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035 _a(DE-B1597)9789633861684
035 _a(DE-B1597)633511
035 _a(OCoLC)1338021234
040 _aDE-B1597
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050 0 0 _aJC423
_b.C773 2016
072 7 _aSOC052000
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082 0 4 _a321.8
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aCsigó, Péter
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe Neopopular Bubble :
_bSpeculating on "the People" in Late Modern Democracy /
_cPéter Csigó.
264 1 _aBudapest ;
_aNew York :
_bCentral European University Press,
_c[2017]
264 4 _c©2017
300 _a1 online resource (426 p.)
336 _atext
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338 _aonline resource
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tTable of Contents --
_tTable of Contents --
_tList of Online Appendices --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIntroduction: Collective Speculation in Mediatized Populist Democracy --
_tPart 1 The Speculative Media System --
_t1. Speculation and Liquidity in Mediatized Politics and Marketized Finance --
_t2. The Rise of the Fifth Estate --
_t3. Theorizing Collective Mythmaking on Media and Markets --
_tPart 2. The Cultural Autonomy of Neopopular Mythmaking --
_tIntroduction to Part 2 --
_t4. Mythicizing Popular Media in Academia --
_t5. The Myth of “Active Control” in Media-Interpreting Industries --
_tPart 3. The Counterperformativity of Neopopular Mythmaking --
_tIntroduction to Part 3 --
_t6. When Being Popular Is Dangerous: The Case of a Myth- Driven Political Campaign --
_t7. Latent Events in a Postnormal Media Environment --
_tConclusion: The Dialectic of Liquid Modernity and the Crisis of Democracy --
_tAppendix --
_tReferences --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _aThe 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 actors unknowingly lean on collective beliefs about the popular expectations they seek to gratify, and thus do not follow popular public opinion as it is, but popular public opinion about popular public opinion. This book unravels how collective discourses on “the popular” have taken the role of intermediary between political elites and electorates. The shift has been driven by the idea of “liquid control:” that postindustrial electorates should be reached through flexibly designed media campaigns based on a complete understanding of their media-immersed lives. Such a complex representation of popular electorates, actors have believed, cannot be secured by rigid bureaucratic parties, but has to be distilled from the collective wisdom of the crowd of consultants, pollsters, journalists and pundits commenting on the political process. The mediatization of political representation has run a strikingly similar trajectory to the marketization of capital allocation in finance: starting from a rejection of bureaucratic control, promising a more “liquid” alternative, attempting to detect a collective wisdom (of/about “the markets” and “the people”), and ending up in self-driven spirals of collective speculation.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Jan 2023)
650 0 _aCapitalism
_xPolitical aspects.
650 0 _aDemocracy
_xEconomic aspects.
650 0 _aDemocracy--Economic aspects.
650 0 _aMass media
_xPolitical aspects.
650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies.
_2bisacsh
653 _aDemocracy, Elections, Media, Modernity, Myths, Political philosophy, Populism, Social surveys.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9789633861684
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789633861684
856 4 2 _3Cover
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