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- Shehata, Adam, 1981-
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Unemployment on the Agenda : A Panel Study of Agenda Setting Effects during the 2006 Swedish National Election Campaign
- 2010
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Ingår i: Journal of Communication. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0021-9916 .- 1460-2466. ; 60:1, s. 182-U264
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The issue of unemployment and job creation dominated news coverage during the 2006 Swedish National Election campaign. At the same time, the percentage of people naming unemployment as the most important political issue increased by 17 percent during the campaign. The purpose of this study is to analyze individual level agenda setting effects in the 2006 Swedish National Election campaign. Apart from being one of the first agenda setting studies conducted in Sweden, this study builds upon a panel survey with 1,007 respondents, which makes it possible to impose stricter control of the causal relationship between the media and public agendas. The overall findings show that agenda setting effects were indeed present. Furthermore, attention to political news had stronger effects among people with low political interest compared to those who were highly interested. Education was not a contingent factor, though.
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- Strömbäck, Jesper, et al.
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A New Look at Agenda-Setting Effects : Comparing the Predictive Power of Overall Political News Consumption and Specific News Media Consumption Across Different Media Channels and Media Types
- 2010
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Ingår i: Journal of Communication. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0021-9916 .- 1460-2466. ; 60:2, s. 271-292
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of this study was to compare the predictive power of overall political news consumption and media-specific news consumption, on perceived issue salience across different media channels and media types in the context of the 2006 Swedish parliamentary election. Findings suggest that overall consumption of political news is significantly more important than consumption of specific media outlets in predicting changes in issue salience. Although the study demonstrates that the Swedish news media collectively can exert considerable agenda-setting influence over their audiences, it could, however, not find any consistent evidence of differences related to media channels or media types. The reasons for and implications of the results are discussed.
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- Aaroe, Lene, et al.
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The journalistic preference for extreme exemplars: educational socialization, psychological biases, or editorial policy?
- 2024
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Ingår i: JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION. - 0021-9916 .- 1460-2466. ; 74:1, s. 48-62
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Exemplars are central in news reporting. However, extreme negative exemplars can bias citizens' factual perceptions and attributions of political responsibility. Nonetheless, our knowledge of the factors shaping journalistic preferences for including exemplars in news stories is limited. We investigate the extent to which educational socialization, psychological biases, and editorial policy shape journalistic preferences for extreme negative exemplars. We field large-scale survey experiments to a population sample of journalism students, a nationally representative sample of citizens, and a representative sample of "young people" and obtain evaluations of news value, newsworthiness, and behavioral measures of the actual write-up of news articles. We find significant support for the role of editorial policy and limited support for the role of educational socialization and psychological biases. In a time where economic pressures and the proliferation of digital media potentially lead editors to prioritize clickbait, these findings suggest that structural biases in news coverage may be aggravated.
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- Bennett, W. Lance, et al.
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The Strength of Peripheral Networks : Negotiating Attention and Meaning in Complex Media Ecologies
- 2018
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Ingår i: Journal of Communication. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0021-9916 .- 1460-2466. ; 68:4, s. 659-684
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Networked content flows that focus or fragment public attention are key communication processes in multimedia ecologies. Understandings of events may differ widely, as networked attention and framing processes move from core participants to more distant spectator publics. In the case of the Occupy Wall Street protests, peripheral social media networks of public figures and media organizations focused public attention on economic inequality. Although inequality was among many issues discussed by the activists, it was far less central to the protest core than problems with banks or democracy. Results showed how public attention to inequality was constructed through pulling and pushing interpretive frames between the core and periphery of dense communication networks. Various indicators of public attention-such as search trends, Wikipedia article edits, and legacy media coverage-all credited the protests with raising public awareness of inequality, even as attention to problems with banks grew at the protest core.
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- Christensen, Miyase, et al.
