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4 Media and Narrative
4 Media and Narrative
Pages 37-44
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The session's discussions also touched on various barriers and challenges, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, racial disparities, health inequities, how to enhance youth civic engagement, and how to include youth perspective (highlights provided below)
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. and then we internalize those as who we are, and I think that does a great disservice to the incredible reality to the city I live in." "It is really important, as a practice, to listen," said Joshua Clark, a political participation analyst and the lead researcher for the Civic Engagement Narrative Change Project at the Othering and Belonging Institute at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Contemporary measures of how people engage with information and news assess exposure, such as how much time was spent on a website, how many comments were submitted, or how often an item was liked or shared on a given platform. Engagement metrics become vital feedback and have huge influence over the kind of news stories that are produced, the frames that are used.
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Referring to the lack of local reporting, Stewart noted that "residents in Missouri could not see themselves in those stories, and therefore it was not resonating with them." Through a valuable partnership with Kaiser, Missouri was able to establish its own journalistic infrastructure, the Kaiser Midwest Bureau (Missouri Foundation for Health, 2022)
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A lot of money is provided for research and polling efforts, but rarely are youth voices included, and their thoughts concerning topics like the Census, firearm suicide, or Medicaid expansion. Carr described attending a conference on youth attitudes and opinions.
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The panelists provided examples of collaboration and resources aiming to connect members of the "exhausted majority." The exhausted majority refers in part to centrists or moderates, but it also includes people who cannot be easily politically characterized or are chronically marginalized or disconnected from civic organizations and civic infrastructure. Clark provided the reference for research conducted by More in Common (Hawkins et al., 2018)
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In the past, the Fairness Doctrine of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission required broadcasters to present opposing sides of controversial issues of public importance, and historical accounts suggest that this infiltrated print journalism.
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