Agenda Setting: Readings on Media, Public Opinion, and Policymaking

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Preface ix
• I - THE PUBLIC AGENDA 1
• 1 - Public Opinion 5
• 2 - The Agenda-Setting Function of Mass Media 17
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 26
• 3 - Up and Down With Ecology: The "Issue-Attention Cycle" 27
• 4 - The Issues of the Sixties: An Exploratory Study in the Dynamics of Public Opinion 35
• II - MEASURING AGENDA-SETTING EFFECTS 43
• 5 - Another Look at the Agenda-Setting Function of the Press 47
• REFERENCES 60
• 6 - The Agenda-Setting Function of the Mass Media at Three Levels of "Information Holding" 61
• REFERENCES 69
• 7 - The News Business, Crime, and Fear 71
• REFERENCES 73
• 8 - Newspaper Coverage and Public Concern About Community Issues 75
• NOTES 86
• 9 - Experimental Demonstrations of the "Not-So-Minimal" Consequences of Television News Programs 89
• III - THE AGENDA-SETTING PROCESS 97
• 10 - Agenda-Setting for the Civil Rights Issue 101
• REFERENCES 106
• 11 - Agenda-Setting With Local and National Issues 109
• REFERENCES 117
• 12 - Daily Newspaper Contributions to Community Discussion 119
• 13 - Agenda-Setting Effects of Print and Television in West Germany 127
• 14 - Political Issues and Voter Need for Orientation 131
• NOTES 139
• 15 - Viewer Characteristics and Agenda-Setting by Television News 141
• REFERENCES 147
• IV - Shaping Public Policy Agendas 149
• 16 - The Media as Shadow Government 153
• 17 - Making an Issue of Child Abuse 161
• 18 - The Impact of Investigative Reporting on Public Opinion and Policymaking: Targeting Toxic Waste 171
• REFERENCES 187
• 19 - Convergent and Divergent Voice Models of the Rise and Fall of Policy Issues 189
• V - THE MEDIA AGENDA 207
• 20 - Public Relations' Influence on the News 211
• NOTES 221
• 21 - The State of the Union Address and the Press Agenda 223
• 22 - "Keeping the Gates" for Gatekeepers: The Effects of Wire News 229
• 23 - Intermedia Influence and the Drug Issue: Converging on Cocaine 237
• REFERENCES 248
• 24 - The Impact of Campaign Agendas on Perceptions of Issues 251
• VI - NEW APPROACHES TO AGENDA-SETTING 261
• 25 - Beyond Agenda-Swtting 263
• NOTES 273
• 26 - Watergate: An Exploration of the Agenda-Building Process 277
• NOTES 287
• 27 - A Critique of Two Decades of Agenda-Setting Research 291
• REFERENCES 294
• Bibliography 295
• Index 305

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