Attribute agenda setting and political advertising

Arendt, Florian und Obereder, Agnes (November 2016): Attribute agenda setting and political advertising. (Dis)association effects, modality of presentation, and consequences on voting. In: Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research, Bd. 41, Nr. 4: S. 421-443

Abstract

We investigated the attribute agenda-setting (AAS) effect of political advertising. Individuals (N = 209) participated in an experiment and were exposed to six political print advertisements, which were manipulated to represent either a text-only, visual-only, or visual-plus-text version. As expected, we found that AAS led to association effects in which advertising content strengthened mental links between the party and advertised issues. However, we also present evidence for disassociation effects in which non-advertised issues were mentally delinked from the party. Importantly, AAS was dependent on the modality of presentation with information presented verbally plus visually (dual-modal presentation) eliciting the strongest effects. Furthermore, the strength of the AAS effect predicted voting intentions for that party, but only in those who rated the advertisements favorably. We discuss the present study’s contribution to the AAS literature with regard to association and disassociation effects, modality of presentation, and AAS’s consequences on voting.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Keywords: attribute agenda setting; political advertising; visuals; modality of presentation; voting
• Fakultät: Sozialwissenschaften > Kommunikationswissenschaft
• Themengebiete: 300 Sozialwissenschaften > 300 Sozialwissenschaft, Soziologie ; 300 Sozialwissenschaften > 320 Politik
• ISSN: 1613-4087 ; 0341-2059
• Allianz-/Nationallizenz: Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG-geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.
• Sprache: Englisch