Orígenes y desarrollo de la teoría de la agenda setting en comunicación. Tendencias en España (2014-2019)

Translated title of the contribution: Origins and development of the agenda-setting theory in communication: Trends in Spain (2014-2019)

Alberto Ardèvol-Abreu, Homero Gil de Zúñiga, Maxwell E. McCombs

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Abstract

The core hypothesis of the theory of agenda setting is that there is a process of transfer of salience from the media agenda to the public agenda. Since its original conception in the early 1970s, the explanatory model of ‘issue-agenda setting’ (first level) has been extended to help explain the transfer of the media’s ‘attribute agenda’ (second level) and ‘network agenda’ (third level) to the public agenda. This article provides a review of the agenda-setting model and its theoretical and empirical development, ending with a section that summarizes and discusses research studies published in this area in the last five years in Spain. Despite the broad influence of the agenda-setting theory in communication research in this country, Despite the broad influence of the agenda-setting theory in communication research in this country, many of the studies use the theory as a general framework for conducting a content analysis, withouh empirically testing any process of salience transfer.

Translated title of the contributionOrigins and development of the agenda-setting theory in communication: Trends in Spain (2014-2019)
Original languageSpanish
Article numbere290414
Pages (from-to)1-23
Number of pages23
JournalProfesional de la Informacion
Volume29
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Communication
  • Library and Information Sciences

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