Ch 6- Public Opinion
Beliefs and attitudes toward different issues, events, and people
What is public opinion?
In the Bill of Rights- freedom of the press
What is the 1st Amendment?
An organization that tries to influence the government by getting its members elected to office.
What is a political party?
A now-unconstitutional fee charged to vote, used to restrict voting rights.
What is a poll tax?
The fact that Americans today are likely to follow the news by briefly reading multiple headlines online rather than by reading longer news articles is referred to as
What is skim and scan?
The process by which political values are formed is best known as
What is political socialization?
The power of the media to draw public attention to particular issues and problems is called
What is agenda setting?
identification with or support of a particular party
What is partisanship?
The current officeholder running for re-election
Who is an incumbent?
A widely circulated story that the pope endorsed Donald Trump for president in 2016 was a good example of
What is fake news?
A person’s political party preference is primarily acquired through the influence of the
Who is one's family?
An application or feed that collects web content such as news headlines, blogs, podcasts, online videos, and more in one location for easy viewing is known as
What is a news aggregator?
Any group of people who intensely advocate for their own interest, whether defined by geography, religion, race, gender, or any other characteristic
What is a faction?
The most common and important political act for most Americans
What is voting?
a cohesive set of beliefs that form a general philosophy about the government.
What is political ideology?
________ generally support abortion rights and oppose state involvement with religious institutions.
Who are Liberals?
When the media presents information from a certain perspective in order to shape the audience’s understanding of that information, it best describes the process of
What is framing?
Political scientists call voters’ choices that focus on past perfomances
What is retrospective voting?
This era was after Reconstruction and before the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
What is the Jim Crow Era?
Political scientists call voters’ choices that focus on future behavior
What is prospective voting?
The tendency for Black Americans to perceive other Black Americans as members of a group with a common identity and a shared political interest is called
What is linked fate?
The media is in _____ when it tries to reach as big an audience with breaking news
What is alarm mode?
In 1922, the voter turnout rate in this country was at a record low of 60%, they implemented a mandatory voting system to encourage voter turnout and it has since then averaged 90%.
What is Australia?
the percentage of eligible individuals who actually vote
What is voter turnout?
An individual is driving and witnesses a police officer using force on a man stopped at the side of the road. The individual records the incident and posts his eyewitness account of the event online. This would be an example of.
What is citizen journalism?