Noelle-Neumann's spiral of silence theory challenges, in an interesting and provocative
way, long-standing “minimal effects” appraisals of mass communication influences on public …

Este trabajo analiza cómo los medios de comunicación construyen realidad social mediante
el lenguaje. La realidad social es revisada como un constructo discursivo fundamentado en …

Public opinion-is it a simple aggregation of individual views, or is it some kind of collective-
level, emergent product of debate? What is the role of public opinion in popular …

How do the statements made by people in online political discussions affect other people's
willingness to express their own opinions, or argue for them? And how does group …

Als Klaus Schönbach und ich Ende der sechziger, Anfang der siebziger Jahre gemeinsam
in Mainz Publizistik studierten, ärgerten wir uns, wie wohl jeder interessierte Student in den …

Public opinion formation is a social and communicative process, and individuals' opinions
thus depend in many ways upon the social context surrounding public issues. Consequently …

A comprehensive issues processes model is outlined, based on a typology of 4 key types of
publics found in public relations. These groups differ based on their levels of knowledge and …

This updated edition presents a civic journalism treatment of the field of mass
communication research. The sine qua non of the civic journalism movement seems to …

Using data from a randomized field experiment within a Deliberative Poll, this paper
examines deliberation's effects on both policy attitudes and the extent to which ordinal …

This article presents an epistemological view of levels of analysis. According to this view,
four types of relationships need to be differentiated: macro-macro, macro-micro, micro-micro …