What influences media effects on public perception? A cross-national study of comparative agenda setting Journal Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Using a big data approach, this study explores the media agenda setting effects in 16 countries on five continents. Agenda setting effects were found to vary across the nations. Our findings provide empirical evidence that individual factors such as Age, Education, Living area, and Political ideologyand national macro variables, including Economic developmentand Media freedom, are associated with the strength of such effects. Results suggest that assessing agenda setting effects needs to be conducted in relation to the economic, political, and media context of a country. This study also proposes an alternative way to measure salience on the public agenda using Issue distance, which arguably allows for capturing the possible interaction between issue relevance to individual audiences and media cueing effects.

publication date

  • October 1, 2019

Date in CU Experts

  • January 27, 2026 9:32 AM

Full Author List

  • Vu HT; Jiang L; Chacón LMC; Riedl MJ; Tran DV; Bobkowski PS

author count

  • 6

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International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 1748-0485

Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)

  • 1748-0493

Additional Document Info

start page

  • 580

end page

  • 601

volume

  • 81

issue

  • 6-8