2010-07-19

Media, Public Opinion and elections

The third session of the section “Mediated Communication, Public Opinion and Society” was about “Media, Public Opinion and Elections”. Hilled Nossek chaired the discussion.
Patricia Andrade, from Mexico, talked about her research which objective is to analyze the relation between the written press and the electoral behaviour, in Mexico.
German Sanchez was the second participant and talked about politics campaigns, particularly about Obama’s campaign. For this study, German considered many factors like the politic, social and economic environments.
Ângela Moraes, from Brazil, analyzed the media in the electoral context and the transformation of public-private relationship. Ângela concluded that the public-private sphere is seen as impenetrable categories.
Paul Schutte, original from South Africa, talk about intercultural problems, mainly in his country. Schutte concluded that the reasons to the intercultural problems are the past that is still present in the minds of everyone and therefore violence is used to solve problems.

Sofia Gomes and Luciana Silva

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