Role of social media on political socialization & Culture
in this blog we will Discuss about Political social
socialization and culture and a little bit about mass media as well socialization
and political culture is very important for what we think is okay for a
politician to say or do in public and to some extent in private what becomes a
scandal and what does not and I'm going to use Canada as an example in this
case because it's easy to find good examples so what is political socialization
basically it's about how people adopt values concerning what is acceptable and
not acceptable in society what can become a political issue what can become a
scandal and so on and that creates our political culture and there's a whole
bunch of places where socialization of curse starts in school even at home the
family you go to civics class you go to history
class teachers will role
model behavior you can might be singing the anthem at school you're practicing
how to govern in school councils and class governance your parents will have an
influence and teach you moral and ethical values you'll have friends they will
also impact what kind of values you develop and of course the mass media pop
culture and so on and so forth others are religious centers corporations and
their advertising that is sort of a very stylized and romanticized idealization
of what's good and bad in society think tanks and the general debate and
society so all these things matter and the result will be a political culture
we could define that as the ideas assumptions values and beliefs that condition
political attitudes and behavior and it's a collective phenomenon so
individuals might think that a particular scandal is ridiculous but apparently
a lot of people think it means something so in some societies for instance you
should be very careful if you're a politician with how you spend your money and
if it's taxpayer money or your own money and what you spend it on and other
countries maybe you have to be very careful with your private life in terms of
your who your partner might be and if you have an extramarital affair that can
lead to a great deal it'll scandal and so on and so forth so all these flash
moments when there is outrage and when people are saying this is not acceptable
you said something wrong you did something wrong as a person that says
something about the political culture and it affects political socialization
who we are as political creating creatures and ideologies and dominant
political perspectives will have some influence on this but you can also say
that political culture will affect how ideologies are expressed so they're
widely shared points of reference but never completely uniform so people are
aware that this issue where that issue is sensitive they might not agree with
it but they know it's there and it forms kind of the common sense of the
political arena and defines political legitimacy and here's in this context I
should say that President Crump is a unique figure as controversial as he is a
lot of the things that he has said and done would have condemned any other
politician they their their career would have ended and of course there's been
a lot of discussion about how much the American public will tolerate from
President Trump how much his his supporters will tolerate from him and that
discussion in itself is really about political culture and it seems like where
there was previously an established common sense about what politicians were
allowed to do and could do and could say and could and how they could behave
now that has become opened up and there's a lot more uncertainty if Trump can
do it can others do it too or is he the only one who can get with things that
he's been doing will there be a backlash after Trump so how he talks in a very
particular way how he tweets all these things are continuously questioned
that's the political legitimacy that's continuously questioned and the
ramifications of his political career and what that will have as an effect on
American political culture is yet to be seen but it tells you something about
how political culture evolves over time and how it's contested over time and
negotiated over time to look at Canadian political culture just to you know get
away from the American arena for a little while you can say that it's a North
American style of political culture that has some commonalities with American
political culture but it's also very reflective of European political
traditions and is evolutionary not American revolutionary style but an
evolutionary sense of political culture there is more negotiation compromise
and so on and so forth because Canada as a political entity did not grow out of
violent upheaval it grew through reform Isabeau so there is a whole series of negotiations
and tensions within the Canadian political culture that has shaped how it looks
like now so the anglo-french relations Quebec versus therest of Canada
multiculturalism which is now considered one of the founding traits of Canadian
myths if you will Aboriginal indigenous self-governance the issue of the
position of indigenous peoples within the constitutional framework of Canada
which still hasn't been properly resolved that issue was brought out in the
discussion of the trans mountain pipelines and so on peace order and good
government which is phrase from the Canadian Constitution which is also often
invoked as an example of Canadian political culture so if the Americans have
life liberty and the pursuit of happiness the Canadians have peace order and
good government which said to be an expression of the difference in political
out look affinity behavior demeanor in Canada compared to the Americans the media
of course is very important in political culture being the Fourth Estate if you
will the major player in politics now it might not have the same position as it
did say 30 years ago because social media Facebook Twitter Instagram all these
different outlets have shifted the powers of gatekeeping in public space no
longer can the major print media's and broadcasting corporations claim to be
the sole arbiter of who gets access to saying something in public so that
everyone can hear it but it's still an important actor it's still a major
player and that's why it's called the Fourth Estate so it's check on the power
of government its role is to hold government accountable and creates sets the
agenda by prioritizing issues by saying this is important news that is not
important news now an important question here is about sources of course what
are the central questions and conflicts of an issue who gets to decide what
quite what questions to ask and this news triage which has also been criticized
and in terms of what choice is the more powerful media companies make in terms of
what they should put on the front page how they should write their headlines
and so on there's a continuous conversation going on on basically how they are
doing the job basically who's watching the Watchers so and that's also one of
the problems that of the media have to wrestle with they are working in a
particular cycle they have to attract attention from their audiences in competition
with many other outlets they have to make the information they present easily accessible
and how do they go about doing that so with so much choice do we get a variety
of opinion or what I would looking for and how do we choose a reliable source
of information and who controls the different media outlets a lot of major
outlets are owned by major corporations sometimes the same major corporations
some in some countries government can provide subsidies to media and even owns
media so the CBC is a publicly owned BBC is publicly owned that's in Canada and
and the UK is that affecting the reporting what is the editorial line and
there's a lot of media outlets that have taken an ideological position on the
left-right spectrum Fox News and so on and so forth and that's going to affect
the questions that the journalists affiliated with that outlet will ask so
that's a brief
outline of political
socialization political culture and the role of the media.
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