Strategic Planning and Campaign Management - Theories on Effective Messages and Persuasion

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How can you measure the effectiveness of the communication programme or campaign?

  • Process effects (quality of program)
  • Communication effects (do the stakeholders know/think what you were aiming for?)

Why do campaigns fail?

  • Assumed audiences would automatically receive and accept message
  • Blanketed audiences with messages not properly targeted were ignored or misinterpreted

What happens in the hierarchy of effects model of McGuire?

Each step in the model there is a drop of 50%
The message must be relevant to the audience, this triggers further involvement
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What is the Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM)?

  • Alternative to hierarchy of effects model
  • Content of ELM: People process messages differently, depending on their own involvement with an issue.

What are the specifics of the Central route of the ELM?

  • Emphasis on logical and careful consideration
  • Effect more long term
  • Used when audience have high degree of involvement

What are the specifics of the peripheral route of the ELM?

  • More emotional based strategies, less processing
  • Effects more short term
  • Achieve changes more quickly, because of less consideration

What three parts does the message of Framing consists of?

  1. Activation of overall frame
  2. Latent reasoning as part of that frame
  3. Connection with deeper and culturally shared categories

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