Media Studies A-Level
Agenda setting
What Agenda setting means in Media Studies A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Agenda setting
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Reference: AQA
The idea that news media do not tell audiences what to think so much as what to think about.
Topics that use Agenda setting
- Reception theory (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Decoding and preferred meaning
- Framing
- Place, device and social setting
- Reception theory
- Relationship between framing and agenda setting
- Salience
- Variation in audience reception
- Conditions of consumption
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