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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"agenda-building"”.
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Agenda-Building in Local Land-Use Issues: Blacksburg Versus the Big Box
… of the issue. Using Cobb and Elder's (1983) agenda-building framework, the goal of this thesis is to examine the ways various groups involved in a local land-use conflict defined, and sometimes redefined, their messages to town residents in an effort to expand the issue beyond the core …
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Media agenda-building battles between Greenpeace and Shell : a rhetorical and discursive approach
… number of interesting questions regarding media agenda-building.
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Masking the Second Amendment: Issue agenda building during the 2020 American presidential election
… most salient on interest group and candidate agendas during the "hot phase" of the campaign. Cross-lagged correlations were conducted during two time periods from Labor Day to Election Day 2020 to measure agenda building effects. These tests were conducted for Democratic nominee and eventual …
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Distance theory: an examination of distance and salience in media attribute assignment and agenda building
… is to examine how previous salience on the news agenda, assigned attributes, and assigned valences of an object in the news media and the distance in time from that object determine how media assign attributes and valences to that object in the future. The concept of Frequency of Object Coverage …
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FROM "INDEXING" OFFICIALS TO "INDEXING" THE PUBLIC: KUWAITI NEWSPAPERS AGENDA BUILDING, NEWS INDEXING AND TWITTER USE IN KARAMAT WATAN PROTESTS, 2012
… and why Twitter affected Kuwaiti journalists' agenda building process during their coverage of the protests. For the purpose of this study, the theoretical framework was the indexing model and the agenda building theory. To answer the research questions and hypothesis in this dissertation the …
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Winning or losing media support for regime change: A comparative analysis of UK government media agenda building during the Suez 1956 and Iraq 2003 conflicts
… in which regime change was the main government agenda and to which there was substantial internal domestic opposition. This opposition led to the necessity of winning the support of the media in order to influence public support in the lead-up to direct military action and to retain that support …
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News Values and Information Subsidies: How Organizations Build the Agenda on Social and Traditional Media
… media "buzz" about topics of significance. Agenda building theory has been used by a variety of scholars as a way to understand how sources influence, or build, the media's agenda. Since the media agenda influences the public agenda, influencing the media agenda is important for sources. …
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Aid and the news agenda: Exploring the forces shaping NGO-produced humanitarian media
… safety. Examining these issues through a lens of agenda building theory (Cobb and Elder 1971), this study introduces the concept of agenda erosion, describing the phenomenon by which powerful actors, including host authorities and western governmental and intergovernmental donors, exert influence …
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Peace under Fire: Building the Media Agenda in Post-Genocide Rwanda
… the media. This study examined the processes of agenda building and frame building in the media from the perspective of Rwandan journalists and media professionals. It further examined the media within the framework of peace journalism. The study used both a qualitative and quantitative approach. …
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The military draft and the all-volunteer force: a case study of a shift in public policy
… largely adapted from the theoretical work of ~he Agenda-Building Theorists, is compared to the events and inter-actions of key players in the case study. Although conclusions about a wider applicability of the model is not possible, it can be concluded that the theoretical model does fit the …
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Transit preferential treatment : a public policy-making perspective
… thesis are to apply the three models from the agenda-building theory (Mobilization, Inside Access and Outside Initiative) to the context of public transportation to understand how innovative policy-making can be introduced and if the presence of a policy entrepreneur is necessary and …
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Political commitment by the UK's environment cities to the expectations of agenda 21
… development green ideology of the Earth Summit's Agenda 21 action plan for managing our Planet's future. Most studies of this response have focused on behaviour and process, including that of some of the four UK Environment City local authorities, alleged front runners in this field ie. Leicester, …
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Patterns in the Chaos: News and Nationalism in Afghanistan, America and Pakistan During Wartime, 2010-2012
… includes scholarship on indexing and cascading; agenda building and agenda setting; framing; and reporting during conflict. The second is on the American news media's relationship with the world, and nationalism as a fixed phenomenon in international news. This includes examining the different …
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A new compensation standard: equal pay for equal worth in Washington State
… requires extensive preparation, not only in the agenda-building stage, but in program development. Third, all job classes should be evaluated to avoid problems of class distortion and disruption. All implementing officials should be included in the planning process. Fourth, comparable worth does …
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The Politics of Community Development: A History of the Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation
… economic, social, and cultural redevelopment agenda. Building on the concept that the 'process is the product' Restoration's successes and failures demonstrate how capacity was built in one of the nation's most challenged communities. After a decade of impressive accomplishments, Restoration …
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El ruso étnico como enemigo del Islam: análisis transversal de la agencia informativa Kavkaz Center (2001-2004)
… utilizamos como métodos la construcción de la agenda (agenda building); el enmarcado (framing); análisis crítico del discurso (cuadrado ideológico); y el diagrama de redes inspirado en la teoría de la sociedad red. Como conclusiones generales, de nuestro trabajo se deduce: 1) Que a pesar de las …
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Setting The Nutritional Agenda: An Analysis of Nutrition Blog Sourcing
… of better understanding how our nutrition agenda is set by nutrition bloggers. Focusing on 20 nutrition blogs, the study content analyzed 3,156 blog posts during a one-year period from September 1, 2011 to August 31, 2012, yielding 5,263 sources. Additionally, in-depth interviews were …