Setting the agenda : the mass media and public opinion /
Maxwell McCombs.
- Cambridge, UK : Malden, MA : Polity ; Blackwell Pub., 2004.
- xiv, 184 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [150]-178) and index.
1. Influencing public opinion - 2. Reality and the news - 3. How agenda-setting works - 4. Why agenda-setting occurs - 5. The pictures in oyr heads - 6. Attribute agenda-settinfg and framing - 7. Shaping the media agenda - 8. Consequences of agenda-setting - 9. Mass communication and society - Epilogue - Notes - Index.
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Mass media and public opinion. Mass media--Social aspects.