Pop Culture The Media And Politics

The media has been around since the invention of the printing press in the 1400s. It became easier for information to spread all over Europe and then the world as the printing press spread to different parts of the world. The media began to change as new inventions—televisions, radios, and computers—were introduced to the general population. A different kind of culture was introduced to the world in the United States: celebrity culture. Celebrity culture is the general public passion with celebrity that grew in the country with the invention of motion pictures and the foundation of Hollywood. Our version of celebrity culture has changed since the invention of the internet and several social media sites such as Facebook and YouTube. The

Does Nicolas Carr, author of “How Social Media Is Ruining Politics” provide enough evidence that social media is ruining politics? The answer is a very obvious yes. Overtime, social media has slowly polarized the political perception of the American people. Social Networking is a new, popular medium that has changed the nature of political conversation. Therefore, it has become both a good thing and a bad thing. It has encouraged those who once did not partake in the political process to participate. Social networking is very useful to find out news and information ahead of the news media.. “It has become an easy way for political candidates to connect and communicate with the American people.” (Carr 1) While social media might provide the candidates with a form of convenience because it simplifies and speeds up the communication process, it also provides many ways for their campaigns to be easily and deliberately attacked. Unfortunately, what receives the most attention on social media is outrageous statements. Some candidates like Donald Trump know how to use this to their advantage. The danger in this is that candidates tend to use abrasive soundbites to grab the attention of the social media user. Unfortunately, the abrasive soundbites are often taken out the intended context. Other candidates like Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush did not come to this realization as quickly because they did not want to take the chance of hindering their image. They understood that a

At no other time has a "like," retweet or generally thoughtless online movement been so intelligent of the condition of American politics. For the likeminded people social media acts as a glue which unite them under one roof of open discussion. They not only want to know what is going around but also want to know the opinions of other likeminded people and why their opinion is correct. Despite the fact that online networking permits individuals to be presented to various political perspectives, individuals have a tendency to be a piece of situations where their political assessments are continually fortified.

The media has played a significant role in American culture. It has influenced our political, social, and economic beliefs for centuries as well as our democratic values. The objective of the media is to provide audiences with fast and reliable news while informing citizens with the latest news coverage. The majority

The United States is renowned for its title as a melting pot for a variety of different cultures, and is very unique in the fact of having many different people in one place. The diversity of the beautiful nation that will call home is one of the very aspects that makes America the great nation that it is. The United States, albeit influenced by many different cultures and a vast array of continents, is most influenced by the country of England. The most widely spoken language in the United States is English, and the second most widely spoken language is Spanish. The most prevalent religious denomination is Protestantism with over 51%, then Roman Catholicism at 24%, then Mormonism at 2%, and Jewish at 1.7%. The United States is a very pop culture

Political occurrences are one of the most discussed subjects among social media, because everyone wants their opinion heard. Kaitlin Vonderschmitt explains it as, “This civic culture [social

Over the past thirty years there has been an increase in power throughout the media with regard to politics. The original purpose of the media was to inform the public about relevant events that occured around the country regarding politics in the United States. The job of the media is to search out the truth and relay that news to the people. The media has the power to inform the people but often times the stories given to the people are distorted for one reason or another whether they are good or bad for the candidates. Media is now not only Newspapers, radio, magazines, etc but now media includes social media applications such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc where Media is now not only used to inform but as well

Social networks, with a growing body of evidence appear to be of more significance. Online social networks permit large degrees of mobilization in political contexts by allowing party heads to directly communicate with communities in ways which mirror offline networks. Partisan politics in the United States has long before the internet, involved groups of people communicating through political discourse, along with centrality based around campaigners and candidates. Avishay Livne, Matthew P. Simmons, Eytan Adar, Lada A. Adamic in their article The Party is Over Here: Structure and Content in the 2010 Election analyze how these networks of partisan politics can be strategized to impact election results using twitter. In their analysis, they are able to create a research model which correctly predicts 77.7% of races. The writers suggest that Republicans were able to run a more effective social media campaign for a number of factors. The Republican twitter campaign was able to form a denser network of less structural distance. This follows that their network mentioned each other more often, and also provided a more cohesive theme of topics, showed by their quicker rising KL-Corpus. Republican language models displayed top terms related to economic issues, in contrast to the Democratic language models which were more scattered involving unalike topics such as education,

Through years of going to English classes in city colleges in the United States I become familiar more with characters and concepts that I haven’t heard them before. My English learning experience was engaged with American pop culture, simply because that is the most dominant topic that came from instructors. It is remarkable that pop culture icons are important in contemporary society and most of teachers trying to use them in curriculum for educational direction. It help to understand the culture in the country but at the same time it was confusing for an international student and a English learner since the language shortage mixed with concepts and general knowledge shortage and made it more confusing for me. This case is not only limited for me, due to limited intensity of English skills and lack of mutual cultural activities, international and ESL students’ engagement in class might often be not equal as native speakers.

The power of the media is attributed to its ability to force Americans to think about a certain issue in a certain way. Agenda setting, selection bias, priming, and framing are all factors in the hold the media has over public opinion. “Today the media (new and old) play a central role in American politics, not only in setting the agenda of topics that Americans think about and discuss, but often in swaying opinions on political issues and candidates” (Ginsberg 251). The word media refers to any kind of news coverage, from newspapers and radio broadcasts to video streaming and social networking. Looking back twenty years, the majority of Americans got their political news from the daily newspaper, radio, and watching local and national evening news such as that seen on

2016 has been an interesting year for politics. The recent Presidential election has been a focal point of American lives, more so than any previous election held before. The use of social media sites like Twitter and Facebook have been one of the primary platforms for people to express their views, opinions, and difference of opinions. Celebrities as well have taken these social media outlets to express either their praise or disdain for the presidential candidates, and with their huge fan bases have been very influential when they make statements

The almost omnipresent Internet transforms our lives, connecting us to family, friends, and the world in ways inconceivable only a few years ago. Through social media, we actively participate in creating, editing, and consuming a never-ending stream of data. Private corporations and protagonists of political or social change all vie to reach and engage highly targeted

Popular culture is different from traditional culture; it is based on the timeline of the significant characteristics of a culture. Popular culture is the ideas, attitudes, thinking, memes, images, and other phenomena that are in the mainstream of a given culture, especially the western culture in the early 20th century to the middle 20th century and the emerging global mainstream in the early 20th and the 21st century. Deeply influenced by the mass media, this collection of ideas permeates daily life of the society (Wikipedia 2014). Mass media is conceived and designed to reach a very large media audience. It may need to be in the form of broadcast media, in television and radio, or print media, such as newspapers and magazines. Internet media can also obtain the status of the mass media; actually, with so many ways out there provided by internet media, mass media has been more accessible than ever before. Some people also call it the "mainstream media", refer to the fact that it tends to give prominent coverage to the news that are cater for the interest of the public, while ignores the controversial news. Most people around the world are dependent on "mainstream sources" for most of their news, so globally, it has already been a huge industry. But there could be some problems with mass means too, as it could devour the diversity and have negative effect on popular culture.

Social media has grown at phenomenal rates over the past decade, with its rise being easily visible in several fields such as publishing, business, and activism, among others. The rise of its use in the field of politics is well known by those who are on and off social media, as a result of increasing number of politicians using this global platform to their maximum advantage.

Social media further dissolves borders between the uses of propaganda and public information to forward political-strategic goals. For companies, social media is a great way to promote their brand and their products and attract customers. For politicians the same is true, only in their case they are their own brand.