The News And Public Opinion

Author : Maxwell McCombs
Publisher : Polity
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780745645186

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The News and Public Opinion by Maxwell McCombs Pdf

The daily news plays a major role in the continuously changing mix of thoughts, feelings and behavior that defines public opinion. The News & Public Opinion details these effects of the news media on the sequence of outcomes that collectively shape public opinion, beginning with initial attention to the various news media and their contents and extending to the effects of this exposure on the acquisition of information, formation of attitudes and opinions and to the consequences of all these elements for participation in public life. Sometimes called the hierarchy of media effects, this sequence of outcomes describes the communication process involved in the formation of public opinion. Although the media landscape is undergoing rapid change, key elements remain the same, and The News & Public Opinion emphasizes these basic principles of communication established over decades of empirical social science investigations into the impact of mass communication on public opinion. The primary audience for this book is students, both advanced undergraduates and graduate students, as well as members of the general public who want to understand the role of the news media in our civic life.

Author : Maxwell McCombs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136695179

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Contemporary Public Opinion by Maxwell McCombs Pdf

This book discusses the public opinion process with a focus on the role that the news media play in shaping public opinion. Although heavily influenced by the agenda-setting perspective -- the view that the news media define the important issues of the day and determine how these issues are presented -- the authors neither support nor refute this claim. They present instead a variety of contemporary scholarship integrated into a coherent picture of public opinion for a general audience.

Author : Robert M. Entman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226210735

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Projections of Power by Robert M. Entman Pdf

To succeed in foreign policy, U.S. presidents have to sell their versions or framings of political events to the news media and to the public. But since the end of the Cold War, journalists have increasingly resisted presidential views, even offering their own spin on events. What, then, determines whether the media will accept or reject the White House perspective? And what consequences does this new media environment have for policymaking and public opinion? To answer these questions, Robert M. Entman develops a powerful new model of how media framing works—a model that allows him to explain why the media cheered American victories over small-time dictators in Grenada and Panama but barely noticed the success of far more difficult missions in Haiti and Kosovo. Discussing the practical implications of his model, Entman also suggests ways to more effectively encourage the exchange of ideas between the government and the media and between the media and the public. His book will be an essential guide for political scientists, students of the media, and anyone interested in the increasingly influential role of the media in foreign policy.

Author : Carla Mooney
Publisher : Referencepoint Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Fake news
ISBN : 1682825396

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Fake News and the Manipulation of Public Opinion by Carla Mooney Pdf

Fake news is not new but, thanks to the Internet and social media, it is spreading faster and farther than ever before. Fabricated stories are creating doubt and confusion and easing the way for the manipulation of public opinion. In some cases, websites and news articles are designed to confuse people into thinking that they are looking at trusted sources and factual stories. In other cases, the label fake news serves as a tool for discrediting unflattering accounts or opposing points of view. The result in all cases is public confusion that, many argue, threatens the foundations of democracy. Fake News and the Manipulation of Public Opinion presents a balanced but realistic view of what has been taking place, how, and why. It examines both the consequences of these actions and the efforts being made at all levels of society to end this problem.

Author : Walter Lippmann
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : EAN:8596547389743

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Public Opinion by Walter Lippmann Pdf

The book "Public Opinion" is a critical assessment of functional democratic government, especially of the irrational and often self-serving social perceptions that influence individual behavior and prevent optimal societal cohesion. The detailed descriptions of the cognitive limitations people face in comprehending their socio-political and cultural environments leading them to apply an evolving catalogue of general stereotypes to a complex reality, rendered Public Opinion a seminal text in the fields of media studies, political science, and social psychology. Walter Lippmann was an American writer, reporter, and political commentator famous for being among the first to introduce the concept of Cold War, coining the term "stereotype" in the modern psychological meaning, and critiquing media and democracy in his newspaper column and several books.

Author : W. Lance Bennett,David L. Paletz
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1994-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0226042596

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Taken by Storm by W. Lance Bennett,David L. Paletz Pdf

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Author : Shanto Iyengar,Donald R. Kinder
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226388601

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News That Matters by Shanto Iyengar,Donald R. Kinder Pdf

Almost twenty-five years ago, Shanto Iyengar and Donald R. Kinder first documented a series of sophisticated and innovative experiments that unobtrusively altered the order and emphasis of news stories in selected television broadcasts. Their resulting book News That Matters, now hailed as a classic by scholars of political science and public opinion alike, is here updated for the twenty-first century, with a new preface and epilogue by the authors. Backed by careful analysis of public opinion surveys, the authors show how, despite changing American politics, those issues that receive extended coverage in the national news become more important to viewers, while those that are ignored lose credibility. Moreover, those issues that are prominent in the news stream continue to loom more heavily as criteria for evaluating the president and for choosing between political candidates. “News That Matters does matter, because it demonstrates conclusively that television newscasts powerfully affect opinion. . . . All that follows, whether it supports, modifies, or challenges their conclusions, will have to begin here.”—The Public Interest

Author : Erik Gahner Larsen,Zoltán Fazekas
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030753504

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Reporting Public Opinion by Erik Gahner Larsen,Zoltán Fazekas Pdf

This book is about how opinion polls are reported in the media. Opinions polls are not reported in the media as unfiltered numbers, and some opinion polls are not reported at all. This volume demonstrates how opinion polls travel through several stages that eventually turn boring numbers into biased news in the media. The framework offered in this book helps to understand how some polls end up in the news coverage, and which systemic biases abound in the news media reports of opinion polls. In the end, a change narrative will be prominent in the reporting of opinion polls which contributes to what the general public sees and shares. The findings cover journalists, politicians, experts and the public, and how they all share a strong preference for change.

