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1. By ignoring the sentiments of other opposing groups, it makes you naive and stubborn and as a result, makes you a detriment to intellectual discourse.

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Political organisations can directly engage with the public through large groups and pages on Twitter, Reddit (the_donald and such garbage) and Facebook. For more worthwhile discourse, parties can make private groups in such services as well. Groups can also engage the proletariat through direct messages; last month, I was contacted by a member of Socialist Alternative directly for an interview.

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There is nothing unacceptable about making a reasoned statement supporting one political orientation. In a materialist consideration of history, we see that society is permanently locked in a struggle between two class-structures, the proletarian and the bourgeois. By acting in proletarian interests alone and stifling bourgeois alignments - which are propelled by society as a whole - we can improve living standards and further Australia's socialist development.

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Identifying one's opinions on issues and politics is good for the country as a whole because it encourages political discourse but is negative for individuals because it opens you up to direct attack because of your opinion.

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1. Political parties utilise social media platforms to create pages or accounts where they can garner followers.
2. They survey individuals about their beliefs i order to understand their political sentiments.

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They post their campaign propaganda on many social media platforms such as Tweeters, Facebook and they can do AMAs here (Obama did one) https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/

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Political parties can use social media to get feedback from their citizens about their policies and how to improve.

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It is clearly a threat to Australia's identity as a modern, multicultural country. Political polarisation will make our country seem wilfully ignorant and destructive.

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Political parties can pay websites (i.e. youtube), to display advertisements intended to sway a citizens political persuasions.

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Do you think that social media contributes to democracy in a constructive manner?

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Do you think that social media contributes to democracy in a constructive manner?

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Some of it. Lots of social media is used for entertainment, rather than constructive content. However, this content does exist, and often does and will contribute.

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It's like bacon. If you cook it right, it tastes good

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Do you think that social media contributes to democracy in a constructive manner?

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Do you think that social media contributes to democracy in a constructive manner?

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It in a way can be both, as social media allows for people who's opinions are generally aren't sought for to have a platform to speak out on. However it allows for things like peer pressure to arise which may create skewed perspectives

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facebook
twitter
myspace
wechat
instagram
snapchat

No it doesn't, because people can be bias and easily affected by fake news.

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Political parties make their own social media account and post things about their movement and thoughts.

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1. Political parties communicate with their voters through the use of social media such as twitter and facebook to make announcements and push their policies
2. They may indenting the audience by how they react to their announcements. If they react negatively and leave hate then they are probably against the party. Of they react positively and encourage others to follow as well, then they are probably supporting that party

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Not seeing the opposing side's opinion is harmful towards Australia's identity as it creates a more ignorant Australia, with people unable to understand the ideas of the opposition.

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Australia's identity is affected by not seeing the opposing opinion. Australia's foundation is built upon having an open mind. Specifically multiculturalism.

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Political parties can purchase advertisements on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
They can also use personal accounts to post promotional content.
They can use data relating to interactions online to formulate a voter identity. Such data may include search history and social media.

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It is a threat to Australia’s identity as their is no variety in the groups which results in biased opinopns, altering the forming of thr country and effecting how our country develops and advances

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List some of the sites that reflect political/social values

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List some of the sites that reflect political/social values

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Twitter
Facebook
4chan
Youtube
News sites (The Age, etc)
Reddit

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Do you think that social media contributes to democracy in a constructive manner?

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Do you think that social media contributes to democracy in a constructive manner?

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I believe that many people of the populace use social media to voice their views and if politicians and governments noticed this, it would provide them insight on people's opinions.

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List some of the sites that reflect political/social values?

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List some of the sites that reflect political/social values?

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Reddit.com
facebook.com
twitter.com
youtube.com

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Political parties communicates with voters by using social media platforms such as twitter and facebook. For example trump uses his twitter account for his presidential campaign.

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Political parties communicates with voters by using social media platforms such as twitter and facebook. For example trump uses his twitter account for his presidential campaign.

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I believe that it does because it leads to people hanging on their own ideas, and if everyone were to do this, the only ting which would result is more division and hate. Australians being at each other's throats so much would be so prominent that it could potentially affect our national identity

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Political Parties communicate with voters via social media:

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Political Parties communicate with voters via social media:

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Donald Trump has utilised Twitter in order to get reactions out of people (I don't trust the "facts" that are given via this because it is probably "Fake News")

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Political parties create social media accounts to campaign for the candidates

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know your opposition, know the public and know your own campaign, if you know this you may not fear the result of 1000 elections

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Donald trump effectively used his twitter account as a mass vote attracting machine throughout his campaign of tyranny

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voters have different interests

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If you don't know what other people voted, the government can lie about the results'

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If you don't know what other people voted, the government can lie about the results'

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People shouldn’t be anonymous in the ballot so we can see the demographics of the people voting

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Political parties directly communicate using various platforms of social media. This is effective as they are able to directly talk to their supporters and spread their messages. Such media include: twitter, facebook

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No, because they have the power to sway elections and opinions of their viewers; for the good but usually for the worse. They have too much power and have too much influence on a democracy

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People think what they wanna think and nobody like a politician should affect that opinion without informing them about the entirety of thier policy

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Is it wise for the voter to identify their opinions on issues and politics and does it form their identity?

Yes because you can make an informed decision. If you don't tell anyone then your political opinion doesn't form your identity.