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Theatricalization of Politics: Aspects of Politics in Media Scenes – Introduction
Christiana Constantopoulou * christiana.constantopoulou@panteion.gr * ORCID: 0000-0002-8648-4995
Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, School of Social Sciences, Athens
Open Journal for Sociological Studies, 2017, 1(2), 37-42 * https://doi.org/10.32591/coas.ojss.0102.01037c
Online Published Date: 15 December 2017
LICENCE: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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KEY WORDS: presentation, social representations, social myths, narratives, symbolization, communication, media.
ABSTRACT:
Theatricalization is an important aspect of social life in general, of political life in particular. Aspects of the political scene and action are given in mass and new media discourse as well as in mass cultural productions (as “narratives” of the contemporary reality). Given that people understand reality first of all on the symbolic level, the analysis of these narratives is an ideal approach of the meaning given to politics and communication nowadays: images of the economic crisis, of the migrants and/or refugees, of identities (given by media discourse or by mass cultural productions), constitute a basic imprint of the expressions of the current “social myths”. We emphasize on the concept of theatricalization as a constitutive social (and political) symbolism and on the importance of theatricalization in the contemporary communication. Because diverse narratives symbolize our reality, we focus on particular contemporary social myths; myths may be not real but they influence reality because they symbolize it (they explain it, they justify it and eventually they could make it change). In this sense, we consider this thematic volume as quite revealing for the contemporary communicational trends and for the contemporary (globalized) society.
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR:
Christiana Constantopoulou, Panteion University, Sygrou 136, 17671 Athens. E-mail: christiana.constantopoulou@panteion.gr.
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