HOW ISSUES MAKE NEWS

"How Issues Make the News: A Comparative Analysis of the Causes and Consequences of Media Attention in Belgium, France, Switzerland, and the United States"

 Coordinatore UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN 

 Organization address address: PRINSSTRAAT 13
city: ANTWERPEN
postcode: 2000

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Walgrave
Cognome: Stefaan
Email: send email
Telefono: -2755696

 Nazionalità Coordinatore Belgium [BE]
 Totale costo 80˙300 €
 EC contributo 80˙300 €
 Programma FP7-PEOPLE
Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
 Code Call FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IIF
 Funding Scheme MC-IIF
 Anno di inizio 2010
 Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) 2010-07-28   -   2011-07-27

 Partecipanti

# participant  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN

 Organization address address: PRINSSTRAAT 13
city: ANTWERPEN
postcode: 2000

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Walgrave
Cognome: Stefaan
Email: send email
Telefono: -2755696

BE (ANTWERPEN) coordinator 80˙300.00

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walgrave    differences    coverage    policy    media    coding    scholars    issue    amount    united    belgium    scheme    agendas    public    news    stories    discussed    country    political    apples    receives    boydstun    government    datasets    countries   

 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Attention drives politics. At every level of government and in the public realm, the political process is shaped by which issues are discussed and which are ignored. Media attention has an especially strong influence. The amount and type of news coverage an issue receives directly affects the amount and type of public concern and government response paid to the issue. Yet media attention is not a fixed process; it varies widely across the political and social contexts of different countries. We (Amber Boydstun at UC Davis in the United States and Stefaan Walgrave at the University of Antwerp in Belgium) propose a systematic analysis of media attention in Belgium, France, Switzerland, and the United States. We are part of the Comparative Policy Agendas Project, an international network of scholars using a common coding scheme to collect data on the governmental and media agendas of more than a dozen countries (and counting). Boydstun was one of the first scholars to apply this common coding scheme to the news. She collected all front-page stories in the US New York Times, 1996–2006 (some 30,000 stories), classifying each story according to the primary policy or non-policy issue being discussed (e.g., abortion, immigration, war, sports, weather). Walgrave is at the forefront of the effort to extend this analysis to the EU, and under his guidance the Belgian, French, and Swiss teams have already completed large datasets of news stories from their home countries, classified using this same coding scheme. We will compare these apples-to-apples datasets of media attention, using statistical analysis to examine three questions: 1) How does media attention vary by country? 2) What factors (e.g., media market competition, political party setup) drive these cross-national differences in news coverage? 2) And finally, what effect do these differences in media attention have on the amount and type of public concern and government response each issue receives in each country?'

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