POL369Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: News Propaganda
18 Nov 2016
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And they thought it really happening and created a panic. At that time people believed everything in the media- people are empty vessels which is being filled by the media. Later, realized that things cannot just get injected into people"s heads. How our brain helps us navigate through media. Pro attitudinal-people accept stuff that they agree with messages and counter attitudinal- avoid stuff that you do not like. Two kinds of people in the world -people who are interested-really load up and follow the news and uninterested in politics-they are going to avoid it. Partisans polarization argument-us cable news conservatives republicans tends to watch fox. Liberals do not watch it but cnn -it is build because of widespread liberals media bias. Facebook-you can like pages and then they provide with feedback from the same page because you like to see more from them. We are not empty vessels but active participants.
