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Showing 1 to 20 of 149 for “"agenda-setting"”.
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Agenda-Setting: The Universal Service Case
The goal of this dissertation is to test the agenda-setting theories of John Kingdon and Frank Baumgartner/Bryan Jones in terms of applicability. Universal service policy and the 1996 Telecommunications Act serve as the test case. Case study methodology guides the dissertation and employs a variety …
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Agenda-Setting and the Local Television Manager
… study is to determine whether the professional agendas of local television managers are influenced by a medium; in this case, "Broadcasting" magazine. Procedure. First, the agenda of "Broadcasting" was determined by a content analysis of fifty-two issues (one year's run) of the magazine. Then, …
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Agenda-setting in the states: An institutional analysis
… paid to the variegated character of state policy agendas. We simply do not know why state policy agendas vary across the states yet careful inspection reveals vast differences in attentiveness to major issues. In this project I map major characteristics of state policy agendas and develop and test …
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The Unconventional Candidate: Agenda-Setting in Small-Town Politics
… interesting case study in the power of media and agenda-setting. This professional project employed a mixed-methods approach, combining content creation with quantitative social media analysis and qualitative case study examination. The research focused on Caymen Watts' 2025 mayoral campaign in …
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Greening the EU : Power practices, resistances and agenda setting
… concerns have been brought up on the Community agenda and how that agenda has subsequently been shaped. It is argued that by starting from a critical position in ecocentric and feminist theorizing, new understandings of Community agenda setting can be gained. The study shows that greening of the …
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Quantifying Agenda Setting Effects on Twitter and Digital Media
Agenda setting theory describes how the media influences which issues enter the public agenda. New technologies have disrupted media institutions and long-established agenda setting dynamics. This thesis studies agenda setting effects in two different ``new media'' environments: Twitter and digital …
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Candidate and Media Agenda Setting in the 2005 Virginia Gubernatorial Election
… were most salient on candidate and media agendas during the campaign. Monthly cross-lagged correlations were used to measure agenda setting effects between the two major party candidates, among the four newspapers, and between candidates and newspapers. These correlations showed that the …
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The boys on the blogs : intermedia agenda setting in the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign
This study analyzes intermedia agenda setting during the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign to determine the agenda-setting role of prominent political bloggers in relation to the mainstream news media and the candidates. An online survey of newspaper and wire service reporters who covered the …
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Political Agenda-Setting in Cable News as a Possible Technique for Securing an Audience Niche
… election were analyzed. First- and second-level agenda-setting theories are used to examine how long and in what way federal politicians are portrayed. The results indicate distinct differences in political presentations between the three networks.
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Agenda setting, Framing and government's Influence on Tobacco-related News Coverage in China's People's Daily
… of tobacco-related issues on public opinion and agenda setting, but the role of government-controlled newspapers in China was not previously examined. In view of the potential conflict between public health and the importance of local tobacco production to the Chinese economy, its government …
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Institutionalising Public Deliberation in Public Policy Agenda Setting: The Case of the Sustainable Communities Act (2007)
… that increase civic influence upon policy agendas. Participatory-deliberative processes (PDPs) are understood to offer mechanisms for democratic responsiveness. However, the ways in the outcomes of (PDPs) can be linked to policy making has received little attention, especially at higher …
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A comparative analysis of agenda-setting and political communication: a case study of the 2004 Cyprus Referendum
… of cross-national comparative analysis of agenda-setting and political communication process during the 2004 Cyprus Referendum. The main aim of the study is to explore the dynamics amongst political campaigners and news media in the agenda-setting process in the referendum that was …
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Attribute Agenda Setting, Attribtue Priming, and The Public's Evaluation of Genetically Modified (GM) Food in South Korea
… purpose of this study was to explore attribute agenda setting and priming effects in South Korea. In order to demonstrate the role of the media in shaping people's perceptions of Genetically Modified (GM) foos, I first examined the attributes of GM food that have appeared more often than others …
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Breast Cancer in the Media: Agenda-Setting and Framing Effects of Prevalent Messages on College-Aged Women
… to prevent the disease. Based on framing and agenda-setting theories, a web survey focused on the relationships between the characteristics of prevalent breast cancer media messages and respondents' levels of breast health knowledge, breast health behaviors, and the direct behavioral impact of …
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Political agenda setting and the battered women's issue : the effects of government funding on battered women's programs
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1985.
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Congress and Immigration Policy: A Study of the Member-level Motivations and Agenda Setting Strategies Surrounding Immigration Reform
… of member-level motivations on majority party agenda setting strategies, existing in policy contexts that generate internal divisions within political parties. In particular, I do this through the lens of immigration reform. At the micro-level, I explore the district-level mechanisms that drive …
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