Communication and Democracy: Exploring the Intellectual Frontiers in Agenda-Setting Theory

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Prologue - The Game Is Afoot ix
• I - THE PICTURES IN OUR HEADS 1
• 1 - Filling in the Tapestry: The Second Level of Agenda Setting 3
• 2 - Exploring the Media's Roles in Defining Reality: From Issue-Agenda Setting to Attribute-Agenda Setting 15
• 3 - The Press, Candidate Images, and Voter Perceptions 29
• 4 - Television and the Construction of Social Reality: an Israeli Case Study 41
• 5 - Agenda Setting and Priming: Conceptual Links and Differences 51
• II - THE AGENDA-SETTING PROCESS 67
• 6 - Susceptibility to Agenda Setting: a Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Analysis of Individual Differences 69
• Acknowledgments 83
• 7 - Political Advertising's Influence on News, the Public, and Their Behavior 85
• 8 - Economic Headline News on the Agenda: New Approaches to Understanding Causes and Effects 97
• 9 - A Brief History of Time: A Methodological Analysis of Agenda Setting 115
• 10 - The Messenger and the Message: Differences Across News Media 137
• III - NEWS AGENDAS AND SOCIAL SYSTEMS 153
• 11 - Media Agenda Setting and Press Performance: A Social System Approach for Building Theory 155
• 12 - An Agenda-Setting Perspective on Historical Public Opinion Edward Caudill 169
• 13 - Cultural Agendas: The Case of Latino-Oriented U.S. Media 183
• 14 - Setting the Agenda for Cross-National Research: Bringing Values Into the Concept 195
• 15 - Agendas for a Public Union or for Private Communities? How Individuals Are Using Media to Reshape American Society 209
• References 231
• Contributors 255
• Author Index 259
• Subject Index 267

Work saved from this book