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Politički spektakl i javno mnenje
Political Spectacle and Public Opinion

Author(s): Zoran B. Jevtović
Subject(s): Politics and society, Theory of Communication, Social development, Sociology of Politics, Globalization
Published by: Fakultet političkih nauka Univerziteta u Beogradu
Keywords: political spectacle; public information; social problems; leader; publicity; public;

Summary/Abstract: Democracy waves today are overflowing the planet, creating dramatic and intensive changes on evolutionary political path. Exciting statistic triumph of neoliberal order excite humanistic orientated part of our planet, but, behind democracy screen, human rights and economic welfare hiding lot of social problems, important for further concept of political development (energetic and ecological crisis, stock market problems worldwide, first signs of planetary recession, growing unemployment…). Catalog of modern crisis depends on many agents which can decide will new established democracy survived numerous illnesses that attacked her. In political arena main goal is to impose agenda of social problems, priorities and ways of solving them. That’s how political leaders and elites impose their own interests as social ones, constructing dominant communication paradigm to promote themselves and their political programs as unavoidable and absolute social power. Society, disintegrated by interests and seduced by narcotic fascination of media spectacles, need time to realize all aspects of manipulation skills, becoming more and more distant from truly problems of society. Informatic power, along with military and security one, triumph in creating of global public. Essence of modern political governance lies into media predicting, controlling and managing social crisis, their presence and absence from public spheres! In mass communication processes political spectacles are not prime time news because of their exclusivity, no, they are present as social relevancy which must be debated in public. In archipelago of high technologies social and ethnical groups, companies and agencies, institutions and individuals are hyper-related in exchanging of information, creating new global system.

  • Issue Year: 3/2008
  • Issue No: 7
  • Page Range: 5-26
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Serbian