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Networks, Big Data, and Intermedia Agenda Setting: An Analysis of Traditional, Partisan, and Emerging Online U.S. News
This large-scale intermedia agenda–setting analysis examines U.S. online media sources for 2015. The network agenda–setting model showed that media agendas were highly homogeneous and reciprocal. Online partisan media played a leading role in the entire media agenda. Two elite newspapers—The New York Times and The Washington Post—were found to no longer be in control of the news agenda and were more likely to follow online partisan media. This article provides evidence for a nuanced view of the network agenda–setting model; intermedia agenda–setting effects varied by media type, issue type, and time periods.
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Correction: Theory Integration for Lifestyle Behavior Change in the Digital Age: An Adaptive Decision-Making Framework
[This corrects the article DOI: 10.2196/17127.].
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Circular economy, bioeconomy, and sustainable development goals: a systematic literature review
The circular economy (CE) and bioeconomy (BE) are recognized as potential solutions for achieving sustainable development, yet little research has examined their potential contribution to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In this study, we conducted a bibliometric analysis of 649 articles published between 2007 and 2022, as well as a systematic literature review of 81 articles, to assess the extent to which the CE and BE communities have addressed the SDGs. Our analysis identified 10 research gaps including the limited number of empirical quantitative papers, particularly in the context of BE, and the underrepresentation of developing regions such as Latin America and Africa in the literature. Our main finding reveals that the CE community primarily focuses on SDG 12, Responsible Consumption and Production, followed by SDG 9, Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure; SDG 7, Affordable and Clean Energy; and SDG 6, Clean Water and Sanitation. The BE community, on the other hand, focuses primarily on SDG 7, followed by SDG 9 and SDG 12. However, both communities lack attention to social SDGs such as quality education, poverty, and gender equality. We propose that a combination of CE and BE, known as circular bioeconomy, could help countries achieve all SDGs. Further research is needed to develop and implement circular bioeconomy policies that address these gaps and promote sustainable development. In this sense, our study identified an important research gap that needs more attention in the future.
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News Media Effects on Policy Priorities: A Second-Level Agenda-Setting Analysis of Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Projects in Myanmar
This study investigates the impact of the media’s secondary agenda-setting on public perception and policy priorities regarding the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) projects in Myanmar from to 2011–2024. Three hypotheses (Hs) were examined: H1 posits that media coverage aligns with public and policy perspectives; H2 proposes that media emphasis on specific attributes influences their prominence in public opinion and policymaking; and H3 suggests that public opinion mediates the relationship between media coverage and policy priorities, indicating an indirect media influence on policymaking. This study employed a cross-sectional research design, utilizing both quantitative content analysis and survey methodologies. The content comprises the analysis of two news outlets’ coverage (n = 144), surveys with 385 respondents (n = 385), and in-depth interviews with 30 participants (n = 30), and the findings revealed a significant positive correlation between media coverage and public opinion and policy priorities (r = 0.86, r = 0.81, respectively). SEM path analysis reveals that the media agenda indirectly shapes the policy agenda through the public agenda, with an indirect effect path coefficient of 0.718, highlighting the media’s role in policymaking processes. This is evidenced by a significant correlation between media coverage and public opinion (p < 0.05), and a strong direct association between public opinion and policy priorities (p < 0.05). This study extends the agenda-setting theory by empirically demonstrating the media’s indirect effect on policy formation in global infrastructure projects within a developing Southeast Asian country. Future studies should examine the evolution of media patterns across different administrations, including the current one. The results also suggest examining the broader media portrayal of governance issues and conducting extensive research on the media’s impact on public opinion.
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Agenda Control under Policy Uncertainty
Models of agenda setting are central to the analysis of political institutions. Elaborations of the classical agendasetting model of Romer–Rosenthal have long been used to make predictions about policy outcomes and the distribution of influence among political actors. Although the canonical model is based on complete and perfect information about preferences and policy outcomes, some extensions relax these assumptions to include uncertainty about preferences and reversion points. We consider a different type of uncertainty: incomplete knowledge of the mapping between policies and outcomes. In characterizing the optimal agenda setting under this form of uncertainty, we show that it amends substantively the implications of the Romer–Rosenthal model. We then extend the model dynamically and show that rich dynamics emerge under policy uncertainty. Over a longer horizon, we find that agenda control suppresses the incentive of legislators to experiment with policy, leading to less policy learning and worse outcomes than are socially efficient.
