Community stakeholder responses to advocacy advertising
- Elon University, Elon, NC (United States). School Community
Focus group research was used to examine how community stakeholders, a group with local industry experience, responded to coal industry advocacy messages. The stakeholders expressed beliefs about both the advertiser and the coal industry, and while their knowledge led to critical consideration of the industry campaign, they also expressed a desire to identify with positive messages about their community. Applying a postpositivist research perspective, a new model is introduced to integrate these beliefs in terms of advertiser trust and industry accountability under the existing theoretical framework of persuasion knowledge. Agent and topic knowledge are combined in this model based on responses to the industry advocacy campaign. In doing so, this study integrates a priori theory within a new context, extending the current theoretical framework to include an understanding of how community stakeholders - a common target for marketplace advocacy - interpret industry messages.
- OSTI ID:
- 21197965
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Advertising, Vol. 38, Issue 2; ISSN 0091-3367
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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