Exciting intellectual frontiers are open for exploration as agenda-setting theory moves beyond its 25th anniversary. This volume offers an intriguing set of maps to guide this exploration over the near future. It is intended for those who are already reasonably well read in the research literature that has accumulated since the publication of McCombs and Shaw's original 1972 "Public Opinion Quarterly" article. This piece of literature documented the influence of the news media agenda on the public agenda in a wide variety of geographic and social settings, elaborated the characteristics of audiences and media that enhance or diminish those agenda-setting effects, and cataloged those exogenous factors explaining who sets the media's agenda. In the current volume, a provocative set of maps for explicating new levels of agenda-setting theory have been sketched by a new generation of young scholars, launching an enterprise that has significant implications for theoretical research and for the day-to-day role of mass communication in democratic societies.
At the first level of agenda setting are agendas of "objects"--the traditional domain of agenda setting research--represented by an accumulation of hundreds of studies over the past quarter century. At the second level of agenda setting are agendas of "attributes"--one of the new theoretical frontiers whose aspects are discussed in detail in the opening chapters. Other chapters offer maps of yet other theoretical frontiers, including political advertising agendas and their impact on behavior, the framing of various agendas in the mass media and the differential impact of print and TV, the theoretical role of individual differences in the agenda-setting influence of the news media on the public agenda, methodological advances for determining cause and effect roles in agenda-setting, and the application of agenda-setting theory to historical analysis. This volume is an invitation to others to become active members of the invisible college of agenda-setting scholarship. As such, the goals of this book are threefold:
* to introduce a broad set of ideas about agenda-setting;
* to enrich the exploration of these ideas by enhancing scholarly dialogue among the members of this invisible college; and
* to enhance the discussion of agenda-setting research in seminars and research groups around the world.
Agenda-setting has remained a vital and productive area of communication research over a quarter century because it has continued to introduce new research questions into the marketplace of ideas and to integrate this work with other theoretical concepts and perspectives about journalism and mass communication. Understanding the dynamics of agenda- setting is central to understanding the dynamics of contemporary democracy. This book's set of theoretical essays, grounded in the accumulated literature of agenda- setting theory and in the creative insights of young scholars, will help lead the way toward that understanding.

Exciting intellectual frontiers are open for exploration as agenda-setting theory moves beyond its 25th anniversary. This volume offers an intriguing set of maps to guide this exploration over the near future. It is intended for those who are already reasonably well read in the research literature that has accumulated since the publication of McCombs and Shaw's original 1972 "Public Opinion Quarterly" article. This piece of literature documented the influence of the news media agenda on the public agenda in a wide variety of geographic and social settings, elaborated the characteristics of audiences and media that enhance or diminish those agenda-setting effects, and cataloged those exogenous factors explaining who sets the media's agenda. In the current volume, a provocative set of maps for explicating new levels of agenda-setting theory have been sketched by a new generation of young scholars, launching an enterprise that has significant implications for theoretical research and for the day-to-day role of mass communication in democratic societies.
At the first level of agenda setting are agendas of "objects"--the traditional domain of agenda setting research--represented by an accumulation of hundreds of studies over the past quarter century. At the second level of agenda setting are agendas of "attributes"--one of the new theoretical frontiers whose aspects are discussed in detail in the opening chapters. Other chapters offer maps of yet other theoretical frontiers, including political advertising agendas and their impact on behavior, the framing of various agendas in the mass media and the differential impact of print and TV, the theoretical role of individual differences in the agenda-setting influence of the news media on the public agenda, methodological advances for determining cause and effect roles in agenda-setting, and the application of agenda-setting theory to historical analysis. This volume is an invitation to others to become active members of the invisible college of agenda-setting scholarship. As such, the goals of this book are threefold:
* to introduce a broad set of ideas about agenda-setting;
* to enrich the exploration of these ideas by enhancing scholarly dialogue among the members of this invisible college; and
* to enhance the discussion of agenda-setting research in seminars and research groups around the world.
Agenda-setting has remained a vital and productive area of communication research over a quarter century because it has continued to introduce new research questions into the marketplace of ideas and to integrate this work with other theoretical concepts and perspectives about journalism and mass communication. Understanding the dynamics of agenda- setting is central to understanding the dynamics of contemporary democracy. This book's set of theoretical essays, grounded in the accumulated literature of agenda- setting theory and in the creative insights of young scholars, will help lead the way toward that understanding.