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Explaining Europe’s transformed electoral landscape: structure, salience, and agendas
What has caused the marked, cross-national, and unprecedented trends in European electoral results in the 21st century? Scholarly explanations include social structure and challenger party entrepreneurship. We argue that these electoral changes more proximally result from public issue salience, which results from societal trends and mainly affects rather than is caused by party agenda setting. We use aggregate-level panel data across 28 European countries to show that the public issue salience of three issues—unemployment, immigration, and the environment—is associated with later variation in the results of the conservative, social democrat, liberal, radical right, radical left, and green party families in theoretically expected directions, while the party system issue agenda has weaker associations. Public issue salience, in turn, is rooted in societal trends (unemployment rates, immigration rates and temperature anomalies), and, in some cases, party agenda setting. We validate our mechanism at the individual-level across 28 European countries and using UK panel data. Our findings have implications for our understanding of the agency of parties, the permanency of recent electoral changes, and how voters reconcile their social and political worlds.
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Agenda-setting: mídia e opinião pública na dinâmica de políticas públicas
Como uma questão se insere na agenda governamental, levando o governo a desenvolverpolíticas para lidar com um problema específico? Dada a grande quantidade deacontecimentos, fatos e problemas existentes no dia a dia e que mereceriam atenção dosatores governamentais, de que forma alguns temas são priorizados em detrimento de outros?Essas são algumas das questões enfrentadas pelos pesquisadores que se dedicam a estudaro processo de formação da agenda governamental. O objetivo do presente estudo consisteem recuperar o histórico desses estudos sobre agenda, com base nas três tradições depesquisa da agenda identificadas por Dearing e Rogers (1996). Em especial, procuramosdiscutir as conexões entre as pesquisas conduzidas no campo de políticas públicas, que têmcomo foco a agenda governamental, e as relacionadas à tradição da comunicação política.Entendemos que ambas tradições não apenas registram questões teóricas e metodológicasem comum, mas podem se beneficiar de uma aproximação.
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Beyond the thermostat: A research agenda for distinguishing consumer thermoregulation from retail temperature interventions across the customer journey
As climate variability intensifies, retailers increasingly face the challenge of managing in-store temperature to support consumer comfort. While indoor temperature is a powerful and controllable element of the retail environment, the pathways through which it shapes consumer behavior remain underexamined. Prior research has often assumed that simply cooling or warming a store helps consumers thermoregulate. Yet, thermoregulation is an individual, dynamic process that depends on whether a consumer feels discomfort, engages in regulatory action, and achieves relief. In this paper, we review and reframe existing work on temperature and consumer behavior, highlighting both what has been learned and what has been overlooked.
We clarify the distinction between environmental temperature strategies and actual thermoregulatory processes, and we show how this distinction influences study design, interpretation, and practical implications. Building on this foundation, we propose a consumer journey framework that identifies specific stages where thermoregulation may occur, how it might be measured, and when retailers can effectively intervene. This framework opens new avenues for research on temperature as a strategic design element and thermoregulation as a physiological and psychological mechanism. Together, these contributions provide a roadmap for understanding how, when, and for whom temperature-based interventions support sustainable, consumer-centric retail experiences.
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Agenda Setting through Social Media: The Importance of Incidental News Exposure and Social Filtering in the Digital Era
Conventional models of agenda setting hold that mainstream media influence the public agenda by leading audience attention, and perceived importance, to certain issues. However, increased selectivity and audience fragmentation in today's digital media environment threaten the traditional agenda-setting power of the mass media. An important development to consider in light of this change is the growing use of social media for entertainment and information. This study investigates whether mainstream media can influence the public agenda when channeled through social media. By leveraging an original, longitudinal experiment, I test whether being exposed to political information through Facebook yields an agenda-setting effect by raising participants' perceived importance of certain policy issues. Findings show that participants exposed to political information on Facebook exhibit increased levels of issue salience consistent with the issues shared compared with participants who were not shown political information; these effects are strongest among those with low political interest.
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