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Existing theories of party organisation, and political communication and marketing, address the issue of party evolution and electoral behaviour from opposing and largely one-dimensional angles. The purpose of this thesis is to develop a more integrated perspective to party campaigning that goes beyond the traditional approaches of party behaviour and present the relationship between intra-party organisation and campaign evolution in a new light. The party evolution approach is an alternative conceptual framework of party campaigning, which integrates the classic approaches of party organisation with the modern accounts of political communication and marketing while taking into consideration the institutional and ideological constraints of political parties. The main aim is to bridge the worlds of marketing and politics by offering a distinct perspective that integrates elements of a party’s innate political identity and readdressing the notion of party communications professionalisation within the wider context of party evolution process. To this end, the employment of consumer marketing techniques and approaches in party campaigning is not considered a means to the end of electoral success but an integrated element of the party’s evolving identity. The intention is that the Party Evolution Framework be used as a tool for comparative analysis. The holistic and integrated scope of the framework is likely to qualify its application to a cross-section of democracies, regardless of their party and electoral systems, campaign regulations, and historical, socio-economic and political landscape. To this end, the present thesis illustrates the use of the party evolution framework in two largely contrasting contexts; British and Greek politics.

The thesis "Analysis of the Czech Periodicals' News Coverage of the 2013 Presidential Elections in the Czech Republic" examines how the daily newspapers Mladá fronta DNES, Lidové noviny and Hospodářské noviny framed the election campaign. It also focuses on the degree of compliance with the criteria of impartiality in media contents. Texts with the endorsements are also a part of the analysis. The teoretical part draws the typical features of the relationship between the media and politics and the main theoretical and methodological basis for research of the frames and objectivity. It also introduces the concept of media framing as "fragmented paradigm" and objectivity as an unattainable ideal. Foreign researches and a study of Český rozhlas are an integral part of the theoretical section. Their conclusions were used in the analysis itself. The aim of the research carried out by means of a combined quantitative and qualitative content analysis was to determine how Czech daily newspapers responded in their content to direct presidential elections associated with the phenomenon of endorsement. Quantitative analysis focuses on the dominant frames and key issues associated with elections occurring in media contents. Further, it focuses on the extent to which journals presented candidates in the neutral...

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T18:15:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ivan Goncalves Feitosa Filho.pdf: 9950803 bytes, checksum: 81e1b8565c7957d25f3df59f964001c3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-08-10 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This research situates its object of study, the « photographic message », in the context of the journalism in the political campaign to the cityhall of São Paulo in 2012 and has as main target the analysis of the tensions between denotation and connotation. It works with the barthesian hypothesis in agreement in which the media messages develop connoted systems, of double signification, one of which the connoted message offers the necessary categories for the analysis of the image and of the text, and its ramifications in the printed media that influence notably the choice of the reader/voter, being this last question that justifies the proposal of the dissertation. The main contribution of the work consists of the application of the categories of the « photographic message » to the publications of printed media of two media vehicles of the context of a political campaign. Metodologicaly, the reaearch is bibliographical, analytical and documentary, of qualitative character, showing like such messages exceed, for the connotation, the limits of the denotative information. The corpus of the research includes the publications of two newspapers of major circulation in the country: O Estado de Sao Paulo and A Folha de Sao Paulo, in their inseparably photographic and textual registers of the above-mentioned campaigns. The theoretical fundamentation for the field of the photography understands the barthesian theory especially that proposal in Mythologies - exegesis of specific works of the author: The Obvious and the Obtuse, Camera Lucida, «The Photographic Message» and Semiologic Adventure. For the field of the journalism, the images are explored introducing significant elements of increase in value as to the journalistic treatment of such a political campaign, essentially centered in showing the defining characteristics of the global image of the candidates and of the competing parties, the communicative intention of both newspapers in his ideological positioning which goes and meets the criticism in Mythologies / Esta pesquisa situa seu objeto de estudo, a «mensagem fotográfica», no âmbito do jornalismo na campanha política à Prefeitura de São Paulo em 2012 e tem por objetivo a análise das tensões entre a denotação e a conotação. Trabalha com a hipótese barthesiana segundo com a qual as mensagens midiáticas desenvolvem sistemas conotados, de dupla significação, uma das quais a mensagem conotada oferece as categorias necessárias para a análise da imagem e do texto, e seus desdobramentos na mídia impressa que influenciam notavelmente a escolha do leitor/eleitor, sendo esta última questão a que justifica a proposta da dissertação. A principal contribuição do trabalho consiste na aplicação das categorias da «mensagem fotográfica» às publicações de mídia impressa de dois veículos midiáticos no contexto de uma campanha política. Metodologicamente, a pesquisa é bibliográfica, analítica e documental, de caráter qualitativo, mostrando como tais mensagens ultrapassam, pela conotação, os limites da informação denotativa. O corpus da pesquisa abrange as publicações dos dois jornais de maior circulação no país: O Estado de São Paulo e a Folha de São Paulo, em seus registros inseparavelmente fotográficos e textuais das referidas campanhas. A fundamentação teórica para o campo da fotografia compreende a teoria barthesiana notadamente aquela proposta em Mitologias - exegeses de obras específicas do autor, como O Óbvio e o Obtuso, Câmera clara, «A Mensagem fogtográfica» e Aventura semiológica. Para o campo do jornalismo, exploramse as imagens introduzindo elementos de valorização significativos a respeito do tratamento jornalístico de tal campanha eleitoral, essencialmente centrado em mostrar as características definidoras da imagem global dos candidatos e dos partidos concorrentes, a intenção comunicativa de ambos os jornais no seu posicionamento ideológico que vai ao encontro da crítica em Mitologias

