CMN 1160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Agenda-Setting Theory, Multiple Choice, Sept

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 1160
• Professor: Mohammed El Hashash

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Final exam is on the 13 in crx c240. Agenda setting theory: selection, omission, and framing of stories, reality, agenda, affect our perception of reality, newspapers, newsfeed on facebook. In addition to telling us what to think about but how to think about it as well: focusing on one specific aspect of a story or from a certain perspective, video by: lessonbucket. In other words, it is the media"s ability to transfer salience issues through their news agenda depending on the news information or issues or stories. This way the public agenda can form an understanding of the salience issues - depending on which issues are covered in the news. Framing: journalists select the topics they will present and decide how they will be presented. This determines the issues audiences think about and how they think about them: audiences interpret information through their own frames. Media should be used an important actors in themselves.