Agenda setting and acid precipitation in the United States

1993 ◽  
Vol 17 (6) ◽  
pp. 807-816 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie R. Alm ◽  
Charles Davis
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Acid Precipitation ◽  
The United States

Religious motifs within reporting of the 7/7 London bombings in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Poland: A transnational agenda-setting network study

Journalism ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (10) ◽  
pp. 1323-1342
Author(s):  
Damian Guzek
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
The United States ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Religion And Ethnicity ◽  
Media Globalization ◽  
London Bombings

Existing studies have examined the significance of UK media coverage of the 7/7 London bombings. This article seeks to widen this analysis by exploring the coverage of 7/7 in the leading newspapers of the United Kingdom, the United States, and Poland comparatively using a new agenda-setting perspective that is grounded within network analysis. The study is devised to respond specifically to the contrasting arguments about the influence of media globalization versus religion and ethnicity on this reporting. It finds that the diverse approaches to religion within the countries of the analyzed newspapers appear to mitigate the reproduction of shared religious narratives in this reporting. Nevertheless, the analyzed coverage does carry common attributes and these, it argues, can be explained broadly by the influence of a US-dominated ‘lens on terror’.

Setting the Environmental Agenda in Canada and the United States: The Cases of Dioxin and Radon

1991 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn Harrison ◽  
George Hoberg
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Indoor Air Pollution ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Toxic Substance ◽  
Sufficient Conditions ◽  
The United States ◽  
Policy Entrepreneurs ◽  
Pulp Mills ◽  
Regulatory Issue

AbstractThis article uses the case of toxic substance regulation to examine the process of governmental agenda-setting. Two kinds of comparisons are employed: across-national comparison of Canada and the United States, and a comparison of two toxic substance controversies. In the case of dioxins from pulp mills, the issue emerged on the two Countries' agendas at approximately the same time. In contrast, the issue of indoor air pollution from radon reached the US regulatory agenda in 1986, but as of mid-1990 had yet to emerge as a significant regulatory issue in Canada. The comparative case analysis yields four major conclusions: (1) changes in science and technology can be important driving forces behind the emergence of an issue, but as necessary, not sufficient conditions for agenda-setting; (2) the interdependence of the two countries produces an interdependence of their regulatory agendas; (3) policy entrepreneurs play a fundamental role in forcing issues onto the governmental agenda; and (4) the incentives and influence of policy entrepreneurs is shaped by the institutional structures and political cultures of the two countries.

What to think about

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-218
Author(s):  
Holly Cowart
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Significant Influence ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
The United States ◽  
News Story ◽  
Issue Salience ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Issue Importance

Abstract This study examines how agenda setting works on social media in the United States. Unlike previous platform studies, this research seeks to examine not just if, but also how agenda setting works in a social media setting. Three areas were tested for their effect on issue salience: repetition, story order, and endorsement. More than 360 U.S. participants viewed variations of a mock Facebook feed and answered questions about issue importance. Using issue importance as the dependent variable and repetition, story order, and endorsement as the independent variables, three hypotheses were tested. One hypothesis had the effect predicted: Increased repetition of a news story topic did influence participants’ perception that the news story topic was important. Additional items were tested as covariates. Gender, and ethnicity had a significant influence on perceived story importance. The results of this study indicate that agenda setting on social media occurs through repetition. Implications are explored.

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