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International Journal of Public Opinion Research Advance Access originally published online on May 2, 2008
International Journal of Public Opinion Research 2008 20(2):237-249; doi:10.1093/ijpor/edn021
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The World Association for Public Opinion Research. All rights reserved.

The Asymmetry in Economic News Coverage and its Impact on Public Perception in South Korea

Youngkee Ju

Address correspondence to Youngkee Ju, 530 Kinkead Way #307, Albany CA 94706, USA, E-mail: dovhom@gmail.com

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The news media's ‘surveillance’ (Lasswell, 1960) of the economy has been a matter of concern in U.S communication research. Previous studies found that news media tended to be skewed toward negative news (Wattenberg, 1984; Harrington, 1989). Furthermore, studies found that public perception of the economy was closely associated with the news media's economic coverage (Blood & Phillips, 1995; Goidel & Langley, 1995; Hester & Gibson, 2003; Wu, Stevenson, Chen, & Güner, 2002).

This study examines whether negatively skewed economic news coverage and its influences on public perception of the economy can be demonstrated in South Korea. For more than 25 years, most economic communication studies have been conducted in the USA. Recently, the triple relationships between the economy, its coverage in the news, and public perception of the economy have also been studied in Japan (Wu, McCracken, & Saito, 2004) and Britain . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   LITERATURE REVIEW
 
‘HARDWIRED’ FOR NEGATIVE OCCURRENCES
ACCESSIBILITY AND MEDIA EFFECTS
IMPRESSION OF ECONOMY WITH MINIMAL KNOWLEDGE
PREVIOUS STUDIES OF MEDIA EFFECTS ON PUBLIC OPINION OF THE ECONOMY

   HYPOTHESES AND RESEARCH QUESTION
 

   METHODS
 
DATA
ANALYSIS

   RESULTS
 
THE PATTERN OF NEWS COVERAGE
THE EFFECT OF THE ECONOMIC NEWS COVERAGE

   DISCUSSION
 

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