Cognitive effects of political mass media.
- Author(s)
- Florian Arendt, Jörg Matthes
- Abstract
This chapter reviews the major lines of research on five prominent concepts of political communication research linked to the cognitive effects of political mass media: Knowledge gains and gaps, cultivation, agenda setting, priming, and framing. Basic ideas, typical methodologies, key findings and the cognitive processes behind the concepts are discussed in detail, common conceptual roots are identified, and key methodological challenges are highlighted. Finally, some of the overlaps and differences between the approaches are discussed in order to take a step toward a more integrative and coherent view of cognitive media effects in political communication. The chapter argues that both empirical and theoretical advances are needed to get to a better and less fragmented understanding of cognitive media effects in political communication.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Communication
- Volume
- 18
- Pages
- 547-568
- No. of pages
- 22
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110238174.547
- Publication date
- 07-2014
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 508007 Communication science, 508014 Journalism
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Arts and Humanities, General Social Sciences
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/e0a2521e-04b5-485d-8558-28371567f77f