Media use and political learning: Comparing Trump supporters to celebrity candidate voters

Kanihan, Stacey Frank; Rim, Hyejoon

doi:10.1080/15456870.2018.1493881

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“…Interest in the 2020 U.S. election was included as another potential confounding variable because social justice was a key topic in the 2020 election. Participants were asked about their levels of interest in the 2020 election using a seven-point scale, adopted from Kanihan and Rim (2018).…”

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Goodwill or just for show? The effects of different corporate social justice statements and the role of perceived authenticity

Chang

2023

JCOM

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PurposeCompanies' voices on social justice issues, such as racial justice, gender equality and LGBTQ rights, have become increasingly prevalent. To contribute to current knowledge around corporate communication on social justice, this study aims to understand the differential effects of three types of corporate social justice statements – symbolic statements, substantive statements on external actions and substantive statements on internal actions.Design/methodology/approachA between-subjects experiment was conducted (N = 502), with different types of statements as the independent variable and corporate reputation and perceived corporate relationship-building efforts as outcomes. The three dimensions of perceived authenticity (i.e. perceived benevolence, transparency and commitment) were included as parallel mediators.FindingsThis study found that compared to symbolic statements, substantive statements on external or internal actions generated higher perceived authenticity on at least one of the three dimensions, which in turn, led to a more positive corporate reputation and perceived relationship-building efforts. Substantive statements on external actions and on internal actions also had differential indirect effects on the outcomes through different dimensions of perceived authenticity. Partisanship did not have a moderating effect on the mediating effects of perceived authenticity.Practical implicationsThis study highlights the importance of authenticity in corporate social justice communication and reveals practical implications about how businesses should communicate with publics when engaging in social justice issues.Originality/valueThis study is among the earliest efforts to examine the effects of different corporate social justice statements. It contributes to the existing literature by demonstrating the impacts of perceived authenticity on publics' evaluation of companies and opens up an avenue for future research to further examine various authenticity dimensions.

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Goodwill or just for show? The effects of different corporate social justice statements and the role of perceived authenticity

Chang

2023

JCOM

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“…It is often assumed that this kind of media use inevitably leads to less political knowledge, but it also has consequences for the kind of political information that is being stored (Sehata & Strömbäck, forthcoming). Sharing information in short video clips that circulate on websites such as "Youtube", conveys a more visual understanding of the way politics and political candidates function (Kanihan & Rim, 2018). A straightforward assumption, therefore is that the knowledge of politics among the age groups that tend to use these media, will be more strongly based on visual clues, and will be less oriented toward proper names, institutions and procedures.…”

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A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words. A Visual Test of Political Knowledge: Does It Reduce the Effect of Age and Gender?

Stiers

Hooghe

2020

International Journal of Public Opinion Research

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Political knowledge is one of the main individual-level resources that allows for meaningful political participation. Yet, measuring knowledge in surveys remains problematic, and previous research identified several sources of potential bias in traditional measures of political knowledge. In this research note, we argue for the inclusion of a "visual" measure of knowledge: linking pictures of politicians with their respective parties. We find that using this kind of visual measure reduces the age-gap in political knowledge between adolescents and their parents' generation. Furthermore, when female politicians are included, it also decreases the gender-gap in political knowledge. We conclude with some suggestions for future survey research on measuring political knowledge.

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“…The advent of television, however, combining image with sound, saw the transition to a new epoch, wherein physical appearance, body language, and tempers became the major focus of political communication, widely viewed as imparting insights into the individual personality of a politician. It was in this era, as the importance of personality and media presence became accentuated by television, that ‘celebrity politicians’ emerged (Kanihan and Rim, 2018: 251) – individuals who become famous as entertainers but subsequently run for public office.…”

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The role of cultural production in celebrity politics: Comparing the campaigns of Jesse ‘The Body’ Ventura (1999) and Donald Trump (2016)

Moon

2019

Politics

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This article draws out the significant similarities between the political insurgencies of Jesse Ventura in 1999 and Donald Trump in 2016, charting their own premillennial political collaborations as members of the Reform Party, before identifying wider lessons for studies of contemporary celebrity politicians through a comparison of their individual campaigns. Its analysis is based upon the concept of the ‘politainer’, introduced by Conley and Schultz, into which it incorporates Mikhail Bakhtin’s conception of the carnival fool. The heterodox nature of both Ventura and Trump’s political campaign styles, it argues, is in part explained by the nature of the cultural spheres within which their public personas were produced; specifically, the fact that these personas, which they carried over from the entertainment to political spheres, were produced within genres of popular culture generally positioned as having ‘low’ cultural value. This, it argues, furnished both with an anti-establishment ethos as ‘no bullshit’ straight-talkers, marking them as outsider candidates able to act as conduits for political protest by an electorate alienated from mainstream political elites. It concludes by emphasising the potential importance that political celebrities’ specific cultural production can play in shaping a subsequent political campaign in general.

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Media use and political learning: Comparing Trump supporters to celebrity candidate voters

Cited by 7 publications

References 52 publications

Goodwill or just for show? The effects of different corporate social justice statements and the role of perceived authenticity

Goodwill or just for show? The effects of different corporate social justice statements and the role of perceived authenticity

A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words. A Visual Test of Political Knowledge: Does It Reduce the Effect of Age and Gender?

The role of cultural production in celebrity politics: Comparing the campaigns of Jesse ‘The Body’ Ventura (1999) and Donald Trump (2016)

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