POL369Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: 1 News, Dependent And Independent Variables
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Pol369 s1 l11 the question of media bias. There is an enormous generational divide in how we consume news. News consumption from tv shrinks as we look at younger generations and as you get younger, social media gets larger (most importantly, facebook). Youth are as engaged as everyone else is. There is the attentive public hypothesis: draws the distinction between people interested in politics and the inattentive public who ignore public affairs. If you"re interested in politics makes you attentive. The attentive public in canada is actually fairly large. News still matters in politics and society. How we consume it is changing radically with age. The issue-public hypothesis: the key to understanding what people are attentive to is what they are interested in. The younger you are, the more selective you are in keeping up with news interesting to you and as you age, attentiveness to topics broaden.
