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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 70. Chapters: Individuation, Agenda-setting theory, Mediation, Spiral of silence, Game studies, Media literacy, Ethnocinema, Popular culture, Paley Center for Media, Toronto School of communication theory, Radical chic, Media transparency, The Sarai Programme at CSDS, Earthscore, Parasocial interaction, History of media studies, Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, Audience, Market for loyalties theory, Mass communication, Philosophy of technology, Center for Media and Public Affairs, Media-system dependency, School of convergence, Bad apples excuse, Domestication theory, Structural Pluralism, Media theory of composition, Face-ism, Character theory, Priming, Mass media impact on spatial perception, Global village, Institute for Media and Communication Policy, Least objectionable program, Media ecology, Ethnovideography, Coalition Against Terrorist Media, The medium is the message, Deviancy amplification spiral, Online deliberation, Feiler Faster Thesis, Interactive media, Variantology, Mean World Syndrome, Adequate Information Management in Europe, The Nationwide Project, Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television, Narcotizing dysfunction, Multiliteracy, Media evaluation, Australian Teachers of Media, Concision, Transmediation, Hollywood for Kids, Mediatization, Third-person effect, Best Enemies, Semiotic democracy, New media studies, Technological somnambulism, Noddy, Figure and ground, Media & Citizenship, Riepl's law, Hall's Theory, Media accountability, Theories of media exposure, Centre for Convergence Media Studies, McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology. Excerpt: Agenda-setting theory states that the news media have a large influence on audiences. In terms of what stories to consider newsworthy and how much prominence and space to give them. Agenda-setting theory's main postulate is salience transfer. Salience...