Search results for "Political Communication"

News Management as News

2005

Abstract This paper argues that the widely noticed increase in news reports about news management, government publicity and media relations must be seen as a logical outgrowth of a new, modernized and media-centred approach to policy-making and campaigning. It offers a systematic introduction to the concepts of media politics and metacoverage, develops a theoretical model to examine their relationship and applies it to the political communication dynamics of Great Britain. This paper breaks new ground in two respects: it broadens our understanding of what counter-measures media professionals take in response to political news management, and it lays out a comprehensive theoretical scheme of…

Blog influence and political activism: An emerging and integrative model

2017

Abstract Internet has elicited a new decision making process in the area of political marketing thanks to the emergence of new communication tools. This paper focuses on weblogs as pioneer players on Web 2.0 in order to ascertain their actual sphere of influence on individuals’ political behaviour. Focusing on the case of weblogs and assuming a wide and integrative theoretical approach, a hybrid model which merges marketing, technology and political science is proposed and tested using a sample of 39 weblogs and 890 blog users in an innovative attempt to shed light on these virtual-physical dynamics. The results are promising and open the door to the comprehension of a new, emerging framewo…

Conspiracy Theories and (the) Media (Studies)

2017

Traditionally, research on conspiracy theories (CT) is not at the heart of communication and media studies. Still there are theories, concepts and findings in this discipline which can be fruitfully linked to CT research. If one sees CT as certain forms of narratives, one important question is how they spread within societies, communities and groups. To analyse this, one can apply the concept of "diffusion of innovations", alongside theories and concepts which stem from media studies, such as agenda setting or two-step flow of communication. Moreover, research on strategic and political communication, news bias and even fake news can be linked to the study of CT.

Estudio exploratorio de las estrategias de encuadre discursivo en memes humorísticos publicados en Twitter durante las elecciones generales de noviem…

2020

La presente investigación se basa en el análisis de un corpus de 115 memes humorísticos difundidos en la red social Twitter, durante las elecciones generales celebradas en España en noviembre de 2019. Para su recopilación se han consultado los tuits publicados haciendo uso de los hashtags que se convirtieron en trending topic, en el transcurso de la campaña electoral que tuvo lugar entre el 1 y el 10 de noviembre de 2019. En ellos hemos podido identificar los principales rasgos que caracterizan al discurso pseudopolítico y determinadas estrategias de encuadre discursivo utilizadas para movilizar el voto y orientar cognitivamente los mensajes. This research is based on the analysis of a corp…

Attivisti 5 Stelle a Palermo

2015

Nel 2005 nasce il primo Meetup palermitano, alla protesta contro i partiti unisce l’impegno ambientalista. Nel 2012 alle comunali la lista civica del Movimento 5 Stelle non raggiunge il 5%, ma diventa primo partito alle regionali (14,9%). Gli attivisti intervistati raccontano le diverse fasi del movimento a Palermo, tra successi e periodi critici. In 2005 the first Meetup arose in Palermo in order to protest against political parties and to support environmental issues. In 2012 the municipal civic list 5 Star Movement did not reach 5%, but it became the first party at the regional elections (14.9%). The interviewed activists illustrate the different stages of the movement in Palermo, descri…

“Pour consideracion des bons et aggreables services”: dons, musiciens et communication politique à la cour de Bourgogne (1404–1467)

2023

Appetizer or main dish? Explaining the use of Facebook news posts as a substitute for other news sources

2019

An increasing number of, especially younger, users use Facebook as their primary source for news about political and societal issues. At the same time, research suggests that Facebook use contributes to societal knowledge gaps. Against this background, we investigate the antecedents of using Facebook as a substitute for other news sources. We argue that exposure to news posts on Facebook increases the feeling of being well-informed, regardless of actual knowledge acquisition. This might lead users, especially those with a low need for cognition (NfC), to use Facebook as a substitute for other news sources. We test these assumptions with an online survey (n=390) of German Internet users. Res…

Le tweet stratégique: Use of Twitter as a PR tool by French politicians

2015

Edited By Dejan Verčič, Ana Tkalac Verčič, Krishnamurthy Sriramesh and Jon White; National audience; This study, adopting a qualitative approach to political communication, looks in depth at the way Twitter is used as a PR tool by five French politicians. It suggests that the microblogging service plays a specific role in allowing them to monitor public opinion and current affairs, to interact with voters, journalists, stakeholders and other politicians and to disseminate information. The way politicians use Twitter is influenced by concerns of impression management (content and style of tweets), and also various institutional, political and social/symbolic limits, which contribute to revea…

Culture et patrimoine dans les municipalités : une communication politique en quête de consensus ? : enjeux démocratiques des questions culturelles e…

2017

This research falls mainly into the field of political communication. It tries to comprehend cultural and patrimonial questions as essentiel political communication issue in the municipalities in France. Having chosen two fields (Nice and Dijon), established a theoretical tool and a methodology, we started to hypothesize as follows : the political communication, relating to matters of culture and heritage in the local democratic life, builds up as two differing communication systems in each city. Our work draws on a corpus composed of semi-structured interviews with elected representatives, their speeches and other additional sources (speeches in the media, public and private archives of th…

The use of blogs as social media tools of political communication : citizen journalism and public opinion 2.0

2019

In recent years, the political arena has been transformed into a space of public debate, a phenomenon which is both evident, yet hitherto unparalleled. A new range of digital social communication tools framed within the Web 2.0 era, with the blog often proving the tool of choice, has displaced the traditional pre-eminence of the communication scenario, as previously used by the mass media, thanks to a series of more interactive, diverse and credible dynamics which place the user at the very heart of the political discussion process and facilitates processes of social mobilization and collective civic action. This study takes the above situation as its point of departure and guiding principl…