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The 48 pages that link to Public opinion, each with the reason it gives.

• Public sphereRelated: Discussion in the public sphere forms, circulates, and contests these judgments.

• Public relationsNarrower topic: Shaping and responding to public opinion is a central aim and constraint of PR.

• PhotojournalismRelated: Widely circulated news photographs can influence how people judge events and policy.

• Moral panicCompared with: Public concern may be widespread without becoming disproportionate or focused on moral threat.

• Agenda-setting theoryNarrower topic: Agenda-setting addresses one influence on public priorities, not the whole formation of opinion.

• Mass mediaRelated: Mass media circulate information and arguments that help form shared judgments.

• Political communicationRelated: It is both an audience outcome and a target of political messaging.

• Yellow journalismRelated: Sensational coverage can affect which issues feel urgent and how events are interpreted.

• Political representationRelated: Representatives may claim to express or respond to these collective judgments.

• Framing (social sciences)Related: Frames can influence which considerations people use when forming political judgments.

• Walter CronkiteRelated: His Vietnam commentary became linked to claims about media influence on opinion.

• EditorialNarrower topic: An editorial seeks to influence public judgments and can also reveal a publication’s reading of them.

• Collective behaviorCompared with: Shared attitudes do not necessarily become the collective action central to this concept.

• SensationalismRelated: Emotionally charged coverage can influence how audiences judge issues.

• War photographyRelated: Graphic and widely circulated images can shape how people judge a war and its conduct.

• Mass communicationRelated: Mass media help circulate the information and frames through which public views form.

• MuckrakerRelated: Exposés can shift public attention and increase pressure on officials to act.

• Social reformRelated: Changing public attitudes can build support for reforms and raise the political cost of resisting them.

• SportswashingRelated: Evidence about audience attitudes helps test whether sports investment actually improves perceptions.

• Television documentaryRelated: A widely viewed documentary can focus attention and influence debate about its subject.

• PamphletRelated: Pamphlets helped circulate claims that could influence collective political judgment.

• Political rhetoricRelated: Political messages seek to influence shared judgments that can affect policy and elections.

• Political campaignRelated: Campaigns try to influence opinion, while existing views constrain their messages.

• Propaganda filmNarrower topic: Shaping public opinion is the central social aim of political persuasion through film.

• Anti-AmericanismRelated: Surveys can distinguish widespread anti-American sentiment from elite rhetoric or isolated protest.

• Opinion pollNarrower topic: Polls provide one way to estimate this broader phenomenon.

• ProhibitionRelated: Public acceptance or opposition can shape compliance and the durability of a ban.

• Christine JorgensenRelated: Her coverage exposed broad audiences to questions about sex, gender, and medical transition.

• Jacques EllulRelated: Propaganda organizes and channels opinion rather than simply transmitting information.

• Political pamphletRelated: Pamphlets sought to influence public opinion and could make previously private dissent visible.

• Walter WhiteRelated: White sought to shift national attitudes by publicizing racial violence and discrimination.

• War correspondenceRelated: Reports from campaigns can shape how civilians judge a war and its conduct.

• Spiral of silenceNarrower topic: The spiral describes how public expression can distort the visible shape of opinion.

• Tax resistanceRelated: Public response can determine whether refusal appears principled, self-serving, or politically persuasive.

• Henry Ward BeecherRelated: Beecher’s speeches and newspaper visibility made him a powerful participant in shaping opinion on slavery.

• Walter WinchellNarrower topic: His broadcasts show how a single widely heard journalist could shape public attitudes.

• ActivismRelated: Activist messaging and protest can shift which views are visible or widely accepted.

• Political psychologyRelated: Its formation and change reveal how individual judgments aggregate into collective views.

• Charles Horton CooleyRelated: Cooley connected communication and social organization to the formation of collective opinion.

• Dog meatRelated: Shifts in public attitudes have influenced debate and policy, especially in South Korea.

• Mean world syndromeRelated: The syndrome connects television habits with broader judgments about social conditions and safety.

• National dayRelated: Support for or opposition to a national day can change over time.

• W. T. SteadRelated: Stead treated newspaper circulation as a way to create pressure for legislation and political change.

• BooingRelated: A crowd's boos can become a visible, though unrepresentative, display of opinion.

• Climate (figurative)Related: Shifts in public opinion can change a society’s political climate.

• Social issueRelated: Shared judgments influence which conditions receive public attention.

• Social outburstRelated: Visible collective anger can alter which grievances receive attention and how institutions respond.

• Yuri LevadaNarrower topic: Measuring public opinion was the central institutional purpose of Levada’s research work.