Exploring New Frontiers of Agenda Building During the 2012 US Presidential Election Pre-Convention Period: Examining linkages across three levels

Journalism Studies

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 363-382

  Kiousis, Spiro ^a   Kim, Ji Young ^b   Ragas, Matt ^c   Wheat, Gillian ^a   Kochhar, Sarab ^a   Svensson, Emma ^d   Miles, Maradith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b BRADLEY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

agenda building; information subsidies; Network Agenda Setting model; political campaigns; political public relations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928762964     PISSN: 1461670X     EISSN: 14699699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1461670X.2014.906930     Document Type: Article

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