Setting Agendas in Cultural Markets

Philemon Bantimaroudis is a Professor in the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication at the University of the Aegean, Greece. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, U.S.A. (1999). He was a Visiting Professor at Northern Michigan University, U.S.A. (1999-2000), the University of Cyprus (2012-2013) and an Academic Visitor at Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, U.K. (2008). His research interests include media and culture, political and international communication.

Introduction: Leisure Time, Creative Industries and Urban Transformations



1. Agenda Setting Theory: A Brief History



1.1 Agenda Setting Influences at Different Levels



1.2 Fragmentation of Agendas and Specialized Interests



1.3 Organizations and Agenda Setting



1.4 A Shift Toward Culture



1.5 What Drives the Agenda Setting Process?



1.6 Cultural Agenda Setting: Motivations and Orientations



2. Cultural Markets, Organizations and Experiences



2.1 Developments in the Cultural Domain



2.2 Cultural Industries and Cultural Theorists



2.3 Cultural Attributes



2.4 Concluding Remarks about Prominent Attributes in the Cultural Domain



3. Cultural Segmentation and Media Agendas



3.1 Segmented Agendas



3.2 Multiculturalism and Cultural Agendas



3.3 Concluding Remarks



4. Cultural Agendas, Digital Technologies and Media Platforms



4.1 The Transformation of Cultural Production



4.2 A Record of Digital Transformations



4.3 The New Agendas



5. Agenda Setting Influences and Effects in the Cultural Domain



5.1 Cultural Hierarchies and Prominence



5.2 Salience: An Evolving Construct



5.3 What are the Main Influences of Cultural Agenda Setting?



5.4 Organizational Agendas and Media Agendas



5.5 Cultural Agenda Setting and Future Explorations



5.6 Third Level and Agenda Melding



Epilogue