Public relations, media coverage, and public opinion in contemporary China

Accepted Manuscript

Public Relations, Media Coverage, and Public Opinion in Contemporary China:

Testing Agenda Building Theory in a Social Mediated Crisis

Yang Cheng, Yihui Huang, Ching Man Chan

PII: S0736-5853(16)30281-7

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2016.05.012

Reference: TELE 816

To appear in: Telematics and Informatics

Received Date: 22 August 2015

Revised Date: 19 March 2016

Accepted Date: 5 May 2016

Please cite this article as: Cheng, Y., Huang, Y., Chan, C.M., Public Relations, Media Coverage, and Public Opinion

in Contemporary China: Testing Agenda Building Theory in a Social Mediated Crisis, Telematics and

Informatics (2016), doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2016.05.012

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Title: Public Relations, Media Coverage, and Public Opinion in Contemporary China: Testing

Agenda Building Theory in a Social Mediated Crisis

Authors:

Yang Cheng, [email protected]; Tel: +1(512)-879-7756; School of Journalism,

University of Missouri-Columbia (Lead author, Corresponding author)

Yihui Huang, [email protected]; Tel: +852-53448779; NAH Room 202, Chinese

University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong (Author)

Ching Man Chan, [email protected]; Tel: +852-9212-7007; NAH Room 202, Chinese

University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong (Author)

Declaration of Conflicting Interests:

The author declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship,

and/or publication of this article.