PREVIEW: Which came first? The Media or The Message | Media Divides | S01E09 | Political Reality
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📄 Foundational paper on agenda-setting: https://academic.oup.com/poq/article-...
(note their use of the phrase “political reality”!! I hadn’t noticed that before!!)
📚 Useful summary of agenda-setting: https://www.ebsco.com/research-starte...
🧠 Nice overview of framing: https://fbaum.unc.edu/teaching/articl...
🪟 A bit more on framing: https://www.ebsco.com/research-starte...
🔬 More on minimal effects and our shifting debates around it: https://academic.oup.com/joc/article-...
🗳️ Nice discussion of minimal effects theory specifically applied to campaigns: https://www.press.umich.edu/pdf/04720...
📊 Two examples of recent (ish) studies to evaluate priming:
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi...
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journa...
🧩 Discussion of agenda-setting, framing, and priming together: https://fbaum.unc.edu/teaching/articl...
🎓 In general, if you’re interested in this topic, I’d recommend keeping an eye on research coming from the Stanford Political Communications Lab: https://pcl.stanford.edu/research
(we are hoping to get Shanto Iyengar on the show, but no promises!)
📰 Review paper on media and political polarization: https://www.annualreviews.org/content...
🎬 Bonus! We didn’t talk about this in the episode, but I recently came across this paper about the influence of entertainment media on politics (we’d focused in the show on news media): https://www.cambridge.org/core/journa...