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The Agenda Setting Journal
Vol. 2:1 (2018) ► pp.41–63

One name can change many things

Influences of mentioning political candidates on network agenda-setting effects in the 2016 U.S. election

| University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

As an application study of the network agenda-setting model, this study examines how the media and public network agendas can differ, based on which political candidate was mentioned along with the immigration issue in news coverage and in public tweets. Through network analyses, this study shows that there were differences in the salient attributes of the immigration issue, and that the dominant narrative structure of the issue depended on which political candidate was mentioned.

Keywords: election, immigration, network agenda setting, network analysis, Twitter
Article outline
  • Network agenda-setting (NAS) model
  • Features of the network agenda: Degree centrality and cliques
    • Degree centrality: Salience of an issue or attribute
    • Cliques: Narrative structures of an issue in the NAS model
    • Twitter as a platform for observing public network agendas
    • Immigration issue during the 2016 election
  • Method
    • Data collection
    • Coding
    • Network matrix and network analysis
  • Results
    • Network agenda-setting (NAS) effects
    • Salient attributes on each network agenda
    • Cliques and narrative structures
  • Discussion
  • Conclusion
  • References
Published online: 29 March 2018
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https://doi.org/10.1075/asj.17009.kim
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