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Democracy At Stake: Which Media Outlets Are Harming Voter Turnout?, Ryan Shiri
Democracy At Stake: Which Media Outlets Are Harming Voter Turnout?, Ryan Shiri
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The consensus of research literature dealing with the usage of new forms of news outlets and their effects on voter turnout rates has shifted overtime from having no clear correlation into having a differing correlation depending on which media outlets. Originally, the research about media usage and voter turnout was unclear and showed no evident correlations. In the 1990’s and early 2000’s, most research assured the fact that new media outlets, like the Internet, had become a huge source of news content for many citizens, however there was no evidence of a strong correlation between those new news outlets and …