Dominant Media Telling and Elite Communication

2020 ◽  
pp. 103-132
Author(s):  
Dale T. McKinley
Keyword(s):  
Elite Communication

scholarly journals Elite Communication and the Popular Legitimacy of International Organizations

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa M. Dellmuth ◽  
Jonas Tallberg
Keyword(s):  
International Organizations ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
Survey Experiment ◽  
Elite Communication ◽  
Citizen Perceptions ◽  
Negative Messages ◽  
National Governments ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Population Based Survey

Abstract This article offers the first systematic and comparative analysis of the effects of elite communication on citizen perceptions of the legitimacy of international organizations (IOs). Departing from cueing theory, it develops novel hypotheses about the effects of elite communication under the specific conditions of global governance. It tests these hypotheses by conducting a population-based survey experiment among almost 10,000 residents of three countries in relation to five IOs. The evidence suggests four principal findings. First, communication by national governments and civil society organizations has stronger effects on legitimacy perceptions than communication by IOs themselves. Secondly, elite communication affects legitimacy perceptions irrespective of whether it invokes IOs’ procedures or performance as grounds for criticism or endorsement. Thirdly, negative messages are more effective than positive messages in shaping citizens' legitimacy perceptions. Fourthly, comparing across IOs indicates that elite communication is more often effective in relation to the IMF, NAFTA and WTO, than the EU and UN.

Things Heard in the Past, Material for Future Use: A Study of Song (960-1279) biji Prefaces

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-53
Author(s):  
Ellen Zhang Cong
Keyword(s):  
Strong Evidence ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cultural Transformations ◽  
Elite Communication ◽  
Social Scenes ◽  
The Way

Through an analysis of the narrative and rhetoric of dozens of Songbijiprefaces, this study illustrates the way in which casual conversation was represented and transformed into writing, and howbijiwriters articulated the utility and consumption of their work. This study highlights the increasing importance of oral instruction and personal experience as legitimate modes of elite communication. The growing visibility of informal social scenes inbijiworks and their celebration of those who participated in and contributed to entertaining activities serve as strong evidence of a changing elite self-identification that characterized the major social and cultural transformations in the Song period.

scholarly journals Trade Associations, Narrative and Elite Power

2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 103-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Bowman ◽  
Julie Froud ◽  
Sukhdev Johal ◽  
Karel Williams
Keyword(s):  
Opposite Direction ◽  
Cultural Economy ◽  
Political Choice ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Trade Associations ◽  
The Media ◽  
Elite Communication ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Business Sectors

This article introduces and develops the concept of trade narrative to understand how business sectors defend against public disapproval and the threat of increased regulation or removed subsidy. Trade narrative works by accumulating lists of benefits and occluding costs, and is created by consultants for economic interests organized via trade associations. This represents an under-analysed ‘policy-based evidence machine’, the aim of which is to format the discourses of the media and political classes about the contribution of the sector in ways that frame political choice about what is thinkable and doable. In doing so it supports elite power by providing a relay for intra-elite communication. Using illustrations from privatized railways, banking and pharmaceuticals in the UK and US, the argument explores how the causal arrow runs in the opposite direction from that supposed in most discussion of discourse-economy relations in the field of cultural economy.

Elite Communication in Samoa: A Study of Leadership

Language ◽  
1957 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 424 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ward H. Goodenough ◽  
Felix M. Keesing ◽  
Marie M. Keesing
Keyword(s):  
Elite Communication

scholarly journals Migration between Politics, Journalism and PR

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (s1) ◽  
pp. 141-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Göran Palm ◽  
Håkan Sandström
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
The Public ◽  
Contemporary Politics ◽  
Elite Communication ◽  
State Secretary

AbstractIn this article we present a preliminary theoretical background and some empirical findings concerning a migrating trend between the fields of politics, PR and journalism: one day a political reporter, the next a communication officer; one day a PR consultant, the next a state secretary. To understand contemporary politics one must, we argue, comprehend the convergence between three fields of power holders that together form the realm of politics and communication: elite politicians, elite political reporters and elite communication/PR officers. Together, they form a communication elite that sets the parameters for the public discourse on politics. When politics is produced and constructed in, and through, social networks formed by elite agents from politics, journalism and PR, what does this mean for how democracy is worked out and what does it mean for citizenship in general?

scholarly journals KONSTRUKSI BUDAYA KEHIDUPAN BERAGAMA HIZBUT TAHRIR DAN PENGIKUT AHMADIYAH BERBASIS KEARIFAN LOKAL DI KABUPATEN KONAWE SELATAN

