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 …

Reviews the conceptual position of agenda-setting research, identifies methodological
problems associated with it, and proposes a newly defined criterion variable--the" …

Thee idea for this book emerged in spring 1998 when, during an internship at thee national
television news program in the Netherlands, I was dazzled by a seemingg paradox: On the …

Some periods in history are marked by stability in cultural values; at other times, values
undergo rapid change. How and why do cultural transformations, such as those affecting …

The aim of this book is to provide an overview of theories for communication planning. We
pursue two goals. First, we aim to familiarize practitioners working in the field of …

The public relations landscape has changed dramatically from what it was in 1989, when the
original Public Relations Theory volume was published. Reflecting the substantial shifts in …

For the past three decades and now into a fourth, the agenda-setting function of mass
media, first explored empirically in the United States in 1968 by McCombs and Shaw (1972) …

Attempting to add to the growing literature on setting the media agenda (or agenda
building), the study uses agenda-setting theory in a case study of testing the correlation …

This book uses Sweden as a test case to analyze how parliament and elected
representatives function in a representative democracy. Despite the status of Scandinavian …

Exploring the interactions that swirl around scientific uncertainty and its coverage by the
mass media, this volume breaks new ground by looking at these issues from three different …