This dissertation analyzes the discourse of Obama’s speeches to argue my thesis that Obama won election by virtue of his rhetorical speechmaking but more specifically, his ability to manage race in those speeches. I define and refer to Obama’s rhetorical handling of race in his speechmaking throughout the campaign as the rhetoric of race management. By rhetorical race management, I mean the strategic use of race (or obfuscation of race) in one’s discourse to manage or affect the audience’s beliefs or opinions of the listener. From a communication-based standpoint, understanding how race operated in this election requires us to examine the history of racism in the United States as well as critical scholarly work on the subject. Understanding how Obama was able to manage race in his rhetoric is necessary because it forces us to perhaps reexamine and scrutinize the 2008 Presidential election more carefully for several reasons. As rhetorical scholars, if we are in the business of understanding how our icons and politicians can potentially manipulate and use our rhetorical signs and symbols against us—or in spite of us--it is in our best interest to understand why the process occurred and why we allowed it to happen. I suggest that Obama’s deliberate attempt to weave ideological constructs like patriotism and the American Dream into his campaign strategy obfuscated his representation as the marginalized “other” and created a new political identity that has little to do with marginalization. By examining the theories of scholars like Kenneth Burke, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Walter Fisher, and Dana Cloud, I outline how race and racism historically operated in our political elections, from both a sociopolitical, or quantitative perspective, as well as a critical perspective. By using a multimethod analysis, we are better positioned to understand how Barack Obama successfully played the race card in the Presidential Election of 2008. More importantly, I argue in my conclusion why his use of rhetorical race management, was absolutely necessary if he were to become the first African-American president in a historically racist country. / text

Submitted by Clebson Anjos (clebson.leandro54@gmail.com) on 2016-02-22T17:25:17Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 3500424 bytes, checksum: 5c3fb71a3f1fec456ee3ff69fb3c24b9 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-02-22T17:25:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 3500424 bytes, checksum: 5c3fb71a3f1fec456ee3ff69fb3c24b9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-08-11 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The press, radio and television have historically occupied strategic places with regard to electoral propaganda, especially on the use of their language by the candidates. With the advent of internet and social networks, there are changes in techniques, languages and media narratives as well as new arrangements of participation and sociability, in particular the television context, because of the strength this vehicle has with the electorate. Among the changes in digital communication, we point out the processes "transmedia" (JENKINS, 2009), "interaction" (PRIMO, 2007) and "media convergence" (CASTRO & DUARTE, 2010), in which the languages of different media merge. This work includes the narratives used in the campaigns of candidates for mayor of the city of João Pessoa-PB and observes the processes of "transmediation" "interactivity" and "media convergence". This work also seeks to examine how social networks is becoming a propitious locus for the announcement of election messages, and the use of "transmedia storytelling" in the political environment. The media convergence imposes a new modus operandi in the work routine of professionals working in the political field, demanding that they recognize the power of network communication and adapt their language to the contingencies of this "new communication" (CHAREAUDAU, 2008). The communication shared through the network generates modes of interaction and sociability, encouraging citizens-voters to defend their interests, to make their choices and to take their own decisions, without prioritizing profitable ambitions of corporate communication (ANTOUN & MALINI, 2013). From this perspective, we proposed an analysis of the social networks Twitter and Facebook, considering the effectiveness of theiruse in the elections of 2012. / A imprensa, o rádio e a televisão historicamente têm ocupado lugares estratégicos no que diz respeito à propaganda eleitoral, principalmente, quanto ao uso de sua linguagem pelos candidatos. Com o advento da internet e redes sociais, verificam-se modificações nas técnicas, linguagens e narrativas midiáticas, assim como novos regimes de participação e sociabilidade, particularmente no contexto da televisão, devido à força deste veículo junto ao eleitorado. Dentre as mudanças ocorridas na comunicação digital, ressaltam-se os processos “transmídia” (JENKINS, 2009), “interação” (PRIMO, 2007) e “convergência midiática” (CASTRO & DUARTE, 2010), em que se fundem as linguagens das diferentes mídias. Neste sentido, o presente trabalho contempla as narrativas utilizadas nas campanhas dos candidatos a prefeito da cidade de João Pessoa-PB, observando os processos de “transmidiação” “interatividade” e “convergência midiática”. Para tanto, busca examinar como as redes sociais vêm se constituindo em locus propício para a divulgação das mensagens eleitorais e o uso da “narrativa transmidiática” no ambiente político. A convergência midiática impõe um novo modus operandi na rotina de trabalho dos profissionais atuantes na área política, exigindo que estes reconheçam o poder da comunicação em rede e adaptem sua linguagem às contingências dessa “nova comunicação” (CHAREAUDAU, 2008). A comunicação compartilhada das redes gera modos de interação e sociabilidade, estimulando os cidadãos-eleitores a defenderem os seus interesses, fazer suas escolhas e tomar suas próprias decisões, sem priorizar as ambições lucrativas da comunicação corporativa (ANTOUN & MALINI, 2013). Nesta perspectiva, propomos uma análise das redes sociais Twitter e o Facebook, considerando a eficácia de sua utilização no período eleitoral de 2012.

