scholarly journals Agenda-Building Function of Twitter: Exploring Rehashing of Political Tweets in News Channels of Pakistan

2020 ◽  
Vol V (III) ◽  
pp. 109-123
Author(s):  
Shahid Hussain ◽  
Farrukh Shahzad ◽  
Mazhar Hussain
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Agenda Building ◽  
News Content ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Intermedia Agenda Setting ◽  
Tv News

Twitter has become a podium of political communication in the last decade. This study examines the intermedia agenda-setting effects between traditional mainstream media and Twitter on political tweets. For this study, the tweets of three prominent politicians of Pakistan and their intermedia agenda-setting effects on television channels PTV News, Geo News and ARY News were analyzed. Based on content analysis, the results of the study indicate that media usually give more coverage to political tweets more than tweets on any other issue. Twitter and TV news channels overlap agendas for the similarity of the topics. Tweets and news content showed that the Indian occupied Kashmir issue is a state foreign policy because PTV News broadcasted the opposition's tweets related to Kashmir only while ignoring their political tweets. The study suggested the mainstream news channels usually depend on Twitter for exclusive and policy news.

scholarly journals Policy Representation by Party Leaders and Followers: What Drives UK Prime Minister’s Questions?

2015 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaun Bevan ◽  
Peter John
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
Agenda Building ◽  
Party Leadership ◽  
Party Leaders ◽  
Policy Representation ◽  
Leaders And Followers ◽  
The Government

This article demonstrates how party leaders (frontbenchers) and backbenchers use their access to UK Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) to represent the policy agenda. Building on comparative research on parliamentary questions and agenda-setting as well as taking account of the particular context of PMQs, we argue that party leaders and followers draw attention to different kinds of policy topics with the express purpose of influencing the government. Based on a content analysis of over 9,000 questions between 1997 and 2008, we demonstrate how the posing of questions affects subsequent agenda, varying according to whether questions come from the front or backbench, from government and opposition and from different parties. The findings demonstrate that PMQs helps both the opposition and backbenchers draw attention to issues that the government and opposition party leadership does not always wish to attend to.

scholarly journals Before the ‘Arab Spring’: How challengers pushed counter-issues in Egypt’s hybrid media system

2019 ◽  
pp. 175063521989461
Author(s):  
Hanan Badr
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
New Media ◽  
Arab Spring ◽  
Print Media ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Agenda Building ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Media System ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Arab Spring

Eight years after the ‘Arab Spring’, literature is still marked by techno-deterministic interpretations. This article contributes to examining the role of agenda-building processes just before the outbreak of the Egyptian uprising in 2011 within authoritarian systems. Using the ‘hybrid media system’ concept, the article not only focuses on new media effects but, by including print media, it takes into consideration the media system in its entirety. Focusing on Khaled Said’s case as a counter-issue, the qualitative content analysis investigates how challengers in Egypt successfully pushed the media salience of police torture onto the mainstream media agenda. By reconstructing the issue cycle and intermedia spill-over effects, the author investigates the agenda-building processes within hybrid media systems in Arab authoritarian contexts. The qualitative content analysis includes 415 articles and posts from 12 diverse print, online and social media outlets between June 2010 and January 2011. The central finding is that successful spill-over effects occurred from online media to private print media, even though state media tried to ignore the issue. The coverage transferred the issue’s salience from new media into mainstream media, thus reaching wider non-politicized audiences. These proven interlinkages between old and new media are often an overlooked aspect in the literature on media and the ‘Arab Spring’.

Round-trip agenda setting: Tracking the intermedia process over time in the ice bucket challenge

Journalism ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (10) ◽  
pp. 1292-1308 ◽  
Author(s):  
S Mo Jang ◽  
Yong Jin Park ◽  
Hoon Lee
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Round Trip ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Intermedia Agenda Setting ◽  
The Social ◽  
Issue Attention ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Ice Bucket Challenge

Despite the social media’s agenda-setting power, the literature provides little understanding of how social media agendas survive and last long enough to trigger substantial public discussions. This study investigates this issue by tracking the ice bucket challenge campaign over an 18-week period. This article claims that the pattern of the intermedia process evolves over time along with the issue-attention cycle. We observed a round-trip intermedia agenda setting where the direction is reversed as the agenda waxes and wanes. Both social and mainstream media continued to generate a heightened level of issue attention after the buzz was cooled down.

