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    politics‚ so where do they come from? The answer is political socialization‚ which is the way in which people learn about politics . There are a number of elements or agents involved in creating our political awareness‚ but this paper will focus on the mass media¡¯s role (particularly forms of news media) in constructing political reality in Western society. One way that the media shapes our political reality is by mixing facts with opinions and in doing so manipulates messages. The amount of time

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    American politics has always been a controversial field of practice in the United States of America; citizens were always weary of the government’s ideas and felt to exercise their political voice. At times it worked and the government tried very hard to abide by the requests that its people seek‚ but in some cases the government failed to execute the desires of its people. The government must sometimes act swiftly and decisively and the government is often in a good position to see the nation’s

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    The Founding Fathers of United States of America based our government on a system that is by the people‚ for the people. Public opinion allows the people to express their voices and opinion in the their government. People most commonly share their opinion through media. When public opinion goes through media it is usually to express‚ educate or persuade someone on a specific idea or viewpoint (“Four”). For example‚ people will express their feelings on which presidential candidate should win the

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    Public opinion can be defined as sum of individuals opinions on an issue affecting those individuals but the opinion should be rational to the issue. According to Leornard W. Doob‚" public opinion also refers to people’s attitudes on an issues when they are members of same social group." Besides that‚ David Truman also stated out that "public opinion consist of the opinions of aggregate of individuals making up the public under discussion. it does not include all the opinion held by such a set of

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    Media Influences on Public Opinion: Cars and the Ideology of their Advertisements Advertising messages are everywhere. We see them in our morning newspapers‚ on the billboards we see on our way to work‚ and even in the magazines we read. They are impossible to miss and we are constantly influenced by their messages even when we do not realize it. One such message was in this month’s Cosmopolitan magazine. The advertisement attempts to persuade the reader to buy a 2013 Ford Escape. The words and

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    In what ways has the ‘new media’ and the changing technology of political reporting affected its quality and availability? Over the last decade there has been a significant change in the way in which the media industry reports political news to their audience. With newspaper popularity decreasing‚ the computer and television industry are gaining larger audiences at a fast rate. Therefore‚ this rise of new media has made news reporting quicker and more accessible to readers through the use of technology

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    participate in democratic process. The social media an important medium of information have influence people’s thought and action about politics and encouraged people to give opinions‚ critics and suggestions as well as participate in politics. Therefore‚ the social media is one of the primary mechanism in the political scene and capable of making political issues. However‚ it gives a negative aspects on political issues in which people may give wrong information and it also enjoys a positive function

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    Public  Opinion  and  Political  Socialization       Public  Opinion-­‐  The  collected  attitudes  of  citizens  concerning  a  given  issue  or   question.     One  issue  in  America  that  stirs  differences  in  public  opinion  is  the  death  penalty.   Does  the  death  penalty  deter  people  from  killing?  Some  think  it  does‚  some  think

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    CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION: We learn about public opinion through polling‚ which asks people their views and then compiles the results. Politicians and pundits in many countries rely on public opinion polls‚ and the media frequently reports on polls. Sampling a subset of the population allows pollsters‚ or the people who create and take the polls‚ to get a sense of overarching concerns and interests within a large population. Rather than polling every citizen‚ an expensive and time-consuming process

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    I. Public opinion John Zaller states that mass opinion is made up of values (core‚ unchanging beliefs)‚ attitudes (beliefs on broad policy issues)‚ and opinions (more flexible views on specific policy issues). II. Four characteristics of public opinion The characteristics of public opinion are direction (beliefs of the majority)‚ stability (consistency over time)‚ salience (importance)‚ and strength (intensity of belief). III. The public The public may be categorized as the mass public (70–80%)

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