Mobilizing public will across borders: Roles and functions of communication processes and technologies

Salmon, Charles T.; Fernandez, Laleah; Post, Lori A.

doi:10.1080/08865655.2010.9695778

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“…It also provides an excellent example of the process of "exogenous mobilization," which takes place, according to Salmon, Fernandez, and Post ( 2010 ), when governments "actively suppress a group that is attempting to voice its will and express its grievance. In such a case, communication networks outside the social system mobilize support in a variety of forms" (p. 163).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Egyptian Revolution 2.0

el-Nawawy¹,

Khamis²

2013

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From democratization to terrorism, economic development to conflict resolution, global political dynamics are affected by the increasing pervasiveness and influence of communication media. This series examines the participants and their tools, their strategies and their impact. It offers a mix of comparative and tightly focused analyses that bridge the various elements of communication and political science included in the field of international studies. Particular emphasis is placed on topics related to the rapidly changing communication environment that is being shaped by new technologies and new political realities. This is the evolving world of international political communication.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The globalized nature of the exchanged discourse in this thread and the diversity of those who participated in it support the existence of the process of "exogenous mobilization" (Salmon et al, 2010 ), as well as the existence of a "virtual global public sphere" (el-Nawawy & Khamis, 2009 ), as previously discussed in chapter 4 .…”

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Egyptian Revolution 2.0

el-Nawawy¹,

Khamis²

2013

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“…However, until the 1980s the Swiss Italian-speaking TV channels had largely been accessible in Northern Italy; only new European licensing regimes introduced in the 1990s and 2000s meant that residents in Italy could no longer watch Swiss TV. Nevertheless, the internet has offered new opportunities to transcend the national border (Salmon, Fernandez, and Post 2010). The question thus arises how the borderland's media landscape has contributed to the mentioned controversial issues.…”

Section: Towards Cross-border Political Communication: Methods and Resmentioning

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“…The best way to empirically capture these various strategies and their effect is by assessing communication flows (Salmon, Fernandez, and Post 2010), for two reasons. On the one hand, Sassen (2006, 344) suggests that the complex imbrication of the digital and the non-digital brings with it a "destabilization of older hierarchies of scale and often dramatic rescalings."…”

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Cross-Border Integration through Contestation? Political Parties and Media in the Swiss–Italian Borderland

Mazzoleni

Mueller

2016

Journal of Borderlands Studies

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This article analyzes how, in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, regional integration across an international border took place through political contestation. Although the crisis has been interpreted as leading to a revival of state borders, we show its differentiated impact on cross-border relationships at the heart of Western Europe, namely the Swiss-Italian borderland. A database encompassing over 1,800 articles published in 11 different print and online newspapers over two years (2010)(2011)(2012) allowed an analysis of the role played by political parties and the media as drivers of contestation. Our quantitative and qualitative analyses trace processes of both re-bordering ("Switzerland vs. Italy/the EU") and de-bordering (that is, integration across the border) through discourses prioritizing "the region." The wider implication from this study is that borderlands are subject to the same pushand pull-factors as states but that, additionally, a third dimension is present. Ignoring this intra-state center-periphery dimension means not fully capturing borderland dynamics, all the more so if political entrepreneurs skillfully seize spatial contention to advance their own conception of regional identity distinct from that of their nation-state.

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“…This research also recognizes the multiplicity of roles citizens play in a society, with different respective interests, stakes, and access points for attempting to mobilize their participation (Leiderman, Wolf, and York ); in other words, an individual can be a member of multiple different “publics.” More recently, a consulting firm provided a definition of “public will building” as “a communication approach that builds public support for social change by integrating grassroots outreach methods with traditional mass media tools in a process that connects an issue to the existing, closely held values of individuals and groups” (Metropolitan Group , 3). Finally, Salmon, Fernandez, and Post () emphasize how public will is geared toward influencing public policy and changes in structural conditions and how public will is tied inextricably to the ideas of organizing and mobilizing.…”

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Defining Public Will

Raile

Salmon

et al. 2014

Politics & Policy

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Scientific elaboration of "public will" would enhance the concept's analytical usefulness and contribute to improved understanding in various fields, including political science and public policy. Previous work has utilized the term but has jumped the crucial stage of formally defining public will as a conceptual variable. This project constructs a definitional system that breaks the concept into components and offers operationalizations and assessment targets. Analysis begins with consideration of social systems and their direct ties with other definitional components like shared recognition of the problem and of proposed means of addressing the problem. Resolve to address the situation and to sustain collective action are also essential components. The project then applies the definitional system through a brief case study of firearm control and considers various scholarly implications. The definitional system emphasizes the simultaneous existence of multiple "publics" and argues against using public will synonymously with majority public opinion.

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Mobilizing public will across borders: Roles and functions of communication processes and technologies

Cited by 14 publications

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Egyptian Revolution 2.0

Egyptian Revolution 2.0

Cross-Border Integration through Contestation? Political Parties and Media in the Swiss–Italian Borderland

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