Political AdvertisingResearch, teaching and personal stuff.US TV Ads concentrated on key states- (Found July 2, 2008 ) An 18 July press release by Nielsen Monitor-Plus and the University of Wisconsin Advertising Project shows that both Bush and Kerry campaigns are concentrating their TV ads in battleground states (with Ohio and Missouri being most strongly targeted by both campaigns). 60 percent of Americans live in areas where no TV ads have been shown since March.http://homepage.mac.com/jonathan_lewis/blog/2004/07/20#localTV1 Fuch Mayoral Election posters- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Two very simple candidate posters. Tadanao Noguchi's simply states "Tadanao Noguchi for mayor", while Mitsue Kanazashi's bears the slogan "let's change Fuch together". Kanazashi's poster also shows that she is backed by the "Group For A Woman Mayor."http://homepage.mac.com/jonathan_lewis/blog/2004/01/28#FuchuMayor01 Yoshikawa City Council Election posters- (Found July 2, 2008 ) I took a very roundabout route to work in order to photograph city council election posters in Yoshikawa, eastern Saitama. Top marks to the city council for setting up poster boards outside both entrances of Yoshikawa station. Unfortunately both boards were set up directly next to rather busy roads, and impossible to view from any sidewalk. Fortunately one of them was next to a bus stop so I was able to photograph in relatively safety, although conscious of a waiting bus driver looking down.http://homepage.mac.com/jonathan_lewis/blog/2004/01/27#YoshikawaCityC01 Hachioji Mayoral Election- (Found July 2, 2008 ) I went to Hachioji in western Tokyo to photograph posters in the mayoral election that is due to be held this Sunday. There are only two candidates, the incumbent Ryuuichi KUROSU and the challenger Akira ISAWA. Kurosu's poster has two or three rather vague slogans and logos, plus a reminder in large text that he is the incumbent. Isawa, an independent recommended by the JCP, emphasizes two specific policies: one to cancel plans to charge households for garbage disposal, and another to...http://homepage.mac.com/jonathan_lewis/blog/2004/01/22#HachiojiMayor1 Election calendar updated- (Found July 2, 2008 ) After many months of neglect, I have updated the online calendar of Japanese elections. This entailed crawling round all the Prefectural Election Boards' websites to find out the dates of upcoming elections. Unfortunately only 28 prefectures post the actual dates of upcoming elections rather than simply the end of the current candidates's terms. I'll try to find other sources of information about the remaining prefectures. Thanks to Joe Sasanuma of Boston College for encouraging me to...http://homepage.mac.com/jonathan_lewis/blog/2004/01/20#calendar01 Anti-Bush ads- (Found July 2, 2008 ) As widely reported, two submissions to the Bush in 30 Seconds contest for anti-Bush TV ads run by MoveOn.org compared George Bush to Adolf Hitler. The Republic Party website, ironically, provides perhaps the most detail of the controversial submissions.http://homepage.mac.com/jonathan_lewis/blog/2004/01/11#antiBush01 Arrests for campaign funding irregularities- (Found July 2, 2008 ) LDP Dietmember Masanori Arai is being questioned about suspected illegal use of funds during the Nov. 2003 general election campaign. The allegations include the illegal dispersal of funds to people putting up posters around the district. "The police arrested Sunagawa on Dec. 17 for allegedly giving a total of 1.55 million yen to 15 people in late October in return for their visiting households and calling for support for Arai or helping to distribute his posters." LDP's Arai in election.http://homepage.mac.com/jonathan_lewis/blog/2003/12/29#arrests01 Posters in Renaissance Italy- (Found July 2, 2008 ) This does not concern election posters, but in 15th century Florence lifelike portraits of political enemies (such as the leaders of the Pazzi conspiracy against the Medici clan in 1478) were painted onto the exteriors of public buildings. "In Florence... bankrupts and traitors were depicted in large format on the facades of buildings, sometimes on the palace of the Lord Priors, but most often on the Bargello, the fortress of the chief police magistrate. To underline identities, names...http://homepage.mac.com/jonathan_lewis/blog/2003/12/29#Florence01 Brian McNair's An Introduction to Political Communication- (Found July 2, 2008 ) The chapter on political advertising is of most relevance to our research on election posters. McNair, Brian, 1999. An Introduction to Political Communication, Second Edition. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-19921-2. This book is an undergraduate textbook, but it does provide some useful pointers to previous research on political advertising in the United States and Britain. I must find, for example, Kaid et al., ads., New Perspectives in Political Advertising (1986). McNair also points out that.http://homepage.mac.com/jonathan_lewis/blog/2003/12/19#McNair01 Poster images imported- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Today I wrote and ran an Applescript that imported all the photos of posters into the record for that poster in the main Filemaker Pro database. This makes it much quicker to look at posters and add information about them to the database. In fact the posters themselves were not added to the database, as that would swell the database to an unmanageable size. Only pointers to the image files were added to Filemaker, but the photos are displayed within the database.http://homepage.mac.com/jonathan_lewis/blog/2003/12/12#Database01 |