Personal Experience Versus Media Coverage: Testing the Issue Obtrusiveness Condition of Agenda-Setting Theory in a Developing Country

Shafi, Ashik

doi:10.1177/1077699016669115

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“…While individuals are less influenced by media for the obtrusive issues, some studies demonstrated the opposite (Gross and Aday, 2003). The public learn more from the media about unobtrusive issues instead of from personal experience (Shafi, 2016). But for the Chinese audience, their U.S. travel experience positively predicted the presumed influence of news about China on them (Wei et al, 2017).…”

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“…Zucker (1978) categorized issues into two kinds according to their proximity to people: those issues in which people have personal experiences were termed as "obtrusive" issues, while the issues that people have little personal contact with were termed as "unobtrusive" issues. It was found that the agendasetting of media would increase as the issue obtrusiveness decreased (Weaver, 1981), and public's perceived salience of news issues was influenced more by media for unobtrusive issues than obtrusive issues (Shafi, 2016) as the audience mainly learn unobtrusive issues through media instead of personal experience.…”

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Perceived agenda-setting effect in international context: Impact of media coverage on American audience’s perception of China

2020

International Communication Gazette

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Different from the conventional content-survey result comparison approach in agenda-setting research, which compares media agenda and public agenda at the aggregated level, this study investigates the perceived agenda-setting effect of media at the individual level in an international context. A survey of American respondents (N = 848) identifies perceived agenda-setting effect from individuals’ cognitive process, and finds that the U.S. audience are aware that their perception of China is shaped by media coverage of China-related topics. The study finds that media use, political interest in China, and media trust positively predict perceived agenda-setting effect, while direct experience with China produces no effect. The study also confirms the effect of media use on perceived agenda-setting effect mediated by political interest.

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Perceived agenda-setting effect in international context: Impact of media coverage on American audience’s perception of China

2020

International Communication Gazette

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“…Traditionally, the influence of the news media is the strongest on issues with which people do not necessarily have direct experience (Lecheler et al, 2009;Yagade & Dozier, 1990;McCombs, 2005;Shafi, 2017). Whether it's the state of the national economy, withdrawing armed forces from Afghanistan, or Congressional negotiations over the infrastructure bill, most Americans do not have direct, personal experience with these issues, and rely on the portrayal in the news media to shape their beliefs and attitudes.…”

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The Influence of Partisan Media in the Face of Global Pandemic: How News Media Influenced COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy

Motta¹,

Stecuła²

2021

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While vaccination against COVID-19 represents a clear path toward resuming “normal life,” attitudes toward vaccination and vaccine uptake has been highly politically contentious. In this paper, we investigate (1) whether or not partisan news outlets covered COVID-vaccination issues in different ways, and (2) whether differences in coverage contributed to the vaccine politicization. We do this by bringing together novel sentiment-scored COVID vaccine stories (N > 17,000) from cable and mainstream news outlets, N > 180,000 vaccine adverse event reports to the Dept. of Health and Human Services (which we validate both here and in past research as a proxy for public vaccine sentiment), and six original surveys (N = 6,499) measuring vaccination intentions and media use behavior throughout the pandemic. We find that Fox News’ vaccine-related coverage was significantly more negative than that of other cable and mainstream sources. Critically, these differences in tone influenced public opinion about vaccines. Adverse event reports tended to increase following heightened periods of negativity on Fox News, which robustness checks suggest is not likely to be a reverse causal effect. Correspondingly, self-reported Fox News exposure in the opinion data is associated with elevated levels of vaccine hesitancy throughout the pandemic. Collectively, the results provide new insights into the persuasive power of partisan media. While some might expect the promise of ending a global pandemic to interrupt conventional media effect processes, we find that differences in covered vaccine-related issues had both predictable and polarizing effects on public opinion.

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“…Discussing agenda setting in Bangladesh, Shafi (2016) noted the ethnocentricity (he calls it Western bias) in agenda-setting hypothesis. He posited that Asia is a very different environment with varying degrees of freedom of the press, access of mass media to people, overt and covert press censorship, and political economy.…”

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Virtual Theme Collection: Journalism and Media Research in South Asia and Southeast Asia

Sriramesh

2020

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

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Personal Experience Versus Media Coverage: Testing the Issue Obtrusiveness Condition of Agenda-Setting Theory in a Developing Country

Cited by 8 publications

References 32 publications

Perceived agenda-setting effect in international context: Impact of media coverage on American audience’s perception of China

Perceived agenda-setting effect in international context: Impact of media coverage on American audience’s perception of China

The Influence of Partisan Media in the Face of Global Pandemic: How News Media Influenced COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy

Virtual Theme Collection: Journalism and Media Research in South Asia and Southeast Asia

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