Jaký je vliv obsahu a struktury televizního zpravodajství na vnímání důležitosti vybraného tématu českou veřejností?

• Authors: Kalvas F. , Kreidl M.

Title variants

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HOW DOES THE CONTENT AND STRUCTURE OF TELEVISION NEWS AFFECT THE PERCEIVED IMPORTANCE OF ISSUES AMONG THE CZECH PUBLIC?

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The authors empirically explore whether and to what extent the content and thematic structure of television news influence the perceived importance of an issue among the population. They present several methodological and conceptual innovations to traditional agenda-setting research. First, they utilise a data set that is somewhat unique in the Czech scientific community. It was constructed by combining data from repeated public opinion surveys and from content analysis of television news; both segments were collected over a period of more than four years. Unlike in most research, the data are not aggregated before the analysis. Second, the authors' choice of issue overcomes the problem of endogeneity that is ubiquitous in agenda-setting research. Third, the authors employ hierarchical linear models to represent adequately the multi-level and clustered data structure and to obtain unbiased estimates of model parameters. Finally, in addition to using standard measures of the intensity of media exposure, they utilise a rather unique set of explanatory variables that represent the homogeneity of media coverage and the relative salience of the issue. They conclude that the media salience of an issue does indeed increase its perceived importance among the population, but media homogeneity and relative salience induce no effect on perceived importance. Owing to a number of methodological improvements, the authors' results are more robust than those produced in previous research.

Keywords

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HIERARCHICAL LINEAR MODELS; MEDIA COVERAGE STUDY- INNOVATIVE METHODOLOGY; TV NEWS CONTENT & ITS POPULATION IMPACT (CZECH REPUBLIC)

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Sociologický časopis. Czech Sociological Review
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 43
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 333-360
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Kalvas F.

author

Kreidl M.

• F. Kalvas, katedra sociologie Filozofické fakulty Západoceské univerzity, Sedlávkova 15, 306 14 Plzen, Czech Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07CZAAAA02765637