Not (Yet) a New Era of Minimal Effects: A Study of Agenda Setting at the Aggregate and Individual Levels

International Journal of Press/Politics

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 234-255

  Shehata, Adam ^a   Strömbäck, Jesper ^a  

^a MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

agenda setting; audience selectivity; media effects; panel survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874772467     PISSN: 19401612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1940161212473831     Document Type: Article

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