Jill A Edy
Biographic Data
| ID | 295679 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jill A Edy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jill A |
| FAMILY NAME | Edy |
| SIGNATURE | EDY J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oklahoma |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4905-8102 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 366 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
News sources and the epistemic authority to represent reality: How journalism constructs an order of authorized knowers in local television news
Distinguishing two types of epistemic authority, narrative and eyewitness, illuminates their distinct contributions to journalistic authority and reveals how journalism constructs an order of authorized knowers in local television news. Quantitative content analysis of local television news shows how different sources, such as public officials, civil authorities and citizens, are assigned epistemic authority both in terms of how frequently they a…
Creating a Place in Middle America: How Spanish-Language Local News Serves the Hispanic Community
A fraction of Hispanic people in the U.S. uses Spanish-language news because a language barrier prevents them using English-language news. Functional theory suggests ethnic media serve ethnic community needs ignored by mainstream media. Research on how Spanish-language news serves U.S. Hispanic communities and differs from English-language news typically studies large, politically liberal cities with large Hispanic populations, neglecting Hispani…
The Past as Political Terrain: How National Leaders Navigate Memories of 9/11
Political leaders construct meanings for current events in support of their existing policy goals, but the constructed meanings do not change when policy goals change. Consequently, the established narrative of the past becomes part of the policymaking terrain, justifying existing policies and creating criteria for policy success. It must be navigated by leaders seeking to reach their policy objectives. References made by U.S. and Israeli politic…
Generating more inclusive media memory: The limits and possibilities of news archives
Ideally, mediated collective memory of a society’s past should be both inclusive and communal. Documentaries commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Los Angeles riots reveal that a film which relies primarily on mainstream journalism’s news archives tends to privilege the perspectives of social authorities. In contrast, films produced by those from marginalized communities create more inclusive mediated collective memory by altering the rationa…
Beyond polarization and priming: Public agenda diversity and trust in government
Objective The study set out to examine how diversity and volatility in the public's issue agenda are related to trust in government and congressional approval. Method Data from 1975 through 2014 for public agenda issue concerns, agenda diversity, agenda volatility, congressional polarization, trust in government, and congressional approval were transformed into a quarterly time series and analyzed with ridge regression. Results A more diverse pub…
How the past becomes the past: The temporal positioning of collective memory
Recognizing that the past does not necessarily pass of its own accord but rather is made to pass is crucial for understanding relationships between collective memory, temporality and the past. Analyzing processes of temporal negotiation reveals that changing the ending (or, in some cases creating one at all) requires re-envisioning the entire sequence of events. Thus, the ending (if there is one) depends on the beginning. British prime ministers'…
The political economy of global memory: Shared memory of global conflict in Captain America: The First Avenger
Recent scholarship explores the possibility of a global collective memory in which networked individuals transiting national, class, and ethnic boundaries create commonality from shared difference. Yet, the public past’s representation remains influenced by powerful entities such as governments and corporations, and resources made available, particularly by the popular culture industry, will likely shape globally shared memories. This study docum…
Consensus without focus: Why news agenda setting expands the public agenda
Generating public consensus on issue priorities is one of the most important functions of news agenda setting. However, the nature of that consensus is not well understood. Agenda setting might build a public consensus focused on a limited set of priorities, but it also has potential to build a consensus that broadens the public’s issue agenda by generating shared concerns about problems beyond the bounds of personal experience. Evidence shows th…
The Fragmenting Public Agenda: Capacity, Diversity, and Volatility in Responses to the “Most Important Problem” Question
This study documents the fragmentation of the American public's agenda. Updating work by McCombs and Zhu (1995), it measures the carrying capacity of the public agenda, the degree of diversity, and the rate of turnover in issues named by Gallup survey respondents asked Gallup's classic question, "What do you think is the most important problem facing this country today?," from 1975 through 2014. Assuming the public agenda's capacity to be relativ…
Rumor Communities: The Social Dimensions of Internet Political Misperceptions
