Political Communication Culture Research Articles

KAJIAN KOMUNIKASI LEGISLATIF DAN EKSEKUTIF DALAM MEWUJUDKAN TATA KELOLA PEMERINTAHAN YANG BAIK DI KABUPATEN KONAWE SELATAN

South Konawe Regency, the executive and legislature as regional government partners are continuously involved in communication about how to manage and allocate public resources, official authority, official sanctions and other political actions. In various situations, both parties communicate in formal or informal forms. The aim of this research is to describe and analyze forms of communication, the dominant political communication culture, and the basic obstacles that limit legislative and executive opportunities to communicate more effectively in realizing good governance in South Konawe Regency. This research uses a qualitative approach. The data collection techniques that will be used are Desk Study and Interview. Research informants were determined purposively. The interactive analysis method according to Miles and Huberman, namely the stages of data collection, reduction, data presentation and drawing conclusions, was used in this research. The research results show that the forms of communication that exist between the Legislative (DPRD) and the Executive (PEMDA) of South Konawe Regency are formal communication and informal communication. Formal communication is realized in harmony between the two institutions in carrying out their respective functions. As for informal forms of communication, when there is a problem that is difficult and cannot be resolved in formal communication, informal channels are a solution so that the relationship between the two remains in harmony and continues to go hand in hand. The political culture that is built and attached to political elites, both legislative and executive, is a political communication culture that upholds family values. This cultural approach to political communication has proven effective in breaking the ice. This cultural closeness is a sign that political actors continue to maintain. Bearing in mind that this area is known as a miniature Indonesia with a diversity of ethnic, religious and racial identities, which makes family relations a close bond between one another. Barriers to organizational communication that occur within regional government and DPRD are technical barriers; digital infrastructure in providing adequate internet access and fast response in communication via WhatsApp social media as a communication medium in the digital era. Technical obstacles that cause communication channels to not run effectively or not be used properly, because technical matters certainly affect operational performance. Semantic barriers; clarity of communication (clarity) which is related to the presence of unclear or one-sided information that gives rise to differences in views.

Latvijas politiskās kultūras jēgas konstrukcijas žurnāla Ir politisko žurnālistu publikācijās 2021.–2022. gadā

Based on the constructivist-system theoretic approach to the explanation of the communication processes of the media society, the system theoretic approaches to the study of political communication and political culture, using the explanations of party democracy and party state offered by political science, as well as hermeneutics in the comprehension of its method of understanding, the article analyzes the shape of the meaning of political journalists and the relationship of meaning in publications of the journal Ir describing the activities of the government formed by Latvia’s poorly developed political parties and their parliamentary majority factions. The results confirm the realities of Latvia’s weak democratic political culture subcultures identified by international democracy measurements. The formulations of the meaning and meaning of the goals declared by political parties and the coalition government and the activities aimed at achieving them, constructed by political journalists, are mainly addressed to representatives of critical citizen political subcultures who are dissatisfied with the instability and insufficient performance of political democracy in Latvia. The texts of political journalists focus on the stability of the political “cadre parties” of Latvia and the instability of the coalition government, which are mostly described rather than analytically evaluated, making it difficult for readers to recognize the shapes of meaning and the overall relationship of meaning in the existing party state.

Коммуникативистика в водовороте новых открытий

The editor-in-chief’s column provides an overview of the issue, trends and directions of modern communication research are noted. The
 journal presents the works of Russian scientists devoted to the problems of speech communication, cross-cultural, political communication science, education and culture.

Culture Influence in Political Communication

This study discusses "The Influence of Culture in Political Communication".The aim of this research is to understand the influence of the concept of culture on political communication and to strengthen our understanding of the causality involved in creating effective communication in creating a positive political culture. This research or library research, this research explores and understands the influence of Political Communication Culture. Library research is a series of activities related to methods of collecting library data, reading, and recording and managing library collection materials. The results showed that the influence of political communication culturetends to shift. Currently, by prioritizing democratization, the culture of political communication tends to be open, transparent, rational and can be conveyed through open ways. Keywords: Culture Influence; Political Communication.

