Television and Political Advertising Volume Ii Signs, Codes, and Images [Hardcover]

This volume represents one of the first major scholarly efforts to unravel the psychological and symbolic processing of political advertising. Utilizing survey, experimental, qualitative, and semiotic methodologies to study this phenomenon, the contributors to Television and Political Advertisingtrace how political ads help to interpret the psychological reality of the presidential campaign in the minds of millions of voters. A product of the National Political Advertising Research Project, this interdisciplinary effort is valuable to researchers in advertising, communication, and consumer psychology since it helps define future work on the relationship between television, politics, and the mind of the voter.

This volume, Television and Political Advertising: Signs, Codes and Images, is the second of two, and covers such areas as Generating Meaning in the Pursuit of Power, Analyses of the Meaning of Political Ads, The Campaign Documentary as an Ad, and Regulating Signs and Images.

 

F. Biocca, Part I:Generating Meaning in the Pursuit of Power. What is the Language of Political Advertising?

Some Limitations of Earlier Symbolic Approaches to Political Communication.

Looking for Units of Meaning in Political Ads.

The Role of Communication Codes in Political Ads.

The Analysis of Discourses Within the Political Ad.

The Orchestration of Codes and Discourses: Analysis of Semantic Framing.

Part II:Analyses of the Meaning of Political Ads.

D. Descutner, D. Burnier, A. Mickunas, R. Letteri, Bad Signs and Cryptic Codes in a Postmodern World: A Semiotic Analysis of the Dukakis Advertising.

L.D. Smith, A. Johnston, Burke's Sociological Criticism Applied to Political Advertising: An Anecdotal Taxonomy of Presidential Commercials.

L. Shyles, Issue Col™