Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-304) and indexes.
Contents:
Critique of two decades of agenda setting research / Public opinion / Gene Burd. Agenda setting function of mass media / Maxwell McCombs, Donald Shaw -- Up and down with ecology : the "issue attention cycle" / Anythony Downs -- Issues of the sixties : an exploratory study in the dynamics of public opinion / G. Ray Funkhouser -- Measuring agenda setting effects. Another look at the agenda function of the press / Jack McLeod, Lee B. Becker, James E. Byrnes -- Agenda setting function of the mass media at three levels of "information holding" / Marc Benton, P. Jean Frazier -- New business, crime and fear / Margaret T. Gordon, Linda Heath -- Newspaper coverage and public concern about community issues / Kim A. Smith -- Experimental demonstrations of the "not so minimal" consequences of television news programs / Shanto Iyengar, Mark E.Peters, Donald R. Kinder -- Agenda setting process. Agenda setting for the Civil Rights issue / James P. Winter, Chaim H. Eyal -- Agenda setting with local and national issues / Philip Palmgreen, Peter Clarke -- Daily newspaper contributions to community discussion / L. Erwin Atwood, Ardyth B. Sohn, Harold Sohn -- Agenda setting effects of print and television in West Germany / Klaus Schoenbach -- Political issues and voter need for orientation / David H. Weaver -- Viewer characteristics and agenda setting by television news / David B. Hill -- Shaping public policy agendas. Media as shadow government / William L. Rivers -- Making an issue of child abuse / Barbara Nelson -- Impact of investigative reporting on public opinion and policymaking : targeting toxic waste / David L. Protess ... [et al.] -- Convergent and divergent voice models of the rise and fall of policy issues / Fay Lomax Cook, Wesley G. Skogan -- Media agenda. Public relations' influence on the news / Judy VanSlyke Turk -- State of the Union address and the press agenda / Sheldon Gilberg ... [et al.] -- "Keeping the gates" for gatekeepers : the effects of wire news / D. Charles Whitney, Lee B. Becker -- Intermedia influence and the drug issue : converging on cocaine / Stephen D. Reese, Lucig H. Danielian -- Impact of campaign agendas on perceptions of issues / Wenmouth Williams, Jr., Mitchell Shapiro, Craig Cutbirth -- New approaches to agenda setting. Beyond agenda setting / Oscar Gandy -- Watergate : an exploration of the agenda building process / Gladys Engel Lang, Kurt Lang -- Critique of two decades of agenda setting research / Gene Burd.
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