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'''Community structure theory''' provides a powerful framework for analyzing society’s influence on media coverage. It has been identified by Funk and McCombs (2015) as the “conceptual inverse” of [[Agenda-setting theory|agenda-setting]], <ref>{{Cite journal|last=Funk|first=Marcus J.|last2=McCombs|first2=Maxwell|date=2017-07-03|title=Strangers on a Theoretical Train|url=httphttps://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2015.1099460|journal=Journalism Studies|volume=18|issue=7|pages=845–865|doi=10.1080/1461670X.2015.1099460|issn=1461-670X}}</ref> focusing on demographic characteristics of communities shaping news instead of news as a driver of public perception. For example, community structure theory has found repeated links between indicators of vulnerability (such as unemployment levels, poverty levels, crime rate, etc.) and favorable coverage of critical US national issues such as immigration reform or universal health care.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|title=Tilted mirrors: Media alignment with political and social change: A community structure approach|last=Pollock|first=J.C.|publisher=Hampton|year=2007|isbn=|___location=Cresskill, NJ|pages=}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Journalism and human rights: How demographics drive media coverage|last=Pollock|first=J.C.|publisher=Routledge|year=2015|isbn=|___location=London and New York|pages=}}</ref> Further, in cross-national studies comparing national characteristics and reporting on human trafficking, HIV/AIDS treatment access, water handling/contamination, and child labor, media coverage varied significantly with levels of "female empowerment"— female literacy rate, female child life expectancy, and female school life expectancy.<ref name=":0" />

== Early influences ==

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==Further reading==

* {{Cite journal|last=Ackerson|first=Leland K.|last2=Viswanath|first2=K.|date=2009-05-20|title=The Social Context of Interpersonal Communication and Health|url=httphttps://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10810730902806836|journal=Journal of Health Communication|volume=14|issue=sup1|pages=5–17|doi=10.1080/10810730902806836|issn=1081-0730|pmid=19449264}}

* {{Cite journal|last=Alexandre|first=Kelly|last2=Sha|first2=Cynthia|last3=Pollock|first3=John C.|last4=Baier|first4=Kelsey|last5=Johnson|first5=Jessica|date=2014-08-08|title=Cross-National Coverage of Human Trafficking: A Community Structure Approach|url=httphttps://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15456870.2014.916289|journal=Atlantic Journal of Communication|volume=22|issue=3-4|pages=160–174|doi=10.1080/15456870.2014.916289|issn=1545-6870}}

* {{Cite journal|last=Anderson|first=William|last2=Lowrey|first2=Wilson|date=2007-11-01|title=What Factors Influence Control Over Work in the Journalism/Public Relations Dynamic? An Application of Theory From the Sociology of Occupations|url=httphttps://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15205430701577819|journal=Mass Communication and Society|volume=10|issue=4|pages=385–402|doi=10.1080/15205430701577819|issn=1520-5436}}

* {{Cite journal|last=Armstrong|first=C.|date=2006|title=Revisiting structural pluralism: A two-dimensional conception of community power|url=|journal=Mass Communication and Society|volume=9(3)|pages=287–300}}

* {{Cite journal|last=Beaudoin|first=Christopher E.|last2=Thorson|first2=Esther|date=2016-06-25|title=Social Capital in Rural and Urban Communities: Testing Differences in Media Effects and Models|url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/107769900408100210|journal=Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly|language=en|volume=81|issue=2|pages=378–399|doi=10.1177/107769900408100210}}