Media And Electoral Rights: A conceptual Approach to Factors Affecting Support for Electoral Rights

Abstract

The media collectively constitute a source of political culture, and through it media professionals play a major role in promoting the right of individuals to obtain this culture and their right to be aware of the electoral rights guaranteed to them by laws and constitutions, and one of their most important rights is their right to understand the concept of elections and their importance and role in achieving political participation and the exercise of democracy.

    This study is a visualization for the media to work with in order to achieve the principle of the individual's right to access information related to elections on the one hand, and on the other hand, this study presents philosophical readers as an attempt to bring the concept of the electoral right to the minds of individuals in addition to knowing the sources of obtaining this right and knowing the mechanisms  that the media use to communicate this right, such as debates, television news, and non-political programmers. In addition to knowing the most important factors affecting support for electoral rights, these rights include the right to vote, the right to perceive meanings, the right to know candidates' programs and political activities, and their right to obtain information related to elections, such as the right to know the date of the poll Knowing the electoral code and knowing the biography of the candidates.                              

    This study also opens areas for other studies, perhaps the most important of which is the study of knowledge of the factors affecting the weakness of knowledge of electoral rights and knowledge of ways and methods of enhancing knowledge of these rights.

    This study also represents a knowledge base for researchers in the field of political and media studies to build hypotheses that study the relationship between exposure to the media and knowledge of electoral rights.