New Media in Kosovo—The Subliminal Megaphone of Deliberate Political Messages

Abstract During the late nineteenth century, revolutionary terrorism emerged as a political tactic in Europe and across the world, where it formed one part of anti-colonial, anti-capitalist and national liberation movements. While its public spectacle took advantage of the new media landscape to communicate affective and political messages, terrorism was ultimately a ‘weapon of the weak’, a means for individuals and small groups to fight against the increasingly powerful modern state. The turn to insurgent violence was consequently imbricated with the experience of state violence. Focusing on a period of revolutionary unrest and heightened political violence in early twentieth-century Russia, this article takes a micro-historical approach to examine how individuals and radical parties came to explain, justify, and incite terrorist acts through narratives of vengeance and ressentiment. Drawing on recent scholarship by anthropologists and historians of emotion and bypassing psychological modes of explanation, it tracks specific articulations of political subjectivity that combine claims to (popular) sovereignty, universalism, dignity and rights with the language of honour and shame. The terrorist act was frequently justified as a sovereign right derived from the experience of state violence upon the body.

Download Full-text

A Pit-bull in Lipstick: The Reciprocal Brand Rhetoric of Sarah Palin

10.32920/ryerson.14660598 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Sarah Stockdale

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

New Media ◽

Audience Participation ◽

Political Messages ◽

Political Events ◽

The Social ◽

Media Platform ◽

Sarah Palin ◽

2012 Election ◽

The Relationship

This Major Research paper will focus on the Republican American politician Sarah Palin. Sarah Palin is a political figure who has played an interesting role in Republican politics over the last four years. As an unexpected candidate for John McCain’s 2008 Vice Presidential nomination, Palin garnered unprecedented media attention for a running mate. Sarah Palin is a media celebrity, a potential Republican candidate for the 2012 election, and an international household name. The purpose of this research is to explore Sarah Palin as a political actor and celebrity icon by analyzing her use of new media as a platform for her political rhetoric. Specifically, this study looks at the discourse used in Sarah Palin’s social media campaign, with a direct focus on the social media outlet of Facebook. Facebook is a non-traditional political media platform, which allows politicians contact with millions of users in a format that is social, personal and direct. Many politicians have been utilizing new media platforms in order to communicate their political messages to new and diverse audiences. This study analyzes how Sarah Palin is utilizing the medium of Facebook, and how the language she uses in communicating to her supporters affects their experience of current political events. This study aims to show the relationship between the rhetoric she chooses to employ, and the comment activity of her supporters on Facebook. Selections of Sarah Palin’s Facebook Note documents were chosen in order to narrow the scope of this research. The research questions that has directed this study is: Through the social media platform of Facebook, what function does Palin’s use of metaphor play in the reciprocal discourse of supporter comments? Do literary devices such as metaphor affect the nature of audience participation in political social media?

Download Full-text

New Media in Kosovo—The Subliminal Megaphone of Deliberate Political Messages

The Educational Review USA ◽

10.26855/er.2018.02.002 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Gjylie Rexha ◽

Keyword(s):

New Media ◽

Political Messages

Download Full-text

The Influence of Political Messages in New Media to Political Awareness and Its Impact on the Political Participation of Millennial Generation

Jurnal Komunikasi Ikatan Sarjana Komunikasi Indonesia ◽

10.25008/jkiski.v4i2.333 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 128-139

Author(s):

Nur Kholisoh ◽

Elly Yuliawati ◽

Nurfa Rachma Suci ◽

Tri Suharman

Keyword(s):

