Which Line of Research Helps to Explain Why Midwesterners Started

question 70

Multiple Choice

Which line of research helps to explain why Midwesterners started to rank shark attacks as a problem after the 1975 release of the movie Jaws and its subsequent press coverage?

• A) Cultivation effect
• B) Agenda-setting
• C) Spiral of silence
• D) Textual analysis
• E) Social learning theory

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