Question

Name three possible agendas and one example of each that you might find in the media.

Answer 1

The research on the agenda-setting of media is intended to explain how the salience of issues in the news affect the public's perception of their relative importance. There are three commonly identified types of agendas: public agenda, media agenda and policy agenda.

Public agenda setting occurs when the public is the one who decides what is reported (for example, when the issues that matter to the public during elections are reported by the media). Media agenda setting, instead, is when the media considers the agenda for which stories are considered relevant (for example, when the media reports on little-known issues they believe are important). Finally, policy setting is when both the public and the media agendas influence policy making (for example, when the media and the public force a debate in the government).

Answer 2

1. Social media can reveal the private life of a person when this person allows it.

2. It does not give you a sense of privacy

3. It influences the decision of the netizens through false accusations.

4. It does not give you the freedom of choice since everyone can criticize you

5. The person is so dependent on it that it does not give time for one to reconsider if his or her post is acceptable or not