Chris J. Vargo
List of John Benjamins publications for which Chris J. Vargo plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 2452-0063 | E-ISSN 2452-0071
Titles
Fifty years of agenda-setting research: Volume II
Edited by Chris J. Vargo
Special issue of The Agenda Setting Journal 3:1 (2019) v, 102 pp.
Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Fifty years of agenda-setting research: Volume I
Edited by Chris J. Vargo
Special issue of The Agenda Setting Journal 2:2 (2018) v, 111 pp.
Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Articles
2021 Note from the editor: Online conference follow-up The Agenda Setting Journal 5:1, pp. 1–7 | Editorial
2020 Note from the editor: Online conference The Agenda Setting Journal 4:2, pp. 171–172 | Editorial
2019 Note from the editor: Special Issue: 50 years of agenda-setting research Fifty years of agenda-setting research: Volume II, Vargo, Chris J. (ed.), pp. 1–2 | Editorial
2019 Note from the editor: Key advantages of submitting work to the agenda setting journal The Agenda Setting Journal 3:2, pp. 103–105 | Editorial
2019 Attention to issues and facts: Assessing the role of need for orientation as a predictor of political news sharing on Facebook The Agenda Setting Journal 3:2, pp. 186–207 | Article
Need for orientation (NFO) has long been accepted as an antecedent to agenda-setting effects. This study assessed whether NFO can go further to explain a specific behavior, why individuals share political news on Facebook. A new method is introduced that combines survey data with users’ Facebook… read more
2018 Fifty years of agenda-setting research: New directions and challenges for the theory Fifty years of agenda-setting research: Volume I, Vargo, Chris J. (ed.), pp. 105–123 | Article
50 years have passed since the seminal 1968 election study was conducted in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. A conference was held with formative theorists Drs. Shaw, Weaver and McCombs. Presentations clustered into 9 clear areas. First, there were areas undergoing theoretical expansion: (1) agenda… read more
2017 Election-related talk and agenda-setting effects on Twitter: A big data analysis of salience transfer at different levels of user participation The Agenda Setting Journal 1:1, pp. 44–62 | Article
This study explores frequency of election-related chatter as an antecedent to agenda setting. In this study, we conducted a longitudinal analysis of 38 million tweets from the 2012 election. Users who participate more in election talk align more with partisan media than less active users. Users… read more