POL369Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Socalled, Moveon.Org, Open-Source Intelligence
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Gatekeeping: wherein the media acts a gatekeeper selecting some issues for presentation and ignoring others, rather than as marketers of specific point views. It is what to include and what to exclude. Subjectivity problem: tend to manifest more when you try to find presentation bias. Narrative transportation: politically positioning the audience, if you are a strong fan of whatever you consume, you. Kine thetic (cid:862)channel(cid:863): use of body language, facial gestures, pointing, and positioning of hands. will get attached to the character and subconsciously try to emulate the characteristics of the character. Slacktivism: feel-good measures, in support of an issue or social cause that have little physical or practical effect other than to make the person doing it feel satisfied that they have contributed. It is defined as the act of showing support for a cause but only truly being beneficial to the egos of ppl participating in this so-called activism.
