The news and public opinion : media effects on civic life /

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Imprint:Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2011.
Description:v, 210 p. ; 21 cm.
Language:English
Series:Contemporary political communication
Contemporary political communication.
Subject:Journalism -- Social aspects.
Journalism -- Political aspects.
Public opinion.
Journalism -- Textbooks -- Social aspects.
Journalism -- Textbooks -- Political aspects.
Public opinion -- Textbooks.
Journalism -- Political aspects.
Journalism -- Social aspects.
Public opinion.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8530692
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Varying Form of Title:Media effects on civic life
Other authors / contributors:McCombs, Maxwell E.
ISBN:9780745645186
0745645186
9780745645193 (pb)
0745645194 (pb)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:The daily news plays a major role in the continuously changing mix of thoughts, feelings and behavior that defines public opinion. The News & Public Opinion details these effects of the news media on the sequence of outcomes that collectively shape public opinion, beginning with initial attention to the various news media and their contents and extending to the effects of this exposure on the acquisition of information, formation of attitudes and opinions and to the consequences of all these elements for participation in public life. Sometimes called the hierarchy of media effects, this sequence of outcomes describes the communication process involved in the formation of public opinion.Although the media landscape is undergoing rapid change, key elements remain the same, and The News & Public Opinion emphasizes these basic principles of communication established over decades of empirical social science investigations into the impact of mass communication on public opinion. The primary audience for this book is students, both advanced undergraduates and graduate students, as well as members of the general public who want to understand the role of the news media in our civic life. -- Back Cover.