instructors can use the book as a core text supplemented with readings and lectures, or as a supplement.

Book Agenda Setting

Download or read book Agenda Setting written by James W. Dearing and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 1996-08-28 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the biggest social problem in the news today? Who makes issues newsworthy and important? Why do some issues receive more attention than others? Social issues that are widely recognized in the media′s agenda often demand attention on the public agenda and in turn, slide up the policy agenda, creating policy changes. James W. Dearing and Everett M. Rogers′s research on social issues that hit the top of the media agenda--the war on drugs, drunk driving, the Exxon Valdez, AIDS, and the Ethiopian famine--provides important theoretical and practical insight into the agenda-setting process and its role in effecting social change. This reader-friendly volume introduces students to an important area of communication research and offers them direction for further inquiry. Researchers and professionals in political and mass communication, media studies, research methods, and marketing will appreciate this volume′s insightful approach to agenda-setting and policy. "Agenda-Setting is a very useful introduction to the topic as well as a through review of the stream of research. . . . This book introduces a number of ideas that are useful in public relations strategic planning such as the concept of an issue life cycle. A lag/lead analysis of issue development is discussed that would also prove useful to campaign planners. The concept of framing is introduced as a technique that brings meaning to an issue." --Public Relations Review "Authors James W. Dearing and Everett M. Rogers explain the importance of the agenda-setting hypothesis in mass communication research and suggest how research can be advanced in the future. . . . In the book′s most impressive character, the authors raise 12 research issues to advance agenda-setting, including the need for more international, comparative approaches. A very complete list of references and a separate list of suggested readings are helpful to scholars. Highly recommended for all serious collections in journalism, mass media, mass communication, political science, and public policy research." R. A. Logan in Choice

Book An Integrated Approach to Communication Theory and Research

Download or read book An Integrated Approach to Communication Theory and Research written by Don W. Stacks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides an overview of communication study, offering theoretical coverage of the broad scope of communication study as well as integrating theory with research. To explicate the integration process, the chapter contributors -- experts in their respective areas -- offer samples in the form of hypothetical studies, published studies, or unpublished research, showing how theory and research are integrated in their particular fields. The book will appeal to graduate students and faculty members who want a thorough overview of not only the field, but also sample research stemming from its various component parts.

Book Agenda Setting in a 2 0 World

Download or read book Agenda Setting in a 2 0 World written by Thomas J. Johnson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Agenda Setting in a 2.0 World 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 centripetal trend further explicating agenda-setting’s core concepts.

Book Emerging Theories of Human Communication

Download or read book Emerging Theories of Human Communication written by Branislav Kovacic and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book summarizes the important and promising emerging theories of human communication that go beyond received traditions. It includes essays on emerging theories of communication and culture; relational communicative competence; conflict communication; communication and peace; agenda setting and the role of mass media in democratic political processes; new rhetoric and new social movements; and communication and management of public-sector competitiveness. Contributors to this volume include Deborah Blood, Dudley D. Cahn, Donal Carbaugh, Ron B. Cullen, Donald P. Cushman, William A. Donohue, Timothy Gibson, Gerard A. Hauser, Trudy Milburn, Hiroshi Ota, Jiro Takai, Susan Whalen, John M. Wiemann, Mary O. Weimann, and Jian H. Zhu.

Book Inter media

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gary Gumpert
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 1986
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 684 pages

Download or read book Inter media written by Gary Gumpert and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1986 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated and substantially revised, the third edition of Intermedia unravels the intricate entanglements of media, society, and the individual. Including contributions by Anthony Smith, Sari Thomas, Michael Arlen, and Susan Sontag, this edition also provides eighteen new essays on timely subjects such as how and what children learn from television, and the impact and role of computers on the home, the school, and the workplace.

Book Communication and Democracy

Download or read book Communication and Democracy written by Maxwell E. McCombs and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First in a trilogy on Communication and Democracy. Also fits with Gonzenbach, Semetko, and Protess/MccOmbs. For grads and beyond in journalism, poli comm, and mass comm.

