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Title
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Het politieke agendasettingeffect van mediastormen : een analyse op het niveau van het nieuwsverhaal = The political agenda-setting effect of media storms. A story-level analysis
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Author
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Abstract
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| This paper studies the political agenda-setting effect of media storms. Over an eight-year period (2001-2008), it examines the extent to which media storms in Belgium (Flanders) led to action in the Belgian federal Parliament. It then compares the agenda-setting effect of those media storms with the effect of a random sample of general ('non-storm') news coverage. Quantitative story-level analyses show that media storms, more than non-storms, lead to political reaction. In particular, they generate more consequential types of political reaction such as mentions by the Prime Minister or bills. However, an in-depth look at those instances where media storms led to the initiation of a bill, nuances these findings, in the sense that media storms not often lead to 'new' bills; rather, they accelerate or highlight the existing legislative process. Politicians strategically use media storms as a 'window of opportunity' to get their bills on the political agenda. |
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Language
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Dutch
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Source (journal)
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Tijdschrift voor communicatiewetenschap. - Houten, 1996, currens
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Publication
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Houten
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2015
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ISSN
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1384-6930
[print]
1875-7286
[online]
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Volume/pages
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43
:4
(2015)
, p. 318-341
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ISI
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000367967500002
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Full text (open access)
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