Presentation Title
Socialist vs Democratic Political Coverage
Panel Name
The Press: Freedom, Bias, Ethics I
Location
Lecture Center 21
Start Date
3-5-2019 3:15 PM
End Date
3-5-2019 4:15 PM
Presentation Type
Oral Presentation
Academic Major
Communication, English
Abstract
Words like democratic and socialist are thrown around in today’s society, yet these words meanings are anything but universal. Specifically, in different countries the governing systems set up in these nations, despite having the same name ,vary to sometimes extreme degrees. Furthermore, when comparing these two systems along with a couple countries representing/practicing each, their drastic differences come to light in a more tangible way. This is particularly true in regards to what our project is primarily concerned with and that is the coverage of politics in both socialist and democratic countries/governing systems. In order to make it easier to understand we compare the nations and systems regarded in this project to the United States of America as a reference point. In order to research this, we first chose which nations to do an in-depth analysis of and in order to be fair, chose an equal number from those contemplated from both of the governing systems in question (Cuba/China= Socialist vs United States/Greece= Democratic). We then scoured the Internet looking for informational articles, news media and social media relating to these topics. Afterwards we compared and categorized our findings which lead us to surprising conclusions/interpretations of our discovered data. Essentially, we inferred from what we discovered that socialist and democratic systems vary heavily from country to country and despite what one might think, both systems are not static but rather evolving with time in regards to how they cover politics and only becoming more opposite in nature.
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Course assignment/project
First Faculty Advisor
Chang Sup Park
First Advisor Email
cpark2@albany.edu
First Advisor Department
Journalism/Communications
The work you will be presenting can best be described as
Finished or mostly finished by conference date
Socialist vs Democratic Political Coverage
Lecture Center 21
Words like democratic and socialist are thrown around in today’s society, yet these words meanings are anything but universal. Specifically, in different countries the governing systems set up in these nations, despite having the same name ,vary to sometimes extreme degrees. Furthermore, when comparing these two systems along with a couple countries representing/practicing each, their drastic differences come to light in a more tangible way. This is particularly true in regards to what our project is primarily concerned with and that is the coverage of politics in both socialist and democratic countries/governing systems. In order to make it easier to understand we compare the nations and systems regarded in this project to the United States of America as a reference point. In order to research this, we first chose which nations to do an in-depth analysis of and in order to be fair, chose an equal number from those contemplated from both of the governing systems in question (Cuba/China= Socialist vs United States/Greece= Democratic). We then scoured the Internet looking for informational articles, news media and social media relating to these topics. Afterwards we compared and categorized our findings which lead us to surprising conclusions/interpretations of our discovered data. Essentially, we inferred from what we discovered that socialist and democratic systems vary heavily from country to country and despite what one might think, both systems are not static but rather evolving with time in regards to how they cover politics and only becoming more opposite in nature.