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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"political communications"”.
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The New Frontier: An Analysis of Effective New Media Political Communications and Campaigning
<p>Objectives: In the age of new media communication, politics has taken a swift turn as the Internet lends itself to quicker and less expensive contact. Politicians in all realms have adopted its communicative aspects in many forms as a means of promoting themselves and staying in contact with …
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The Political Communications of Iranian Green Resistance Movement of 2009: A Critical Discourse Analysis
… that challenged the status quo of the socio-political structures of the Islamic Republic. In this research, I attempt to develop an understanding of the conditions that contributed to the demise of the movement. This study takes a Critical Theory approach, and the theoretical foundations of …
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Barack Obama's rise to power : reinventing political campaigns
… blazing innovation that are likely to redefine political communications in the U.S and globally.
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Symbols and Spatiality of Social Media: Re-constructing the Digital Public Realm
… that is incapable of conditioning effective political communications. Overall, this project will take architecture and urbanism as the design and research methodology, political philosophy as the conceptual framework, and media studies as the state of field.
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Getting the message: a transcendental phenomenology of youth experiences of persuasive (partisan) and informative (non-partisan) campaigns during the 2019 Canadian and United Kingdom general elections.
… and is therefore a widely researched topic in political communications. The concern is that if young people experience alienation and disenfranchisement from political processes, and in particular, electoral participation, this may result in a future uninformed electorate, where voting is not …
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From Trump Tower to the White House, in 140 characters : the hyper-mediated election of a paranoid populist president
… in the mainstream media. In adopting this hybrid communications strategy, Trump's political communications reached a wider audience, on a sturdier basis, than earlier figures who had similarly adopted what I dub a "paranoid populist" philosophy. I present case studies of two of these historical …
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Tribes, Memory and Politics in Iraq
… how the tribal system has maintained its political interests by engaging with three agents those being, the central political government, religion, namely Islam, and Ibn Khaldun’s concept of asabiyah as a sociocultural bond of cohesion amongst members of a group-forming community. Thus, …
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Government and public information in the political system : a study of formation and systemic relationships, with particular reference to the Israeli political system, and appropriate comparison with the United Kingdom
… with government, dominate transfer of political information. Discussion is mainly in terms of competitive political systems; but the influence of political structure is noted. Government and public information are examined within the illustrative real-world example of Israel. Influences …
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Three papers on congressional communication and representation
… represented. Specifically, I examine whether political communication strategies may inadvertently lead to suboptimal representation. In my first paper, I evaluate whether members of Congress use criticism of Congress as a means to connect with their constituents, using approximately 10,000 …
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An exploratory study of social media usage and developmental outcomes by government and emerging political leaders : the Nigerian experience
Most political systems around the world, including long-standing democratic systems, have been afflicted by corruption: non-transparent decision making processes, power distribution, cynical public relations and poor consultation exercises. The consequence has been a sense of prevailing injustice; …
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African Politics in the Digital Age: A Study of Political Party-Social Media Campaign Strategies in Ghana
… politics. It has made it imperative for political stakeholders to come up with new strategies that respond to challenges triggered by the new digital communication platforms. Equally, the technological developments have affected communication processes and strategies in transitional …
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An analysis of the relevance of deliberative democracy, agonistic pluralism, and pluralist group theory in explaining Twitter activity during the Scottish independence referendum 2014.
… on Twitter. In doing so, it advances theoretical political communication research into social media platforms, which often focuses upon the possibilities of deliberative democracy, whilst agonistic pluralism tends to be used in opposition to deliberative theory. Aspects of liberalism and …
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Unsustainable and Uncontrolled: Framing Immigration During the Brexit Campaign
The British vote to leave the European Union in 2016 came as a major surprise to politicians and scholars. Pre-referendum scholarship indicated that while British voters had concerns about cultural issues, such as identity and immigration, they would ultimately decide based on economic …
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Cracks in the Glass Ceiling
Bias against female political candidates has been a hot-button issue, especially during and after the 2016 election, and the media is not exempt from being a part of the discussion. The overall question that this article proposes is whether there is a definitive bias against female political …