Objective This study illuminates the communicative and social qualities of naturally occurring public resistance to authoritative debunking of political misperceptions, rumors, and conspiracy theories. Developing the concept of a “rumor community,” it highlights aspects of rumoring processes overlooked by psychological approaches common in misperception research. Methods Over 2,000 user‐generated comments from the “vaccines cause autism” rumor co…
Collective Memory in a Post-Broadcast World
If journalism plays an important role in the generation and maintenance of social memory, then the current transformation of journalism has important implications for the ways in which society remembers. Earlier research has described journalism’s role in the creation and maintenance of shared memory (for example, Edy, 1999; My, 2006; Lang and Lang, 1989; Zandberg, Meyers and Neiger, 2012; Zelizer, 1992). Other works have described the role of ma…
Authenticating the Political: How the news media redefine their social relevance
Innovative media forums like Pastor Rick Warren's 2008 interviews with the major party nominees challenge US journalism's institutional authority to mediate public political discourse. Journalists reacted to Warren's forum by re-envisioning their institutional authority as authenticating the political. Others might have public conversations with politicians, but only journalism rendered such conversations political, that is, suitable for democrat…
Making News Necessary: How Journalism Resists Alternative Media's Challenge
News coverage following Al Gore and George W. Bush's appearances on the Oprah Winfrey Show during the 2000 presidential campaign shows journalism asserting its authority to manage political discourse despite competition from alternative media. Analysis using Foucault's concepts of knowledge, power, and discipline reveals journalism affirming its continuing relevance and integrates insights from the framing and paradigm repair traditions. Journali…
German Abstract
Gesucht, tot oder lebendig: Medien-Frames, Frame-Aneignung und die Befürwortung des Afghanistan-Krieges Jill A. Edy Department of Communication University of Oklahoma Patrick C. Meirick Department of Communication University of Oklahoma Vorliegende Studie misst, welchen Einfluss natürlich auftretende Medien-Frames auf die öffentliche Unterstützung einer politischen Maßnahme (Krieg) haben. Eine Inhaltsanalyse der Abendnachrichten (Network-News) im…
Korean Abstract
Journal Article Korean Abstract Get access Jill A. Edy, Jill A. Edy Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Patrick C. Meirick Patrick C. Meirick Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 57, Issue 1, March 2007, Pages 119–141, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2006.00332_2.x Published: 28 February 2007
Chinese Abstract
Chinese Abstract Get access Jill A. Edy, Jill A. Edy Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Patrick C. Meirick Patrick C. Meirick Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 57, Issue 1, March 2007, Pages 119–141, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2006.00332_1.x Published: 28 February 2007
Spanish Abstract
Buscado, Muerto ó Vivo: Los Encuadres de los Medios Masivos, la Adopción de Encuadres, y el Apoyo a la Guerra en Afganistán Jill A. Edy Departamento de Comunicación University of Oklahoma Patrick C. Meirick Departamento de Comunicación University of Oklahoma Este artículo intenta medir el impacto de los encuadres de los medios masivos que ocurren naturalmente en el apoyo público a una política. Un análisis de contenido de redes de noticias noctur…
French Abstract
Recherché mort ou vif: Cadrage médiatique, adoption de cadres et soutien à la guerre en Afghanistan Jill A. Edy Department of Communication University of Oklahoma Patrick C. Meirick Department of Communication University of Oklahoma Cet article tente de mesurer l’effet des cadres médiatiques qui opèrent naturellement sur le soutien public à l’égard d’une politique. L’analyse de contenu des bulletins d’actualité du soir diffusés en réseau au cours…
Wanted, Dead or Alive: Media Frames, Frame Adoption, and Support for the War in Afghanistan
Journal Article Wanted, Dead or Alive: Media Frames, Frame Adoption, and Support for the War in Afghanistan Get access Jill A. Edy, Jill A. Edy 1Department of Communication, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Patrick C. Meirick Patrick C. Meirick 1Department of Communication, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acad…
Woodrow Wilson and the Lost World of the Oratorical Statesman
Reporting through the lens of the past: From Challenger to Columbia
Collective memory, the publicly shared meaning of a common past, can structure both news stories and reporters' search for information within the broader context of journalistic practices. It can also provide reporters with an independent perspective, balancing elite-dominated news frames. Following the space shuttle Columbia's crash, journalists turned repeatedly to the ‘lessons' of the accident that claimed the Challenger shuttle 17 years earli…
Using News Abstracts to Represent News Agendas
Many scholars rely upon the Vanderbilt Television News Index and Abstracts to represent the topics covered by network broadcast news. Earlier research has shown that the Abstracts do not adequately capture the evaluative tone of news, but the degree of topical correspondence between the abstracts and the full transcripts of newscasts has never been formally tested. This paper uses content analysis of transcripts of ABC's coverage of the 1991 Gulf…
