Stories may have political impact less by persuading than by reminding people which side they are on
Stories may have political impact less by persuading than by reminding people which side they are on
- July 28, 2017
- Francesca Polletta, sociology, via NiemanLab, July 28, 2017
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Professor of sociology Francesca Polletta and Jessica Callahan at the University of California Irvine look at how “the rise of right-wing media outlets and the profusion of user-shared digital news” have changed storytelling (paywall), asking the question, “How was a story of middle-class whites pushed aside by a parade of minority groups, abandoned by the government, and treated with disdain by liberals made real?”
For the full story, please visit http://www.niemanlab.org/2017/07/stories-may-have-political-impact-less-by-persuading-than-by-reminding-people-which-side-they-are-on/.
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