Comparison of Selected Topics of Political Communication of political parties in the Czech Republic: Professionalization, Personalization, Negativeness ROZMAJZL, Lukáš. Srovnání vybraných jevů politické komunikace u politických stran v ČR: profesionalizace, personalizace a negativita. Praha: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Fakulta sociálních věd, Institut komunikačních studií a žurnalistiky, 2011. 140 s. Vedoucí diplomové práce PhDr. Jan Křeček, Ph.D. This Diploma Thesis deals with three selected topics of political communication (Professionalization, Personalization, Negativeness) which are related to the transform of modern to postmodern political campaigns. Each of the topic is described on the theoretical base, then the historical development of using this technic by political parties is mentioned, and finally relevant criticism of this concept (related to the problems of the definition of the concept, or to the normative reflections on democratic political systém) is noticed. Comparative analysis of political communication made by Czech political parties in 2010 elections is made to identify the level of using each of three concepts mentioned above. The result is explicit that political parties in the Czech Republic differ one to another in using different technics of political communication towards...

L’objectif de cette thèse qui se situe dans un contexte franco-mexicain est d’étudier à travers deux quotidiens dits de « référence », Le Monde et Reforma ainsi que deux agences de presse, l’AFP et Notimex, la mobilisation des sources identifiées et des sources anonymes dans la production de l’information journalistique pendant la couverture des campagnes présidentielles en France (2007) et au Mexique (2006). Ces deux périodes représentent pour chaque pays un moment fort de leur histoire politique contemporaine. Pour la France, alors que la droite est toujours au pouvoir, la possibilité du retour de la gauche passe par la candidature d’une femme, ce qui est une première. Pour le Mexique, les élections présidentielles latino-américaines précédentes confirmant un virage à gauche dans la région, les sondages donnent gagnante pour la première fois la gauche mexicaine.Reprenant l’approche sociologique de Georg Simmel, nous analysons ici la production informative comme un processus d’interaction complexe entre les journalistes et leurs sources. Pour ce faire, nous avons exploité un corpus constitué de comptes-rendus et de dépêches d’agence, ainsi que d’entretiens semi-directifs réalisés auprès des journalistes. À partir d’une analyse de contenu à la fois horizontale et verticale, nous avons croisé diverses variables pouvant faire ressortir les divergences et les convergences, ainsi que les constantes et les variantes relevées au long de la période retenue. / In a French-Mexican context, the main purpose of this thesis is to study across two major daily newspapers, Le Monde and Reforma and two news agencies AFP and Notimex, the use of identified and anonymous sources via their coverage of presidential campaigns in France (2007) and Mexico (2006). These two periods in both countries were a highlight moment in their contemporary political history. In France, for the first time, a woman represented a major left French party in a presidential contest. In Latin America the earlier presidential elections confirm a left turn in the region and the polls were indicating for the first time, the Mexican left as a winner. By revisiting Simmel’s sociological approach, newsmaking is analyzed as a complex interaction between journalists and their sources. The survey is limited to articles and the coverage of each newspaper and agency and interviews with journalists. The study of textual information and media production was organized and analyzed in order to compare various actors and their related newspaper coverage. The study is achieved by cross-comparing differences and similarities in the discourse, and constants and variables over time.

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Diploma thesis Transformation of Visual Image of American Presidential Election in Magazines Time and Newsweek concentrates on visual depiction of topics related to the American presidential campaigns in newsweeklies between the years of 1992 and 2012. The first part of the thesis describes the development of modern political communication, political marketing and political campaigns. The following chapter is devoted to characterization of analyzed periodicals and to the current status of newsweeklies on the media market. The state of newsweeklies in the digital era is described by an example of the Newsweek magazine's current history and present. The American election system is briefly described in the end of the theroretical part of the thesis. A detailed research of visual materials dedicated to the American presidential campaigns in the Time and Newsweek magazines is carried out by the means of qualitative alalysis in the practical part of the thesis. The conclusion of the thesis evaluates the evolution of these materials between the years of 1992 and 2012 in the context of the development of the political communication and the current state of the media landscape.