Using the Vanderbilt Television Abstracts to Track Broadcast News Content: Possibilities and Pitfalls
The Vanderbilt Television News Archive supplies written abstracts for its video collection of news programs. Researchers from many disciplines use the abstracts to locate stories, track specific topics, and measure the evaluative tone of news. This study examines the validity of using abstracts as substitutes for full-text transcripts. Drawing on an analysis of the abstract writing process, we highlight potential sources of error and analyze the …
Using Substitutes for Full-Text News Stories in Content Analysis: Which Text Is Best
tions of full-text media content. We analyze the effects of production decisions on content and categorization in the New York Times Index, based on interviews with its senior editor. We then compare the content of three proxies with that of full-text articles by conducting a parallel content analysis of New York Times stories covering the 1986 Libya crisis and their corresponding Index entries. The study suggests that proxy data can be used to r…
Journalistic Uses of Collective Memory
It has become clichéd to assert that journalists write the first draft of history. Far less attention has been paid to who does the rewrites. Frequently, second drafts of history are also written by journalists. The typology developed her describes the ways journalists use our public past and offers some insights about the process of collective memory development in the news media. Commemorative journalism seems to offer the best chance to reexam…
Journalistic Uses of Collective Memory
It has become clichéd to assert that journalists write the first draft of history. Far less attention has been paid to who does the rewrites. Frequently, second drafts of history are also written by journalists. The typology developed her describes the ways journalists use our public past and offers some insights about the process of collective memory development in the news media. Commemorative journalism seems to offer the best chance to reexam…
Revising the indexing hypothesis: Officials, media, and the Libya crisis
This study revises the indexing hypothesis by specifying its predictions and testing them on a single event, the U.S.‐Libya crisis of 1985–1986. We consider not only whether journalists use “official debate” to guide their coverage of important policy issues, but also how they might construct and interpret this debate. Detailed content analysis of the New York Times demonstrates that, while indexing is a valuable theory in assessing media treatme…
Using Substitutes for Full-Text News Stories in Content Analysis: Which Text Is Best
tions of full-text media content. We analyze the effects of production decisions on content and categorization in the New York Times Index, based on interviews with its senior editor. We then compare the content of three proxies with that of full-text articles by conducting a parallel content analysis of New York Times stories covering the 1986 Libya crisis and their corresponding Index entries. The study suggests that proxy data can be used to r…
Wanted, Dead or Alive: Media Frames, Frame Adoption, and Support for the War in Afghanistan
Journal Article Wanted, Dead or Alive: Media Frames, Frame Adoption, and Support for the War in Afghanistan Get access Jill A. Edy, Jill A. Edy 1Department of Communication, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Patrick C. Meirick Patrick C. Meirick 1Department of Communication, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acad…
The Fragmenting Public Agenda: Capacity, Diversity, and Volatility in Responses to the “Most Important Problem” Question
This study documents the fragmentation of the American public's agenda. Updating work by McCombs and Zhu (1995), it measures the carrying capacity of the public agenda, the degree of diversity, and the rate of turnover in issues named by Gallup survey respondents asked Gallup's classic question, "What do you think is the most important problem facing this country today?," from 1975 through 2014. Assuming the public agenda's capacity to be relativ…
Reporting through the lens of the past: From Challenger to Columbia
Collective memory, the publicly shared meaning of a common past, can structure both news stories and reporters' search for information within the broader context of journalistic practices. It can also provide reporters with an independent perspective, balancing elite-dominated news frames. Following the space shuttle Columbia's crash, journalists turned repeatedly to the ‘lessons' of the accident that claimed the Challenger shuttle 17 years earli…
Making News Necessary: How Journalism Resists Alternative Media's Challenge
News coverage following Al Gore and George W. Bush's appearances on the Oprah Winfrey Show during the 2000 presidential campaign shows journalism asserting its authority to manage political discourse despite competition from alternative media. Analysis using Foucault's concepts of knowledge, power, and discipline reveals journalism affirming its continuing relevance and integrates insights from the framing and paradigm repair traditions. Journali…
How the past becomes the past: The temporal positioning of collective memory
Recognizing that the past does not necessarily pass of its own accord but rather is made to pass is crucial for understanding relationships between collective memory, temporality and the past. Analyzing processes of temporal negotiation reveals that changing the ending (or, in some cases creating one at all) requires re-envisioning the entire sequence of events. Thus, the ending (if there is one) depends on the beginning. British prime ministers'…
