▪ Abstract This chapter reviews the vast and sprawling literature that seeeks to illuminate and
explain the effects of mass communication on American public opinion. Klapper's famous …

Over the latter half of the twentieth century, mass communications have transformed the
landscape of American politics, vastly increasing the information about public affairs that is …

Three central themes that have persisted throughout the history of research on
communication and public opinion are examined in light of past, present, and future …

This article takes up Bennett and Iyengar's (2008) call for debate about the future of political
communication effects research. We outline 4 key criticisms. First, Bennett and Iyengar are …

MOST of the media agenda-setting research in the past decade has been concerned with
cognitions-public awareness of and concern over issues or problems emphasized by the …

The “brink of hope” for research in mass communications, according to this author, lies in a
new orientation toward its study and some resulting generalizations which order many of the …

Our earlier article (Bennett & Iyengar, 2008) argued that because news audiences are
increasingly self‐selected, communications scholars will be increasingly hard pressed to …

The work is based on a two-year analytic review of the literature followed by a one-year
synthesis of the findings. The one-year synthesis of the findings. The result, in the words of a …

Abstract “Even if all the physical barriers to communication were known and removed,” the
authors contend,“there would remain many psychological barriers to the free flow of ideas.” …

We develop an approach to studying public opinion that accounts for how people process
competing messages received over the course of a political campaign or policy debate …