Marion Just is a co-author of several books, including We Interrupt This Broadcast: …How to Improve Local News and Win Ratings (Cambridge University Press, 2007), Crosstalk: Citizens, Candidates and the Media in a Presidential Campaign (University of Chicago Press, 1996), Common Knowledge: News and the Construction of Political Meaning (University of Chicago Press, 1992). She is co-editor of Rethinking the Vote: The Politics and Prospects of American Electoral Reform (Oxford University Press, 2003) and Framing Terrorism: News Media, Government and the Public (Routledge, 2003). Her work also appears in scholarly articles and edited volumes, including three recent collections on emotions and politics.
An Economic Theory of Learning from News
July 1, 1992
A paper by Marion Just, professor at Wellesley College; W. Russell Neuman, professor at University of Michigan; and Ann Crigler, fall 1991 fellow, explores an economic approach to understanding how people select, pay attention to, and learn from news stories. Their research finds that as economic theory would suggest, study participants were most interested in