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Media, Communication, and the Environment in Precarious Times
- 2018
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Ingår i: Journal of Communication. - : Oxford University Press. - 0021-9916 .- 1460-2466. ; 68:2, s. 267-277
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The seminal 1983 "Ferments in the Field" collection made limited reference to environmental issues and concerns. Considering communication media and technological artifacts as both nature and culture and, more specifically, through defining media as both infrastructural environments and content, we discuss how challenges brought about by environmental change can inform contemporary media and communication research and environmental communication. The materiality of e-waste, which has resonance for cultural, political, economic, and geographic analyses, is used as an illuminating case in point. We link the implications ensuing from the e-waste issue with the roles mediation and communication of environmental narratives play, and how they can be informed by such "medianatures," as well as geopolitical considerations.
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- de Leeuw, Sjifra E., et al.
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After All This Time? The Impact of Media and Authoritarian History on Political News Coverage in Twelve Western Countries
- 2020
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Ingår i: Journal of Communication. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0021-9916 .- 1460-2466. ; 70:5, s. 744-767
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Historical classifications of journalistic traditions are the backbone of comparative explanations for political news coverage. This study assesses the validity of the dominant media systems framework and proposes and tests a novel framework, which states that a history of authoritarianism affects today's coverage. To facilitate a clean cross-national comparison, we focus on the same person and measurement in 12 Western democracies, that is, the use of the pejorative terms “sexist,” “racist,” “dictator,” and equivalents to describe Donald Trump. Our manually validated automated content analysis (2016-2018; N ¼ 27,830) shows that content varies along with countries' media and authoritarian history: pejoration is more common in countries with a polarized pluralist media system and former authoritarian countries than elsewhere. Newspapers' ideology does not matter, irrespective of countries' level of political parallelism or experiences with authoritarianism. Combined, we provide new methodological and theoretical handles to further comparative communication research in Western democracies.
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- Djerf-Pierre, Monika, 1961, et al.
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Still an Agenda Setter: Traditional News Media and Public Opinion During the Transition From Low to High Choice Media Environments
- 2017
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Ingår i: Journal of Communication. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0021-9916 .- 1460-2466. ; 67:5, s. 733-757
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study analyzes whether the agenda-setting influence of traditional news media has become weaker over time—a key argument in the “new era of minimal effects” controversy. Based on media content and public opinion data collected in Sweden over a period of 23 years (1992–2014), we analyze both aggregate and individual-level agenda-setting effects on public opinion concerning 12 different political issues. Taken together, we find very little evidence that the traditional news media has become less influential as agenda setters. Rather, citizens appear as responsive to issue signals from the collective media agenda today as during the low-choice era. We discuss these findings in terms of cross-national differences in media systems and opportunity structures for selective exposure.
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- Lu, Lu, et al.
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Design and Analysis of Relay-aided Broadcast using Binary Network Codes
- 2011
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Ingår i: Journal of Communication. - : Academy Publisher. - 0021-9916 .- 1460-2466 .- 1796-2021. ; 6:8, s. 610-617
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We consider a base-station broadcasting a set of order-insensitive packets to a user population over packet-erasure channels. To improve efficiency we propose relay-aided transmission using instantaneously-decodable binary network coding. The proposed coding schemes have the benefits of minimal decoding delay and low complexity. We further analyze the performance of the resulting broadcast schemes, and show that significant improvements in transmission efficiency are obtained as compared to previously proposed ARQ and network-coding-based schemes.
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- Moeller, J., et al.
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Internet Use and Political Interest: Growth Curves, Reinforcing Spirals, and Causal Effects During Adolescence
- 2018
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Ingår i: Journal of Communication. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0021-9916 .- 1460-2466. ; 68:6, s. 1052-1078
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study analyzes reinforcing spirals between online media usage and political interest among adolescents. By applying a two-dimensional conceptualization of online media usage that distinguishes between content and interactivity characteristics, the study focuses on the mechanisms and processes stimulating the long-term development of political interest during adolescence. Findings from a unique, six-wave panel study conducted in Sweden over a period of 5 years suggest that reinforcing spirals are driven primarily by non-interactive political information usages of online media. These results contribute to a better understanding of the factors leading to the development of political interest during a crucial life phase, as well as the growing body of literature that theorize media and selection effects as part of reinforcing processes during adolescence.
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