Editing Agenda-setting theory (section)

==== Use of Twitter in political agenda setting ====
Agenda setting theory has been particularly useful in the analysis of politicians’ use of social media in the United States. A 2016 study of several thousand tweets from U.S. Governors used the first two levels of agenda-setting theory (issue level and framing) in order to better understand how politicians used Twitter as a platform.<ref name="Yang-20162">{{Cite book |last1=Yang |first1=Xinxin |title=Social Informatics |last2=Chen |first2=Bo-Chiuan |last3=Maity |first3=Mrinmoy |last4=Ferrara |first4=Emilio |year=2016 |isbn=978-3-319-47879-1 |series=Lecture Notes in Computer Science |volume=10046 |pages=330–344 |language=English |chapter=Social Politics: Agenda Setting and Political Communication on Social Media |doi=10.1007/978-3-319-47880-7_20 |arxiv=1607.06819 |s2cid=2647723}}</ref> The research found that Democrats and Republicans used Twitter in nearly equal amounts to communicate their agendas, but Democrats were not as aligned in the agendas they prioritized.<ref name="Yang-20162" /> A later study found that newspapers and Twitter have a reciprocal relationship when it comes to predicting national policy issues during elections.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Conway-Silva |first1=Bethany A. |last2=Filer |first2=Christine R. |last3=Kenski |first3=Kate |last4=Tsetsi |first4=Eric |title=Reassessing Twitter's Agenda-Building Power: An Analysis of Intermedia Agenda-Setting Effects During the 2016 Presidential Primary Season |journal=Social Science Computer Review |date=August 2018 |volume=36 |issue=4 |pages=469–483 |doi=10.1177/0894439317715430 }}</ref>