THE RISE AND FALL OF SOCIAL-PROBLEMS - A PUBLIC ARENAS MODEL
THE RISE AND FALL OF SOCIAL-PROBLEMS - A PUBLIC ARENAS MODEL
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DOI：
10.1086/228951
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发表时间：
1988-07-01
影响因子：
4.4
通讯作者：
BOSK, CL
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作者：
HILGARTNER, S;BOSK, CL
本文建立了一个社会问题兴衰过程的模型。该模式将公众注意力视为一种稀缺资源，强调媒体和其他公共话语领域的竞争和选择。公共领域之间的联系产生反馈，推动社会问题的增长。增长受到公共舞台有限的“承载能力”、竞争和持续戏剧性需求的制约。制约因素和增长力量之间的紧张关系产生了一波又一波的问题定义，因为问题和促进问题的人竞相进入并留在公共议程上。对模型的实证检验提出了建议。
This paper develops a model of the process through which social problems rise and fall. Treating public attention as a scarce resource, the model emphasizes competition and selection in the media and other arenas of public discourse. Linkages among public arenas produce feedback that drives the growth of social problems. Growth is constrained by the finite "carrying capacities" of public arenas, by competition, and by the need for sustained drama. The tension between the constraints and forces for growth produces successive waves of problem definitions, as problems and those who promote them compete to enter and to remain on the public agenda. Suggestions for empirical tests of the model are specified.