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International Journal of Public Opinion Research Advance Access published online on June 22, 2007
International Journal of Public Opinion Research, doi:10.1093/ijpor/edm012
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© The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The World Association for Public Opinion Research. All rights reserved.

Dramatic real-world events and public opinion dynamics: Media coverage and its impact on public reactions to an assassination

Hajo G. Boomgaarden and Claes H. de Vreese

Address correspondence to Hajo G. Boomgaarden, Amsterdam School of Communications Research, University of Amsterdam, Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam, Netherlands, H.Boomgaarden@uva.nl

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Dramatic and extraordinary real-world events have the power to impact on public opinion and to cause shifts in public attitudes (e.g. Sorrentino & Vidmar, 1974). The effect has been shown to apply to nuclear power accidents (De Boer & Catsburg, 1988; Van der Brug, 2001), to accidents involving loss of life (Lever, 1969; see also Slovic, Lichtenstein, & Fischhoff 1984), to assassinations of important social or political figures such as John F. Kennedy (Sicinski, 1969) or Martin Luther King (Hofstetter, 1969; Meyer, 1969) and to terrorist attacks (Noelle-Neumann, 2002; Traugott et al., 2002). Generally, however, studies of the impact of real-world events on public opinion are rare since the incidents most times occur too quickly to collect baseline data (Sorrentino & Vidmar, 1974).

An understudied aspect of public reactions to dramatic events relates to the role of the media. . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   PREVIOUS STUDIES ON THE IMPACT OF CRISIS EVENTS
 
CRISIS EVENTS AND PUBLIC OPINION DYNAMICS
MEDIATING CRISIS EVENTS––THE ROLE OF THE MEDIA

   HYPOTHESES
 

   METHOD
 
OVERVIEW
RESPONDENTS
MEASURES
ANALYSIS

   RESULTS
 

   SUMMARY AND DISCUSSION: OPINION DYNAMICS, CRISIS EVENTS, AND THE MEDIA
 

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