Agenda Cutting

Doctoral project at a glance

The Japan-EU Free Trade Agreement (JEFTA for short), the unknown foreign deployments of the German Armed Forces or the "Europe 2020" strategy to fight poverty - hardly anyone is likely to have heard much about these topics, mentioned here as examples, in the media in recent years. And this despite the fact that they have a high news value for society. This hitherto little-researched phenomenon is also called agenda cutting in communication science. But why are so many important news items deliberately or involuntarily neglected, while other, less relevant news items are discussed in a continuous loop? Doctoral student Filiz Kalmuk is investigating this question in her dissertation project. Using a mixed-methods approach, the different mechanisms and reasons for agenda cutting will be investigated with the aim of finding out what influences there are on the micro, meso and macro levels in the dethematisation of events and news. The influence of public relations and the tools it uses for agenda cutting will also be examined.  

Keywords

Publizistik Online-Journalistik Medientheorie Medienforschung Medienentwicklung und -analyse Kommunikationswissenschaft Journalistik Empirische Sozialforschung Journalism/PR

Departments and Instituts

Department of Social Policy and Social Security Studies

Period

08.09.2020 to 07.09.2024

Doctoral candidate

Supervising professor

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Hektor Haarkötter

Project Description

The Japan-EU Free Trade Agreement (JEFTA for short), the unknown foreign deployments of the German Armed Forces or the "Europe 2020" strategy to fight poverty - hardly anyone is likely to have heard much about these topics, mentioned here as examples, in the media in recent years. And this despite the fact that they have a high news value for society. This hitherto little-researched phenomenon is also called agenda cutting in communication science. But why are so many important news items deliberately or involuntarily neglected, while other, less relevant news items are discussed in a continuous loop? Doctoral student Filiz Kalmuk is investigating this question in her dissertation project. Using a mixed-methods approach, the different mechanisms and reasons for agenda cutting will be investigated with the aim of finding out what influences there are on the micro, meso and macro levels in the dethematisation of events and news. The influence of public relations and the tools it uses for agenda cutting will also be examined.