Decoding Telegram: Iranian Users and ‘Produsaging’ Discourses in Iran’s 2017 Presidential Election

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 88-121
Author(s):  
Hossein Kermani
Keyword(s):  
Significant Role ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
Social Medium ◽  
User Generated Content ◽  
Good Tool ◽  
Political Events ◽  
Dominant Discourses

Abstract This paper investigates the most-viewed posts in Persian Telegram channels during the period surrounding Iran’s 2017 presidential election. Telegram has become the most popular social medium in Iran, and its channels have played a significant role in recent social and political events. Based on the produsage theory and user-generated content concept, this research identifies the popular content and produsagers on Persian Telegram channels. Moreover, this paper evaluates the potential of these most-viewed posts to support or challenge the dominant discourses in Iran. Using a combination of content and discourse analyses, results show that user-generated content on Telegram supports and reinforces dominant discourses relatively strongly, rather than challenging them. They also show that politics and entertainment were the most popular content on Telegram and confirm that Telegram is usually considered a good tool for receiving information and news.

On The Threshold of Democratic Fragility

2016 ◽  
pp. 328-348
Author(s):  
Asiru Hameed Tunde ◽  
Daniel Ochieng Orwenjo
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Election ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Media Representation ◽  
Value Judgments ◽  
News Reports ◽  
A Value ◽  
Political Events ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Control ◽  
Election News

The recent events in the Nigerian political space are clear indications of a match towards the ‘unwanted'. These political events, such as the 2011 presidential elections resulted into the most violent post-elections killings in the history of Nigeria. In the light of this, media representation of that election may not be a value-free exercise but one imbued with value judgments or opinions which conveyed certain ideological leanings. It is against this background that the author examines the macrospeech acts which characterize the discourse of the 2011 post-presidential election news reports with a view to identifying and interpreting the prominent acts and their ideological imports. The study is situated within the broad frame of pragmatics and operationalises Searle Speech Act model in order to uncover the macrospeech acts in the news reports and how the acts covertly convey instances of prejudice and control.

Mexico: New Democracy with Old Parties?

Politics ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 172-180
Author(s):  
Carlos E. Casillas ◽  
Alejandro Mújica
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
Party System ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Political Events ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Election Results ◽  
New Democracy

Mexico's 2000 presidential election was one of the most important political events in the nation's contemporary history. The victory of the National Action Party (PAN) and Vicente Fox, the first ‘non-official’ candidate ever to win a Mexican presidential election, surprised both local and world observers. This article comprises four parts. Part I very briefly places the election in historical perspective. In Part II, each of the three front-runners in the contest is profiled. Part III includes a systematic analysis of the general election results by constituencies or other territorial units, and features tabulated data. Part IV addresses the development of political parties and the party system before and after the elections.

scholarly journals The Literary Heritage of Jesuits of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 421-440
Author(s):  
Barbara Milewska-Waźbińska
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Active Participation ◽  
Considerable Effect ◽  
Society Of Jesus ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Political Events ◽  
Literary Heritage ◽  
Vita Activa

Since 1565, the Society of Jesus promoted education in the humanities. The vast majority of the Polish nobility received their education in Jesuit colleges. Jesuit preachers, writers, poets, authors of heraldic and emblem works—derived mostly from the nobility—were understandably deeply involved in politics. The legacy of the most outstanding Jesuit authors testifies to their active participation in public life. In keeping with the specifics of the Polish case, their literary production emphasizes not only the vita activa, but also animus civilis. Political and historical themes, as well as religious motifs, played a significant role in Jesuit works. The Society’s activities in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth produced important works in various genres of literature, a significant portion of which was in Latin. Their poetry and prose is characterized by involvement in socio-political issues: the stormy political events and wars of the seventeenth century had a considerable effect on the compositions of the leading Jesuit authors.

Thailand Capital Flight through Trade with the US During Times of Political and Economic Instability

2008 ◽  
Vol 11 (03) ◽  
pp. 363-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pornchai Chunhachinda ◽  
Maria E. de Boyrie ◽  
Simon J. Pak
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Capital Flight ◽  
Capital Movement ◽  
Deposit Rate ◽  
Economic Instability ◽  
Political Events ◽  
The Us

This paper investigates capital flight from Thailand to the US through trade misinvoicing during the period from 1990 to 2005. The evidence indicates that capital flight from Thailand to the US, valued over US$16,189 million, had been done through under-invoicing exports to the US rather than over-invoicing imports from the US. The major incentive for the movement of capital is investment, followed by political events in Thailand, and the most significant determinants of capital flight are the US T-bill rate, the deposit rate in Thailand, and the degree of overvaluation of the Thai Baht. Interestingly, the 1997 Asian economic crisis did not play a significant role in the capital movement through trade.

