Forms of Political Communication

From flower until “Thor-(ns)”

Instantly Political Communication Forms
• Rhetorical: Speech, Agitation, Propaganda,

• Event: Campaign, Demonstrations, Debate, Street Talking/Visit

Impromptu/Social Visit
• Formal Meeting: Lobbying, Goodwill Visiting,

• Media: Spreading Brochure, Sticker, Billboard, Banner, Advertising, Social

Media
• Social Media: Social Media Campaign, Quote, Motivation, Meme
Rhetorical (Basic Political Communication)

Speech Propaganda Agitation

• Large Scale effect (exceptionally agitation, very influence to all sympathizer)

• High cost

• Effectively influence mass people and easy getting media’s pay attention

• Effective to make public opinion and political image characteristic

Event

Campaign Debate Social Visiting

• Medium-Large Scale effect

• Medium-High cost

• Effectively to see political programs and vision candidate, and getting voter’s with specifically background (religion,
gender, age, jobs, or etc.)
• Effective to make public opinion, policy, and future political movement
Formal Meeting

Lobbying Goodwill Relationship

• Low-Medium Scale effect (specifically to interest personal background, or social group), High (to sympathizer)

• “Low”-Medium cost

• To see opportunity and loss-benefit candidate

• Effectively to express political symbolic (or image) than vision candidate, as support the candidate or approach
mass have specifically background
 All of Advertising

• Medium-High Scale effect (specifically to interest personal background, sympathizer or social group)

• Low (Sticker, Banner, Poster, Billboard, Social Media or same way), Medium (Advertising in Newspaper, Magazine, or
Radio), High (Television)
• To Promotion, or Programs (in fact if candidates only have low budget)

• Effectively to introduce candidate or party, or supporting by media attention (view by political economy of media)
Duty 2
• Fill the test about political spectrum in https://www.politicalcompass.org/test
until you strongly believe of test results.
• After the test, you make analysis about your test results, why are you have
political tends and some of your interest issue in that test (2 page A4).
• Collected next week via Gdrive, format .doc or .pdf (I’ll share later)
Duty 3
• Make or drawing political mapping issue before debate class, one side of
role plays in your groups.
• You have free thinking about covered issue, like social, economy, minority
people, LGBT, health, or anything to discuss in debate.
• If you get political identity and political economy issue, I’ll send some of
cover area to making maps later in WA group.
• Political can be writing or design manually or digital (vector) in
A1/A2/A3 paper and show/collected in the debate’s meeting (meet. 5-6-
7).