Political communication

Purpose: Although social capital and positive reputation in organizations are essential for career success, there is a limited perspective in the literature on the political characteristics (motivation and ability) that enable one to acquire and develop the two elements. This study seeks to investigate the sequential role of political skill and network resources as serial mediators of the political will–personal reputation relationship. Methodology: In total, what provided data for the study were 457 sales executives from 13 different sectors in the cities of İstanbul, Kocaeli, and Bursa, which is an economically leading region of western Turkey. Executives rated their political will, political skill network resources, and personal reputation. Based on the complementary theories of political influence, social network, and signaling, we analyzed the relationships between constructs with structural equation modeling. Findings: Political skill mediated the relationship between politica...

This paper presents an analysis of the personalization of the vote in Italian municipal elections in the period 1993–2017. Considering the ability of mayoral candidates to attract more votes than those of the lists that support them, the paper outlines the socio-demographic and political characteristics of the candidates who receive the most personalized votes. Contrary to what one might expect, the most personalized candidates are the losing candidates, not the winning ones. At the same time, the candidates who present themselves as outsiders are more personalized: women; candidates at the head of civic lists; those who lead coalitions positioned at the extremes of the left/right axis; candidates supported by one or two lists. Thus, the paper shows the propensity of the Italian electorate to use the split vote to reward those candidates who present themselves as challengers, rather than the established ones, also in the more pragmatic context of local government elections. Moreover...

Slogans and songs are fundamental components of the revolutionary experience. In its linguistic and musical form, the phrase ya hef ('what a shame') became a slogan of the 2011 Syrian revolution and served as a force for instigating a socio-political change in contemporary Syria. This paper investigates ya hef and its political potential in contemporary Syrian politics from a discourse-analytical perspective. After borrowing theories from cultural studies, discourse analysis and political studies, the article analyses the strong revolutionary connotations of the slogan and song within the discursive repertoire of massacre politics, focusing on both the general and specific functions. Through a close analysis of the song's text, the study maps out three main arguments associated with the expression: 1) ya hef as a moral protest against state-sanctioned injustice and oppression; 2) ya hef as a response to the sentiment of brotherly betrayal among Syrians; and 3) ya hef as a cathartic mechanism for national reconciliation and nation-building. This article concludes that the expression ya hef is not only politically engaged in taking a stand against al-Assad's brutality; it also fulfils a dialogical function between the oppressor and the oppressed, the ruler and the ruled and al-Assad and the Syrian citizens. This research adds to a growing body of literature on the uses and functions of language in revolutions in general and the Arab Spring protests in particular.

After yet another American presidential election in which the political rhetoric of the two principal candidates Al Gore and George W. Bush seemed rather uninspired, trite and void of colorful metaphors, it might be of general interest to take a glance at the verbal prowess of previous American presidents. Modern presidents, certainly since Harry S. Truman, are relying ever more on speech writers and advisors who put words into their mouths that lack emotional vigor and instead are replete with statistics and factual information. It is, however, to be hoped that presidents of this large nation will at least continue to labor on their own inaugural addresses as relatively short public speeches that attempt to set the stage for the new presidency. Obviously every president in his turn has delivered more influential and significant addresses than that at the beginning of his presidential years in office, but choosing the inaugural speeches as the corpus of this investigation makes it p...

Digital adalah perkembangan dari teknologi informasi dan komunikasi yang mempenggaruhi perubahan struktur masyarakat  dari mass ke mass -self . Pesan media  digital umumnya tersegmentasi dan menunjukkan pergeseran budaya dari budaya massa  ke  custom .  Teknologi digital melahirkan berbagai platform sosial media yang memfasilitasi individu memproduksi konten, sehingga lahirlah masyarakat sebagai produsen sekaligus konsumen (prosumer). Perkembangan ini diasumsikan melahirkan masyarakat yang egaliter. Oleh sebab itu, media digital dilihat sebagai ruang publik yang netral. Penelitian ini menganalisis perilaku prosumsi dalam praktek keseharian generasi  internet yaitu generasi  Y dan Z serta implikasinya terhadap interaksi sosial. Subyek penelitian adalah mahasiswa Program Studi Ilmu Komunikasi Universitas Atmajaya Yogyakarta. Pendekatan yang digunakan adalah kualitatif, dengan teknik pengumpulan data melalui focus group discussion ( fgd ).  Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa semua info...

