Volatile but cue-laden: measuring agenda-setting in the online newspaper environment

Mustapha, Lambe Kayode and Wok, Saodah (2015) Volatile but cue-laden: measuring agenda-setting in the online newspaper environment. Malaysian Journal of Media Studies, 17 (1). pp. 45-57. ISSN 1511-2284 E-ISSN 2231-8143

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Abstract

After more than four decades of charting a paradigmatic direction in media effects research, agenda-setting has witnessed and survived enormous challenges to its main thesis. Despite the unending efforts of scholars to explicate the theoretical and logical mechanisms of the theory, the ever dynamic milieu in which agenda-setting effects is being explored, creates additional research problems necessitates further exploration. The arrival of new media and the subsequent migration of legacy media into the virtual realm, is another instance of the challenges of agenda-setting as a theory that is capable of unpacking media effects. While some scholars believe in the efficacy of agenda-setting in the new media environments, others argue along an attenuation perspective. Although a number of empirical approaches have been deployed to establish the continual heuristic value of agenda-setting in the age of new media, little, if any, attempt has been made to synthesise the findings into a coherent body. This review provides clues on the salient-directing cues in online newspapers on the one hand, and the challenges of measuring agenda-setting effects of online newspapers on the other hand.

Item Type:	Article (Journal)
Additional Information:	2899/47045
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Agenda-setting, media effect, new media, online newspaper, salient cues
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) > H61.8 Communication of information
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button):	Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences > Department of Communication
Depositing User:	Prof. Dr. Saodah Wok
Date Deposited:	04 Jan 2016 14:40
Last Modified:	18 Jul 2016 15:18
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/47045

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