Media agenda and online public agenda : a study of the SARS outbreak in China

The agenda setting theory proposed that the media agenda has a great impact on the public agenda. Issues prominent in mass media become prominent in the audience’s picture as well. The global outbreak of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) crisis in 2003 provides a rare opportunity to exami...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Deng, Wei
Other Authors: Choi, Alfred Siu Kay
Format: Thesis
Published: 2008
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/1429