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Setting the Agenda : The Mass Media and Public Opinion.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Cambridge : Polity Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2004Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (202 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780745672748
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 302.23
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Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Influencing Public Opinion -- Reality and the News -- How Agenda-Setting Works -- Why Agenda-Setting Occurs -- The Pictures in our Heads -- Attribute Agenda-Setting and Framing -- Shaping the Media Agenda -- Consequences of Agenda-Setting -- Mass Communication and Society -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: Setting the Agenda describes the mass media's significant and sometimes controversial role in determining which topics are at the centre of public attention and action. Although Walter Lippman captured the essence of the media's powerful influence early in the last century with his phrase, "the world outside and the pictures in our heads," a detailed, empirical elaboration of this agenda-setting role of the mass media did not begin until the final quarter of the 20th century. In this comprehensive book, Maxwell McCombs, one of the founding fathers of agenda-setting tradition of research, synthesizes the hundreds of scientific studies carried out on this central role of the mass media in the shaping of public opinion. Across the world, the mass media strongly influences what the pictures of public affairs "in our heads" are about. The mass media also influences the very details of those pictures. In addition to describing this media influence on what we think about and how we think about it, Setting the Agenda also discusses the sources of these media agendas, the psychological explanation for their impact on the public agenda, and the subsequent consequences for attitudes, opinions and behaviour.
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Cover -- Contents -- Influencing Public Opinion -- Reality and the News -- How Agenda-Setting Works -- Why Agenda-Setting Occurs -- The Pictures in our Heads -- Attribute Agenda-Setting and Framing -- Shaping the Media Agenda -- Consequences of Agenda-Setting -- Mass Communication and Society -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index.

Setting the Agenda describes the mass media's significant and sometimes controversial role in determining which topics are at the centre of public attention and action. Although Walter Lippman captured the essence of the media's powerful influence early in the last century with his phrase, "the world outside and the pictures in our heads," a detailed, empirical elaboration of this agenda-setting role of the mass media did not begin until the final quarter of the 20th century. In this comprehensive book, Maxwell McCombs, one of the founding fathers of agenda-setting tradition of research, synthesizes the hundreds of scientific studies carried out on this central role of the mass media in the shaping of public opinion. Across the world, the mass media strongly influences what the pictures of public affairs "in our heads" are about. The mass media also influences the very details of those pictures. In addition to describing this media influence on what we think about and how we think about it, Setting the Agenda also discusses the sources of these media agendas, the psychological explanation for their impact on the public agenda, and the subsequent consequences for attitudes, opinions and behaviour.

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