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communication and media studies
communication studies
communication theory
critical orientations
Preferred term
ideological rhetoric
Definition
- While there are multiple ways to define ideology, for our purposes the most general will suffice—an ideology is a belief/value system that functions to maintain or challenge the existing order. This implies a relationship to power as a central feature of an ideological orientation to the world but does not restrict ideology to the early Marxist sense as “false consciousness.” Ideology may be theorized as distinct from rhetoric in that its expression is merely a by-product of its attitudinal perspective. [Source: Encyclopedia of Communication Theory; Ideological Rhetoric]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/ideological_rhetoric
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