DIRECT SENTENCES
1) Keith Hampton as researcher said
they detect what they call the "spiral of silence" phenomenon: Unless
people know their audience agrees, they are likely to shy away from discussing
anything controversial."People do not tend to be using social media for
this type of important political discussion and if anything, it may actually be
removing conversation from the public sphere is a communication professor at Rutgers
University who helped conduct the study”.
2) Hampton said” the Snowden case
provided researchers with a concrete example of a major national issue that
divided Americans and dominated news coverage of the 1,801 adults surveyed, 86
percent, they would be willing to discuss their views about government
surveillance if it came up at various in-person scenarios, such as at a public
meeting, at work or at a restaurant with friends”.
THE CHANGES:
INDIRECT SENTENCES
1) Keith Hampton as researcher said that
they detected what they called the "spiral of silence" phenomenon:
Unless people knew their audience agrees, they were likely to shy away from
discussing anything controversial."People did not tend to be using social
media for this type of important political discussion and if anything, it may
actually be removing conversation from the public sphere was a communication
professor at Rutgers University who helped conduct the study”.
2) Hampton said that Snowden case had
provided researchers with a concrete example of a major national issue that had
divided Americans and had dominated news coverage of the 1,801 adults surveyed,
86 percent, they would be willing to discussed their views about government
surveillance if it came up at various in-person scenarios, such as at a public
meeting, at work or at a restaurant with friends.
