Media Agenda Building on the National Economy : Salience and Hierarchy of the Agenda in Newspaper and Broadcasting Economic News Data(1998-2017)

The relationship between political agenda building and media agenda building is examined with reference to mobilization of the Spanish antimilitary movement between 1976-1993. Three models of media-state relations are discussed in terms of possible media outcomes of social protest. These models are used to examine political and media agenda building in relation to movement challenges. An analysis of the coverage of the antimilitary movement by three national dailies demonstrates that political opportunity structures shape media opportunity structures. There are, however, small windows of opportunity when the causal effect works in the other direction. Media structures can help a movement open, reset, and sometimes block official policies. Media opportunities, however, do not remain favorable in the long run because government elites can bureaucratize and trivialize movement challenges, thereby reducing their newsworthiness. Institutionalized media abide by journalistic rules that tend to validate the political class and, in the long run, dilute social protest.

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More or less diverse: An assessment of the effect of attention to media salient company types on media agenda diversity in Dutch newspaper coverage between 2007 and 2013

Journalism ◽

10.1177/1464884916680371 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 19 (11) ◽

pp. 1608-1627 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Jeroen GF Jonkman ◽

Damian Trilling ◽

Piet Verhoeven ◽

Rens Vliegenthart

Keyword(s):

Economic Crisis ◽

Media Coverage ◽

Positive Impact ◽

News Coverage ◽

Negative Influence ◽

The Other ◽

Newspaper Coverage ◽

Agenda Building ◽

Media Agenda

This study on news coverage of highly visible company types in a Dutch daily quality newspaper ( NRC Handelsblad; N = 14,363), during the economic crisis (2007–2013), shows that attention to banks (and to a lesser extent also to the automobile and components industry) had a structural negative influence on media agenda diversity. The majority of the other salient company types had a significant positive impact on diversity. These results suggest that banks attracted attention at the expense of more varied, diverse coverage during the crisis. Our findings extend knowledge of agenda-building dynamics in relation to organizational news by considering characteristics of the broader media agenda. We discuss our findings in light of causes and consequences of media coverage of salient businesses.

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How the relationship between public health information officers and journalists can affect media agenda-building : a coorientational approach

10.32469/10355/14305 ◽

2011 ◽

Author(s):

Hyun Jee Oh

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Health Information ◽

Agenda Building ◽

Media Agenda ◽

Public Health Information ◽

The Relationship

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Twitter as a tool for agenda building in election campaigns? The case of Austria

Journalism ◽

10.1177/1464884919845460 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 20 (8) ◽

pp. 1087-1107 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Josef Seethaler ◽

Gabriele Melischek

Keyword(s):

Conservative Party ◽

Agenda Building ◽

Press Releases ◽

Individual Level ◽

Media Agenda ◽

News Releases ◽

The Media ◽

Personal Accounts ◽

The Impact ◽

First Time

During the 2017 Austrian national election campaign, political parties that had traditionally focused on press releases and conferences to influence the media’s agenda made extensive use of Twitter for the very first time. This study examines the impact of the parties’ Twitter campaigns on the substantive issue agendas of five leading legacy media outlets. Compared with the impact of parties’ news releases, the results show that, on an aggregated level, Twitter feeds significantly increase the parties’ agenda-building power, but are not influenced by the media agenda – with the exception of the personal accounts of the top candidates (particularly the new leader of the winning conservative party), who follow the media agenda to a significant extent. On an individual level, incumbent parties are the most successful in using Twitter, while small parties suffer from interactions with other parties in communicating their issue priorities (which is in line with the ‘normalisation thesis’).

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Loss of Parliamentary Control Due to Mediatization and Europeanization: A Longitudinal and Cross-Sectional Analysis of Agenda Building in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands

British Journal of Political Science ◽

10.1017/s0007123408000239 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 38 (3) ◽

pp. 455-478 ◽

Cited By ~ 57

Author(s):

LONNEKE VAN NOIJE ◽

JAN KLEINNIJENHUIS ◽

DIRK OEGEMA

Keyword(s):

Structural Equation ◽

Structural Equation Models ◽

Time Series Data ◽

Series Data ◽

Political Agenda ◽

Agenda Building ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Parliamentary Debates ◽

Media Agenda ◽

The Media

The central question in this study is whether the power of the media agenda over the political agenda has recently increased. The agenda-building dynamics are established using cross-country time-series data on four issues, covering fifteen and eight years respectively of British and Dutch parliamentary debates and newspaper articles. Structural equation models show that the parliamentary agenda is more influenced by the media agenda than the other way around, and that the power balance has shifted even more in favour of the media. It is additionally found that media power is especially associated with issues within the European domain. This study contributes empirically to the 'mediatization' debate in a EU context, which is largely limited to the realm of theoretical speculation.

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The effect of oil prices on the media agenda: A model of agenda building

Newspaper Research Journal ◽

10.1177/0739532918775655 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 39 (2) ◽

pp. 232-244 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Mariam F. Alkazemi ◽

Wayne Wanta

Keyword(s):

News Media ◽

Media Coverage ◽

Oil Prices ◽

Environmental Issue ◽

Reciprocal Relationship ◽

Agenda Building ◽

Building Model ◽

Media Agenda ◽

Path Coefficients ◽

The Media

A path analysis tested an agenda-building model in which three real-world indicators—price of crude oil, U.S. production and U.S. consumption of oil—would lead to discussions of oil in Congress and media coverage of oil. The model showed the level of U.S. oil production produced the strongest path coefficients. Congress and the news media formed a reciprocal relationship. The model worked better when oil was framed as an economic issue than as an environmental issue.

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The Media Agenda

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199793471.013.37 ◽

2014 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

David H. Weaver ◽

Jihyang Choi

Keyword(s):

News Media ◽

Agenda Setting ◽

Agenda Building ◽

Media Audiences ◽

The Public ◽

Media Agenda ◽

News Sources ◽

Joint Product ◽

Setting Process ◽

The Media

This chapter provides an overview of media agenda setting, also known as agenda building. Although much of the agenda-setting research tradition has focused on how media affect the public agenda, agenda building examines how the media’s agenda comes about. The chapter considers five possible influences on the news media agenda: influential news sources, other media, journalistic norms and traditions, unexpected events, and media audiences. Research to date indicates that there is no one decisive factor that determines the media agenda. Instead, media agendas are built as a joint product of these influences. The chapter concludes by offering suggestions for future areas of research that would refine understanding of the media agenda-setting process.

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