Agenda-Setting

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The belief that the news media do not influence what people think so much as they influence what people think about. [1]

Background

Agenda-setting is a side-effect of gatekeeping. There are two levels of agenda-setting: 1. studied by researchers, media uses objects or issues to influence the people what people should think about. [2] 2. Media focuses on the characters of issues how people should think about. [3]


Uses in other disciplines

See also

References

  1. Ott, Brian and Robert Mack, Chapter 3, Critical Media Studies: An Introduction (John Wiley & Sons), 2014.
  2. Ott, Brian and Robert Mack, Chapter 3, Critical Media Studies: An Introduction (John Wiley & Sons), 2014.
  3. Ott, Brian and Robert Mack, Chapter 3, Critical Media Studies: An Introduction (John Wiley & Sons), 2014.

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