The Agenda - Setting Effect of Focusing Events: A Case Study of the Church Restitutions Issue

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Agenda - Setting Effect of Focusing Events: A Case Study of the Church Restitutions Issue

Original language description

We examine the role of media coverage of events in the process of public agenda setting. We define focusing events according to Kingdon (1995) as events that call attention to problems and issues. Scholars have introduced several typologies of media coverage in the long tradition of agenda - setting research. However, no previous work has examined the differing effects of news items exclusively in terms of (a) issues, (b) a focusing event, and (c) both an issue and a respective focusing event. Our research question is: ?Does a focusing event strengthen the effect of a news item by setting the personal agendas of members of the public? To answer the question, we chose the cognitive portrait research design and used individual data to study the issue (see the Acapulco typology, McCombs 2004) of Church property restitutions in the Czech Republic. Our focusing event is the St. Vitus Cathedral trial. We use data from a weekly panel survey of the events deemed most important by respondents b

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AO - Sociology, demography

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/GP403%2F09%2FP003" target="_blank" >GP403/09/P003: Adaption and implantation of non-institucionalized religious communities in public sector</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2013

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Sociológia

ISSN

0049-1225

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

45

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

SK - SLOVAKIA

Number of pages

26

Pages from-to

290-315

UT code for WoS article

000320344300003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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