La tarea de los gobiernos municipales en materia de comunicacion politica es compleja, se necesitan mecanismos profesionales y academicos con sustento cientifico a fin de generar mensajes efectivos para todos los actores sociales y poder asi construir una comunicacion de la cercania. El presente articulo examina los flujos comunicativos de un municipio mexicano, la socializacion de sus acciones en diversos medios de comunicacion y la percepcion ciudadana respecto a su gestion. La recoleccion de datos se realizo transcurrido el primer ano de la administracion municipal, entre 2014 y 2016. La muestra esta constituida por un total de 203 sujetos clasificados por escolaridad y sexo en siete de las alcaldias que conforman el municipio analizado: se les aplico un cuestionario estructurado con trece variables con el objetivo de conocer su percepcion sobre las unidades de analisis de satisfaccion de la comunicacion gubernamental y participacion en redes sociales. Los resultados muestran un ...

La Red Iberoamericana de Investigacion en Narrativas Audiovisuales (Red INAV) se complace en presentar el numero tematico “entornos audiovisuales”, donde desde diversas voces, metodologias y regiones, se hace una exploracion profunda sobre las realidades comunicativas, mediaticas y culturales de los paises de Iberoamerica.

Des dizaines et des dizaines de poissons rouges participent a un mariage champetre. Quatre d’entre eux vont finir par prendre le metro puis le TGV dans une boite de bonbons Haribo. Ce telescopage ou le banal le dispute a l’inattendu genere une myriade de mises en relations entre humains et non humains. Les poissons jouent le jeu. Les regards convergent. Des paroles s’echangent. Quelques moments de grâce adviennent. Ces animaux illuminent ce voyage devenu lunaire. C’est l’effet-poissons-rouges !

This study aimed to construct the form of political engagement and examine the differences in any political engagement in Generation Z based on age, gender, and scientific field. This study involved 600 Generation Z (300 male, 300 female) who were studying at Universitas Diponegoro, Semarang, Indonesia. This study uses a mixed method consisting of qualitative grounded theory and quantitative comparison. Data collection uses open-ended questions, in depth interview, and a political engagement scale (16 items; = 0.862). The results show that the form of political engagement of Generation Z includes the cognitive type such as understanding and analyzing political conditions, and the behavior type such as voting, expressing opinions, and habituating socio-political values in daily life as good citizens. Forms of political involvement vary from individual to collective. Generation Z’s political perception cannot be separated from the results of social construction by online media and sig...

Celem niniejszego opracowania jest określenie celów i form aktywności największych polskich miast w mediach społecznościowych oraz identyfikacja poziomu ich istotności w procesie komunikacji marketingowej. Dotychczas badania aktywności w mediach społecznościowych dotyczyły głównie przedsiębiorstw. Zmiany technologiczne i komunikacyjne oraz wynikająca z nich łatwość dostępu do informacji spowodowały, że polskie miasta stanęły przed wyzwaniem związanym ze zmianą ich aktywności informacyjnej, która w ostatnich latach przenoszona jest do mediów społecznościowych. W artykule podano definicję mediów społecznościowych, dokonano ich klasyfikacji oraz opisano aktywność w nich największych polskich miast. Metodą wywiadu bezpośredniego przeprowadzono badania z pracownikami Urzędów Miast w czterech największych polskich miast (Warszawa, Wrocław, Gdańsk oraz Kraków) odpowiedzialnymi za zarządzanie i prowadzenie oficjalnych serwisów społecznościowych. Źródłem informacji były dane wtórne uzyskane ...

Various socio-political organizations, from activist groups to propaganda campaigners, create accounts on Twitter to reach out, influence and gain followers. In order to analyze the impact of these organizational accounts, the first step is to identify them. In this paper, we develop and experiment with a set of network-based, behavioral, temporal and spatial characteristics in these accounts, independent of domain or language, to identify features that can be useful in detecting organizational accounts. In order to assess this model, we experimented with a microblog corpus comprised of over 7 million tweets from 150,000 Twitter users in Bangladesh, tweeted between June and October 2016. We sampled 31,139 accounts using cold-start heuristics to locate and label nearly 200 organizational accounts, distributed as 68 NGOs, 62 news outlets, 35 political groups, and 17 public intellectual and iconic figures. The remaining accounts were labeled as individuals. Next, we developed a set of ...

