Glossary

Successful collaboration begins with a shared language, hence the need for a glossary. This joint effort of contributors from several teams ensures, on the one hand, terminological and conceptual coherence across not only our theoretical approaches, but also the qualitative case studies and quantitative research conducted in OPPORTUNITIES. On the other hand, our glossary facilitates communication between the academic side of the project and the fieldwork conducted by NGOs, uniting our teams working from Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Ghana, Italy, Mauritania, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania and Senegal.

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Intermedia agenda setting

Intermedia agenda setting is a term that historically refers to the extent to which certain media determine the topics about which other media publish. These media are then the opinion leaders. The media that follow other media do so for economic reasons, because it is too expensive for them to track down the news themselves, or for socio-psychological reasons, because certain media perceive other media as guiding them. For example, Raymond Harder, Julie Sevenans, and Peter Van Aelst (2017) point out that, historically, newspapers such as The New York Times or The Washington Post from America had this guiding role. In today’s media landscape with 24/7 news, the patterns through which media influence each other become more complex and intermedia agenda setting is more difficult to trace.

⇢ see also Frame analysis (aka framing analysis)

References and further reading:

Budak, Ceren, Nathalie Jomini Stroud, Ashley Muddiman, Caroline Murray, and Yuyin Kim. 2023. “The Stability of Cable and Broadcast News Intermedia Agenda Setting Across the COVID-19 Issue Attention Cycle.” In Political Communication: 1–21. DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2023.2222382. Date of access: September 8, 2023.

Harder, Raymond, Julie Sevenans, and Peter van Aelst. 2017. “Intermedia Agenda-Setting in the Social Media Age: How Traditional Players Dominate the News Agenda in Election Times.” In International Journal of Press/Politics 22: 275–293.

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