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• Research Article   
  Traditional vs. Social Media: A Phenomenology of Influences on Political Ideological Development in Adolescents.
  Author(s): Genevieve Andersen*
  
  Increased political polarization in Congress and the general public seems to align with the advent of social media. Events such as the 2019 government shutdown highlight Congressional partisanship that has led to unsettling gridlock. As a truly representative democracy could be at stake, it is important to understand how partisanship among citizens mirrors congressional discord. As Ronald Brownstein asserts in The Second Civil War, “extreme partisanship has produced a toxic environment...that disenfranchises the millions of Americans attracted to pragmatic compromise” (2007, p. 13). According to the Pew Research Center, the gap between political values of Democrats and Republicans is now larger than at any point in Pew Research Center history (Mitchell, 2017). The cause of this polarization has been tied to many different sources. Traditional media is a linkage ins.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.37421/2165-7912.2021.11.420

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