Information Technology's Personal Influence on Popular Evaluation of Politics

Abstract

Social networking has been increasing the personal influence of information technology. The news required to evaluate politics is increasingly from social media. This paper intends to improve how three issues that arise from this political reality are comprehended. An impressive theme runs throughout all of these issues. Political news and analysis is now reaching people in a more personal way than ever. There is a need to improve concepts for analyzing the more personal media now presenting much of our political news. Political science education can make people more sophisticated in reasoning with changing sources of political news and information. Information technology's personal influence on political evaluation is presented as influenced by three issues. Better understanding of these issues improves ability to be critical of the social media and politics phenomenon. All three are related to developments in social networking. As 2020 politics are extensively influenced by social networking news, these issues educate about present politics. First, the paper considers if belief systems are vulnerable to social networking. Belief systems are effective and economic tools for evaluating information about changing conditions. The paper questions the possible harm to belief systems from social media’s salesmanship and manipulation. Second, effects social networking may have on personality are analyzed. Critics suggest social media may leave a chaotic legacy. A narrative in images is created for both the favorable and unfavorable opinion of social networking. Awareness of concern about problems occurring with multitasking, depression, addiction, and interpersonal relationships is produced from the narrative data. The third issue the paper is concerned with is how media rich political communications, networks, and political choice interact. The cognitive implications of framing political news with viral images is analyzed. Problems that could occur from mainstream media losing framing abilities to the increasing media richness of Internet images is discussed. The strength artificial intelligence has, theoretically, to manipulate networks is analyzed. How Internet personalities affect network transactions for political information is mentioned. The personal implications of how information technology delivers political news have been analyzed in this paper. Educational concerns about recognizing the paper’s three issues have been mentioned. The possibility of using narrative analysis from qualitative methods to improve analytic capabilities has been explained. Narrative techniques appear to have meaningful ability to increase perception of the issues that concern this paper. Methods to more effectively question innovations in ICT relevant to politics have been presented.