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

Journal of Communication

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 271-292

  Strömbäck, Jesper ^a   Kiousis, Spiro ^b  

^a MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MASS MEDIA; MEDIA ROLE; PERCEPTION; PREDICTION;

SWEDEN;

EID: 77954127233     PISSN: 00219916     EISSN: 14602466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2466.2010.01482.x     Document Type: Article

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