Quantifying Agenda Setting Effects on Twitter and Digital Media

Agenda setting theory describes how the media influences which issues enter the public agenda. New technologies have disrupted media institutions and long-established agenda setting dynamics. This thesis studies agenda setting effects in two different ``new media'' environments: Twitter a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schlessinger, Joseph Carson
Other Authors: Eckles, Dean
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2022
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/139018