This lesson covers the difference between Agenda Setting, Framing, and Priming and what are the assumptions for these theories. These theories of the Mass Media are centered on the producer (media organizations) as the primary purveyors of meaning (as opposed to theories like Stuart Hall’s Encoding/ Decoding Model of Communication, which is centered primarily on the audience).
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