Visibility of PM Najib’s 100 days in office: a framing approach of his political branding identity

Political branding is gaining its popularity as it is competitive in terms of voters’ market. With the involvement of consumer or voters’ choices, the branding principles have been practically functional. This paper examined four main newspapers identifying the visibility of political branding attri...

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Main Authors: Yuslinda Mat Yassin, Hasmah Zanuddin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysian 2012
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5872/
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description Political branding is gaining its popularity as it is competitive in terms of voters’ market. With the involvement of consumer or voters’ choices, the branding principles have been practically functional. This paper examined four main newspapers identifying the visibility of political branding attributes of Malaysian 6th Prime Minister (PM), Dato’ Seri Najib Tun Abdul Razak during his 100 days in office. This study investigated framing and branding attributes of PM’s political strategies, visibility and images in the media. Five framing attributes adopted and modified from Semetko & Valkenburg, (2000) namely responsibility, economic consequences, morality, conflict and human interest were used. While branding attributes consists of reassurance, value-based, credible, aspirational and simple/unique. Cramer’s V, Phi value and analysis of variance (anova) statistical analysis were used to confirm the hypotheses.
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spelling oai:generic.eprints.org:58722016-12-14T06:39:42Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5872/ Visibility of PM Najib’s 100 days in office: a framing approach of his political branding identity Yuslinda Mat Yassin, Hasmah Zanuddin, Political branding is gaining its popularity as it is competitive in terms of voters’ market. With the involvement of consumer or voters’ choices, the branding principles have been practically functional. This paper examined four main newspapers identifying the visibility of political branding attributes of Malaysian 6th Prime Minister (PM), Dato’ Seri Najib Tun Abdul Razak during his 100 days in office. This study investigated framing and branding attributes of PM’s political strategies, visibility and images in the media. Five framing attributes adopted and modified from Semetko & Valkenburg, (2000) namely responsibility, economic consequences, morality, conflict and human interest were used. While branding attributes consists of reassurance, value-based, credible, aspirational and simple/unique. Cramer’s V, Phi value and analysis of variance (anova) statistical analysis were used to confirm the hypotheses. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysian 2012 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5872/1/V28_2_151-172.pdf Yuslinda Mat Yassin, and Hasmah Zanuddin, (2012) Visibility of PM Najib’s 100 days in office: a framing approach of his political branding identity. Jurnal Komunikasi ; Malaysian Journal of Communication, 28 (2). pp. 151-172. ISSN 0128-1496 http://www.ukm.my/jkom
spellingShingle Yuslinda Mat Yassin,
Hasmah Zanuddin,
Visibility of PM Najib’s 100 days in office: a framing approach of his political branding identity
title Visibility of PM Najib’s 100 days in office: a framing approach of his political branding identity
title_full Visibility of PM Najib’s 100 days in office: a framing approach of his political branding identity
title_fullStr Visibility of PM Najib’s 100 days in office: a framing approach of his political branding identity
title_full_unstemmed Visibility of PM Najib’s 100 days in office: a framing approach of his political branding identity
title_short Visibility of PM Najib’s 100 days in office: a framing approach of his political branding identity
title_sort visibility of pm najib’s 100 days in office: a framing approach of his political branding identity
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5872/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5872/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5872/1/V28_2_151-172.pdf