Issues that are important to the present, affecting people, and deemed worthy of discussion by the majority are seen as worth taking place on the agenda. In particular, the agenda meetings held every morning in the media sector are the meetings where issues deemed important to be addressed for that day are evaluated.
The headlines listed as trends on social media platforms and expressing the highest level of interaction of users are the topics that constitute the agenda of the new media. Although it varies by country, some topics can be trend topics worldwide. The number of interactions that are sufficient to be a trending topic is at the discretion of the relevant social media platform and the criteria values are closed to us.
The public agenda, in which newspapers, radio, and finally television are determined in shorter and shorter periods, has now descended for a few hours thanks to new media platforms. While the agenda of a local people, which the newspaper reached after months, is not deeply shaken or completely changed with this newspaper, where they learned about the events that happened a few months ago, today the agenda of billions of people can change at once with a few tweets. A statement made by the president of America can be on the agenda of billions of people from all over the world, with the leap from new media to traditional media. Moreover, whether people are directly affected by this statement or whether it will cause the slightest change in their lives can be left aside as a completely unimportant matter.
Journalists, one of the groups significantly affected by this change, may be as vulnerable as ordinary citizens to keep pace with the agenda. They are now able to share the information they have accessed with their readers on social media without waiting for tomorrow's print, "even if this is often as simple as sharing a tweet that everyone can see," and continue to sip their coffee with the pride of having done their profession adequately.
Joking aside, who sets the agenda?
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