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Etymologically, ‘opinion’ has at least one foot in the idea of being able to think independently, of owning one’s thoughts, and the other in the idea of choice, of being able to have preferences, judge something one way or another, or take one of several positions on a controversial issue. Having opinions implies being cognitively autonomous, independent, but also somewhat unpredictable.
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Krippendorff, K. (2005). The Social Construction of Public Opinion. In: Wienand, E., Westerbarkey, J., Scholl, A. (eds) Kommunikation über Kommunikation. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-80821-9_10
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