Examples of social media in the following topics:
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- Campaigns seek to engage the public through traditional forms of media, such as television and the press, and more recently, social media.
- Campaign engagement with the media has changed again with the proliferation of social media.
- Today, candidates are expected to have Facebook and Twitter accounts and to be fluent in the language of social media.
- This was particularly clear by then-candidate Senator Barack Obama's use of social media in the 2008 election.
- The campaign relied heavily on social media to engage voters, recruit campaign volunteers and raise funds.
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- Grassroots lobbying oftentimes implement the use of media, ranging from television to print, in order to expand their outreach.
- Other forms of free media that make a large impact are things like boycotting, protesting, and demonstrations.
- The trend of the past decade has been the use of social media outlets to reach people across the globe.
- Using social media is, by nature, a grassroots strategy.
- Also, lobbying groups have been able to create interactive websites and utilize social media (including Facebook and Twitter) to email, recruit volunteers, assign them tasks, and keep the goal of the lobbying group on track.
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- Facebook is an example of the social media model, in which most users are also participants.
- Social movement media has a rich and storied history that has changed at a rapid rate since new media became widely used.
- Of course, some are also skeptical of the role of new media in social movements.
- This diagram illustrates the interactive form of communication that may exist in social media.
- Explain the influence of the new media on politics and social movements
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- Informing the public by traditional and modern mass media is a goal of the DNC and RNC, who gain supporters by remaining.
- Political parties also play an active role in managing the media.
- In addition to hosting websites and populating social media, parties engage in spin with journalists and produce and air radio and television advertisements.
- It is important for parties to interact with the media in order to attract positive attention to their political candidates and remain viable in the public eye.
- Parties that have a strong media presence are the most effective in attracting volunteers and financial contributors.
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- The DNC and RNC promote party policy in a variety of ways through the mass media.
- Meanwhile, party policy is promoted through a variety of interactions between parties and the mass media .
- The mass media is utilized to reach out to a nationwide audience.
- Parties also take advantage of more modern social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.
- The DNC and RNC utilize various forms of mass media to promote their party's policies.
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- People form political values throughout their life cycle through different agents of political socialization, including family, media, and education.
- The following agents of Socialization influence to different degrees an individual's political opinions:
- Schools: Most influential of all agents, after the family, due to the child's extended exposure to a variety of political beliefs, such as friends and teachers, both respected sources of information for students.Mass Media: Becker (1975) argue that the media functions as a medium of political information to adolescents and young children.
- Children learn political values through political socialization.
- Explain the agents of socialization that inform the individual's political values
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- Media can have an important affect on public opinion in several ways.
- Media can have an important affect on public opinion in several ways.
- Social desirability is another key component to the formation of public opinion.
- Social desirability is the idea that people in general will form their opinions based on what they believe is the popular opinion.
- Based on media agenda setting and media framing, most often a particular opinion gets repeated throughout various news mediums and social networking sites, until it creates a false vision where the perceived truth is actually very far away from the actual truth.
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- The media can also play a key role in policy adoption.
- For example, unfavorable media coverage undermined the George W.
- Bush administration's proposals to change Social Security.
- Negative media attention toward George W.
- Bush's plan for Social Security prevented policy adoption.
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- Media bias is the bias of journalists and news producers within the mass media, concerning the selection of events and stories that are reported, and how they are covered.
- Historians have found that publishers often served the interests of powerful social groups.
- This coincided with the rise of journalism as a powerful social force.
- Although a process of media deregulation has placed the majority of the Western broadcast media in private hands, there still exists a strong government presence, or even monopoly, in the broadcast media of many countries across the globe.
- Studies done by FAIR, a progressive media watchdog organization, argue that the majority of media citations come from conservative and centrist sources.
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- The media has changed how citizens perceive and approach about U.S.
- When American military personnel are involved, the media needs to report because the personnel are related to the American public.
- In the media's most famous case in involvement on foreign affairs was its involvement in the Vietnam War.
- Their study concluded that a majority of journalists, although relatively liberal on social policies, were significantly to the right of the public on economic, labor, health care, and foreign policy issues.
- Explain the media's role in setting the agenda for foreign policy debate