Post-panoptic panopticism in docile mass media

• Authors: Anna Sámelová
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The main theme of the paper is the role of the mass media in the production, creation, retention, protection and defense of a social order, or in carrying out revisions, or cosmetic and extensive changes to it. In the first section, the author explains the Power of the Mass Media by looking at Foucauldian leprosy/plague management. The second part, Docile Mass Media Producers Under Panoptic Control, deals with the routinization of the mass media craft. Finally, the Social Order of Docile Individuals who Feel Freedom takes a closer look at the social order and how it is created by mass media producers (as professionals in their craft).

Keywords

EN

mass media; Editors Spirit; leprosy/plague management; panoptic surveillance; Michel Foucault

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Human Affairs
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 24
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 470-480

Dates

published

2014-10-01

online

2014-10-02

Contributors

author

Anna Sámelová

• Comenius University

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/s13374-014-0242-9