Encouraging Identification with the Larger Campaign Narrative: Grassroots Organizing Texts in Barack Obama’s 2008 Presidential Campaign
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DOI: 10.1080/01463373.2017.1378242
Abstract: Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign motivated thousands of people to train, organize, and recruit volunteers to get involved at the grassroots level. In this essay, I study a set of training manuals used during the… read more here.
Keywords: obama 2008; barack obama; obama; campaign ... See more keywords
Crime in Televised Presidential Campaign Ads: The Making of Visual Metaphor
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DOI: 10.1080/01639625.2019.1582972
Abstract: ABSTRACT In televised campaign advertisements, political rhetoric potently combines with visual metaphors. Drawing on a digital library of presidential campaign ads from 1952 to 2016, the qualitative media analysis scrutinized how crime rhetoric became visual… read more here.
Keywords: campaign; campaign ads; crime; presidential campaign ... See more keywords
Semiotic space invasion: The case of Donald Trump’s US presidential campaign
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DOI: 10.1515/sem-2017-0109
Abstract: Abstract This paper uses a social semiotic perspective to analyze Donald Trump’s domination of media coverage of the US presidential campaign from 16 June 2015, when he announced his candidacy for nomination as the Republican… read more here.
Keywords: semiotic space; invasion case; donald trump; campaign ... See more keywords