Author : Jeffrey L. McNairn
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442639164

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The Capacity To Judge by Jeffrey L. McNairn Pdf

By the mid-nineteenth-century, 'public opinion' emerged as a new form of authority in Upper Canada. Contemporaries came to believe that the best answer to common questions arose from deliberation among private individuals. Older conceptions of government, sociability and the relationship between knowledge and power were jettisoned for a new image of Upper Canada as a deliberative democracy. The Capacity to Judge asks what made widespread public debate about common issues possible; why it came to be seen as desirable, even essential; and how it was integrated into Upper Canada's constitutional and social self-image. Drawing on an international body of literature indebted to Jürgen Habermas and based on extensive research in period newspapers, Jeffrey L. McNairn argues that voluntary associations and the press created a reading public capable of reasoning on matters of state, and that the dynamics of political conflict invested that public with final authority. He traces how contemporaries grappled with the consequences as they scrutinized parliamentary, republican and radical options for institutionalizing public opinion. The Capacity to Judge concludes with a case study of deliberative democracy in action that serves as a sustained defense of the type of intellectual history the book as a whole exemplifies.

Author : Theodore Lewis Glasser,Charles T. Salmon
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1995-04-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0898624991

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Public Opinion and the Communication of Consent by Theodore Lewis Glasser,Charles T. Salmon Pdf

Public Opinion and the Communication of Consent offers an unprecedented range of scholarly perspectives on the relationship between public opinion and communication. With contributions written from social-scientific, historical, critical and cultural traditions, the book illuminates the importance and richness of treating "public opinion" as a multifaceted concept.Written by leading thinkers in the field, some of the work's chapters offer state-of-the-art reviews of research findings, while others are scholarly treatises on some aspect of communication, public opinion, and society. Topics covered include: The nature and institutions of public opinion; the influence of media on public opinion; social and psychological contexts of public opinion; the role public opinion assessment plays in a democratic society.

Author : Maxwell McCombs,Sebastian Valenzuela
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781509535811

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Setting the Agenda by Maxwell McCombs,Sebastian Valenzuela Pdf

News media strongly influence how we picture public affairs across the world, playing a significant and sometimes controversial role in determining which topics are at the centre of public attention and action. Setting the Agenda, first published in 2004, has become the go-to textbook on this crucial topic. In this timely third edition, Maxwell McCombs – a pioneer of agenda-setting research – and Sebastián Valenzuela – a senior scholar of agenda setting in Latin America – have expanded and updated the book for a new generation of students. In describing the media's influence on what we think about and how we think about it, Setting the Agenda also examines the sources of media agendas, the psychological explanation for their impact on the public agenda, and their consequences for attitudes, opinions and behaviours. New to this edition is a discussion of agenda setting in the widened media landscape, including a full chapter on network agenda setting and a lengthened presentation on agenda melding. The book also contains expanded material on social media and the role of agenda setting beyond the realm of public affairs, as well as a foreword from Donald L. Shaw and David H. Weaver, the co-founders of agenda-setting theory. This exciting new edition is an invaluable source for students of media, communications and politics, as well as those interested in the role of news in shaping and directing public opinion.

Author : Martin R. West,Ludger Woessmann
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780262363471

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Public Opinion and the Political Economy of Education Policy around the World by Martin R. West,Ludger Woessmann Pdf

Comparative analyses of the influence of public opinion on education policy in developed countries. Although research has suggested a variety of changes to education policy that have the potential to improve educational outcomes, politicians are often reluctant to implement such evidence-based reforms. Public opinion and pressure by interest groups would seem to have a greater role in shaping education policy than insights drawn from empirical data. The construction of a comparative political economy of education that seeks to explain policy differences among nations is long overdue. This book offers the first comparative inventory and analysis of public opinion and education in developed countries, drawing on data primarily from Europe and the United States.

Author : C. Holtz-Bacha,J. Strömbäck
Publisher : Springer
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230374959

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Opinion Polls and the Media by C. Holtz-Bacha,J. Strömbäck Pdf

Opinion Polls and the Media provides the most comprehensive analysis to date on the relationship between the media, opinion polls, and public opinion. Looking at the extent to which the media, through their use of opinion polls, both reflect and shape public opinion, it brings together a team of leading scholars and analyzes theoretical and methodological approaches to the media and their use of opinion polls. The contributors explore how the media use opinion polls in a range of countries across the world, and analyze the effects and uses of opinion polls by the public as well as political actors.

Author : An Nguyen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501330360

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News, Numbers and Public Opinion in a Data-Driven World by An Nguyen Pdf

From the quality of the air we breathe to the national leaders we choose, data and statistics are a pervasive feature of daily life and daily news. But how do news, numbers and public opinion interact with each other – and with what impacts on society at large? Featuring an international roster of established and emerging scholars, this book is the first comprehensive collection of research into the little understood processes underpinning the uses/misuses of statistical information in journalism and their socio-psychological and political effects. Moving beyond the hype around "data journalism," News, Numbers and Public Opinion delves into a range of more latent, fundamental questions such as: · Is it true that most citizens and journalists do not have the necessary skills and resources to critically process and assess numbers? · How do/should journalists make sense of the increasingly data-driven world? · What strategies, formats and frames do journalists use to gather and represent different types of statistical data in their stories? · What are the socio-psychological and political effects of such data gathering and representation routines, formats and frames on the way people acquire knowledge and form attitudes? · What skills and resources do journalists and publics need to deal effectively with the influx of numbers into in daily work and life – and how can newsrooms and journalism schools meet that need? The book is a must-read for not only journalists, journalism and media scholars, statisticians and data scientists but also anybody interested in the interplay between journalism, statistics and society.

Author : Robert O. Carlson
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036325723

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Communications and Public Opinion by Robert O. Carlson Pdf