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primary and secondary definers


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Primary definers are credible individuals and institutions granted media access to enable their initial framing of events which are assumed to be within their area of competence: for instance, experts, official sources, courts, leading politicians, and senior religious figures. The mass media are secondary definers. See also amplification of deviance; moral panic.

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