Celebrification of Politics: Understanding Migration of Celebrities into Politics Celebrification of Celebrity Politicians in the Emerging Democracy of Indonesia

Ahmad, Nyarwi

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“…Being forced to choose such options, Indonesian political parties’ leaders gradually realised that in facing such elections, ‘the services of pollsters were imperative’ and pollsters evolved as ‘an indispensable element of the electoral process’ (Mietzner, 2009: 107). Such options also encouraged these political parties’ leaders to offer their parties’ tickets to the popular local elites, rich persons and also influential celebrities employed by the Indonesian media and cultural industries who want to run in such elections (Trihartono, 2014; Ahmad, 2020). Those who got such tickets commonly hired political pollsters and consultants to get ‘the polling reports as evidence that they were viable candidates the parties should consider endorsing’ (Mietzner, 2009: 107).…”

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Professional political pollsters as a liberal democratic epistemic community: Revisiting transformations of Indonesian political pollsters in the last decade of the Soeharto and post-Soeharto eras

Ahmad

Eriyanto

2022

Asian Journal of Comparative Politics

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This article proposes the notion of the professional political pollster as a liberal democratic epistemic community. It examines transformations of Indonesian political pollster organisations in the last decade of the Soeharto era and in the post-Soeharto era. The findings extracted from the academic and mainstream media reports and the in-depth interview data collected from seven political pollsters associated with prominent Indonesian polling organisations are as follows. In the last decade of the Soeharto era, professional political pollsters visibly evolved but played less significant roles in Indonesian politics. As the Soeharto regime collapsed, they gradually had more substantial roles in Indonesian electoral politics and took shape as a robust and convergent liberal democratic epistemic community. After Indonesia's 2004 presidential election, most of them not only turned into political consultants but also engaged in a pollster war. This made them take shape as not only a fragile but also a divergent liberal democratic epistemic community. A set of recommendations is proposed to tackle this problem.

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Professional political pollsters as a liberal democratic epistemic community: Revisiting transformations of Indonesian political pollsters in the last decade of the Soeharto and post-Soeharto eras

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Eriyanto

2022

Asian Journal of Comparative Politics

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“…The reasons are as follows. First, since the downfall of the Soeharto regime, not merely the Indonesian people, but also Indonesian political parties and these parties' politicians have been increasingly dependent on the media, especially the Indonesian news TV channels (Lim, 2011(Lim, , 2013Nugroho and Syarief 2012;Ahmad, 2017Ahmad, , 2020. However, while behavioural orientations of these political parties and politicians associated with these parties in Indonesian political sphere have been increasingly determined by the media and the media-related actors (Ahmad, 2019(Ahmad, , 2022, the structural factors that stimulate Indonesian political parties' leaders and these parties' presidential candidates to adopt the media logic have, however, been under-researched.…”

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Adaptations of the News Media and Social Media Logics by Indonesian Political Parties’ Leaders and Presidential Candidates after 2004 Indonesian Presidential Election

Ahmad

2023

J. Komun. Ikat. Sarj. Komun. Indones.

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Adaptations of political actors and organizations in Asian democratic countries to the media and social media logics have been increasingly visible. This article is specified to answer the following questions of how Indonesian political parties’ leaders and presidential candidates after 2004 Indonesian presidential election adapted to the news and social media logics and what drove such adaptations. Focusing on such questions, this article adopts theoretical models of mediatisation of politics formulated by Mazzoleni and Schulz, Strömbäck and Stromback and Van Aelts and extracts in-depth interview data derived from six Indonesian political parties’ leaders, two political consultants and six senior journalists associated with Indonesian media using the qualitative content and thematic analyses. The findings are as follows. These political parties’ leaders and presidential candidates favoured adapting to the news and social media logics when they got to deal with political issues and affairs, formulate political policies and secure their personal images in Indonesian political sphere. Such development was driven by the following factors, including establishing democratic political and media systems, increasing the roles of the media as sources of political information, escalating freedoms of Indonesian media and journalists to manage the media logic. Theoretical implications are chronicled and research recommendations are displayed.

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“…However, the Internet celebrity economy is not a short-term outlet, and selling goods through live streaming is gradually normalized. The Internet celebrity economy is gradually rising among college students and showing an increasingly strong development trend, positively or negatively impacting college students’ outlook on job selection ( Ahmad, 2020 ; Wu Y. et al, 2020 ). Its industry competition is the strongest negative predictor of emotional contagion and cognitive empathy.…”

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The Correlation Analysis for New Media Internet Celebrity Economy in College Students’ Entrepreneurial Values and Entrepreneurial Behavior

Xiang

Wang

2022

Front. Psychol.

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Driven by the development of new media, the Internet celebrity economic marketing model has gradually become one of the mainstream online marketing models. It has aroused warm attention on the network platform and provided a breakthrough for entrepreneurship for college students. This thesis aims to explore the influence of the Internet celebrity economy on college students’ entrepreneurial values and entrepreneurial behavior. A questionnaire is conducted among students in two colleges in Xi’an. Moreover, a theoretical model is constructed according to the influence principle of entrepreneurial values on entrepreneurial behavior. The reliability and validity of the questionnaire data are analyzed, and the mediating and moderating effects are tested. The results of the questionnaire show that contemporary college students generally pay attention to Internet celebrity mainly through live broadcast platforms and shopping platforms, among which entertainment and shopping account for the largest proportion. More than 40% of college students are optimistic about the impact of Internet celebrity economy and remain rational and objective on the whole. The results of model analysis show that the standardized path coefficient of entrepreneurial values on entrepreneurial behavior reaches a significant level of 0.85, and entrepreneurial values have a positive and significant impact on entrepreneurial behavior. The influence coefficient of the Internet celebrity economy on entrepreneurial intention is 0.79, and the influence coefficient of entrepreneurial intention on entrepreneurial behavior is 0.84, both reaching a significant level. The entrepreneurial intention has an incomplete intermediary effect in the influence mechanism of the Internet celebrity economy on entrepreneurial behavior. The chain double intermediary composed of entrepreneurial motivation and entrepreneurial intention has an incomplete intermediary effect in the indirect impact path of the Internet celebrity economy on entrepreneurial behavior. The influence coefficient of the product of entrepreneurial intention and entrepreneurial policy satisfaction on entrepreneurial behavior is 0.17, which is always greater than −12.28, indicating that entrepreneurial policy satisfaction has a regulatory effect in the impact path of entrepreneurial intention on entrepreneurial behavior. The research results can guide college students to view the Internet celebrity economy rationally and objectively, and provide some guidance for them to have correct entrepreneurial values.

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Celebrification of Politics: Understanding Migration of Celebrities into Politics Celebrification of Celebrity Politicians in the Emerging Democracy of Indonesia

Cited by 9 publications

References 31 publications

Professional political pollsters as a liberal democratic epistemic community: Revisiting transformations of Indonesian political pollsters in the last decade of the Soeharto and post-Soeharto eras

Professional political pollsters as a liberal democratic epistemic community: Revisiting transformations of Indonesian political pollsters in the last decade of the Soeharto and post-Soeharto eras

Adaptations of the News Media and Social Media Logics by Indonesian Political Parties’ Leaders and Presidential Candidates after 2004 Indonesian Presidential Election

The Correlation Analysis for New Media Internet Celebrity Economy in College Students’ Entrepreneurial Values and Entrepreneurial Behavior

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