Agenda-Setting Effects among the Media, the Public, and Congress, 1946–2004

Tan, Yue; Weaver, David H.

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“…With the rise of new media, the potential agenda-setting power of traditional media is called into question. Scholars have long discussed the ability of the mainstream media to shape which issues the public considers to be salient, based on the relative attention provided to some issues over others (McCombs and Shaw 1993;Tan and Weaver 2007;Scheufele and Tewksbury 2007). As the fathers of agenda-setting theory put it, "Readers learn not only about a given issue, but also how much importance to attach to that issue from the amount of information in a news story and its position" (McCombs and Shaw 1993, 176).…”

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Agenda Setting in a Digital Age: Tracking Attention to California Proposition 8 in Social Media, Online News and Conventional News

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This study compares the agenda‐setting cues of traditional media alongside those of online media in general and social media in particular. The main line of inquiry concerns (a) whether people posting content to openly accessible social media outlets may be acting in response to mainstream news coverage, possibly as a “corrective” to perceived imbalances in that coverage, or (b) whether such posts seem to have influenced professional media coverage of the issue, possibly reflecting broader opinion dynamics. We do not view these as competing hypotheses, as this relationship may run in both directions and shift at different points in the evolution of an issue. Our goal is to establish important preliminary findings by addressing these questions in the context of a particular issue that is (a) prominently covered in professional media, and (b) contentious enough to inspire individuals to “take the media into their own hands” by producing and publishing their own “coverage.” Proposition 8 in California, which amended the state constitution to define marriage as the exclusive right of opposite‐sex couples, provides this context. Our analysis focuses on the thousands of videos posted to YouTube and coverage of Proposition 8 in professional news media, tracing the relationships among them.

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“…The large majority have demonstrated first-order agenda-setting effects, most frequently in relation to the public agenda (Barabas and Jerit 2009;Iyengar, Peters, and Kinder 1982;McCombs and Shaw 1972), but also in relation to public officials and the government agenda (Baumgartner and Jones 1993;Kingdon 1995;Wanta and Kalyango 2007), and sometimes both (Gonzebach 1992;Leff, Protess, and Brooks 1986;Tan and Weaver 2007). Others delve more deeply, demonstrating second-order effects, again with respect to both the public agenda (Gollust, Lantz, and Ubel 2009;Iyengar and Simon 1993) and the government agenda (Baumgartner and Jones 1993;Soroka 2002).…”

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National Newspaper Portrayal of U.S. Nursing Homes: Periodic Treatment of Topic and Tone

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Context:Although observers have long highlighted the relationship of public distrust, government regulation, and media depictions of nursing-home scandals, no study has systematically analyzed the way in which nursing homes have been portrayed in the national media. This study examines how nursing homes were depicted in four leading national newspapers-the New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and Los Angeles Times-from 1999 to 2008. Methods:We used keyword searches of the LexisNexis database to identify 1,704 articles pertaining to nursing homes. We then analyzed the content of each article and assessed its tone, themes, prominence, and central actor. We used basic frequencies and descriptive statistics to examine the articles' content, both cross-sectionally and over time.Findings: Approximately one-third of the articles were published in 1999/2000, and a comparatively high percentage (12.4%) appeared in 2005. Most were news stories (89.8%), and about one-quarter were on the front page of the newspaper or section. Most focused on government (42.3%) or industry (39.2%) interests, with very few on residents/family (13.3%) and community (5.3%) concerns. Most were negative (45.1%) or neutral (37.0%) in tone, and very few were positive (9.6%) or mixed (8.3%). Conclusions: Overall, our findings highlight the longitudinal variation in the four widely read newspapers' framing of nursing-home coverage, regarding not only tone but also shifts in media attention from one aspect of this complex policy area to another. The predominantly negative media reports contribute to the poor public opinion of nursing homes and, in turn, of the people who live and work in them. These reports also place nursing homes at a competitive disadvantage and may pose challenges to health delivery reform, including care integration across settings.Keywords: long-term care, nursing homes, media, newspapers, agenda setting. D espite progress improving the quality of nursing homes over the last two decades, significant challenges remain Mor 2006, 2008;Wiener, Freiman, and Brown 2007). Just one-quarter of Americans rank nursing-home operators as "very high" or "high" in honesty and ethics, while only one-third believe that nursing homes are doing a "good job," both figures falling far below those for other health care providers (Jones 2010; Kaiser Family Foundation 2001, 2005. More than half of long-term care opinion leaders ranked the quality of care provided by the average nursing home as "fair or poor," compared with one-quarter to one-third of the leaders who ranked assisted-living facilities, hospitals, and home care agencies this way, just 14.2 percent for adult day care providers, and 5.8 percent for hospice workers (Miller, Clark, and Mor 2010).The mass media can play a significant role in shaping people's views of the importance and nature of particular issues (Baumgartner and Jones 1993;Dearing and Rogers 1996;Iyengar and Reeves 1997;Kingdon 1995;McCombs, Shaw, and Weaver 1997). Media scholars refer to both first-order agend...

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“…To test hypotheses of prediction or causality for correlational survey data, regression analysis "is by far the most widely used and versatile dependence technique" (Hair, Anderson, Tatham, & Black, 1998, p. 141). To further investigate the hypothesized directional nature of the relationships, Granger tests are subsequently employed using time-lagged units (t-1) (Freeman, 1983;Granger, 1969;Tan & Weaver, 2006).…”

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Agenda-Tapping: Conceptualizing the Relationship Between News Coverage, Fundraising, and the First Amendment

Connolly-Ahern

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2015

Journal of Nonprofit & Public Sector Marketing

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Agenda setting represents a promising framework for understanding charitable donation and special interest political contribution behavior. This article reports the results of a study investigating the link between the agenda-setting function of the press, nonprofit donations, and special interest political contributions. Using financial information from two nonprofit organizations associated with the issue of gun control/gun rights, this study found media mentions of gun control to be strong and significant predictors of donations to a gun control-oriented nonprofit and nonprofit contributions to political campaigns.

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Agenda-Setting Effects among the Media, the Public, and Congress, 1946–2004

Cited by 71 publications

References 1 publication

Agenda Setting in a Digital Age: Tracking Attention to California Proposition 8 in Social Media, Online News and Conventional News

Agenda Setting in a Digital Age: Tracking Attention to California Proposition 8 in Social Media, Online News and Conventional News

National Newspaper Portrayal of U.S. Nursing Homes: Periodic Treatment of Topic and Tone

Agenda-Tapping: Conceptualizing the Relationship Between News Coverage, Fundraising, and the First Amendment

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