Agenda Setting Theory

how media affects public opinion ability (of the news media) to influence the importance placed on the topics of the public agenda

driven by the media’s bias on things such as politics, economy and culture, etc

1960 given by Maxwell McComb and Donald Shaw

based on the idea that most individuals only have access to one source of information on most issues: the news media

Priming

selection of object

Framing

selection of attributes


Cultivation Theory