Candidate Images in Spanish Elections: Second-Level Agenda-Setting Effects

1997 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 703-717 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maxwell McCombs ◽  
Juan Pablo Llamas ◽  
Esteban Lopez-Escobar ◽  
Federico Rey
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Political Advertising ◽  
Focus Of Attention ◽  
Political Candidates ◽  
Municipal Elections ◽  
Tv News ◽  
Setting Theory

Traditional agenda-setting theory is about the influence of mass media on the public's focus of attention, who and what people are thinking about. The expanded theory of agenda setting tested here during the 1995 regional and municipal elections in Spain elaborates the influence of the mass media on how people think about persons and topics in the news. Combining content analysis and survey data, this study documents the influence of newspapers, TV news, and both TV and newspaper political advertising on Spanish voters' images of political candidates.

Eventless news: Blindspots in journalism and the 'long tail' of news content

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 291-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helle Sjøvaag ◽  
Nina Kvalheim
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
International Crime ◽  
Long Tail ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
News Content ◽  
News Value ◽  
The Media

The news media is frequently criticized for ignoring, missing or overseeing important, socio-politically relevant news. Such journalistic blindspots are often part of the 'long' news agenda, requiring resources, in-depth knowledge and investigation. In this article, we analyse what news topics are most infrequently covered by the media ‐ the micro-categories of content analysis. A content analysis of 70 news outlets in Norway (n=8182) reveals that the news topics receiving less than 1 per cent of coverage are social issues, international crime and the economy. This bottom-up perspective demonstrates that under-reported news constitutes predominantly 'eventless' issues, sustaining event-centredness as an agenda-setting news value. Finding that more than half of the content categories in the Norwegian corpus receive less than 1 per cent coverage, we propose, however, that the sum of these blindspots engenders a 'long tail' of journalistic coverage that together facilitates news diversity.

The Intermedia Agenda Setting of Interpersonal Violence Cases in the Malaysian Mainstream Online News, Independent News Portal and Social Media

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 186-207
Author(s):  
Norizzati Saifuddin ◽  
◽  
Hasmah Zanuddin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Interpersonal Violence ◽  
Online News ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Analysis Study ◽  
Agenda Setter ◽  
Intermedia Agenda Setting ◽  
Chi Square Analysis

Media plays an important role in illustrating the issue of interpersonal violence. Online media such as news portals and social media platforms are highly used in spreading the information virtually and digitally. However, the issue of interpersonal violence is still growing and has recently shown a significant spike. There are not many studies analyzing the exchange of information between these platforms digitally due to online news portals, which are operated by traditional media, and social media being treated as different entities. Yet, real-time posting may lead to an exchange of contents as they follow each other's agenda. A study on intermedia agenda-setting (IAS) - through issues published, agenda-setter, and sentiment - will enable us to understand how agenda setting plays a role in illustrating the issue of interpersonal violence. A content analysis study was conducted on six selected online media, consisting of mainstream and independent news portals and social media. A total of 815 samples of online news, articles and social media postings from five distinct issues were extracted to investigate the content and every 40 relevant comments from each news item were selected to identify how public opinion the portrayal of the issue in these selected online media. In-depth interview was conducted to eight field experts to gain clarification of the result from the content analysis study. Chi-square analysis on three hypotheses were significantly associated. Results revealed that public officials played a major role as the agenda setter. The Star which represents mainstream online news led in setting the agenda on interpersonal violence issues while Facebook which represents social media followed next in setting the agenda. During the process of intermedia agenda-setting, negative sentiments were hugely expressed and exchanged which indicated the uneasiness, feeling disturbed and dissatisfaction on the interpersonal violence cases, which in the end resulted in the sharing and exchanging of news between mainstream news portals and social media. The agenda on social media was set by the public. This confirmed the effects of the flow of elite--non-elite-elite on IAS. Hence, this study contributed to the understanding of the agenda pattern used that also coexisted in different types of media which were created through the intermedia process. Keywords: Intermedia agenda setting, interpersonal violence, mainstream online news, independent news portal, social media.

A Cook, a Cardinal, His Priests, and the Press: Deviance as a Trigger for Intermedia Agenda Setting

1997 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 348-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Breen
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Intermedia Agenda Setting ◽  
The Press ◽  
Triggering Events ◽  
Media Reports

Certain events, seen as newsworthy because they involve deviance, serve as triggers for intermedia agenda setting on side issues with very specific results in terms of both volume and valence of ensuing stories, not directly related to the triggering events themseves. This content analysis examines one such case. Media reports of deviant acts by members of the clergy have risen dramatically in recent years. This study examines the changes in trends, in the aftermath of deviant acts by individual members of the clergy, given that such acts are “triggering events” for further negative stories.

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