Narracje emancypacyjne w mediach - od afirmacji do krytyki
Emancipatory Narratives in the Media - from Affirmation to Critique

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to provide a critique of the proliferation of media-based narratives, which, by promising a subject's empowerment, obscure the subtle relations of domination. Present-day emancipatory narratives are collages of vernacular knowledge and fragmentary scientific knowledge, pasted together with borrowings from educational discourse. Liberation of the individual is reduced to the effect of broadly-understood education and the act of self-development that can be carried out using defined procedures. Emancipatory narratives are becoming one of the dimensions of educationalisation discourses related to the expansion of educational semantics in numerous spheres of social and private life. From the perspective of Michel Foucault and his successors, these media-based narratives not only fail to deliver the promises of liberating the individual from the social relationships of power, but also serve to control human existence. A question worth posing here is what conditions would be conducive for there also to be room in the media for critique of the discourses they affirm. The concepts of critique and problematisation inspired by Foucault, as forms of esistance to the dominating discourses, will be illustrated with analysis of a programme broadcast on TOK FM radio, the participants of which strive to conduct a critique of emancipatory narratives.

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