A refreshing new interdisciplinary slant on magical realism as an international literary phenomenon emerging from the trauma of colonial dispossession. Companion to Magical Realism provides an assessment of the world-wide impact of a movement which was incubated in Germany, flourished in Latin America and then spread to the rest of the world. It provides a set of up-to-date assessments of the work of writers traditionally associated with magical realism such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez [in particular his recently published memoirs], Alejo Carpentier, Miguel ngel Asturias, Juan Rulfo, Isabel Allende,Laura Esquivel and Salman Rushdie, as well as bringing into the fold new authors such as W.B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney, Jose Saramago, Dorit Rabinyan, Ovid, Maria Luisa Bombal, Ibrahim al-Kawni, Mayra Montero, Nakagami Kenji, Jose Eustasio Rivera and Elias Khoury, discussed for the first time in the context of magical realism. Written in a jargon-free style, and with all quotations translated into English, this book offers a refreshing new interdisciplinary slant on magical realism as an international literary phenomenon emerging from the trauma of colonial dispossession. The companion also has a Guide to Further Reading. Stephen Hart is Professor of Hispanic Studies, University College London and Doctor Honoris Causa of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru. Wen-chin Ouyang lectures in Arabic Literature and Comparative Literature at the School of Oriental and African Studies,London.

Agendamelding: News, Social Media, Audiences, and Civic Community builds on the premise that people construct civic community from the information that they seek-as well as the information that seeks them-to trace the processes by which we mix, or meld, agendas from various sources into a coherent picture of the civic community in which we live. Using the presidential elections of 2008, 2012, and 2016, this book tests a formula that allows us to predict how potential voters lean towards communities in which they feel comfortable-for example, Republican, Democratic, or Independent. These analyses take into account differences in the use of traditional news media vs. social media among media consumers, as well as varying levels of press freedom across national populations.

Agendamelding: News, Social Media, Audiences, and Civic Community builds on the premise that people construct civic community from the information that they seek-as well as the information that seeks them-to trace the processes by which we mix, or meld, agendas from various sources into a coherent picture of the civic community in which we live. Using the presidential elections of 2008, 2012, and 2016, this book tests a formula that allows us to predict how potential voters lean towards communities in which they feel comfortable-for example, Republican, Democratic, or Independent. These analyses take into account differences in the use of traditional news media vs. social media among media consumers, as well as varying levels of press freedom across national populations.

A comprehensive survey of Spanish American fiction as it has eveolved through successive phases. With such figures as Jorge Luis Borges, Miguel Angel Asturias and Gabriel Garcia Marquez (both the latter Nobel Prizewinners) Spanish American fiction is now unquestionably an integral part of the mainstream of Western literature.This book draws on the most recent research in describing the origins and development of narrative in Spanish America during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, tracing the pattern from Romanticism and Realism, through Modernismo, Naturalism and Regionalism to the Boom and beyond. It shows how, while seldom moving completely away from satire, social criticism and protest, Spanish American fiction has evolved through successive phases in which both the conceptions of the writer's task and presumptions about narrative and reality have undergone radical alterations. DONALD SHAW holds the Brown Forman Chair of Spanish American literature in the University of Virginia.

The principal developments in Spanish American poetry in the second half of the twentieth century. Providing a basis for understanding the main lines of development of poetry in Spanish America after Vanguardism, this volume begins with an overview of the situation at the mid-century: the later work of Neruda and Borges, the emergence of Paz. Consideration is then given to the decisive impact of Parra and the rise of colloquial poetry, politico-social poetry [Dalton, Cardenal] and representative figures such as Orozco, Pacheco and Cisneros. Theaim is to establish a few paths through the largely unmapped jungle of Spanish American poetry in the time period. The author emphasises the persistence of a generally negative view of the human condition and the poets' exploration of different ways of responding to it. These vary from outright scepticism to the ideological, the religious or those derived from some degree of confidence in the creative imagination as cognitive. At the same time there is analysis of the evolving outlook on poetry of the writers in question, both in regard to its possible social role and in regard to diction. DONALD SHAW holds the Brown Forman Chair of Spanish American literature in the University of Virginia.

