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Information, pleasure, and persuasion : how motivations function in talking politics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)Scholars have long debated the role that communication plays in the formation and functioning of a democratic system. Philosopher John Dewey (1927) suggested that citizen-to-citizen talk serves as the very foundation of ...