{"id":209215,"date":"2018-09-14T10:34:40","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T10:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/09\/14\/com-310-week-4-dq-3\/"},"modified":"2018-10-24T08:43:09","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T08:43:09","slug":"com-310-week-4-dq-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/com-310-week-4-dq-3\/","title":{"rendered":"COM 310 Week 4 DQ 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Week 4 DQ 3\tChapter 24 of your text discusses the Spiral of Silence Theory (SST) which rests on public opinion. One of the assertions of the SST is that people &#8220;seek out the media to confirm or disconfirm their observations and then interpret their own observations through the media&#8221; (p.414). Considering that the Internet has become a powerful media outlet, what kind of influence do you think the Internet has on public opinion?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Week 4 DQ 3 Chapter 24 of your text discusses the Spiral of Silence Theory (SST) which rests on public opinion. One of the assertions of the SST is that people &#8220;seek out the media to confirm or disconfirm their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/com-310-week-4-dq-3\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}