This paper examines the role of political parties and politicians in political mobilization in Zamfara state and the implications of the strategies used by political parties and politicians in political mobilization. The paper is essentially qualitative. Primary data and documentary sources were the major sources of data collection. Respondents of key Informants Interviews (KIIs) were purposively selected. Political mobilization was used as the framework of analysis to support the argument. The paper found that political parties and politicians play a vital role in political mobilization in Zamfara. The paper argued that political parties organized and aggregate public opinion, transmit public demands to the government and viceversa, recruit political leaders in political mobilizations and socialization as well as provision of welfare services. The paper concluded that in spite of the ideal nature of political mobilization towards political participation, the roles of political part...

In this editorial for issue two of volume five of the Journal of ProfessionalCommunication, the author discusses how data science is changingthe communications landscape. He suggests that advances intechnology are making it easier to learn about and communicate withpublics. The author challenges communciations professionals to makebetter use of this new technology in their own work.

Las discusiones acerca del populismo evidencian que no es un fenómeno de la política que se origina en un país concreto ni tampoco que las democracias más consolidadas estén exentas de su presencia, pese a que lo consideran como un invitado incómodo. Los ejercicios de comparación entre países, casos y periodos distintos dan cuenta de que se pueden establecer elementos comunes en el sistema político, a manera de causas, las cuales explicarían la emergencia de líderes, partidos y expresiones del populismo. En este artículo, se contrastan los presidentes Daniel Ortega de Nicaragua, Nayib Bukele de El Salvador y el exmandatario Rafael Correa de Ecuador con la finalidad de explicar el contexto de su aparición en el sistema político de sus países.

Bu çalışma, Fransa’nın İslam’ı ve Müslümanları niçin ve nasıl kendisine yönelik bir güvenlik tehdidi olarak değerlendirdiğini ortaya çıkarmayı amaçlamıştır. İslamofobi temelinde ele alınan bu tehdit yaklaşımı, güvenlikleştirme teorisi çerçevesinde analiz edilmektedir. Çalışma ayrıca teorinin diğer soruları olan sorunun ne zaman ve hangi sonuçlarla güvenlikleştirildiğini de açıklamaya çalışmaktadır. Bu doğrultuda aktörlerin söylemleri, yürürlüğe konulan yasalar ve devlet kurumlarının uygulamaları bir süreç içinde betimsel olarak analiz edilmeye çalışılmıştır. Analiz 2015-2022 tarihleri arasında yaşanan güvenlikleştirme vakalarını kapsamaktadır. Çalışmada güvenlikleştirici aktörlerin İslam’ı ve Müslümanları göç ve terör sorunları ile ilişkilendirerek askeri, siyasi ve toplumsal referans nesnelerine yönelik bir tehdit oluşturdukları gerekçesiyle güvenlikleştirdikleri görülmüştür. Güvenlikleştirici aktörlerin İslamofobik güvenlikleştirme yaklaşımını iktidar aracı olarak kullanarak Fransız kimliğini güçlendirmeyi ve Müslümanları disipline etmeyi veya asimile etmeyi tercih ettikleri sonucuna varılmıştır. Çözüm noktasında ise, Fransız İslam'ının hedeflendiği bir güvenlik dışılaştırma (desecuritization) yaklaşımının olduğu görülmektedir. Bu güvenlikleştirme aynı zamanda Müslümanlara karşı bir güvensizlik ortaya çıkarmakta ve Fransa'nın kendi tehdidini kendisinin ürettiği bir güvenliksizleştirme (insecuritization) durumuyla sonuçlanmaktadır.

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This study aims to uncover why and how France perceives Islam and Muslims as a security threat to itself. This threat approach, examined within the framework of securitization theory, is analyzed based on Islamophobia. The study also attempts to explain when and with what consequences the problem, which represents other inquiries of the theory, has been securitized. In this regard, the discourses of actors, enacted laws, and practices of state institutions have been descriptively analyzed as part of a process. The analysis covers securitization cases between 2015 and 2022. It is observed in the study that securitizing actors securitize Islam and Muslims by associating them with migration and terrorism issues, considering them a threat to military, political, and societal reference objects. It is concluded that these securitizing actors prefer to use Islamophobic securitization as a tool of power to strengthen the French identity and to discipline/assimilate Muslims. At the resolution point, it is observed that French Islam is targeted for desecuritization. It is understood that the securitization also generates insecurity towards Muslims and reveals that France produces its own threat through insecuritization.

