Who's Your Gatekeeper? Message Framing and Agenda Setting

Agenda Setting
McCombs, M. The Agenda-Setting Role of Mass Media in Shaping Public Opinion. (2004)
Many Americans Believe Fake News is Sowing confusion. Pew Research Center. (December 15, 2016)
*McCombs, M. Shaw, D., & Weaver, D. New Directions in Agenda Setting Theory and Research. Mass Communication and Society 17:781-802 (2014)

Agenda Setting v. Agenda Melding
Agenda Melding Defined

Gatekeeping v. Gatewatching
Gatewatching Defined
Gatewatching and News Curation: Journalism, Social Media, and the Public Sphere. Snurblog (March 29, 2004)

Spiral of Silence in the Digital Age
The "Spiral of Silence" Theory
The 'Spiral of Silence' Theory Explains Why People Don't Speak Up on Things That Matter, New York Magazine, March 10, 2017
Effects of the “Spiral of Silence” in the Digital Age. Inquiries, 7(9) 2015
Quieting the Commentators: The Spiral of Silence’s Persistent Effect on Online News Forums. International Symposium on Online Journalism, 6(1) 2016
Social Media and the ‘Spiral of Silence.’  Executive Summary. Pew Research Center (August 26, 2014)
*Full Report
*Social Media and the ‘Spiral of Silence' (August 26, 2014)
*Unspeaking on Facebook? Testing Network Effects on Self-Censorship of Political Expressions in Social Network Sites. Quality and Quantity 49, 1417-35 (2015)
*Under Surveillance: Examining Facebook’s Spiral of Silence Effects in the Wake of NSA Internet Monitoring. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 93(2), 296-311, 2016
*Spiral of Silence of Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann. A First Look at Communication Theory. (7th ed.) 2007

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