PREVIEW: Which came first? The Media or The Message | Media Divides | S01E09 | Political Reality
Full Episode on Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/posts/152180817
Foundational paper on agenda-setting: https://academic.oup.com/poq/article-abstract/36/2/176/1853310
(note their use of the phrase “political reality”!! I hadn’t noticed that before!!)
Useful summary of agenda-setting: https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/communication-and-mass-media/agenda-setting-theory
Nice overview of framing: https://fbaum.unc.edu/teaching/articles/annurev.polisci.10.072805.103054.pdf
A bit more on framing: https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/social-sciences-and-humanities/framing-theory
More on minimal effects and our shifting debates around it: https://academic.oup.com/joc/article-abstract/58/4/707/4098406?redirectedFrom=fulltext
️ Nice discussion of minimal effects theory specifically applied to campaigns: https://www.press.umich.edu/pdf/0472099213-ch2.pdf
Two examples of recent (ish) studies to evaluate priming:
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.1017/S0022381613001539
Discussion of agenda-setting, framing, and priming together: https://fbaum.unc.edu/teaching/articles/J-Communication-2007-1.pdf
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/journals/10.1146/annurev-polisci-100711-135242
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/journals/american-political-science-review/article/american-viewer-political-consequences-of-entertainment-media/A0BADA28D5C551DE4EEBDAAAE33B76E8
