Videocracy
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This article is about the concept Videocracy. For the 2009 documentary by Erik Gandini, see Videocracy (film).
Videocracy is the power of the image over society.[1][2]
Examples
"Voter-generated-content", such as videos on YouTube, have been identified as examples of a developing videocracy.[3]
In Italy, the election of Silvio Berlusconi as Prime Minister in 1994 was seen by many as a "media coup d'état [and] a drift towards 'videocracy'".[4]
John Kifner writes that in Romania a 'videocracy' was involved in the overthrow of Nicolae Ceauşescu in the "first revolution on live television".[5]
See also
Logocracy - a system where the words are the key to power, seen by some as an important adjunct to videocracy, by others as its antithesis.[6]
Notes and references
- ↑ Towards a "Videocracy"? Italian Political Communication at a Turning Point, European Journal of Communication 10 (3), 1995, pp.291-319
- ↑ topos.ru
- ↑ American Studies at Osnabrück University website
- ↑ Miller, Toby, Television: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies, Routledge, 2003, p. 40
- ↑ Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi, Ali Mohammadi, Small Media, Big Revolution: Communication, Culture, and the Iranian Revolution, University of Minnesota Press, 1994, p. xix
- ↑ vavilon.ru
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