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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"political discussion"”.
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Passionate Political Talk: Social Networks and the Emotional Impact of Political Discussion
… theory of interpersonal influence in political networks by examining the impact of political talk on emotion. Despite scholarly attention to interpersonal communication in political behavior research, the conflicting findings regarding the impact of political talk on opinion formation …
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Expanding the public sphere through computer-mediated communication : political discussion about abortion in a Usenet newsgroup
… Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1997.
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It's not always about the issues: The role of perceived personality trait similarity on interpersonal political discussion.
… the relationship between personality traits and political attitudes, opinions and behaviors. One specific line of inquiry has been on the direct and mediated influence of personality traits on interpersonal political discussion behaviors. Interpersonal political discussion among citizens has long …
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WHAT EVOKES QUALITY OPINIONS ONLINE? AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF ONLINE POLITICAL DISCUSSION CONTENT AND PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS INFLUENCING PEOPLE'S INTENTION TO EXPRESS DISAGREEMENT ONLINE
… expressions affect opinion quality and online discussion involvement. The survey study (N=321) showed that while fear of isolation online negatively predicts the willingness to express individual opinions, opinion climate congruency is not associated with the willingness. The online experiment …
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Unintended Politics: The Prevalence of Partisan Opinion Expression in Incidental Political Discussions
Political discussion happening in non-political contexts, referred to as incidental political discussion, is abundant in the everyday lives of ordinary people. However, the characteristics of incidental political discussion are still understudied. Analysis of nearly three thousand comments on mass …
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The Deliberative Potential of Social Media: Face Threat and Face Support in Online Political Expression
Engaging in productive political discussion has long been a valued aspect of American democratic life. Due to ease of access and the potential for exposure to diverse views, the Internet and social media may support mediated political talk. Literature on the concept of face and politeness theory …
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The Impact of the Internet on Civic and Political Participation in Local Governance: A Mulitilevel Model for Bridging Individual and Group Levels of Analysis
Politically interested individual citizens often use information and communication technology (ICT) to facilitate and augment their civic and political participation. At the local level, ICT plays an important role for communication and information sharing in order for local groups to create …
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Multikulturalismus v Nizozemí od roku 2005
… in Netherlands and was inspired by political discussion on cohabitation of minorities and mayor societies in Europe. The issue of assimilation contra diversity acceptation is not anyhow new, but inflection of multiculturalism at European level during the last couple of years …
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Proceso de creación del portal de noticias digital Lucidez.pe
… played by the platform in public opinion and political discussion. From this point of view, and consulting the opinion of experts and reviewing the readership statistics obtained in five years of existence, the strengths and weaknesses of the process are analyzed, as well as the opportunities …
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Putting the winner-loser effect in context: presidentialism & democracy in the Americas
… the winner-loser effect on individual citizens’ political attitudes and behaviors. The process of electoral politics mandates that voters win or lose in tandem with their preferred political candidates. As such, the relationship of such voters vis-à-vis the government and the political system …
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The possibility of judgement
… use Kant's Critique of Judgement to establish a political discourse that is consistent with the existing normative function designed for aesthetics and teleology would also allow us to create a schema missing from judgement, since aesthetics and teleology are subject, object of judgement. To …
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The language of racism and the criminal justice system
… one in South African legal, sociological and political discussion. This thesis is an intervention in the discussion, in favour of the argument that the criminal justice system is a site of racial and other forms of bias. Whereas the conventional emphasis has been on the structures of bias, the …
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The role of transnational television in international political decision-making after the cold war
… that media can make an impact on the process of political decision-making, rather than on the content of the policies themselves, and it specifies when, where and under what conditions this interaction can take place, including the most important features of both media coverage and political …
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Deliberation in Practice: Deliberative Theory, News Media, and Political Conversation
… prospects for deliberative democracy, everyday political conversation, its influences and its consequences are examined. The dissertation establishes a “reasonable ideal” of deliberation by which a democracy may be judged. The reasonable ideal has five elements: conversation, disagreement, …
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The fragility of tolerance: rights, responsibilities, and the challenge of speaking up
The student, Tarah Williams, accepted the attached license on 2017-04-17 at 19:12.
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The relationship between cognitive orientation, media usage, political activism, and political deviance from the perspective of context theory.
… between media usage, cognitive orientation, political activism, and political deviance. The present study extended upon the model by including a behavioural aspect, namely, political activism. Subjects for the study consisted of 120 undergraduate Psychology students at the University of the …
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Learning to Do Democracy: Deliberative Capacity in Political Blogging Communities
This thesis demonstrates that participants in Political Blogging Communities increase their deliberative capacity over time, potentially enabling them to participate in democratic societies. The study unifies perspectives on the meaning of blogs in American politics. It presents a unique …
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Popular political oratory and itinerant lecturing in Yorkshire and the North East in the age of Chartism, c. 1837-60
… of newspapers and tracts in disseminating political ideas and forming public opinion. This thesis demonstrates the importance of older, traditional forms of communication. Inert printed pages were no match for charismatic oratory. Combining personal magnetism, drama and immediacy, the …
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Essays in development economics and political economy
… issues in economic development, with a focus ,on political economy and the labor market in India. Chapter 1] analyzes the effect of television coverage on political voice by examining the functioning of Question Hour, a forum for political discussion in India's Parliament, which is intended to …
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A Study of Locality in Hong Kong Contemporary Literature
… They preferred to see Hong Kong included in the political discussion of the sovereign transfer as an autonomous entity. The absence of such a consultation process, in their view, would result in drastic social turmoil after the formal handover in 1997. Such an understanding gradually gained …
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