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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910811136103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Routledge, , 2014
• ISBN: 0-415-83700-6; 1-135-00778-0; 0-203-73587-0; 1-135-00779-9
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (317 p.)
• Collana: New agendas in communication
• Altri autori (Persone): JohnsonThomas J; McCombsMaxwell E
• Disciplina: 302.23/1
• Soggetti: Mass media - Political aspects; Digital media - Political aspects; Mass media and public opinion; Mass media - Research
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: <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