The Neopopular Bubble : Speculating on "the People" in Late Modern Democracy /

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The common critique of media- and ratings-driven politics envisions democracy falling hostage to a popularity contest. By contrast, the following book reconceives politics as a speculative Keynesian beauty contest that alienates itself from the popular audience it ceaselessly targets. Political acto...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Csigó, Peter, 1974- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Central European University Press, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Mass media > Political aspects.
Democracy > Economic aspects.
Capitalism > Political aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Media Studies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Speculative Media System
  • 1. Speculation and Liquidity in Mediatized Politics and Marketized Finance
  • 1.1. Two "Neomodern" Myths in a "Liquid" New Age
  • 1.2. "Modernist" Invention of the New Age of Popular Media
  • 1.3. Fifth Estate: The Discursive Sphere of "Neopopular" Speculation
  • 1.4. Mediatization of Politics
  • 1.5. Liquidity and Collective Speculation in Late Modern Society
  • 1.6. Structural Paradoxes in the Making of the "New Age"
  • 2. Rise of the Fifth Estate
  • 2.1. "Balanced" Model of Control in High Modern Institutions
  • 2.2. Breaking the Balance: New Speculative Centers "above" Big Institutions
  • 2.3. Opening of a Sphere of Collective Speculation on Popular Resonance
  • 2.4. Rise of the Fifth Estate, a "Field of Restricted Symbolic Production"
  • 2.5. Conclusion
  • 3. Theorizing Collective Mythmaking on Media and Markets
  • 3.1. Free Market Belief System as Collective Myth
  • 3.2. Collective Myths, Beyond the Constructionist Mainstreams
  • 3.3. Neopopular Code of Mythmaking: Scholarly Complicity and Beyond
  • 3.4. "Strong Media Mythology": Addressing Neopopular Mythmaking
  • 3.5. Understanding Popular Media Myths: From a "Weak" to a "Strong" Model
  • pt. 2 Cultural Autonomy of Neopopular Mythmaking
  • Introduction to Part 2
  • 4. Mythicizing Popular Media in Academia
  • 4.1. Self-Propelled Binarizing
  • 4.2. Shared Mythical Core: Instances and Rules of Popular Control
  • 4.3. Liquid Binarizing: The Production of Unfalsifiable Narratives
  • 4.4. Inflating the Modernist Bubble: Self-Reproduction through Self-Expansion
  • 5. Myth of "Active Control" in Media-Interpreting Industries
  • 5.1. Active Media-Using Prospects in Commercial Marketing
  • 5.2. Controlling the Active Voter: Modernist Myths in the Discourse of Political PR
  • 5.3. Popular Middle: The Mythical Object of Active Control in Political Marketing
  • pt. 3 Counterperformativity of Neopopular Mythmaking
  • Introduction to Part 3
  • 6. When Being Popular Is Dangerous: The Case of a Myth-Driven Political Campaign
  • 6.1. Media Coverage of the New Right's Celebratory Performance in 2001
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  • 6.2. Ambiguous Reception of Celebratory Politics
  • 6.3. Celebratory Politics and the Middle Ground of the Hungarian Electorate
  • 6.4. Discussion: Selectivity, Repolarization, and Audience Partitioning
  • 7. Latent Events in a Postnormal Media Environment
  • 7.1. Neopopular Speculation and Media Eventization
  • 7.2. Eventization and Theories of Liminality, Spectacle, and Catharsis
  • 7.3. Latent Events as Experiential Enclaves
  • 7.4. Postnormal Space of Late Modem Media.

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