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WHAT IS PERSUASION ? using coercion or force to produce an effect?
Persuasion Day 1 EU Bcn WHAT IS PERSUASION ? using coercion or force to produce an effect? using tools to produce x effect in an audience? using symbols to induce action ? motivating a sense of identification to produce action? (c)annedwyer 2003
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EARLY PERSUASION THEORIES
…focussed on rhetoric PERSUASION TODAY includes ... advertising movements organisational identification practices
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ARISTOTLE 3 persuasion types: Deliberative Forensic Epideictic
PERSUADERS USE PROOF Inartistic (controlled by the situation eg photos, statistics) Artistic (invented/created by the persuader) Ethos Pathos Logos
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CICERO’S THEORY OF STASIS
3 KEY STASIS (clash points) : DEFINITION OF A FACT/VALUE EXISTENCE QUALITY STYLE Plain Middle Grand
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5 CANONS OF RHETORIC Invention Arrangement Style Delivery Memory
“Persuasion > Speech”
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SEMIOTICS Words Signs Signals Symbols “The map is not the territory”
CODES Code Confusion “Differance”
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Audience-Oriented Persuasion Theories
Persuasion Day 1 EU Bcn Audience-Oriented Persuasion Theories Cognitive Dissonance Theory (Leon Festlinger, 1957) - Balance Elaboration Likelihood Model (Pettey and Cacioppo 1986) - central/peripheral (c)annedwyer 2003
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More audience-related theories
Social Construction of Reality (Peter L Berger et al, 1966) opinions = product of interaction with society Symbolic Convergence Theory (Ernest Bormann 1985) Fantasies/rhetorical vision
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MEDIA THEORIES One-shot Model Two-Step Flow of Information
Uses and Gratification Cultivation Analysis Agenda Setting (power source/medium)
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ETHICS OF PERSUASION Coercion Violence Deception Access Oppression
Privacy Conflict of Interest
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ETHICAL DECISION MAKING
APPROACHES AND STANDARDS Categorical Imperative (Kant) Universal Utilitarian Principle (Mill) Situational Constitution of a country Johannesen’s ethical standards political/human-nature/dialogical Theoretic discourse/Practical discourse (Habermas 1973)
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Think about ... Visual Images and Ethics Political Persuasion
Advertising Organizational Advocacy Journalism Ethical Communication Ethics and Audience Members
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