Cascading Activation Revisited: How Audiences Contribute to News Agendas Using Social Media

Figures & data

Figure 1. Most Important Problem Index (Germany), 2014-17.

Notes: MIP data come from “Wichtige Probleme in Deutschland,” Forschungsgruppe Wahlen Politbarometer (2020). When more than one survey was available in a given month, the latest one was used to represent that month. The shaded area indicates the study period of December 2016.

Table 1. Intercoder reliability statistics.

	Krippendorff’s alpha	Cohen’s kappa
Related to coverage	0.86 (0.02)	0.86 (0.02)
	[0.82, 0.90]	[0.82, 0.90]
Supportive or not supportive	0.92 (0.03)	0.92 (0.03)
	[0.87, 0.97]	[0.86, 0.98]

Note: Reliability statistics calculated from a random sample (n = 600) from the full dataset. Standard errors given in parentheses, and 95% confidence intervals reported in braces.

Figure 2. Engagement with Tagesschau Facebook posts, December 3-5.

Figure 3. Tagesschau Facebook comments, December 3.

Figure 4. Tagesschau Facebook comments, December 4.

Figure 5. Tagesschau Facebook comments, December 5.