News sources and the same sex marriage issue

Through the lens of the agenda-setting theory

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ID6171685
AuthorsVictoria Chen (0000-0002-2653-8031), Victoria Y Chen (0000-0002-3704-1397, National Chung Cheng University), Paromita Pain (0000-0002-4787-6128, The University of Texas at Austin)
Year2017
Volume1
Issue2
Pages158-179
Publication date2017-05-19
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Agenda Setting Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2452-0063 • E-ISSN: 2452-0071
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/asj.1.2.05che
OpenAlexW2616304951
LanguageEN
References cited33

Using agenda-setting theory, this study explores the effects of news sources on public opinion on the issue of the same-sex marriage over 10 years. It examines immediate substantive salience, immediate affective salience, cumulative substantive salience and cumulative affective salience of the news sources cited in news articles from The New York Times from 2003 to 2013 and compares the coverage to public opinion polls. Four findings merit notice. First, news sources with a clear standpoint had counter effects on public opinion. Second, the salience of news sources is as influential as the affective attribute salience of news sources on public opinion. Official sources had the power to influence public opinion the most. Thirdly, the influence of the media is stronger than the influence of news sources on influencing public opinion. Fourth, LGBTQ sources were the least used sources in the same-sex marriage coverage

Cognitive psychology · Media coverage · Media studies · News media · Notice · Political science · Politics · Public opinion · Public relations · Salience (neuroscience · Sociology · Law · Media Influence and Politics · Media Studies and Communication · Psychology · Social Media and Politics · Social Psychology

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