“Scrounger-bashing” as national pastime: the prevalence and ferocity of anti-welfare ideology on niche-interest online forums

ABSTRACT Recent research has noted the persistence of a long continuum of “anti-welfare” discourses that are increasingly embedded in the UK news media, political communication, and popular culture (e.g. Golding and Middleton 1982. Images of Welfare: Press and Public Attitudes to Poverty. Oxford: Mark Robertson; Jensen 2014. “Welfare Commonsense, Poverty Porn and Doxosophy.” Sociological Research Online 19 (3): 277–283; Morrison 2019. Scroungers: Moral Panics and Media Myths. London: Zed Books). Historical distinctions between the “deserving” and “undeserving poor” have been sharpened by successive governments in the service of varying shades of neoliberal governance. While Margaret Thatcher castigated “shirkers” in fostering an ideology of economic self-reliance, both New Labour and the Coalition obsessed over “welfare reform”: promoting an ideology of “work” in symbolic opposition to supposed cultures of “worklessness”. But, while “scroungerphobia” (Deacon 1978. “The Scrounging Controversy: Public Attitudes Towards the Unemployed in Contemporary Britain.” Social Policy and Administration 12 (2): 120–135) is now a widely recognised sociological phenomenon, scholarly attention to the concept has largely been reserved for its manifestation in tabloid newspapers, political rhetoric and, latterly, “poverty porn” television. Even recent work considering the public’s contribution to scrounger discourse(s) on social media focuses on mainstream platforms, such as Twitter and newspaper comment threads (e.g. Van Der Bom et al. 2018. “‘It’s not the Fact They Claim Benefits but Their Useless, Lazy, Drug Taking Lifestyles we Despise’: Analysing Audience Responses to Benefits Street Using Live Tweets.” Discourse, Context & Media 21: 36–45; Morrison 2019. Scroungers: Moral Panics and Media Myths. London: Zed Books; Paterson 2020). This paper begins to address this oversight, by examining how normative anti-welfare discourses infiltrate everyday communication in more disparate online communities – including niche consumer forums. It draws on previously unpublished findings from an analysis of welfare-related conversations in these and other spaces at the height of a recent moral panic over “scroungers”: the period from 2013-2016, when Conservative-led governments strove to legitimise sweeping benefit cuts and punitive “welfare reform”.

Close and Distant. Political Executive-Media Relations in Four Countries

Abstract in English: Close and Distant. Political Executive-Media Relations in Four CountriesElin Strand Larsen reviews Close and Distant. Political Executive-Media Relations in Four Countries. Edited by Karl Magnus Johansson and Gunnar Nygren, the book is based on a three-year long research project and analysis of the relationship between politicians, press secretaries and journalists in four countries – Finland, Lithuania, Poland and Sweden. By conducting thorough, well-coordinated research and numerous research interviews (20–25 from each country), the research group has studied the interplay between government and media in the period 2014–2017. The anthology contains four country-specific chapters, as well as the following cross-national themes: government communication, social media, source-journalist relationships, mediatisation and political communication cultures.

From Interactions to the Mediatization of Politics. How the Relationships Between Journalists and Political Actors Explain Media Influences on Political Processes and the Presentation of Politics

ABSTRACTThe goal of this paper is to explain media impact on politics by focusing on characteristics of journalist-politician relationships. Based on the concept of political communication cultures, we present a model that assumes that four dimensions of a political communication culture affect media influences on the presentation of politics and on political processes. These characteristics of the journalist-politician relationships are assumed to depend on the competitive structures of a city’s media and political system. To test this model, we selected four German cities with extreme competitive structures. Our findings, based on 31 interviews with political actors and journalists, show that a stronger media impact on political processes can be traced back to more proximity, conflicts, and background conversations between both sides—a result of media competition in a city. A stronger media impact on the presentation of politics can be explained by a more responsive political communication culture —the result of a consensus-oriented political system.

