Visualizing politics in Indonesia: The design and distribution of election posters

• Main Author: FOX, Colm A.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• Subjects: visual communications; election posters; election campaigns; democracy; electoral systems; Indonesia; Asian Studies; Political Science; Social Influence and Political Communication
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3641; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4899/viewcontent/18797_66720_1_PB.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Where studies have shown that visuals are the primary means of political communication, research continues to focus largely on text-based information. To add to our understanding of visual-political communications, this article analyses Indonesian election posters since the 1950s. Drawing on histori...