Agenda Setting: Readings on Media, Public Opinion, and Policymaking

by Protess

Book Overview

The role of the news media in defining the important issues of the day, also known as the agenda-setting influence of mass communication, has received widespread attention over the past 20 years. Since the publication of McCombs and Shaw's seminal empirical study, more than one hundred journal articles and monographs have appeared. This collection exemplifies the major phases of research on agenda-setting: tests of the basic hypothesis, contingent...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138175994
• ISBN13: 9781138175990
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"