Publications
Publication details [#40783]
Shanahan, James, Miejeong Han, Sei-Hill Kim and Vicente Berdayes. 2004. Talking on ‘Sunshine in North Korea’: A Test of the Spiral of Silence as a Theory of Powerful Mass Media. International Journal of Public Opinion Research 16 (1) : 39–62. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Oxford University Press
Annotation
The results of this study, involving survey data on a controversial policy issue in South Korea, show, that, contrary the spiral of silence theory, mass media play a relatively minor role in shaping perceptions of public opinion.