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Agenda Setting, Localization and the Third-Person Effect: An Experimental Study of When News Content Will Directly Influence Public Policy Demands
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Jamieson, Thomas |
| Copyright Year | 2019 |
| Abstract | Building from the third-person effect model of DRR policy adoption and mediated policy learning, this study provides an experimental examination of how specific elements of news media’s localisation of distant events directly influence public opinion. Controlling for salience effects, the construction of affinities between the distant, stricken community and the newspaper’s audience is argued to create a sense of shared vulnerability to the reported disasters. This is correlated within an increase in the respondent’s intention to act directly and an increase in their willingness to punish elected officials who do not act accordingly. The construction of difference between the communities, even though it is not related to risks related to the disaster, is argued to create implicit reassurances that the observing community does not need to act. This leads to an increased intention to act directly in opposition to efforts to reduce risk, but a neutral response towards political actors who pursue risk reduction policy actions. 1 Article accepted for publication at Political Science. Please cite this article as: Thomas Jamieson and Douglas A. Van Belle. 2018. “Agenda Setting, Localization and the ThirdPerson Effect: An Experimental Study of When News Content Will Directly Influence Public Policy Demands.” Political Science 70(1): 58-91. DOI: 10.1080/00323187.2018.1476029 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&context=emergencyservicespublications |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Notice |
