Analyzing Image-based Political Propaganda in Referendum Campaigns: From Elements to Strategies

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2205.13154v1
• Date: Thu, 26 May 2022 05:00:48 GMT
• Title: Analyzing Image-based Political Propaganda in Referendum Campaigns: From Elements to Strategies
• Authors: Ming-Hung Wang, Wei-Yang Chang, Kuan-Hung Kuo, and Kuo-Yu Tsai
• Abstract summary: This paper takes a first look at image-based political propaganda during a national referendum in Taiwan. We investigated more than 2,000 images posted on Facebook by the two major parties to understand the elements of images and the strategies of political organizations.
• Score: 2.992389186393994
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: With the increasing popularity of social network services, paradigm-shifting has occurred in political communication. Politicians, candidates, and political organizations establish their fan pages to interact with online citizens. Initially, they publish text-only content on sites; then, they create multimedia content such as photos, images, and videos to approach more people. This paper takes a first look at image-based political propaganda during a national referendum in Taiwan. Unlike elections, a referendum is a vote on policies. We investigated more than 2,000 images posted on Facebook by the two major parties to understand the elements of images and the strategies of political organizations. In addition, we studied the data collection's textual content, objects, and colors. The results suggest the aspects of propaganda materials vary with different political organizations. However, the coloring strategies are similar, using representative colors for consolidation and the opponent's colors for attacks.

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