People use the news media to learn about the world beyond their family, neighborhood, and workplace. As news consumers, we depend on what television, social media, websites, radio stations, and newspapers decide to inform ...

This chapter discusses contemporary directions of agenda-setting research. It reviews thebasic concept of agenda setting, the transfer of salience from the media agenda to thepublic agenda as a key step in the formation ...

This chapter discusses contemporary directions of agenda-setting research. It reviews thebasic concept of agenda setting, the transfer of salience from the media agenda to thepublic agenda as a key step in the formation ...

This paper analyzes the role of social media in electoral processes and contemporary political life. We analyze Costa Rica’s 2018 presidential election from an agenda-setting perspective, studying the media, the political ...

The aim of this paper is to review the literature that discusses the basic premises of theoretical and empirical studies on Agenda Setting theory, and to propose a “new frontier” in the relationship between traditional ...