Using the Vanderbilt Television Abstracts to Track Broadcast News Content: Possibilities and Pitfalls
The Vanderbilt Television News Archive supplies written abstracts for its video collection of news programs. Researchers from many disciplines use the abstracts to locate stories, track specific topics, and measure the evaluative tone of news. This study examines the validity of using abstracts as substitutes for full-text transcripts. Drawing on an analysis of the abstract writing process, we highlight potential sources of error and analyze the …
Rumor Communities: The Social Dimensions of Internet Political Misperceptions
Objective This study illuminates the communicative and social qualities of naturally occurring public resistance to authoritative debunking of political misperceptions, rumors, and conspiracy theories. Developing the concept of a “rumor community,” it highlights aspects of rumoring processes overlooked by psychological approaches common in misperception research. Methods Over 2,000 user‐generated comments from the “vaccines cause autism” rumor co…
Using News Abstracts to Represent News Agendas
Many scholars rely upon the Vanderbilt Television News Index and Abstracts to represent the topics covered by network broadcast news. Earlier research has shown that the Abstracts do not adequately capture the evaluative tone of news, but the degree of topical correspondence between the abstracts and the full transcripts of newscasts has never been formally tested. This paper uses content analysis of transcripts of ABC's coverage of the 1991 Gulf…
The Past as Political Terrain: How National Leaders Navigate Memories of 9/11
Political leaders construct meanings for current events in support of their existing policy goals, but the constructed meanings do not change when policy goals change. Consequently, the established narrative of the past becomes part of the policymaking terrain, justifying existing policies and creating criteria for policy success. It must be navigated by leaders seeking to reach their policy objectives. References made by U.S. and Israeli politic…
The political economy of global memory: Shared memory of global conflict in Captain America: The First Avenger
Recent scholarship explores the possibility of a global collective memory in which networked individuals transiting national, class, and ethnic boundaries create commonality from shared difference. Yet, the public past’s representation remains influenced by powerful entities such as governments and corporations, and resources made available, particularly by the popular culture industry, will likely shape globally shared memories. This study docum…
Beyond polarization and priming: Public agenda diversity and trust in government
Objective The study set out to examine how diversity and volatility in the public's issue agenda are related to trust in government and congressional approval. Method Data from 1975 through 2014 for public agenda issue concerns, agenda diversity, agenda volatility, congressional polarization, trust in government, and congressional approval were transformed into a quarterly time series and analyzed with ridge regression. Results A more diverse pub…
Consensus without focus: Why news agenda setting expands the public agenda
Generating public consensus on issue priorities is one of the most important functions of news agenda setting. However, the nature of that consensus is not well understood. Agenda setting might build a public consensus focused on a limited set of priorities, but it also has potential to build a consensus that broadens the public’s issue agenda by generating shared concerns about problems beyond the bounds of personal experience. Evidence shows th…
Authenticating the Political: How the news media redefine their social relevance
Innovative media forums like Pastor Rick Warren's 2008 interviews with the major party nominees challenge US journalism's institutional authority to mediate public political discourse. Journalists reacted to Warren's forum by re-envisioning their institutional authority as authenticating the political. Others might have public conversations with politicians, but only journalism rendered such conversations political, that is, suitable for democrat…
Revising the indexing hypothesis: Officials, media, and the Libya crisis
This study revises the indexing hypothesis by specifying its predictions and testing them on a single event, the U.S.‐Libya crisis of 1985–1986. We consider not only whether journalists use “official debate” to guide their coverage of important policy issues, but also how they might construct and interpret this debate. Detailed content analysis of the New York Times demonstrates that, while indexing is a valuable theory in assessing media treatme…
Journalistic Uses of Collective Memory
It has become clichéd to assert that journalists write the first draft of history. Far less attention has been paid to who does the rewrites. Frequently, second drafts of history are also written by journalists. The typology developed her describes the ways journalists use our public past and offers some insights about the process of collective memory development in the news media. Commemorative journalism seems to offer the best chance to reexam…
Using Substitutes for Full-Text News Stories in Content Analysis: Which Text Is Best
