{"id":1925,"date":"2021-02-18T13:22:48","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T18:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/digitalhumanities\/?p=1925"},"modified":"2021-02-18T13:24:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T18:24:15","slug":"traditional-media-social-media-and-the-polarization-of-the-electorate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/digitalhumanities\/2021\/02\/18\/traditional-media-social-media-and-the-polarization-of-the-electorate\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Traditional Media, Social Media, And the Polarization of the Electorate&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Nov. 30, 2020; 7:00 &#8211; 8:00pm<\/h5>\n<h5><b>\u00a0Panelists<\/b><\/h5>\n<h5>Vin Gopal, NJ State Senator 11th District<\/h5>\n<h5>Alex Torpey, Former South Orange Village President<\/h5>\n<h5>Robert Pallitto, Professor of Political Science and Public Administration, Seton Hall University<\/h5>\n<h5>Moderator \u2013 Stephen Schnall, South Orange Village Trustee<\/h5>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;margin-left: .375in;font-family: Calibri;font-size: 11.0pt\">Social media has had an impact on all aspects of our lives, but perhaps nowhere more profoundly than in the political sphere. Platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram provide easy access and enable the free flow of information, but this can also lead to a lack of genuine reflection and thoughtful responsiveness. They can also lead to the formation of closed digital \u201cbubbles,\u201d where what we believe reinforced by like-minded others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nov. 30, 2020; 7:00 &#8211; 8:00pm \u00a0Panelists Vin Gopal, NJ State Senator 11th District Alex Torpey, Former South Orange Village President Robert Pallitto, Professor of Political Science and Public Administration, Seton Hall University Moderator \u2013 Stephen Schnall, South Orange Village Trustee Social media has had an impact on all aspects of our lives, but perhaps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1797,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/digitalhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/digitalhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/digitalhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/digitalhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1797"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/digitalhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1925"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/digitalhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1927,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/digitalhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925\/revisions\/1927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/digitalhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/digitalhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/digitalhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}