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Network Agenda-Setting

Network agenda-setting (NAS), also called third-level agenda setting, extends classic agenda-setting theory by proposing that news media transfer to the public not only the salience of issues (first level) and of attributes (second level), but the very web of associations among issues and attributes. Introduced by Lei Guo and Maxwell McCombs, the method represents the media agenda and the public agenda as networks and tests whether the media's bundling of elements is reproduced in the public's mind.

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Network Agenda-Setting (Third-Level Agenda Setting)
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / communication
  • Guo, L. (2012). The application of social network analysis in agenda-setting research: A methodological exploration. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 56(4), 616–631. · DOI 10.1080/08838151.2012.732148
  • McCombs, M. E., & Shaw, D. L. (1972). The agenda-setting function of mass media. Public Opinion Quarterly, 36(2), 176–187. · DOI 10.1086/267990
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Same method familyAgenda-Setting Analysismachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyFraming Analysismachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyManifest Content Analysismachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familySemantic Network Analysismachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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