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Politics has been influenced by popular culture for centuries. The United States and other countries have experienced a political rift, and hyper-partisanship threatens a functional democracy. Media can be one of the tools to bring countries back together.What do these symbols mean?
Brown, Rupert and Paterson, Jenny (2016) Indirect contact and prejudice reduction: limits and possibilities. Current Opinion in Psychology, 11. pp. 20-24. ISSN 2352-250X This version is available from Sussex Research
The authors particularly wish to thank the following people for their advice:
Professor Benjamin Bowling (King’s College, London); Professor Howard Ehrlich (The Prejudice Institute, Washington D.C. USA)
Institute Montaigne investigated whether a similar phenomenon was at work in France. To this end, it led an in-depth study in partnership with the Sciences Po Médialab, the Sciences Po School of Journalism as well as the MIT Center for Civic Media. It also benefited from data collected and analyzed by the Pew Research Center*, in their report News Media Attitudes in France.
