Agenda-Setting
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]
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References
- ↑ Ott, Brian and Robert Mack, Chapter 3, Critical Media Studies: An Introduction (John Wiley & Sons), 2014.
- ↑ Ott, Brian and Robert Mack, Chapter 3, Critical Media Studies: An Introduction (John Wiley & Sons), 2014.
- ↑ Ott, Brian and Robert Mack, Chapter 3, Critical Media Studies: An Introduction (John Wiley & Sons), 2014.
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