What American History Teaches us about Political Communication, with Dr. Ben Epstein
Social Media and Politics
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Political and Behavioral Forces Influence Political Communication
History allows us to observe the political and behavioral forces that are also necessary for communication technologies to become viable. When you innovate, when you choose to hold on to what you've done before, there's a lot of political, personal and behavioral calculations that play into that. We can think about political advertising as one very clear example that so much money is still spent on television ads for people running for office.
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