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Analyzing Media Messages provides a comprehensive and comprehensible guide to conducting content analysis research. It establishes a formal definition of quantitative content analysis; gives step-by-step instruction on designing a content analysis study; and explores in depth research questions that recur in content analysis, in such areas as measurement, sampling, reliability, data analysis, validity, and technology. This Second Edition maintains the concise, accessible approach of the first edition while offering an updated discussion and new examples. The goal of this resource is to make content analysis understandable, and to produce a useful guide for novice and experienced researchers alike. Accompanied by detailed, practical examples of current and classic applications, this volume is appropriate for use as a primary text for content analysis coursework, or as a supplemental text in research methods courses. It is also an indispensable reference for researchers in mass communication fields, political science, and other social and behavioral sciences.
'Image Bite Politics' systematically assesses the visual presentation of presidential candidates in network news coverage of elections and connects these visual images with shifts in public opinion. The authors highlight the remarkably potent influence of television images when it comes to evaluating leaders.
This second edition has been completely updated to include new studies, new computer applications and an additional chapter on problems and issues that can arise when carrying out content analysis in four major categories: measurement, indication, representation and interpretation.
It is common knowledge that televised political ads are meant to appeal to voters' emotions, yet little is known about how or if these tactics actually work. Ted Brader's innovative book is the first scientific study to examine the effects that these emotional appeals in political advertising have on voter decision-making. At the heart of this book are ingenious experiments, conducted by Brader during an election, with truly eye-opening results that upset conventional wisdom. They show, for example, that simply changing the music or imagery of ads while retaining the same text provokes completely different responses. He reveals that politically informed citizens are more easily manipulated b...
This book offers a comprehensive guide to political campaign communication using functional theory as a framework. An authoritative account packed with real life examples from campaigns across the globe, the book examines all of the important variables in political campaign communication. Considering campaign media - from television spots and debates to candidate webpages and direct-mail advertising - it looks closely at news coverage of campaigns, and examines the sources of campaign messages, the various ways of responding to scandal, the process of voter decision-making, and the ways in which context affects a political campaign. Chapters consider a full range of races, from presidential to congressional to gubernatorial, and look at political campaigns in the United States and many other countries including France, Israel, South Korea, and Taiwan. Communication in Political Campaigns introduces readers to both theory and research on the topic, and is an ideal text for courses on political campaigns.
Capturing Campaign Dynamics, 2000 and 2004 is ideal for courses in survey research methods in political science, communication studies, and public opinion analysis. It will also be of great interest to pollsters and political consultants.
Does gender condition politicians’ discourse strategies in parliament? This is the question we try to answer in A Gender-based Approach to Parliamentary Discourse: The Andalusian Parliament. This book, written by experts in the field of discourse analysis, covers key aspects of political discourse such as gender, identity and verbal and nonverbal strategies: intensification, enumerative series, non-literal quotations, pseudo-desemantisation, lexical colloquialisation, emotion, eye contact and time management. It provides a large number of examples from a balanced gender parliament, the Andalusian Parliament, and it focuses mainly on argumentation, since parliamentary discourse is above all argumentative. This book will prove invaluable to students and teachers in the field of discourse analysis, and more specifically of political discourse, and will also be very useful to politicians and anyone interested in communication strategies. As of January 2019, this e-book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched.
Este libro aborda una serie de problemáticas relacionadas con la sostenibilidad y la administración (management) desde diversas perspectivas. En este sentido, busca aportar una referencia pertinente al estudio de la sostenibilidad desde diferentes áreas funcionales de la administración, entre las que se incluyen la gestión humana, la innovación, el emprendimiento, el liderazgo y las finanzas. A través de metodologías diversas en las que se incluyen estados de la cuestión y aproximaciones de orden cuantitativo y cualitativo, el presente texto se posiciona como una innovadora propuesta que resalta por su originalidad y por la interdisciplinariedad requerida para el estudio de la administración y la sostenibilidad.
Una acción con propósito se centra en responder cuál fue el rol de la empresa en materia de construcción de paz en Colombia, en el periodo 2000-2020, para ofrecer nuevo conocimiento tanto al sector académico como a los sectores empresarial y político, aparte de la sociedad civil, en la coyuntura del posconflicto. Este estudio, a partir de análisis big data y de una conversación cercana con gremios y empresarios, relaciona un conjunto de variables en el tiempo, visualiza cambios e identifica tendencias y comportamientos de las empresas. Representa, en definitiva, un acercamiento a las definiciones, iniciativas y acciones de construcción de paz; evidencia un diálogo limitado entre los actores (principalmente empresas y fundaciones), y pretende ser una conversación que sirva para sacudirlas desde su alcance, ya que estas organizaciones cuentan con las herramientas para la ejecución de proyectos exitosos a futuro, que pueden influir positivamente en lo social y en lo económico, si lograran incluir a la paz como acciones con propósito.