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Fleur, Melvin L. De; Ball‐Rokeach, Sandra J.; McQuail, Denis; Windahl, Sven; Connors, Tracy Daniel; Hurst, Walter E.; Delson, Donn; Hiebert, Ray E.

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“…Of course, it is known that mass media information can modify our opinion, attitudes, and social behavior, especially under certain contextual circumstances where social agents have no firsthand information to help choose their alternatives (Ball-Rokeach, 1998; De Fleur & Ball-Rokeach, 1993). As a result, when agents do not obtain information from their network and they have to look for additional data in external media sources, media effects could become stronger in this situation.…”

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“…Taking into account these previous findings from social sciences and computational physics, this work aims to study the process of spreading minority opinion in four possible scenarios, giving response to three basic questions: (1) how the structure of social networks (i.e., network composition: types of nodes and number of edges) can affect the spread of minority opinion (''network physical structure'' effect), (2) how committed agents can influence in this process (''opinion loyalty'' effect), and (3) how mass media action, as a contextual (or external) factor, might vary agents' opinions and network composition (''media opinion '' effect;De Fleur & Ball-Rokeach, 1989;McQuail, 2000;Perse, 2001).…”

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Network Models of Minority Opinion Spreading

Álvarez‐Gálvez

2015

Social Science Computer Review

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Although several models in the literature analyze the dynamics of opinion formation, less attention has been paid to explain how the structure of social networks and their contextual circumstances can influence the course of minority public opinions. This work aims to pose three basic questions: (1) how the structure of social networks can affect the spread of minority opinion, (2) how committed agents influence this process, and (3) how mass media action, as a contextual factor, can vary different agents' opinions and network composition. Agent-based modeling is used to create a network model of preferential attachment to explore how phenomena of minority opinion spreading can evolve under different simulated scenarios. This study shows that the success of minority opinions depends on network structure and composition and thus on external factors such as mass media action that can mediate the strength of these internal determinants. Although people tend to remain silent when they feel that their opinions are in the minority, our findings suggest that prevailing majority opinion may be promptly replaced by what was formerly minority opinion if core agents in the network structure and/or external sources support this view.

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Network Models of Minority Opinion Spreading

Álvarez‐Gálvez

2015

Social Science Computer Review

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“…For this same reason, in this study we tried to discuss the association and/or relation instead of referring to relationships of causality between the media and their audiences, although in practice both premises may well be accurate. The media may influence people under certain circumstances (Ball-Rokeach, 1998; De Fleur, Melvin, & Ball-Rokeach, 1993), yet at the same time as the active agents of social change, people may hold different attitudes towards the media which are likely to change the ways the news is framed.…”

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“…Ciertamente, en la práctica puede ser que ambas premisas sean correctas. Los medios pueden influir a las personas bajo determinadas circunstancias (Ball-Rokeach, 1998; De Fleur, Melvin, y Ball-Rokeach, 1993), pero al mismo tiempo las personas, como agentes activos de cambio social, pueden mantener diferentes predisposiciones hacia los medios que son susceptibles de modificar las formas de encuadrar la información.…”

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Television news consumption and public attitudes towards immigration: a multi-level approach / Consumo de información televisiva y actitudes publicas hacia la inmigración: un enfoque multinivel

Álvarez‐Gálvez

2014

Revista de Psicología Social

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This paper analyses the association between TV news consumption and public attitudes towards immigration. A multi-level model is used to study the complex relationship between TV news consumption, how the media treat immigration and public attitudes towards minority groups based on a survey of university students. Multi-level analysis results show the impact of aggregate consumption of TV news on the perception of the current immigration phenomenon and the cognitive/affective components of attitude. It also demonstrates the usefulness of this analytical approach for understanding the processes that describe the relationship between the media and attitudes towards immigration.

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“…This basic theoretical perspective is also infl uenced by agenda theory, which is concerned not so much with how the media persuade people of one thing or another, but with how they depict social reality and present a list of issues that people need to have an opinion on and/or talk about (Jacobson 2002;Rokeach 1982;Shaw 1979). These theorists contend that the mass media not only set the agenda, but also defi ne the terms in which phenomena should be understood and debated.…”

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Tarnished Stars: The Discourses of Celebrity in the British Tabloid Press

Breeze

2017

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En este estudio se analiza el discurso referido a las celebridades en la prensa popular inglesa. El análisis se centra en los recursos lingüísticos utilizados en este contexto, y el discurso informal que se emplea para atraer y representar a los lectores. Se procede a un estudio crítico de las posiciones de sujeto ofrecidas al lector, y las relaciones retóricas que se establecen. En las conclusiones se subraya la función de la prensa popular como mediador social, irreverente sin ser amenazador, que genera discursos populistas para enganchar una audiencia de masa en una época de fragmentación.Abstract:This study analyses the discourse of celebrity in texts from the British tabloid newspaper The Sun. The analysis focuses on the linguistic resources deployed in association with celebrities, and the typically vernacular voice with which the writer engages readers and claims to speak for them. The article then discusses factors underlying the subject positions offered to the readers and the nature of the rhetorical relations that are established. Conclusions are drawn about the operation of tabloid newspapers as social mediators that are irreverent without being threatening, generating populist discourses that contrive to engage mass audiences in an age of fragmentation.

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Network Models of Minority Opinion Spreading

Network Models of Minority Opinion Spreading

Television news consumption and public attitudes towards immigration: a multi-level approach / Consumo de información televisiva y actitudes publicas hacia la inmigración: un enfoque multinivel

Tarnished Stars: The Discourses of Celebrity in the British Tabloid Press

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