Should the Media Be More or Less Powerful in Politics? Individual and Contextual Explanations for Politicians and Journalists

The normative question regarding whether the media should have more or less impact on politics, as viewed by politicians and journalists, is important assuming that norms about media influences can influence behaviors. The present study is the first that combines individual and structural factors that explain political actors’ and journalists’ normative views on the media’s influence on politics. Based on a conceptualization of political communication cultures, representative micro-level survey data from more than 600 political actors and journalists within 52 German cities were combined with macro-level indicators for the political and media competition in each city. Multilevel analyses show that interactions between the actors’ characteristics and their competitive working conditions help explain their normative evaluations of the media’s influence on politics. However, individual characteristics such as actors’ role conceptions influence normative views more so than media and political competition do.

Close, Dependent, and Out of Touch with the People? Investigating and Explaining Local Political Communication Cultures in a Multilevel Analysis

The relationship of political actors and journalists is a central topic in political communication research. However, it remains challenging to explain the different patterns of interaction observed in different contexts. To address that challenge, this study draws theoretically on the concept of “political communication cultures” and transfers the logic of internationally comparative research to the local level to analyze patterns and causes of politics–media interactions in a large number of diverse contexts. To this end, micro-level empirical data from a representative survey of more than 600 local political actors and journalists in fifty-two German cities were integrated with macro-level data describing the social, political, and media contexts of those cities. This allows us, first, to describe patterns of politics–media relations at the notoriously under-researched local level in terms of proximity, dependency, and seclusiveness of the politics–media milieu. Second, we are able to investigate various potential micro- and macro-level causes of those patterns. We show that different dimensions of relationships are variously affected by different factors; among these, media and political competition seem to be significant predictors of politics–media relations.

Towards a theory of digital media

ABSTRACTThis article puts forward a theory of the role of digital media in social change. It begins by criticizing three theories that currently dominate our understanding of digital media and of media generally: network theory, mediatization theory and actor-network theory. It also identifies a gap in current communication theory, namely, that digital media mostly do not fit the divide into mass and interpersonal communication. A further problem is that insufficient attention is given to the difference between political communication and popular culture or everyday life. The article develops an alternative, focusing on four countries that provide a range of relationships between media and society; the U.S., Sweden, India and China. In all four countries, despite their differences, digital media, in contrast to traditional broadcast and interpersonal media, have led to a more differentiated media landscape. Greater complexity in political communication nevertheless runs up against the continuing dominance of elite agenda-setting. In terms of popular culture, all four countries have experienced a proliferation of media offerings and greater tetheredness between people. Hence, new divides are emerging between more active and variegated as against more passive and restricted media uses. The article concludes with implications of digital media for understanding media generally: with new digital media, there is now a need to rethink media theory in terms of fundamental debates about how media transform or preserve the social order.

"Short Scrolls" and "Slanderous Reports": Political Communication and Political Culture in the Early Southern Song

"Short Scrolls" and "Slanderous Reports": Political Communication and Political Culture in the Early Southern Song

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Public self-expression, identity and the participatory turn: The power to re-imagine the self

ABSTRACTReferences to the so-called ‘participatory turn’ have become pervasive in the social sciences. In the broad field of culture, media and communication studies, the participatory turn is mostly studied in a single site or scholarly sub-discipline. In contrast, this article provides an overarching view of the participatory turn in culture, media and communication studies by tying together isolated references to participation in political communication, development communication, media studies, celebrity studies, Internet studies and youth culture. This comprehensive view is specifically anchored by the intersection of public participation, identity and self-expression, and focuses on how people publicly express and work on their identities. In the process of describing the participatory turn in culture, media and communication studies, different forms of self-expression are identified. It is argued that even though some of these forms are noisy and narcissistic, they are meaningful to the individual who creates them. Some of these forms offer opportunities to voice opinions that might otherwise not be heard in the public sphere. Most significantly, public self-expression affords the ordinary person the power to (re-)imagine the self in the wake of the many changes the world faces due to globalisation and hegemonic power relations.

