LINGUIST List 26.4209
Thu Sep 24 2015
FYI: Benjamins to Publish Mass Communication Journal
Editor for this issue: Ashley Parker <ashleylinguistlist.org>
Date: 23-Sep-2015
From: Paul Peranteau <paul
benjamins.com>
Subject: Benjamins to Publish Mass Communication Journal
E-mail this message to a friend John Benjamins Publishing is pleased to announce that in 2017 it will begin publishing a new journal in the field of Mass Communication.
The new journal will be called The Agenda Setting Journal. Theory, Practice, Critique.
Agenda-setting theory, the most popular theory in mass communication, has expanded to other areas beyond communication including business, history, finance, politics and sports. Dr. Maxwell McCombs (University of Texas at Austin) and his research partner, Dr. Donald Shaw (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), introduced the theory in 1972. The original article that has been cited in more than 6,000 studies. Originally, McCombs and Shaw’s term “agenda setting” showed a correspondence between the order of importance given in the media to issues and the order of significance attached to the same issues by the public and politicians.
While the essence of the definition remains the same, the idea has exploded into an internationally-recognized, maturing and expanding theory. A research tradition focused on the interface of the mass media agenda and the public agenda has been used by scholars/academics, industry professionals and think tanks globally to explain political, economic, historical, social, sociological, psychological, sports-centric, health-related, medicinal, business-oriented, technological and more concepts.
The Agenda Setting Journal: Theory, Practice, Critique will focus on the theoretical developments that continue in agenda setting and how the theory is applied to areas outside of mass communication. The journal also represents the growth and maturity of the communication field as it is also the first and only to-date theory-based journal in the communication discipline.
Editor:
Salma I. Ghanem | DePaul University | EditorASJ
depaul.edu
Editorial Board:
Tom Johnson | The University of Texas at Austin
Maxwell McCombs | The University of Texas at Austin
Tania Rosas-Moreno | Loyola University Maryland
Donald Shaw | The UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication
David Weaver | Indiana University Bloomington
https://www.benjamins.com/catalog/journals/asj/main ISSN 2452-0063 | E-ISSN 2452-0071
Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
Pragmatics
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