Original scientific paper

Crisis of Democracy in Global Mediapolis

Dragan Ćalović ; Megatrend University, Faculty of Culture and Media, Novi Beograd, Serbia
Zoran Jevtović ; Megatrend University, Faculty of Culture and Media, Novi Beograd, Serbia

Abstract

If Plato was upset that people leaned on their own convictions about virtues, without seeking knowledge, present resident of global pseudopolis is obsessed by simulated information, pictures and convictions, which create social consciousness with their hyperproduction. In shadow of massmedia’s caves, contours of transformed democracy can be seen. This democracy is more and more exposed to the interests of megacorporations, dominant geopolitical influence, cultural determinism, and redefined fundamentalism. Under such circumstances, to some lonely individual, “in Athena’s Agora”, is even more difficult to form and keep his or her own opinion, ideas and values. Infospace is covered by global network of information and facts; the process of symbolic exchange is taken off humans by machines. Freedom of speech in media is the air of open, public communication, the pillar of democratic structures, but problem is that watchmen of “information gates” still standing guard, but this time in front of cyber spaces.

Keywords

democracy; communication; mediapolis; mediocracy; power; knowledge

Hrčak ID:

68565

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/68565

Publication date:

17.5.2011.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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