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Mass Media Effects and the Political Agenda: Assessing its Scope and Conditions
Edited by Ana Maria Belchior, Peter Van Aelst, José Santana-Pereira and Patrick Merle
[The Agenda Setting Journal 4:1] 2020
► pp. 3–16

Introduction

Mass media effects and the political agenda: Assessing its scope and conditions

| University of Antwerp
| ISCTE-IUL, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
| Florida State University
| ISCTE-IUL, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.What do we know?
    • 2.1Symbolic vs substantial
    • 2.2The influence is bi-directional
    • 2.3Party type and position matter
  • 3.What do we not (yet) know?
    • 3.1System characteristics
    • 3.2Context characteristics
    • 3.3Social media as a new hybrid agenda
  • 4.The contribution of this special issue
  • References
Published online: 10 April 2020
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