“the agitation of the autobiographical”: National Politics and Aesthetic Autonomy in Philip Roth's Exit Ghost

2012 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 637-658
Author(s):  
ANDY CONNOLLY
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
National Politics ◽  
Presidential Election Of 2004 ◽  
Interesting Insight ◽  
Political Events ◽  
Aesthetic Autonomy ◽  
Insight Into

Through a close reading of Exit Ghost, this paper examines in a fresh manner the conflicts between notions of authorial context and autonomous literary creativity that dominate not just this novel, but all of Roth's works. In particular, I will look at how Exit Ghost reprises the antagonism and confusion that has existed between disinterested notions of authorial self-effacement and forms of autobiographical self-exposure within Zuckerman's (and Roth's) writing. By exploring how the fraught relationship between Zuckerman's private self and his publicly accessible body of fiction has been closely tied to his more youthful erotic adventures in earlier novels, I will discuss in detail the significance of the eviscerating impact of old age and impotence that he endures in Exit Ghost. In addition, I will discuss these complex issues of desire and authorship in the context of Roth's creative treatment of the Bush/Kerry Presidential election of 2004 in Exit Ghost. I will look at how the presence, albeit marginal, of such large-scale political events in this novel provides an interesting insight into the tangled intersection between literature and the raw “facts” of American history in Roth's fiction.

Can web ecology provide a clearer understanding of people’s information behavior during election campaigns?

2013 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoonjae Nam ◽  
Yeon-Ok Lee ◽  
Han Woo Park
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Local Elections ◽  
Election Campaigns ◽  
Online Networks ◽  
Political Events ◽  
Perceived Importance ◽  
Hyperlink Analysis ◽  
The Web

This article examines the web ecology of the 2010 local elections in South Korea by using social science hyperlink analysis. The online networks of candidates were measured daily during the official campaign period. The results indicate that network dynamics among the candidates for education superintendent changed more rapidly as the campaign progressed than in the case of the mayoral candidates. However, the intensity of online networks for both campaigns was lower than for the country’s last presidential election, in 2007, suggesting that the web ecology of a given election is influenced by the perceived importance of the event and the general popularity of certain candidates. The results also suggest that producing and disseminating information, such as news articles, blog posts and tweets, reflects a more politically conscious action than referring to information via hyperlinks. Furthermore, the article sheds light on the ways in which hyperlink analysis serves as a research method for mining data for web ecology analysis, tracking political events at different points in time and illustrating the general landscape of electoral communication in cyberspace.

scholarly journals COMPARISON OF K-MEANS CLUSTERING METHOD AND K-MEDOIDS ON TWITTER DATA

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 189-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cahyani Oktarina ◽  
Khairil Anwar Notodiputro ◽  
Indahwati Indahwati
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Election ◽  
Optimal Number ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
The Political ◽  
Number Of Clusters ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Twitter Data ◽  
Political Events ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Optimal Number Of Clusters

The presidential election is one of the political events that occur in Indonesia once in five years. Public satisfaction and dissatisfaction with political issues have led to an increase in the number of political opinion tweets. The purpose of this study is to examine the performance of the k-means and k-medoids method in the Twitter data and to tweet about the presidential election in 2019. The data used in this study are primary data taken from Muhyi's research, then mining the text against data obtained. Because this data has been processed by Muhyi to analyze the electability of the 2019 presidential candidate pairs, for this journal needs a preprocessing was carried out to analyze the tendency of tweets to side with the candidate pairs of one or two. The difference in the pre-processing of this research with previous research is that there is a cleaning of duplicate data and normalizing. The results of this study indicate that the optimal number of clusters resulting from the k-means method and the k-medoid method are different.

scholarly journals Presidential Election and the Battle of Online Media Discourse in Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 441-449
Author(s):  
Rudianto Rudianto
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Political Events ◽  
The Mass Media ◽  
News Online

In every presidential election event, the neutrality of the mass media is always a controversy. This happens in any country, including Indonesia.It is interesting to see how online mass media in Indonesia discourse political events after the 2014 presidential election. With the power of speed in presenting news, online media such as detik.com, kompas.com, vivanews.co.id are competing to present their frames on political events that took place.  The focus of this article's study is on online mass media coverage of political events that occurred after the 2014 presidential election. The study was conducted with content analysis of five online media, namely detik.com, kompas.com, okezone.com and republika.co.id. The conclusion obtained is the post-2014 presidential election media discourse, especially after the voting on 9 July 2014, generally revolves around the quick count results of the survey institution's version and the winning claims of each candidate. The mass media, especially detik.com, kompas.com and vivanews.com, compile a discourse with a tendency to take sides with one of the pairs based on the results of the survey institute's quick count.

ARBITRAGE TRADE IN PREDICTION MARKETS

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 14-26
Author(s):  
O Bergfjord ◽  
P. Kildal ◽  
T.A. McPherson ◽  
L.R. Loftaas ◽  
K. Valvik
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Election ◽  
Prediction Markets ◽  
Prediction Market ◽  
Political Opinion ◽  
Arbitrage Opportunities ◽  
Political Events ◽  
The Us ◽  
Time Zones ◽  
Using Data

By using data from five similar prediction market (PM) contracts on the 2008 American presidential election in two different market places targeted at investors of different nationalities, we investigate whether arbitrage opportunities across borders and market places exist in these markets. We find that arbitrage opportunities are rare and difficult to exploit.  Markets in these political events seem to be fairly efficient, even if they are located in different countries, time zones and are relatively small. However, inter-market arbitrage opportunities exist, and we hypothesize that this can be explained by differences in political opinion between the US and other countries.

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