Political Parties ◽

New Media ◽

Political Participation ◽

Public Space ◽

Millennial Generation ◽

Communication Theory ◽

The Political ◽

The Internet ◽

Political Awareness ◽

Political Messages

Today many political parties use new media, the internet, as their political communication channel. For young people, the internet serves as a dominant public space. Since young voters as millennial generation have great potential to increase votes, many political parties convey their political messages through new media used by millennial generation. This research is intended to see and study the influence of political messages in new media on political awareness and its impact on political participants of millennial generation. This research uses Stimulus Organism Response (S-O-R) theory as main theory, McQuail’s mass communication theory, and theory or concept of political awareness, political participation and new media as well as millennial generation. This research uses quantitative approaches with a survey and questionnaire method as a means of collecting data. The millennial generation referred to in this research is younger generation aged between 17 and 37 years and lives in the Special Capital Province of Jakarta (DKI Jakarta). Based on the recapitulation of final voter lists for the 2018 general election, the number of voters aged between 17 and 37 years reaches about 2,885,000. The technique of determining the sample size uses Slovin’s formula, with the margin of error reaching 5% so that the number of samples is 400. Meanwhile, the technique of sampling uses proportional sampling and data analysis technique uses path analysis. The results of the research show that political messages in new media have direct and indirect influences on the political participation of millennial generation.

Download Full-text

A Pit-bull in Lipstick: The Reciprocal Brand Rhetoric of Sarah Palin

10.32920/ryerson.14660598.v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Sarah Stockdale

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

New Media ◽

Audience Participation ◽

Political Messages ◽

Political Events ◽

The Social ◽

Media Platform ◽

Sarah Palin ◽

2012 Election ◽

The Relationship

This Major Research paper will focus on the Republican American politician Sarah Palin. Sarah Palin is a political figure who has played an interesting role in Republican politics over the last four years. As an unexpected candidate for John McCain’s 2008 Vice Presidential nomination, Palin garnered unprecedented media attention for a running mate. Sarah Palin is a media celebrity, a potential Republican candidate for the 2012 election, and an international household name. The purpose of this research is to explore Sarah Palin as a political actor and celebrity icon by analyzing her use of new media as a platform for her political rhetoric. Specifically, this study looks at the discourse used in Sarah Palin’s social media campaign, with a direct focus on the social media outlet of Facebook. Facebook is a non-traditional political media platform, which allows politicians contact with millions of users in a format that is social, personal and direct. Many politicians have been utilizing new media platforms in order to communicate their political messages to new and diverse audiences. This study analyzes how Sarah Palin is utilizing the medium of Facebook, and how the language she uses in communicating to her supporters affects their experience of current political events. This study aims to show the relationship between the rhetoric she chooses to employ, and the comment activity of her supporters on Facebook. Selections of Sarah Palin’s Facebook Note documents were chosen in order to narrow the scope of this research. The research questions that has directed this study is: Through the social media platform of Facebook, what function does Palin’s use of metaphor play in the reciprocal discourse of supporter comments? Do literary devices such as metaphor affect the nature of audience participation in political social media?

Download Full-text

New Media in Kosovo – The Subliminal Megaphone of Deliberate Political Messages

10.33107/ubt-ic.2017.200 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Gjylije Rexha

Keyword(s):

New Media ◽

Political Messages

Download Full-text

New Media in image-making. How have emerging communications transformed the political process?

Scripta Neophilologica Posnaniensia ◽

10.14746/snp.2018.18.10 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 97-108

Author(s):

Artur Urbaniak

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

New Media ◽

Political Communication ◽

News Media ◽

Political Process ◽

Political Messages ◽

Mainstream Media ◽

News Websites ◽

The Social ◽

Changing Roles

The purpose of this article is to provide a theoretical framework for the contemporary process of political communication. It emphasizes the changing roles of the senders/receivers within the process and it postulates unprecedented opportunities offered by the emergence of the New Media. As for the empirical research, we discuss the results of the study that has been conducted to further the understanding of how the younger generation, aged 20-25 (herein referred to as Digital Natives), process and comprehend the news media content, with special attention to political messages. It was initially hypothesized that the main source of information about politics and the surrounding world is the Internet and the social media in particular. The paper discusses the results of the study showing that the alternative news websites and social media, understood as the opposite to what is known as the mainstream media, have been gaining ground. Concurrently, the study discovered the students’ declining interest in traditional institutional mainstream-controlled media (i.e. press, radio or television).

Download Full-text