Gabriel Weimann
Biographic Data
| ID | 3620932 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gabriel Weimann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gabriel |
| FAMILY NAME | Weimann |
| SIGNATURE | WEIMANN G |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 145 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Who Sets the Agenda: Agenda-Setting as a Two-Step Flow
This study examines four models of a two-step flow of the agenda-setting process, highlighting the role played by certain individuals (early recognizers ) in mediating between the public and the media. The data sets contained coding of news items on the major German television networks from 1990 to 1993 and 28 surveys conducted in West and East Germany between September 1990 and December 1992, sampling over 1,000 individuals in each survey to stu…
Zapping in the Holy Land: Coping With Multi-Channel TV in Israel
Journal Article Zapping in the Holy Land: Coping With Multi-Channel TV in Israel Get access Gabriel Weimann Gabriel Weimann 1Gabriel Weimann is the Chairman of the Department of Communication at the University of Haifa, Israel. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 45, Issue 1, March 1995, Pages 96–102, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1995.tb00716.x Published: 07 February 200…
The Newsworthiness of International Terrorism
The emergence of media-oriented terrorism has led scholars of modern terrorism to reconceptualize this phenomenon within the framework of symbolic communication theory. This study focuses on the newsworthiness of international terrorism. It relates the concept of deviance as a predictor of newsworthiness to the specific attributes of terrorist events and their impact on media selection (coverage or no coverage) and prominence of coverage (amount …
The Influentials: Back to the Concept of Opinion Leaders
The concept of opinion leadership has been related to a lingering theoretical and methodological debate. The present study examines a new measure to identify opinion leaders (the Strength of Personality Scale) developed by the Allensbach Survey Center in Germany. The results of applying this measure in Germany and Israel allowed the testing of its validity and efficiency. The findings, however, do not suggest that the influentials identified by t…
The Obsession to Forecast: Pre-Election Polls in the Israeli Press
The generous coverage of pre-election polls in the media has stimulated a debate on the effects of publicized polls on voters. Data for this study come from a content analysis of all press reports on polls during six pre-election campaigns in Israel (1969–88). The findings highlight the impressive increase of poll reports both by space and by prominence in the press. Analysis of the reports' content reveals that the style of reporting polls has b…
Media events: The case of international terrorism
Media‐oriented terrorism has stirred growing interest in the communication strategy of modern terrorism and in the quantity, forms, and consequences of media coverage of terrorist events. One limitation of previous analyses is the lack of a theoretical framework to pinpoint the uniqueness of terrorism as media drama, and the commonalities with other kinds of media drama. A theoretical media‐event framework is proposed. The attributes, social proc…
Who Sets the Agenda: Agenda-Setting as a Two-Step Flow
This study examines four models of a two-step flow of the agenda-setting process, highlighting the role played by certain individuals (early recognizers ) in mediating between the public and the media. The data sets contained coding of news items on the major German television networks from 1990 to 1993 and 28 surveys conducted in West and East Germany between September 1990 and December 1992, sampling over 1,000 individuals in each survey to stu…
The Influentials: Back to the Concept of Opinion Leaders
The concept of opinion leadership has been related to a lingering theoretical and methodological debate. The present study examines a new measure to identify opinion leaders (the Strength of Personality Scale) developed by the Allensbach Survey Center in Germany. The results of applying this measure in Germany and Israel allowed the testing of its validity and efficiency. The findings, however, do not suggest that the influentials identified by t…
Media events: The case of international terrorism
Media‐oriented terrorism has stirred growing interest in the communication strategy of modern terrorism and in the quantity, forms, and consequences of media coverage of terrorist events. One limitation of previous analyses is the lack of a theoretical framework to pinpoint the uniqueness of terrorism as media drama, and the commonalities with other kinds of media drama. A theoretical media‐event framework is proposed. The attributes, social proc…
The Newsworthiness of International Terrorism
The emergence of media-oriented terrorism has led scholars of modern terrorism to reconceptualize this phenomenon within the framework of symbolic communication theory. This study focuses on the newsworthiness of international terrorism. It relates the concept of deviance as a predictor of newsworthiness to the specific attributes of terrorist events and their impact on media selection (coverage or no coverage) and prominence of coverage (amount …
The Obsession to Forecast: Pre-Election Polls in the Israeli Press
The generous coverage of pre-election polls in the media has stimulated a debate on the effects of publicized polls on voters. Data for this study come from a content analysis of all press reports on polls during six pre-election campaigns in Israel (1969–88). The findings highlight the impressive increase of poll reports both by space and by prominence in the press. Analysis of the reports' content reveals that the style of reporting polls has b…
Zapping in the Holy Land: Coping With Multi-Channel TV in Israel
Journal Article Zapping in the Holy Land: Coping With Multi-Channel TV in Israel Get access Gabriel Weimann Gabriel Weimann 1Gabriel Weimann is the Chairman of the Department of Communication at the University of Haifa, Israel. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 45, Issue 1, March 1995, Pages 96–102, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1995.tb00716.x Published: 07 February 200…
Media events: The case of international terrorism
Media‐oriented terrorism has stirred growing interest in the communication strategy of modern terrorism and in the quantity, forms, and consequences of media coverage of terrorist events. One limitation of previous analyses is the lack of a theoretical framework to pinpoint the uniqueness of terrorism as media drama, and the commonalities with other kinds of media drama. A theoretical media‐event framework is proposed. The attributes, social proc…
The Obsession to Forecast: Pre-Election Polls in the Israeli Press
The generous coverage of pre-election polls in the media has stimulated a debate on the effects of publicized polls on voters. Data for this study come from a content analysis of all press reports on polls during six pre-election campaigns in Israel (1969–88). The findings highlight the impressive increase of poll reports both by space and by prominence in the press. Analysis of the reports' content reveals that the style of reporting polls has b…
The Newsworthiness of International Terrorism
The emergence of media-oriented terrorism has led scholars of modern terrorism to reconceptualize this phenomenon within the framework of symbolic communication theory. This study focuses on the newsworthiness of international terrorism. It relates the concept of deviance as a predictor of newsworthiness to the specific attributes of terrorist events and their impact on media selection (coverage or no coverage) and prominence of coverage (amount …
The Influentials: Back to the Concept of Opinion Leaders
The concept of opinion leadership has been related to a lingering theoretical and methodological debate. The present study examines a new measure to identify opinion leaders (the Strength of Personality Scale) developed by the Allensbach Survey Center in Germany. The results of applying this measure in Germany and Israel allowed the testing of its validity and efficiency. The findings, however, do not suggest that the influentials identified by t…
Zapping in the Holy Land: Coping With Multi-Channel TV in Israel
Journal Article Zapping in the Holy Land: Coping With Multi-Channel TV in Israel Get access Gabriel Weimann Gabriel Weimann 1Gabriel Weimann is the Chairman of the Department of Communication at the University of Haifa, Israel. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 45, Issue 1, March 1995, Pages 96–102, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1995.tb00716.x Published: 07 February 200…
Who Sets the Agenda: Agenda-Setting as a Two-Step Flow
This study examines four models of a two-step flow of the agenda-setting process, highlighting the role played by certain individuals (early recognizers ) in mediating between the public and the media. The data sets contained coding of news items on the major German television networks from 1990 to 1993 and 28 surveys conducted in West and East Germany between September 1990 and December 1992, sampling over 1,000 individuals in each survey to stu…
Political science (6 works) · Media Studies and Communication (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Public Relations and Crisis Communication (4 works) · Social Media and Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Media studies (2 works)