Politinės komunikacijos kultūra su europietišku potepiu: Briuselio atvejis

This article looks into research findings of the “Adequate Information Management (AIM)” project in the new light. A principal issue investigated here concerns the political communication culture, or to put it more precisely, the interface between the Brussels correspondents and their political news sources. While focusing on differences that can be detected in the processes of the EU news gathering in Brussels, the article highlights commonalities in reporting as appearing across national communication cultures. Indeed, the communications’ context in Brussels is an interesting research case: for journalists, it creates unique conditions for different journalisms and political communication cultures to meet; for scholars, it requires to address new questions in European communication research.

Political Communication and Political Culture in England, 1558–1688

Political Communication and Political Culture in England, 1558–1688

Political Communication and Political Culture in England, 1558-1688, by Barbara J. Shapiro

<i>Political Communication and Political Culture in England, 1558-1688</i>, by Barbara J. Shapiro

Nuevos horizontes en la formación de opinión pública

El siguiente trabajo presenta los avances del proyecto &lt;em&gt;Democracia virtual y participación política en redes sociales: el microtargeting&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;un estudio de comunicación&lt;/em&gt;, realizado por la Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales y cuyo propósito es saber cómo inciden las redes sociales en la democracia y la participación política en México. A partir de la hipótesis de dicha incidencia, se creará un perfil psicotípico del usuario mexicano de redes sociales. Este estudio es el primero de su índole que se realiza en México, y busca determinar las características del usuario de las redes sociales, así como la forma en que socializa conocimiento, intercambia pensamientos, comunica ideas y, de esta manera, crea una cultura política. Temas como la teoría de redes, sociedad de la información, Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación (TIC), espacio público, teoría de la organización informal, comunicación política y cultura política sirven de apoyo para la formación del marco teórico y marco histórico de la investigación, para así diseñar, aplicar, procesar, analizar e interpretar el estudio de campo que se realizará. El objetivo general de este proyecto es generar conocimiento sobre los usuarios de redes sociales en México a través de la documentación y la contrastación con evidencia empírica.

A Comparative Analysis of News Frames Employed in Political Scandal Coverage in U.S. and U.K. Newspapers: A Case Study of Chongqing Incident

The Chongqing Incident happened in China since February 2012 is a scandal that has captivated huge domestic and international attention. Combining two-dimensional measurement scheme and computer-assisted text analysis, this study focuses on the comparative framing analysis of news coverage of Chongqing Incident in prominent U.S. and U.K. newspapers with theoretical lens of new institutionalism. The findings revealed that the newspapers in the U.S. and U.K. adopt similar style of reporting like the similar approach in presenting the news and the prominence of “present” in time dimension. Secondly, although there is strong convergence of the news coverage in the two countries, the U.S. newspapers mainly employed the “past-individual” frame, while the U.K. newspapers were more engaged in “future-country” frame. Thirdly, The U.S. newspapers and the U.K. newspapers vary in their frame-changing over the life-span of the news, demonstrating different political interests and political communication cultures between these two democracies.

Towards more systematic Twitter analysis: metrics for tweeting activities

Twitter is an important and influential social media platform, but much research into its uses remains centred around isolated cases – e.g. of events in political communication, crisis communication, or popular culture, often coordinated by shared hashtags (brief keywords, prefixed with the symbol ‘#’). In particular, a lack of standard metrics for comparing communicative patterns across cases prevents researchers from developing a more comprehensive perspective on the diverse, sometimes crucial roles which hashtags play in Twitter-based communication. We address this problem by outlining a catalogue of widely applicable, standardised metrics for analysing Twitter-based communication, with particular focus on hashtagged exchanges. We also point to potential uses for such metrics, presenting an indication of what broader comparisons of diverse cases can achieve.

Negotiating Control

After the demise of communist rule the relationship between media and politics in Eastern European countries has to adjust to the conditions of democratic politics and a competitive communication environment. This study explores how journalists and politicians understand their relationship past and present and what orientations govern their day-to-day interactions. The political communication cultures in Bulgaria and Poland are investigated on the basis of semi-structured interviews with journalists and politicians. The findings suggest that in Bulgaria closed-knitted networks between the two sets of actors continue to shape political communication breeding ‘deals’ and even corruption that seriously undermine the independence of political journalism. In contrast, political communication roles in Poland appear more differentiated making it more difficult for political actors to exercise control over the public agenda.