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Mendez, Jeanette., McClurg, Scott. and Djupe, Paul. "The Social Agenda: The Influence of Social Networks and Context on Personal Issue Agendas" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hilton Chicago and the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL, Sep 02, 2004 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p60758_index.html>

Mendez, J. , McClurg, S. and Djupe, P. , 2004-09-02 "The Social Agenda: The Influence of Social Networks and Context on Personal Issue Agendas" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hilton Chicago and the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p60758_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: What shapes the substantive agendas of American voters? Most examinations of this issue have understandably focused on the impact of mass media information (McCombs and Shaw 1972; Rogers and Dearing 1988; Behr and Iyengar 1985; Mutz 1998). However, there is a second part of this process that has received far less attention - the role and impact of social networks. While most scholarship suggests that social networks serve as conduits for media information (e.g., Mutz 1998; Katz and Lazarsfeld 1955), it is also possible that there is an independent supply of social information that affects the public's agenda as well. For example, Djupe and McClurg (2000) find 1) that change in the importance attached to issues varies across geographic context even when the flow of media information is constant and 2) individual agendas are affected by local social context when holding media information constant. In this paper, we therefore focus on the relationship between media information, social context, interpersonal networks, and individual political agendas. The analysis is driven by the tension between the two explanations highlighted above, one of which prescribes a passive role for social factors, and the second which prescribes an active role. We test implications of both perspectives using data from the Indianapolis-St. Louis Election Study. Not only does this study provide variation in media information through time (it was designed as a rolling cross section) and across space (separate St. Louis and Indianapolis samples), but it provides extensive information on the local context and interpersonal networks of respondents. While most research on the effects of the social context finds an environmental influence on the content of opinions, we find that the context affects the importance of issues. However, the mechanism for social influence we uncover is unique: The context exerts a gravitational pull on citizens within it, with individuals most distant in opinion from the context moving further toward the contextual mean. Moreover, we find that this provides some resistance to information provided by the media, implying that social networks and context play a more active role in agenda setting that typically ascribed to them.

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