When good news is scarce and bad news is good: Government responsibilities and opposition possibilities in political agenda‐setting

Thesen, Gunnar

doi:10.1111/j.1475-6765.2012.02075.x

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“…Much less is known, about how media select issues that they present to their audiences in the first place, which may in itself entail agenda-setting effects (Brandenburg, 2002;Thesen, 2013;Vliegenthart & Walgrave, 2008)-the so called "media agenda-setting" process (); Rogers, Dearing, & Bregman, 1993).…”

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Intermedia agenda-setting in a multimedia news environment

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This article analyzes intermedia agenda-setting processes during a national election campaign of 38 newspapers, online news sites, TV news programs, as well as a wire service, through semi-automatic content analysis and time series analysis. The theoretical assumption was that intermedia agenda-setting is determined by the production structures of certain media types, the opinion-leader role of specific media outlets, and issue-specific characteristics. The findings suggest that, despite previous evidence to the contrary, intermedia agenda-setting also occurs during election campaigns, with a short time lag of 1 day. Additionally, a medium's opinion-leader role depends strongly on issue-specific characteristics, such as obtrusiveness and proximity, mediating the intermedia agenda-setting process. And the traditional role of print media as intermedia agenda-setters is found to be challenged by online news sites. Intermedia agenda-setting in a multimedia news environment Abstract This paper analyzes intermedia agenda-setting processes during a national election campaign of 38 newspapers, online news sites, TV news programs, as well as a wire service, through semi-automatic content analysis and time series analysis. The theoretical assumption was that intermedia agenda-setting is determined by the production structures of certain media types, the opinion-leader role of specific media outlets, and issue-specific characteristics. The findings suggest that, despite previous evidence to the contrary, intermedia agenda-setting also occurs during election campaigns, with a short time lag of one day. Additionally, a medium's opinionleader role depends strongly on issue-specific characteristics, such as obtrusiveness and proximity, mediating the intermedia agenda-setting process. And the traditional role of print media as intermedia agenda-setters is found to be challenged by online news sites.

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Intermedia agenda-setting in a multimedia news environment

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“…Actually, there is no such thing as the political agenda (Walgrave & Van Aelst, 2006: 95). Political agenda-setting scholars have studied (a combination of) the following agendas: of parliament or Congress (Soroka, 2002b;Trumbo, 1995;Van Noije, et al, 2008;Jones & Wolfe, 2010), political parties (Brandenburg, 2002;Green-Pedersen & Stubager, 2010;Kleinnijenhuis & Rietberg, 1995), government (Walgrave, Soroka, & Nuytemans, 2008;Thesen, 2013), the President (Gilberg, Eyal, McCombs, & Nicholas, 1980;Wanta & Foote, 1994;Edwards & Wood, 1999), or public spending (Cook & Skogan, 1991;Pritchard & Berkowitz, 1993).…”

Section: Defining and Operationalizing The Political Agendamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Thus, when left-wing parties respond more often to news on (un)employment and the environment and right-wing parties concentrate on crime and immigration, they are actively trying to capitalize on their issue specific electoral benefits. Finally, Thesen (2013) finds that government and opposition parties have divergent preferences for news tone in political agenda-setting and that the attribution of policy responsibility by the media is crucial to understand how and why political agendas are set by the media. Opposition parties respond to bad news that (implicitly or explicitly) attributes blame to the government, because this will help politicize government incompetence.…”

Section: Mediatized Politics As Strategies Of Party and Issue Competimentioning

confidence: 99%

The Evolution of the Political Agenda Setting Concept in Foreign Political Studies

Александровна

2017

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Introduction: Political agenda-setting and mediatization as distinct worldsAgenda-setting is one of the most influential theories on the media's political influence (Graber, 2005). While often focusing on the media's impact on public opinion, another equally important facet of agenda-setting theory has the media's influence over the agendas of political actors and policy makers as its central object of investigation. Scholars use the term 'political agenda-setting' and in some instances 'agenda building' to refer to the transfer of media priorities to political priorities. Despite the growing popularity and importance of political agenda-setting research, it has seldom been conceptualized as part of or related to the mediatization of politics.For several reasons, political agenda-setting studies and mediatization studies have developed as almost completely distinct research schools (but see Van Noije, Oegema, & Kleinnijenhuis, 2008). Political agenda-setting studies share a strong empirical focus. They deal mainly with testing the effect of the media agenda on the political agenda in different contexts and circumstances. The basic question underlying most of the research reads: does more journalistic attention for an issue lead subsequently to more attention for that issue by politicians? With the help of sophisticated methods such as time series analyses researchers have been able to provide a nuanced and detailed answer to this question, identifying a set of contingent factors that determine the size and strength of the effect. While being empirically strong and analytically sophisticated, political agenda-setting work has, until recently, remained somewhat undertheorized. In particular, insights on why and how politicians adapt 2 to the agenda of the media are still in need of elaboration. Furthermore, agenda-setting focuses only on thematic priorities and it remains unclear how the impact of the media on issue agendas relates to other types of influence.The literature on mediatization, on the other hand, has been characterized by a broader theoretical input and goals (see chapter 1 and Y?), as well as by a broader scope covering media influence on several areas outside politics. The thesis on mediatization of politics provides an overarching view on the role of the media in the political system, and is in this volume defined as a long-term process through which the importance and influence of media in political processes and over political institutions and actors has increased (see chapter 1).While being strong on conceptual discussions and theoretical perspectives, the mediatization literature is lacking in empirical research.. Admittedly, some recent studies explore mediatization empirically. For instance, related to the 3 rd dimension of mediatization (see chapter x), Strömbäck and Nord (2006) find that journalists retain the most power over the content and framing of news while other studies document how mediatization of news content is stronger in the US compared to Europe (Strömbäck & Dimitrova, 2011;...

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“…Coding These politically relevant items were then coded on the news story level (Thesen, 2013). Here, 'news story' refers to the collection of news items, across different media, that deal with something that happened at a given location and point in time.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, this level of analysis does not enable to track the origins and dissemination of chains of directly related news items -which is eventually our aim in the present paper. A news story level approach (Thesen 2013), then, is more suitable for these purposes.…”

Section: Data Collectionmentioning

confidence: 99%