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 111
Author(s):  
Dewi Anggraini ◽  
Muhammad Aswan Zanynu
Keyword(s):  
Communication Network ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Organizational Vision ◽  
Local Tolerance ◽  
Strategic Goals ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Elite Communication ◽  
Propagation Methods

This study aims to investigate the implementation of religious life between Hizbut Tahrir and Ahmadiyah followers in South Konawe. The Islamic doctrines they understand influence the behavior of Hizbut Tahrir in religious life againstAhmadiyah followers in South Konawe. This study uses a qualitative along with phenomenological approach and there are two locations as the concentrations of the two beliefs: Wolasi in Ranowila village and Konda in Lamomea village. Islamic doctrines that affect the behavior of Hizbut-Tahrir religious life against Ahmadiyah followers in South Konawe are: a). Organizational Vision, b). Thought ReferenceSources, c). Products Interpretation, d) method. The creation of peace between Hizbut Tahrir and Ahmadiyah followers in South Konawe can not be separated from the following aspects: a). Graphic of Socio Religious as Local Tolerance Portraits, b). Houses of Worship as Symbols of Harmony and Tolerance Awareness, c). Elite Communication Network of Hizbut Tahrir and Ahmadiyah, d). Propagation Methods and Strategic Goals.

CYNICISM AND RUDENESS OF REGIONAL POLITICAL ELITE IN THE CONTEXT OF STRUCTURAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-139
Author(s):  
Z.Z. KNYZHOVA ◽  
◽  
I.V. SUSLOV ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Educational Level ◽  
Ural Region ◽  
Political Elite ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Elite Communication ◽  
Volga Ural Region ◽  
Biographical Analysis

The purpose of the article is to analyze the biographies of a number of representatives of the regional political elite, who in the period of 2018-2020 (mainly) due to incorrect, sometimes boorish statements and actions against citizens, became participants in public scandals. The authors focused on more than 80 biographies of leaders and employees of regional and municipal authorities. The structural and biographical analysis made it possible to determine to which generation this cohort of politicians belongs, the peculiarities of the spiritual and professional atmosphere of their socialization in the context of both their previous work and the time they came to power structures, geographical and regional aspects, as well as the educational level. The factors that determine the tendency of the modern regional elite to harsh neoliberal rhetoric provoking public outrage and scandals are highlighted. Within the framework of the regional cut of the scandalous mass-elite communication, the Volga-Ural region turned out to be predominant. The statements and activities of politicians / officials from the central and (especially) southern regions were the least likely to find themselves in the center of public scandals.

scholarly journals The Trump Effect: An Experimental Investigation of the Emboldening Effect of Racially Inflammatory Elite Communication

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Newman ◽  
Jennifer L. Merolla ◽  
Sono Shah ◽  
Danielle Casarez Lemi ◽  
Loren Collingwood ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Experimental Investigation ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
Survey Experiment ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Online Panel ◽  
Societal Context ◽  
Elite Communication

Abstract This article explores the effect of explicitly racial and inflammatory speech by political elites on mass citizens in a societal context where equality norms are widespread and generally heeded yet a subset of citizens nonetheless possesses deeply ingrained racial prejudices. The authors argue that such speech should have an ‘emboldening effect’ among the prejudiced, particularly where it is not clearly and strongly condemned by other elite political actors. To test this argument, the study focuses on the case of the Trump campaign for president in the United States, and utilizes a survey experiment embedded within an online panel study. The results demonstrate that in the absence of prejudiced elite speech, prejudiced citizens constrain the expression of their prejudice. However, in the presence of prejudiced elite speech – particularly when it is tacitly condoned by other elites – the study finds that the prejudiced are emboldened to both express and act upon their prejudices.

Discursive accommodation: popular protest and strategic elite communication in China

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 539-560 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Christoph Steinhardt
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Chinese Communist Party ◽  
Response Pattern ◽  
Unintended Consequence ◽  
Party Leadership ◽  
Local Official ◽  
Popular Protest ◽  
Popular Pressure ◽  
Elite Communication ◽  
The One

How do authoritarian states respond to, and seek to defuse, popular protest? This study answers this question by developing the concept of discursive accommodation and tracing the co-evolution of contention and strategic elite communication in China. It reveals that the Chinese Communist Party leadership has responded to waves of intense unrest with increasing, yet not unconditional, sympathy for protesters. It argues that the rationale behind this response pattern has been first, to deflect discontent from the regime and, second, to temper local official and protester behavior. And yet, the unintended consequence of discursive accommodation may well have been the acceleration of mobilization. Investigating elite discourse provides an alternative angle to understand why contention in China has become endemic, but remains conspicuously moderate. It helps to unpack the one-party state’s ability of coexisting with considerable popular pressure and not be washed away by it, and managing protest without institutionalizing it.

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