Keywords
Media Relations
WC177
WC177
Categories
How to Cite
Owens, Courtney T., and Alexa J. Lamm. 2015. “How Problems Gain Importance and Become Contentious Issues through Agenda Setting: AEC512/WC177, 12/2014”. EDIS 2015 (1). Gainesville, FL:4. https://doi.org/10.32473/edis-wc177-2014.
Abstract
A significant number of problems, like poverty, crime, and lack of resources, face people in the world today. This 4-page fact sheet discusses how a problem draws political attention through agenda setting and becomes a public issue, discusses the role the media plays in agenda setting, and provides a brief commentary on the influence of interest groups on public issues. Written by Courtney T. Owens and Alexa J. Lamm, and published by the UF Department of Agricultural Education and Communication, December 2014. (Photo: iStock/Thinkstock)
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Boyle, P. G. & Mulcahy, S. H. (1993). Public policy education: A path to political support. Journal of Extension, 31(4). Retrieved from http://www.joe.org/joe/1993winter/tp1.html
Brosius, H. B. (1991). Schema-Theorie-ein brauchbarer Ansatz in der Wirkungsforshung? [Schema theory-A useful approach for media effects research?] Publizistik, 36(3), 285-297.
Cox, G. W., & McCubbins, M. D. (2005). Setting the agenda: Responsible party government in the US House of Representatives. New York: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511791123
Cook, F. L., Tyler, T. R., Goetz, E. G., Gordon, M. T., Protess, D., Leff, D. R., & Molotch, H. L. (1983). Media and agenda-setting: Effects on the public, interest group leaders, policy makers, and policy. Public Opinion Quarterly, 47(1), 16-35. https://doi.org/10.1086/268764
Dubinsky, R., & Frank, R. (2012). Why should young people care about the Farm Bill? United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved from http://blogs.usda.gov/2012/12/07/why-should-young-people-care-about-the-farm-bill
Edwards, G. C., Wattenberg, M. P., & Lineberry, R. L. (2006). Government in America: People. Politics, and Policy. New York: Longman.
Evatt, D. S., & Bell, T. (1995). The political dance: A test of agenda-setting effects in the 1994 Texas gubernatorial election. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Washington, DC.
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Gould, F. I., Steele, D., & Woodrum, W. J. (2014). Cooperative Extension: A century of innovation. Journal of Extension, 52(1). Retrieved from http://www.joe.org/joe/2014february/comm1.php
Hawkins, V. (2008). Stealth conflicts: How the world's worst violence is ignored. Burlington, VT: Ashgate.
Iyengar, S., & McGrady, J. (2007). Media politics: A citizen's guide. New York: WW Norton.
Kalambokidis, L. (2004). Identifying the public value in extension programs. Journal of Extension, 42(2). Retrieved from http://www.joe.org/joe/2004april/a1.php
Kingdon, J. W. (1995). Agendas, alternatives and public policies, 2nd ed New York: HarperCollins.
Kingdon, J. W. (2003). Agendas, alternatives, and public policies. New York: Longman.
Kingdon, J. W., & Thurber, J. A. (1984). Agendas, alternatives, and public policies. Boston: Little, Brown.
Kiousis, S., Mitrook, M., Wu, X., and Seltzer, T. (2006). First-and second-level agenda-building and agenda-setting effects: exploring the linkages among candidate news releases, media coverage, and public opinion during the 2002 Florida gubernatorial election. Journal of Public Relations Research, 18, 265-285. doi:10.1207/s1532754xjprr18034
https://doi.org/10.1207/s1532754xjprr1803_4
Lasorsa, D. (2008). Agenda setting. In L. Kaid, & C. Holtz-Bacha (Eds.), Encyclopedia of political communication. (pp. 13-20). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. doi: http://dx.doi.org.lp.hscl.ufl.edu/10.4135/9781412953993.n11 https://doi.org/10.4135/9781412953993.n11
McCombs, M. E. (2004). Setting the agenda: the mass media and public opinion. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, Inc.
McLure, J. (2012). Genetically modified food. CQ Researcher, 22, 717-740. Retrieved from http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/
Miller, M. M., & Riechert, B. P. (2001). The spiral of opportunity and frame resonance: Mapping the issue cycle in news and public discourse. Framing public life: Perspectives on media and our understanding of the social world, 107-121.
McQuail, D. (2008). McQuail's Mass Communication Theory (5th ed.). London: SAGE Publications Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781405186407.wbiecm089
Problem. (2013). In Merriam Webster dictionary. Retrieved from http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/problem
Roessler, P. (1999). The individual agenda-designing process. How interpersonal communication, egocentric networks and mass media shape the perception of political issues by individuals. Communication Research, 26, 666-700. Retrieved from http://crx.sagepub.com/content/26/6/666.full.pdf+html https://doi.org/10.1177/009365099026006002
Sweetser, K. D., Golan, G. J., & Wanta, W. (2008). Intermedia agenda setting in television, advertising, and blogs during the 2004 election. Mass Communication and Society, 11, 197-216. doi:10.1080/15205430701590267 https://doi.org/10.1080/15205430701590267