Political Branding, Public Sphere/Space and the Corruption of Communications

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10.2991/iconeg-16.2017.63How to use a DOI?

Keywords

political branding; public sphere/space; the corruption of communications; communication fog;

Abstract

In the 2014 Indonesia's presidential election,the frenetic of imaging communications and persuasion fulfilled the public space and sphere, involving not only the election campaign team of each candidates but also public participations at large. Using discursive approach with Habermasian's public sphere as an analytical tool, this paper examines how political branding, the corruption of communications and the discourse of public sphere/space intersect producing what we call the communication fog. We identified some forms of communication corruption in political branding in the public sphere/space during the 2014 presidential election, including the data manipulations, twistingand distortion of meaning, black campaign and media bias. We conclude that the higher the degree of corruption of communications in the public sphere/space, the lower the degree of democracy which marks the end of the political public sphere in a country.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Bambang Sukma Wijaya
AU  - Andi Faisal
PY  - 2016/12
DA  - 2016/12
TI  - Political Branding, Public Sphere/Space and the Corruption of Communications
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Ethics in Governance (ICONEG 2016)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 280
EP  - 284
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/iconeg-16.2017.63
DO  - 10.2991/iconeg-16.2017.63
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