Book Setting the Agenda

    Book Details:
  • Author : Maxwell McCombs
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2018-07-10
  • ISBN : 0745681700
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book Setting the Agenda written by Maxwell McCombs and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Setting the Agenda describes the mass media’ssignificant and sometimes controversial role in determining whichtopics are at the centre of public attention and action. In thisnew edition of his comprehensive book, Max McCombs, one of thefounding fathers of the agenda-setting tradition of research,extends his previous synthesis of hundreds of studies carried outon this central role of the mass media in the shaping of publicopinion. Across the world, the mass media strongly influences how we picturepublic affairs. In describing this media influence on what we thinkabout and how we think about it, Setting the Agenda alsodiscusses the sources of these media agendas, the psychologicalexplanation for their impact on the public agenda, and thesubsequent consequences for attitudes, opinions and behaviour. Newto this edition, McCombs debates the role of the expanded medialandscape on agenda setting, the impact of the internet on thepower of legacy media and the role of agenda setting beyond therealm of public affairs, This fully updated new edition will prove invaluable to students ofmedia, communications and politics, as well as those interested inthe role of mass media in shaping and directing public opinion.

Book Advancing Communication Science

Download or read book Advancing Communication Science written by Robert Hawkins and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1988-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advancing Communcation Science illustrates the inadequacies of evidence on which mass and interpersonal communication comparisons are based and make suggestions for improving comparability. Ten chapters discuss ways in which interpersonal and electronic mass communication affect each other, regarding emotional communication and need as determinants in media selection. The authors emphasize the need for special communication skills in the interpretation and use of television, and the role of interpersonal communication in shaping the contours of broadcast news output. The final chapter is a dialogue on the history and evolution of communication leading to a better understanding of where the field is

Book Using Communication Theory

Download or read book Using Communication Theory written by Swen Windahl and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1992-01-09 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This broad-ranging textbook provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to using communication theory in real-life communication activities. Planned communication, both interpersonal and through the mass media, is a standard facet of modern life. It is as evident in public health campaigns on smoking, drugs or AIDS as in commercial advertising and public relations. This textbook outlines how such communication can be informed by an understanding of the theories of communication that have evolved over the last thirty years. How are ideas diffused through the mass media and other channels of communication? How does the audience read a message? What is known about the impact of different ways of handling a communication ca

Book On the Interactions of News Media  Interpersonal Communication  Opinion Formation  and Participation

Download or read book On the Interactions of News Media Interpersonal Communication Opinion Formation and Participation written by Joohoan Kim and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 1997-12 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deliberative democracy can be defined as a political system based on citizens' voluntary and free discussions on public issues. Most scholars have discussed deliberative democracy within normative boundaries. However, based primarily on Katz's interpretation of Tarde, this study finds the concept of public sphere a useful framework for operationalizing the normative concept of deliberative democracy, since the four components of the public sphere-news media use, interpersonal communication, opinion formation, and political participation-provide us with empirically testable categories. This study tests the validity of theories of deliberative democracy through examining the inter-relationships among the four components of the public sphere. Methodologically, it includes a set of 63 items to probe where people talk and what they talk about in their daily life. An experimental treatment (a "stop-and-talk" question) is also included in the survey to simulate the effects of real conversation. Through a set of data gathered from a nationwide survey, sufficient evidence was found to support the basic hypotheses: (1) news media use encourages people to have political conversation, (2) news media use and political conversation tend to enhance the quality of opinions (measured by consistency, opinionation, and consideredness), (3) news media use, political conversation, and enhanced opinions encourage political participation. The significance of this study is that: (1) unlike other media effects studies, its dependent variables are not just of opinion positions or attitude changes, but also opinion quality; (2) it does not consider media alone, but deals with the combined effects of interpersonal communication (conversation) and mass media (news media use); (3) it combines an experimental design with a nationwide survey; and (4) it assumes that the effects of mass media do not stop at people's attitudes, but are extended to their activities.