tions of full-text media content. We analyze the effects of production decisions on content and categorization in the New York Times Index, based on interviews with its senior editor. We then compare the content of three proxies with that of full-text articles by conducting a parallel content analysis of New York Times stories covering the 1986 Libya crisis and their corresponding Index entries. The study suggests that proxy data can be used to r…
Using the Vanderbilt Television Abstracts to Track Broadcast News Content: Possibilities and Pitfalls
The Vanderbilt Television News Archive supplies written abstracts for its video collection of news programs. Researchers from many disciplines use the abstracts to locate stories, track specific topics, and measure the evaluative tone of news. This study examines the validity of using abstracts as substitutes for full-text transcripts. Drawing on an analysis of the abstract writing process, we highlight potential sources of error and analyze the …
Using News Abstracts to Represent News Agendas
Many scholars rely upon the Vanderbilt Television News Index and Abstracts to represent the topics covered by network broadcast news. Earlier research has shown that the Abstracts do not adequately capture the evaluative tone of news, but the degree of topical correspondence between the abstracts and the full transcripts of newscasts has never been formally tested. This paper uses content analysis of transcripts of ABC's coverage of the 1991 Gulf…
Woodrow Wilson and the Lost World of the Oratorical Statesman
Reporting through the lens of the past: From Challenger to Columbia
Collective memory, the publicly shared meaning of a common past, can structure both news stories and reporters' search for information within the broader context of journalistic practices. It can also provide reporters with an independent perspective, balancing elite-dominated news frames. Following the space shuttle Columbia's crash, journalists turned repeatedly to the ‘lessons' of the accident that claimed the Challenger shuttle 17 years earli…
German Abstract
Gesucht, tot oder lebendig: Medien-Frames, Frame-Aneignung und die Befürwortung des Afghanistan-Krieges Jill A. Edy Department of Communication University of Oklahoma Patrick C. Meirick Department of Communication University of Oklahoma Vorliegende Studie misst, welchen Einfluss natürlich auftretende Medien-Frames auf die öffentliche Unterstützung einer politischen Maßnahme (Krieg) haben. Eine Inhaltsanalyse der Abendnachrichten (Network-News) im…
Korean Abstract
Journal Article Korean Abstract Get access Jill A. Edy, Jill A. Edy Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Patrick C. Meirick Patrick C. Meirick Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 57, Issue 1, March 2007, Pages 119–141, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2006.00332_2.x Published: 28 February 2007
Chinese Abstract
Chinese Abstract Get access Jill A. Edy, Jill A. Edy Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Patrick C. Meirick Patrick C. Meirick Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 57, Issue 1, March 2007, Pages 119–141, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2006.00332_1.x Published: 28 February 2007
Spanish Abstract
Buscado, Muerto ó Vivo: Los Encuadres de los Medios Masivos, la Adopción de Encuadres, y el Apoyo a la Guerra en Afganistán Jill A. Edy Departamento de Comunicación University of Oklahoma Patrick C. Meirick Departamento de Comunicación University of Oklahoma Este artículo intenta medir el impacto de los encuadres de los medios masivos que ocurren naturalmente en el apoyo público a una política. Un análisis de contenido de redes de noticias noctur…
French Abstract
Recherché mort ou vif: Cadrage médiatique, adoption de cadres et soutien à la guerre en Afghanistan Jill A. Edy Department of Communication University of Oklahoma Patrick C. Meirick Department of Communication University of Oklahoma Cet article tente de mesurer l’effet des cadres médiatiques qui opèrent naturellement sur le soutien public à l’égard d’une politique. L’analyse de contenu des bulletins d’actualité du soir diffusés en réseau au cours…
Wanted, Dead or Alive: Media Frames, Frame Adoption, and Support for the War in Afghanistan
Journal Article Wanted, Dead or Alive: Media Frames, Frame Adoption, and Support for the War in Afghanistan Get access Jill A. Edy, Jill A. Edy 1Department of Communication, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Patrick C. Meirick Patrick C. Meirick 1Department of Communication, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acad…
Making News Necessary: How Journalism Resists Alternative Media's Challenge
News coverage following Al Gore and George W. Bush's appearances on the Oprah Winfrey Show during the 2000 presidential campaign shows journalism asserting its authority to manage political discourse despite competition from alternative media. Analysis using Foucault's concepts of knowledge, power, and discipline reveals journalism affirming its continuing relevance and integrates insights from the framing and paradigm repair traditions. Journali…
Collective Memory in a Post-Broadcast World
If journalism plays an important role in the generation and maintenance of social memory, then the current transformation of journalism has important implications for the ways in which society remembers. Earlier research has described journalism’s role in the creation and maintenance of shared memory (for example, Edy, 1999; My, 2006; Lang and Lang, 1989; Zandberg, Meyers and Neiger, 2012; Zelizer, 1992). Other works have described the role of ma…