Le champ de la communication politique connait, depuis plus d’une dizaine d’annees maintenant, des mutations considerables qui impactent de maniere globale ses processus discursifs. Confrontee a un phenomene de peopolisation, dont l’expansion dans le social apparait etre sans limite, la communication politique emprunte desormais la voie quelque peu exhibitionniste du devoilement de soi. Et ce, pour le plus grand plaisir d’un public de citoyens qui, jusqu’a preuve du contraire, ne cesse de se delecter des secrets d’alcove en lien avec le gotha. Si bien que, de nos jours, il n’est pas rare que l’actualite s’inscrive dans le sillage d’informations focalisees sur la vie privee des personnalites politiques, au point d’avoir donne naissance a un nouveau genre d’evenement public : l’evenement peopolitique. Tel est donc l’objet nodal de la presente recherche, l’evenement peopolitique, cet hybride informationnel ne de la convergence de la politique et du people. Aussi, cette these de doctora...

La Sociedad de la Información se enfrenta a un nuevo contexto en el que muchos ciudadanos han pasado de ser meros receptores a convertirse en “prosumidores”, es decir, en consumidores de información que, al mismo tiempo, participan en su producción. El acceso democratizado a Internet, la creación de redes sociales y, en definitiva, la llegada de esta nueva Era Digital han facilitado que cualquier persona pueda crear información que llegue a todas las capas de la Sociedad a través de la viralización del contenido. En este cambio de los paradigmas tradicionales, la Sociedad se enfrenta a la desinformación por dos motivos: por un lado, porque se encuentra con una sobreexposición informativa donde se hace complicado discernir entre lo interesante y lo banal; y, en segundo lugar, por la difusión de informaciones falsas a una velocidad frenética. Sin embargo, los ciudadanos empiezan a ser conscientes, al menos, de la existencia de las denominadas fake news, bulos o informaciones falsas. E...

All over the world discussion are going on the financial inclusion and empowerment of the poor people and experimented different ways to empower deprived people especially women. Micro Finance and Self Help Groups (SHGs) are the best ways to reach the poor. Thrift and Credit mechanism is the greatest model for financial and social empowerment. Tribal are marginalised group in India. They have rich tradition and cultural values. But the pathetic situation is that almost all tribal are under poverty. Lot of questions have been raised regarding governance issue or structural change among the tribes. Many of the schemes are exclusively implemented for the Scheduled Tribes in India. The schemes have not touched the quality-oriented output. Kerala Government poverty alleviation project, Kudumbashree has been implemented different schemes among the Attappady tribes for their empowerment. The functioning of the Neighbourhood Groups (NHGs) is very supportive for tribes in Attappady. This pap...

ABSTRAK Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui bagaimana sikap elite partai Golongan Karya terhadap konflik internal partai Golongan Karya di DPD I Provinsi Lampung. Jenis penelitian ini adalah penelitian deskriptif dengan pendekatan kualitatif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan sikap elite Partai GOLKAR Provinsi Lampung dari 3 aspek yaitu aspek kognitif, afektif dan konatif. Yang pertama adalah aspek kognitif (pengetahuan) diantaranya yang berkaitan dengan kronologi konflik, penyebab konflik, serta adanya kepentingan pribadi dinyatakan baik dengan ciri-ciri pengetahuan yang baik tentang kronologi konflik dan pemicunya. Aspek yang kedua yaitu aspek afektif (perasaan) diantaranya terhadap sikap yang diambil dengan adanya dualisme kepengurusan, sikap terkait adanya islah bersyarat, serta kemungkinan perdamaian antara kedua kubu, para elite Partai GOLKAR rasional dalam menentukan dukungan terhadap kubu masing-masing. Yang ketiga aspek konatif (kecenderungan bertindak) diantaranya lan...

This study discusses about political communication strategy of Partai Keadilan Sejahtera (PKS)  on cadre recruitment system and discucces about the recruitment system in PKS that undertaken in 2009 and 2014 which is used to set the candidates, starting from the stage to stage cadre recruitment. Lasswell communication theory is used to explain how communication strategy undertaken by PKS in South East Sulawesi. Lasswell communication strategy, there are several factor that need to considered namely know the audiene, compose the message, establish a method of delivering message and the role of communicator. Recruitment system theory by Barbara Gaddes gives an overview about how the recruitment and cadre applied by PKS in South East Sulawesi. The methods that used in this study is descriptive qualitative to describe the strategies of political communication that undertaken by PKS on its cadre recruitment system. Data collection by interviews and documentation. Interviewing an expert in...