News Media and Presidential Agendas in Twitter and How They Relate to Public Priorities

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dc.contributor.advisorRussial, Johnen_US
dc.contributor.authorWurster, Paulen_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-09-29T17:51:57Z
dc.date.available2014-09-29T17:51:57Z
dc.date.issued2014-09-29
dc.description.abstractThis study explores the extent to which news media agendas relate to each other in a microblogging environment, how the Obama administration's agenda relates to them in this realm, and how these agendas align with the public's list of top policy issues in the real world. A content analysis of more than 4,600 tweets from six accounts in 2013 were ranked and compared to a list of 20 public policy priorities. Findings support previous research that found a significant relationship among traditional media agendas in print. Measures of association between news media and administration agendas show some consistency and some discrepancy. This study did not find as significant a correlation between news media and administration agendas and the public's list of top priorities. These findings suggest a substantial disconnect in Twitter between news coverage and federal-level political leadership focus in relation to the issues that matter most to citizens of the United States.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/18415
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregonen_US
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.en_US
dc.subjectAgenda-settingen_US
dc.subjectMass mediaen_US
dc.subjectMicrobloggingen_US
dc.subjectPoliticsen_US
dc.subjectPublic policyen_US
dc.subjectTwitteren_US
dc.titleNews Media and Presidential Agendas in Twitter and How They Relate to Public Prioritiesen_US
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertationen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineSchool of Journalism and Communicationen_US
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregonen_US
thesis.degree.levelmastersen_US
thesis.degree.nameM.S.en_US

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