Authenticating the Political: How the news media redefine their social relevance
Innovative media forums like Pastor Rick Warren's 2008 interviews with the major party nominees challenge US journalism's institutional authority to mediate public political discourse. Journalists reacted to Warren's forum by re-envisioning their institutional authority as authenticating the political. Others might have public conversations with politicians, but only journalism rendered such conversations political, that is, suitable for democrat…
Rumor Communities: The Social Dimensions of Internet Political Misperceptions
Objective This study illuminates the communicative and social qualities of naturally occurring public resistance to authoritative debunking of political misperceptions, rumors, and conspiracy theories. Developing the concept of a “rumor community,” it highlights aspects of rumoring processes overlooked by psychological approaches common in misperception research. Methods Over 2,000 user‐generated comments from the “vaccines cause autism” rumor co…
The Fragmenting Public Agenda: Capacity, Diversity, and Volatility in Responses to the “Most Important Problem” Question
This study documents the fragmentation of the American public's agenda. Updating work by McCombs and Zhu (1995), it measures the carrying capacity of the public agenda, the degree of diversity, and the rate of turnover in issues named by Gallup survey respondents asked Gallup's classic question, "What do you think is the most important problem facing this country today?," from 1975 through 2014. Assuming the public agenda's capacity to be relativ…
The political economy of global memory: Shared memory of global conflict in Captain America: The First Avenger
Recent scholarship explores the possibility of a global collective memory in which networked individuals transiting national, class, and ethnic boundaries create commonality from shared difference. Yet, the public past’s representation remains influenced by powerful entities such as governments and corporations, and resources made available, particularly by the popular culture industry, will likely shape globally shared memories. This study docum…
Consensus without focus: Why news agenda setting expands the public agenda
Generating public consensus on issue priorities is one of the most important functions of news agenda setting. However, the nature of that consensus is not well understood. Agenda setting might build a public consensus focused on a limited set of priorities, but it also has potential to build a consensus that broadens the public’s issue agenda by generating shared concerns about problems beyond the bounds of personal experience. Evidence shows th…
How the past becomes the past: The temporal positioning of collective memory
Recognizing that the past does not necessarily pass of its own accord but rather is made to pass is crucial for understanding relationships between collective memory, temporality and the past. Analyzing processes of temporal negotiation reveals that changing the ending (or, in some cases creating one at all) requires re-envisioning the entire sequence of events. Thus, the ending (if there is one) depends on the beginning. British prime ministers'…
Generating more inclusive media memory: The limits and possibilities of news archives
Ideally, mediated collective memory of a society’s past should be both inclusive and communal. Documentaries commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Los Angeles riots reveal that a film which relies primarily on mainstream journalism’s news archives tends to privilege the perspectives of social authorities. In contrast, films produced by those from marginalized communities create more inclusive mediated collective memory by altering the rationa…
Beyond polarization and priming: Public agenda diversity and trust in government
Objective The study set out to examine how diversity and volatility in the public's issue agenda are related to trust in government and congressional approval. Method Data from 1975 through 2014 for public agenda issue concerns, agenda diversity, agenda volatility, congressional polarization, trust in government, and congressional approval were transformed into a quarterly time series and analyzed with ridge regression. Results A more diverse pub…
The Past as Political Terrain: How National Leaders Navigate Memories of 9/11
Political leaders construct meanings for current events in support of their existing policy goals, but the constructed meanings do not change when policy goals change. Consequently, the established narrative of the past becomes part of the policymaking terrain, justifying existing policies and creating criteria for policy success. It must be navigated by leaders seeking to reach their policy objectives. References made by U.S. and Israeli politic…
Creating a Place in Middle America: How Spanish-Language Local News Serves the Hispanic Community
A fraction of Hispanic people in the U.S. uses Spanish-language news because a language barrier prevents them using English-language news. Functional theory suggests ethnic media serve ethnic community needs ignored by mainstream media. Research on how Spanish-language news serves U.S. Hispanic communities and differs from English-language news typically studies large, politically liberal cities with large Hispanic populations, neglecting Hispani…
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