The Greenwood Library of American War Reporting Volume 1: The French and Indian War; The Revolutionary War Volume 2: The War of 1812; The Mexican-American War Volume 3: The Civil War North; The Civil War South Volume 4: The Indian Wars; The Spanish-American War Volume 5: World War I; World War II, The European Theater Volume 6: World War II, The Asian Theater; The Korean War Volume 7: The Vietnam War; Post-Vietnam Conflicts Volume 8: The Iraq Wars and the War on Terror & Index The Greenwood Library of American War Reporting presents a unique and unfiltered presentation of American History from colonial days to the present through annotated primary documents of journalists and reporters writing as events occured. The definitive reference source on culture and history during wartime America's conflicts, each volume collects key news reports on battles, politics, the home front, peace talks, massacres, and much more. Substantial context-setting overviews introduce every volume, topical chapter, and unabridged primary source. Over 2,500 annotated news reports - newspaper and magazine articles, and radio and television transcripts - and 400 drawings and photos cover every major and most minor conflicts over the past 250 years, from the French & Indian Wars to the War on Terror. Read history as it was being made in these immediate, raw, and often confused reports about life-and-death struggles on the front lines and the critical activities on the home front. Features: BLPulitzer Prize-Winning Articles and Photos BLAll Articles are annotated BLReader's Guide to Documents BLIntroductory Essays BL2,500 Primary Documents BL400 Images BLThematic Indices Topics to explore using the set include: BLAfrican Americans and war BLNative Americans and war BLWomen and War BLChildren and War BLDaily life and the home front BLRacism and Race Relations BLEconomics and war BLMassacres adn Atrocities BLBattles at Sea BLAir Battles BLLand Campaigns BLInvasions BLMilitary Leaders BLPolitical Leaders BLEspionage BLAnti-war protests BLCensorship BLPropaganda BLPeace Treaties adn Armistices BLPacifism BLConcentration Camps BLThe Atom Bomb BLCivilian Casualties BLTerrorism BLPrisoners of War BLPresidential Politics Includes Pieces Written or Presented by well-known figures such as: BLErnie Pyle BLStephen Crane BLErnest Hemingway BLMarguerite Higgins BLGeorge Padmore BLEdward R. Murrow BLMargaret Bourke-White BLJohn Hersey BLJohn Brown BLWilliam Lloyd Garrison BLWilliam Harding BLWalter Cronkite BLPeter Arnett BLDavid Halberstam BLMorley Safer BLMichael Herr BLSeymour M. Hersh BLRobert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer BLBob Woodward BLRandall Pinkston BLJudy Woodruff BLPeggy Durdin BLJohn Paul Vann BLBernard Shaw BLLarry King BLDan Rather BLWilliam Safire BLKatie Couric Sample of Where Work was Originally Published in or Presented: BLChicago Defender BLSaturday Evening Post BLStars & Stripes BLNew York Times BLWashington Post BLSan Francisco Chronicle BLLife BLCleveland Plain Dealer BLNew York World BLChicago Daily News BLWall Street Journal BLTime BLBoston Globe BLChristian Science Moniter BLAtlanta Journal and Constitution BLSt. Paul Pioneer Press BLCNN BLKentucky Journal BLBaltimore Sun BLHartford Daily Current BLCharleston Mercury BLSavannah Republican BLNewsweek BLRamparts BLThe New Republic BLThe New Yorker BLCBS Evening News BLHarper's BLLos Angeles Times BLThe Associated Press BLThe MacNeil/LehrerNewsHour BLNational Intelligencer BLAlbany Gazette BLThe Liberator BLNightline BLABC World News Now BLNPR: All Things Considered BLFairness & Accuracy in Reporting Highlights: BLGeorge Washington's 1754 Expedition to the Ohio Valley BLThe Fall of Fort Duquesne, 1758 BLThe Fall of Quebec BLThe Boston Tea Party BLThe Declaration of Independence BLThe Battle of Yorktown BLTecumseh, the Prophet, and Native Americans BLBurning of Washington BLBattle of New Orleans BLThe Alamo and Texas Revolution BLManifest Destiny BLThe Wilmot Proviso BLSouthern Cessation from the Union BLThe Emancipation Proclamation BLThe Battle of Shiloh BLThe Battle of Gettysburg BLSherman's March to the Sea BLAppomattox Courtyard BLThe Modoc War BLThe Battle of Little Bighorn BLWounded Knee BLThe Destruction of the Maine BLYellow Journalism and the Spanish-American War BLThe Philippines Insurrection BLSinking of the Lusitania BLThe Zimmermann Telegram BLWoodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points BLBlack United States Servicemen in England BLD-Day and Its Immediate Aftermath BLFreeing the German Concentration Camp Prisoners BLThe Attack on Pearl Harbor BLInvasion of Okinawa BLDropping the Atom Bomb on Nagasaki BLTurnabout at Inchon BLTruman versus MacArthur BLBlack Soldiers and the Women of the Korean War BLTet Offensive BLSiege of Khesanh BLMylai Massacre BLClan Wars in Somalia, 1992-1993 BLWar in Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1992-1997 BLSeptember 11 Attacks BLThe PATRIOT Act BLHomeland Security BLAbu Ghraib Prisoner Abuse

What happened in Spanish American fiction after the Boom? Can we define the Post-Boom? What are its characteristics? How does it relate to the Boom itself? Is Post-Boom the same as Postmodernism or something quite different? Shaw traces the emergence of a different kind of writing which began to displace the Boom in the mid-1970s and has flourished ever since. More reader-friendly, more concerned with the here and now of Latin America, the writers of the Post-Boom have explored new areas of Spanish American life and incorporated characters from new social groups, especially young working-class and lower middle-class figures with their distinctive "pop" culture and freewheeling life-style. Shaw suggests that, while some Boom writers have moved toward the Post-Boom, Post-Boom narrative is distinctively different from that of the older movement and cannot be readily assimilated into Postmodernism.