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#580 Emily Kubin: Political Polarization, Dehumanization, and the Media

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Do the Media Play a Role in Building Perceptions of Political Opponents?

Oas: People are building their perceptions from what they see on a media. And i would argue that this is actually creating a negative environment where perceptions of opponents are becoming stereotific portrayals. A media is much more likely to show extremes. So they're going to be showing the outlandish story of democrat publican, and not somebody that's more in the middle,. like an everyday, average citizen. The only engagement or opportunity for us to hear from our political opponents makes us start to have sterotypical portrayals of them all being very extreme - Oas.

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