Listen to the Party! An Audio-as-Data Approach to Emotional Propaganda

• In Event: Emotion and Political Communication

Brief Overview

We examine how autocrats appeal to emotions in political messaging. We ask what types of emotions autocrats appeal to and when autocrats intensify emotional appeals. We use an audio-as-data approach to answer the questions.

Authors

• Haohan Chen, The University of Hong Kong

• Yiqiang Wang, The University of Hong Kong

• Tony Zirui Yang, Washington University in St Louis