Limits Of Persuasion Research Articles

Digital Disobedience and the Limits of Persuasion: Social Media Activism in Hong Kong’s 2014 Umbrella Movement

This article probes the catalytic features of social media in civic participation and mass civil disobedience in Hong Kong’s 2014 protests, and conceptualizes digital activism in terms of mobilization, organization, and persuasion. It makes use of in-depth interviews, in English, Mandarin, and Cantonese, with 40 of the leading users of social media during the protests. These included, first and foremost, student activists, as well as opposition figures and journalists who reported on the protests. The article finds that the velocity and scale of social media have strengthened protesters’ ability to mobilize and organize, on the Internet and in the streets. Yet, these advantages have not carried over into persuasion of previously uncommitted individuals. Protesters encountered two main obstacles to persuasion via social media: the multitude of messages enabled by social media and the age segmentation of media. As a result, the movement’s social media efforts generated new attention and created digital space for activism, but did not persuade a durable majority of Hongkongers of the movement’s legitimacy. The Umbrella Movement may not have persuaded Hongkongers that their movement and tactics were valid or wise, but the existence of social media allowed protest leaders to document their motivations and conduct, and blunt less flattering narratives in legacy media.

On the Limits of Persuasion: Campaign Ads and the Structure of Voters’ Interpersonal Discussion Networks

Political candidates employ campaign advertising in an attempt to persuade, and there is mounting evidence that such efforts can be successful in influencing voters’ decisions at the polls. In this article we explore the limits of the persuasive power of campaign advertising and examine the ways in which voters’ interpersonal discussions shape their susceptibility to persuasion. Foundational works in the study of media effects argued that interpersonal discussions play an important role in the process of mass communications. That is, depending on the composition of the social environment, interpersonal discussions may serve to either reinforce messages received through the mass media or promote resistance to persuasion attempts. In spite of these early insights, little research has explicitly taken into account the combined influence of interpersonal discussion networks and mass-mediated messages on persuasion in the context of a presidential campaign. The present study, by contrast, employs detailed measures of campaign advertising, coupled with information on the nature and composition of voters’ social networks from the 2008–2009 American National Election Studies (ANES) panel study, to examine the moderating influence of citizens’ interpersonal discussions on the effects of televised political advertising. We find that those who are situated within more agreeable networks are more likely to strengthen their candidate preferences and, correspondingly, resist shifting their support to a different candidate when exposed to ads that are consonant with their initial vote choice. Contrary to our expectations, however, there is little evidence that dissonant advertising has any effect when encountered within a social environment studded with disagreement.

The Limits of Persuasion: Rhetoric and Resistance in the Last Battle of the Korean War

This essay explores the case of twenty-three American POWs who refused to return to the United States at the end of the Korean War. It first highlights the role of resistance in liberal rhetorical theory and then uses resistance as a lens to analyze public discourse about the incident. Looking closely at the three most common explanations for the soldiers' turning (youth, impairment, and brainwashing), the essay shows how the debate over the nonrepatriates was fundamentally a controversy over the limits of persuasion.

Open Secrets: Literature, Education, and Authority from J.-J. Rousseau to J. M. Coetzee

Introduction: the 'Open Secret' and the Pedagogical Circle PART I 1. Imaginary Authority in Rousseau's Emile 2. The Comedy of Educational Errors: (A) Sterne's Tristram Shandy 3. and (B) C. M. Wieland's History of Agathon 4. Goethe's 'Open Secrets:' Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship 5. Pedagogy, Fiction and the Art of Renunciation: Wilhelm Meister's Journeymanship, or the Renunciants 6. Nietzsche as Educator and the Implosion of Bildung PART II 7. 'The passion of instruction:' D. H. Lawrence and 'Wholeness' versus Bildung 8. The Importance of being Frank: Criticism, Collaboration and Pedagogy in F. R. Leavis 9. The Lecturer, the Novelist, and the Limits of Persuasion: Elizabeth Costello and J. M. Coetzee on The Lives of Animals and Men Conclusion

