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38-7   The Media and Public Policy
Date: Friday, Aug 31, 10:15 AM
Chair: Katina R. Stapleton
Georgetown University, profstapleton@yahoo.com

Author(s):
Targeting Audiences: News Source Variation in the Media Coverage of Immigration
Marisa Abrajano
University of California, San Diego
  Regina P. Branton
  Rice University, branton@rice.edu
  Johanna Dunaway
  Sam Houston State University, jdunaway@lsu.edu

Reassessing the Indexing Hypothesis: Politicians, the Media, and the Minimum Wage
Philip Habel
Southern Illinois University
  Lia Rohr
  , liarohr@siu.edu

How Predictive Appeals Shape Policy Opinions
Jennifer Jerit
Florida State University, jjerit@fsu.edu
  Jun Koga
  Florida State University, jk06e@fsu.edu

Contextual and Attitudinal Influences in Political Persuasion: The Role of Information, Local Conditions, and Individual Predispositions
Christopher Muste
University of Montana, christopher.muste@umontana.edu

Information Acquisition and Its Impact on Policy Judgment
Jaesung Ryu
Seoul National University, jryu@snu.ac.kr


Discussant(s): Kenneth Mark Cosgrove
Suffolk University, kcosgrov@suffolk.edu