(FORT COLLINS, CO) Research on political polarization points to how people’s preferred news outlets and social media use create information silos, environments in which people primarily encounter views consistent with their own, further cementing those views.
But this research often omits an important source of political information: popular culture, from influencers and podcasts to comedy, television and movies.
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