The Public Interest is Dead. Pathologies of Communicative Action by Semantic Transformation
The Public Interest is Dead. Pathologies of Communicative Action by Semantic Transformation

Summary/Abstract: The concern for the study of all forms of social pathology (diseases of the social body in general and of the social spheres in particular, namely economic, social and political) and of political pathology (diseases of power) is not a contemporary one, unlike the complete expression of its manifestations in communication field. Putting the communication into the normative center of society in J. Habermas's perspective makes it possible to evaluate and analyze communication disturbances or derailments that may affect the essential components of "lifeworld", namely culture, society and person, in specific contexts of crisis of the reproduction processes. Considering that public interest is placed into the center of any debate or speech of the national public sphere, this text focuses on the semantic derailment of the expression "public interest" as perception and representation in Romania and on its presentation in current national media discourse.

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