Agenda Setting

Agenda Setting PDF

Author: David Protess

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-07-22

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1134963718

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The role of the news media in defining the important issues of the day, also known as the agenda-setting influence of mass communication, has received widespread attention over the past 20 years. Since the publication of McCombs and Shaw's seminal empirical study, more than one hundred journal articles and monographs have appeared. This collection exemplifies the major phases of research on agenda-setting: tests of the basic hypothesis, contingent conditions affecting the strength of this influence, the natural history of public issues, mass media influence on public policy, and the role of external sources from the president to public relations staffs on the news agenda.

Agenda-Setting

Agenda-Setting PDF

Author: James W. Dearing

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 1996-08-28

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 9780761905639

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Agenda-Setting asks who sets the agenda that brings social problems into the public arena, on to the policy agenda and, finally, to a change of policy. It provides important practical and theoretical insight into the agenda-setting process.

Sociology of the Future

Sociology of the Future PDF

Author: Wendell Bell

Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation

Published: 1971-10-12

Total Pages: 486

ISBN-13: 1610440390

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Concerns itself with the future of sociology, and of all social science. The thirteen authors—among them Wendell Bell, Kai T. Erikson, Scott Greer, Robert Boguslaw, James Mau, and Ivar Oxaal—are oriented toward a redefinition of the role of the social scientist as advisor to policymakers and administrators in all major areas of social concern, for the purpose of studying and shaping the future. This book contains research strategies for such "futurologistic" study, theories on its merits and dangers, as well as an annotated bibliography of social science studies of the future.