New media's influence on presidential politics

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Uploaded by on Mar 18, 2008

Franklin D. Gilliam Jr., professor of political science and director of UCLA's Center for Communications and Community, discusses the role of new media in presidential politics.

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  • dont give me a thumbs down that actually is my dad.....

  • Truth about U.S. wars and Israel. News about Civil freedoms Americans have lost or are about to lose. Honesty about candidates in our elections. These are the reasons the old media is dying.

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  • @mermaid713

    i am using this for my homework :)

  • Woo I so agree it helped for my paper thats due today

    -Procrastinating woo!-

  • "ignoring the boring"

    i Think he meant selection by/of popular interest

    and further selection into connected interest to what? is you

    ignoring the informative or the professional observer

    instead flooding of TROLLS(voters)

    posting/replying to/from RAGE

    untrained thinkers/liers; no one stays on topic; they miss the point (overall), or they "just don't get it". i.e.me

    but there is an influx of reply's from all sectors(comments allowed)

    creating an equilibrium in stable minds(the dream)

  • Why does this guy look like he is about to be hit by a car. I keep expecting him to scream.

  • yes exactly. why should we have to let someone else feed us their own bias when we can choose our own. the guy is running under the assumption that people are not wanting the actual truth, but only to reinforce their beliefs. really all i want from the news is the facts without political spin. the reason radio and internet are starting ro surpass tv and paper is that theyre saying things that tv and paper wont say. but i try to listen and watch and read a little of everything.

  • Selection bias exists in old media just as much if not more than in new media. If I'm watching Fox News as opposed to MSNBC or vice versa, I think it's fair to say that I've already chosen which ideas I'm willing to hear. At least with the internet, I might be accidentally exposed to a viewpoint I would otherwise have missed. I guess my point is that in old media, other people are doing the selecting for you, rather than in new media, where the selection process is active and personal.

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