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James Shanahan
Researcher at Indiana University
Publications - 95
Citations - 6748
James Shanahan is an academic researcher from Indiana University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Public opinion & Mass media. The author has an hindex of 40, co-authored 92 publications receiving 6238 citations. Previous affiliations of James Shanahan include Boston University & Cornell University.
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Growing Up with Television: Cultivation Processes
TL;DR: Television is the source of the most broadly shared images and messages in history as discussed by the authors and it is the mainstream of the common symbolic environment into which our children are born and in which we all live out our lives.
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Telling Stories About Global Climate Change: Measuring the Impact of Narratives on Issue Cycles
TL;DR: A content analysis of The New York Times and The Washington Post stories from 1980 to 1995 shows how media construct narratives about global warming and how these narratives may influence attention cycles as discussed by the authors.
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The State of Cultivation
Michael Morgan,James Shanahan +1 more
TL;DR: The authors reviewed the history of cultivation theory and took stock of recent trends in the field, and argued that cultivation has taken on certain paradigmatic qualities, and considered the future prospects for cultivation research in the context of the changing media environment.
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Think about it This Way: Attribute Agenda-Setting Function of the Press and the public's Evaluation of a Local Issue:
TL;DR: This article examined the attribute agenda-setting function of the media, which refers to significant correspondence between prominent issue attributes in the media and the agenda of attributes among audiences, and found that issue attributes salient in media were functioning as significant dimensions of issue evaluation among audience members.
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Are Issue-Cycles Culturally Constructed? A Comparison of French and American Coverage of Global Climate Change
TL;DR: In this article, a cross-cultural comparison of newspaper coverage of global warming in France and in the United States (1987-1997) as a case study to analyze the impact of culturally bound journalistic practices on media attention cycles is presented.