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It Could Happen Here

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The Impact of Parasocial Dynamics on Political Belief

The medium itself is more important than any given message on it. McLuhan's famous postulate the medium is the message remains a radical observation to this day. Our time usage gets warped around the medium itself and thus the medium becomes the portal for information to travel through. It also I think there's an extent to which that is true of kind of like parasocial dynamics impact things like political belief.

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