State of immunity: The politics of vaccination in twentieth-century America

State of immunity: The politics of vaccination in twentieth-century America

Incomplete agreements and the limits of persuasion in international politics

Research on international political communication has been revived by constructivist International Relations scholars who have developed the concept of ‘arguing’. In this mode of communication, negotiators are brought to revise causal or normative beliefs that they previously held by means of persuasion. Thus arguing is conceptualized as a trigger of change in international politics. Yet, the underlying assumptions about the malleability of beliefs contrast with traditional approaches to international diplomacy. In the traditional view, diplomacy is a practice of containing rather than resolving fundamental disagreement. In this essay, I claim that whenever arguments are part of a process of legal reasoning, they can be politically effective without a demonstrable change in actors’ beliefs. To account for such different effects of ‘arguing’, I introduce the distinction between complete and incomplete agreements from legal theory. Incomplete agreements occur when actors agree on a norm, a rule or a course of action, yet without agreeing on all principles, values or other reasons that stand behind it. The article illustrates the emergence of such an incomplete agreement with the negotiation history of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

On being un/reasonable: Mansfield Park and the Limits of Persuasion

Journal Article On being un/reasonable: Mansfield Park and the Limits of Persuasion Get access Valerie Wainwright Valerie Wainwright University of Florence Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar English: Journal of the English Association, Volume 53, Issue 206, Summer 2004, Pages 93–116, https://doi.org/10.1093/english/53.206.93 Published: 01 July 2004

The limits of persuasion: Advertising, gender and the culture of Australian smoking*

This article examines the shift from pipe to cigarette smoking in Australia from World War I to the 1950s; challenges the assumption that women were the major source of the rising popularity of cigarette smoking; questions, through a content analysis of themes in cigarette advertisements in major newspapers, the impact on smoking patterns of mass advertising before the 1950s; and shows the rising importance of roll‐your‐own cigarette consumption as a sign of masculine and working‐class identity and as an adaptation to modern urban life.

Author’s Response: The Limits of Persuasion

Previous articleNext article No AccessAuthor’s Response: The Limits of PersuasionJeffrey SpikeJeffrey SpikeStrong Memorial Hospital; University of Rochester Medical Center Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Volume 11, Number 1Spring 2000 Published on behalf of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/JCE200011114 Citations: 1Citations are reported from Crossref © 2000 The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article: Jeffrey Spike The Sound of Chains: A Tragedy, The Journal of Clinical Ethics 16, no.33 (Dec 2022): 212–217.https://doi.org/10.1086/JCE200516306

Limits of Persuasion. Germany and the Yugoslav Crisis, 1991-1992

Limits of Persuasion. Germany and the Yugoslav Crisis, 1991-1992

Review: Agriculture: Limits of Persuasion

Review: Agriculture: Limits of Persuasion

Limits of Persuasion: Germany and the Yugoslav Crisis 1991-1992

Preface Germany and Yugoslavia: The Story, 1991-1992 Germany and Yugoslavia Before the Summer of 1991 The Crisis Breaks: 23 June-7 July 1991 Serbia Launches a New Balkan War: July-August 1991 Birth of the Peace Conference: August-September 1991 The Death of Yugoslavia: September-October 1991 Struggling with Serb Obstinacy: October-November 1991 The Road to Recognition: November-December 1991 The War Spreads to Bosnia: January-June 1992 The London Conference: July-August 1992 Germany and Yugoslavia: 1991-1992: The Issues On Values and Interests Between Self-Determination and Institutional Legitimacy: On the Dangers and Limits of Political Rhetoric Shadows of the Past: Did Germany Re-enact History? A New Balkan War: On the Nature and Origins of the Conflicts in Yugoslavia States and Frontiers: On the Dialectic of Unity and Diversity in the Yugoslav Realm Resisting False Claims: Why Serbia Is Not Yugoslavia (and Never Was) Recognition: The Myth of Prematureness Recognition: The Legend of Unilateralism Conclusions Correct Insights and Sound Principles Cannot Cure Behavioral Weaknesses Notes Chronology of Events Glossary Annotated Bibliography Index

U.S. official propaganda during the Vietnam War, 1965-1973: the limits of persuasion

U.S. official propaganda during the Vietnam War, 1965-1973: the limits of persuasion