Politics Votes

  “ They Want I, But No ” and “ Con La Brisa ” These two songs are from the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Movie. I’ve highlighted these two songs because :  The composition sounds absolutely beautiful on both songs The beats in “ They Want I, But No ” invoke this feeling of being strong within a foreign land. You have to lean on your strength because the world will throw curve balls. The melody in “ Con La Brisa ” invokes this feeling of calm and tranquility. You feel like you're in a space in which you're floating on air. (Or you know in the sea like the movie) These songs help display the different cultures represented within the movie : African and Hispanic (Indigenous) Heritages.  When listening to “ They Want I, But No ” certain lyrics can be related to issues like police brutality : “ Why the laws wanna take us under? ”  The artist, Tobe Nwigwe takes on the question on why the law is unfair to blacks. When listening to  “ Con La Brisa ” certain lyrics “ A...

  Question : Can explicit appeals that directly invoke race and/or racial stereotypes, for example, effectively activate racial attitudes in white Americans’ political opinions?How did Obama’s presidency, which both heightened the salience of race in political discourse and increased the importance of racial attitudes in Americans’ partisan preferences, affect the media’s ability to prime race-based considerations in mass political evaluations? Race has been a topic of discussion for centuries. It seems to be a topic that's able to transcend time. In history time and time again, you read and learn about groups of individuals who were racial profiled. These profiles turn into stereotypes that stick to that specific race. It then tries to turn into the normal which is where the movements come into play. The media and technology over the years have definitely increased racial tensions, especially in the 21st century. It’s now a thing where individuals will slide in “shade comments” wh...

  Protesting for what you feel or deem is wrong and needs change has been happening for years. Everyone in different parts of the world have gotten up and went out to make change that has been affected. It is sad that protests have to be categorized as violent and non-violent. Protests are described as Malcolm X teachings or Dr. King teachings. Agenda seeding helps transend this rhetoric to the media. Certain clips and scenes that are taken are then twisted and possibly distorts the message the movement is calling forward. This then creates the need for leaders of these movements to clarify the message and essentially do damage control. Social movements are successful when the correct image is portrayed. Civil rights movement to the Black Lives Matter Movement had to cultivate their own media to protect and spread its message the correct and truthful way. These movements were successful because of the individuals within then sharing and being passionate. Even if they had to do twen...

  The media is a plane and the candidates are the pilots. The media shares what they were supposed to share sometimes on the behalf of candidates and what the writers cook up behind the scenes. As it pertains to the candidates, they focus on what the voters want to hear and have more passion about what they don’t. Harris focused on abortion and giving women the freedom to do what they want with their bodies. Her campaign ran messages about abortion on all her campaign’s media sites. Spreading information on how important it is for women to have access to abortion especially in cases where it's life or death. Trump focused on immigration and securing the border. His campaign ran messages about immigration on all of his campaign’s media sites. Spreading information on how securing the border will save American jobs and decrease in violence. They danced around other issues that voters were particularly voicing about to possibly stay from voters being turned off. Their campaigns were s...

  Media and politics are like cats and dogs. Sometimes they mix and sometimes they do not. Each utilizes each other for good and for bad. They often cause chains of reactions to different situations. Each offers their own spin to topics and issues. First, attitudes. We watched cartoon characters and actors/actresses and wished we could play their roles of the characters they are portraying. If they are our favorite character, we like to act like them. Essentially taking their personality and attitude and making it ours. This is not different with media and politics. The media is the actor and politics is the attitude. The media shares what political news is trending with the reactions from political leaders and officials. The viewership and audience watches the newscast, takes the information and creates an attitude towards it. If political figures do not like water management regulations and are angry, the supporters/audience adopt that anger that shapes their attitudes. If they w...

  2016 was the prime year for media and elections. The relationship between the two was forever altered by the 2016 election. The first interesting find of this research is the level of negativity revolving around both candidates. Neither candidate received an ounce of positive territory. Both the general election and full campaign percentages were well above 50% negative. These numbers were related to their tone that was presented by the press. Visibly you can see that these percentages reflected whether the general public trusted either individual. One could say that articles and scandals released during election season added on to the negative percentages. Another interesting research point is the campaign coverage by topic. The important topics such as policy standings were a record 10% while horserace was a whopping 42%. The media covered and put more focus on who was winning/losing due to the outlets operating their own polling. News polling became more popular because of the...