Symbols, Slogans, and Charisma: Political Posters in India’s 2014 National Election

Willnat, Lars; Verghese, Roshni; Mammadov, Rashad

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-32498-2_10

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“…To align them with the Left cause, these posters fall back on the readily identifiable symbols-the sickle, hammer, and star-of the Communist parties, and the use of the color red as the primary color. Party symbols in political posters of India play an important role in easing voters into identification with the parties and connect them with the symbols during ballot (Willnat et al 2017). In India, scholars have pointed out that color symbolism has been utilized by both Left-wing as well as nationalist parties such as BJP to promote respective parties (Kannangara and Devarapalli 2019).…”

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“…In the context of India, recent studies of visual communication in election campaigns have been largely restricted to the studies of political posters of the two largest national parties, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Indian National Congress. One of the studies noted the move toward image-based election campaigns on paper posters and billboards especially during the 2014 Indian election (Willnat et al 2017). BJP's use of merchandise, 3D holograms and photographs have also been studied (Khan 2019).…”

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Political Posters Reveal a Tension in WhatsApp Platform Design: An Analysis of Digital Images From India’s 2019 Elections

Sahoo

2021

Television & New Media

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This article examines the effects of WhatsApp as a mode of dissemination of political posters. It found that platform affordances that control the crafting and dissemination of political messages open up the possibility of vague political messaging by conforming to the social media’s visual culture and limit the spread of these messages, restricting the ability to organically gather support for a political cause. Despite the growing appeal of social media in political campaigns, social media messages when used by individuals and small, independent social media groups, who are not a part of a larger, organized political party or movement, have little influence on electoral decisions of voters about a political cause that faces weak public support. This was discussed in the context of electoral results of the Leftist political party in India in 2019 national elections. The paper then contributes to our understanding of the extent of the influence of social media platforms on political media messages.

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Political Posters Reveal a Tension in WhatsApp Platform Design: An Analysis of Digital Images From India’s 2019 Elections

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2021

Television & New Media

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“…25 For example, as stated by Suryadinata that PPP without its traditional Islamic symbol: Kaabah, is no longer considered by its many supporters as an Islamic party. Second, the use of religious symbols in general elections appears in political advertisements 26 ' 27 " 28 (Akhsan, 2015;Aminah, 2015;Willnat, et al, 2017). Another example is in India;the public was so interested in posters and billboards used for religious, political, and entertainment purposes so that striking images of Hindu gods and sacred symbols such as cows are commonly found.…”

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Religious Issues During Presidential Election of Indonesia in 2019

Iswandi¹

2020

JAD

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The election of a president and vice president is a fundamental way to fill thevacuum of power. However, in the 2019 presidential election, a striking phenomenon with the involvement of religion in the political contest so that there are many pros and cons if it is not suitable forthe desire of each religious elite in the 2019 presidential election.The involvement of religion in the presidential election raises questions such as first, how religion was involved in the presidential election process; Second, how religious discourse takes place in legitimating a particular process in the presidential election; and Third, how does religious involvement in the presidential election bring consequences to the life of society as a whole.The method used in this paper is a qualitative method. The qualitative method is often referred to as the generic qualitative method, which is to find out several indications of the 2019 presidential election with the involvement of religion as a marker of identity while the primary data source obtained from various online media in the form of writing or in the form of direct coverage and analysis of the author's using descriptive analysis.Duringthe presidential election, the religious elite considers emotional feelings as a priority so that they come out of the core problem. So that religion in the presidential election is only an instrument of political interests and can not be avoided again through movements that ultimately lead to pros and cons among fellow religious elites. Thus the professionalism of religion will be difficult to create because it is caused by religious elites who legitimize religion into practical politics.

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“…Regarding the design of election posters, the increasing presence of the party logo is one of the key indicators of professionalization in visual campaign communication (Vliegenthart 2012). Willnat, Verghese and Mammadov (2017) contend that in the case of Indian politics party symbols serve as information short-cuts; their visual emphasis allows voters to recognize the respective parties on the ballot. This recognition function may also be at play in European elections.…”

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The writing is on the wall: the limited professionalization of European parliament election campaign posters

Gattermann

Vliegenthart

2019

Journal of European Integration

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This article examines the overtime variation in content and style of European Parliament election campaign posters in the Netherlands and Italy. We put forward several hypotheses that tap the professionalization of political communication against the backdrop of politicization of EU affairs. Our sample comprises 333 posters for a total of 59 parties, which we analyse by quantitative content analysis. With the exception of personalization elements, our results show that professionalization trends are hardly manifest in the extent to which election posters change over time by means of featuring party logos, explicit calls to vote, European symbols, policy issues or Eurosceptic messages. While there are some marked differences on the latter four indicators between challenger and mainstream parties, these differences do not become more or less pronounced over time. Although Italian posters have become slightly more professionalized than Dutch posters, we conclude that European Parliament election posters have remained rather traditional.

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Symbols, Slogans, and Charisma: Political Posters in India’s 2014 National Election

Cited by 26 publications

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Political Posters Reveal a Tension in WhatsApp Platform Design: An Analysis of Digital Images From India’s 2019 Elections

Political Posters Reveal a Tension in WhatsApp Platform Design: An Analysis of Digital Images From India’s 2019 Elections

Religious Issues During Presidential Election of Indonesia in 2019

The writing is on the wall: the limited professionalization of European parliament election campaign posters

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