Blowing Embers: An exploration of the agenda-setting role of books. (2nd December 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Fuhlhage, Michael; Shaw, Donald L.; Holman, Lynette; Lee, Sun Young
• Is Part Of: Journalism studies. Volume 18:Number 12(2017)
• Page Start: 1593
• Page End: 1612
• Publication Date: 2017-12-02
• Subjects: agenda setting -- book history -- communication theory -- journalism -- journalism history -- literary journalism -- mass communication history; Journalism -- Periodicals; 070.4
• DOI: 10.1080/1461670X.2015.1135755
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1461-670X

Abstract

Abstract : Books have long been credited with social and cultural influence, but the evidence for this is largely anecdotal and fragmentary. This study proposes ways to test books' influence by wedding the methods of cultural studies, communication studies, and book history with agenda-setting theory to assess the relationship between four best sellers and policy and cultural changes that previously had been uncritically attributed to them: The Jungle, Unsafe at Any Speed, Backlash, and Fast Food Nation .