IN FOCUS — The intersection of voters, especially young voters with new media and social media, is changing the way politics happen.

Wisconsinites are engaging in politics and with each other in 2021 in many different ways.

But can the Badger State still move forward together? Or are platforms like Twitter helping to divide us too far apart?

Newspapers were once the dominant media in the United States, then radio and television. But were politics as front and center then, as it often seems today?

Professor Michael Wagner with the University of Wisconsin Madison's - School of Journalism and Mass Communication, charts the changes from then to now, particularly the effect of social media.