scholarly journals The Politics of Discourse on the Fields of Dreams: Political Messaging and the Mediated Representation of Sports

InMedia ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Durbin ◽  
Yann Descamps
Keyword(s):  
Mediated Representation

Shifting Paradigms and Mediating Media: Redefining a New Religion as "Rational" in Contemporary Society

2007 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 54-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christal Whelan
Keyword(s):  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Religious Movement ◽  
Politics Of Representation ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
New Religions ◽  
Past Life ◽  
New Religion ◽  
Mediated Representation

Japanese new religions sometimes undergo a radical alteration in doctrine or orientation during the course of their development. This article focuses on the politics of representation within the deliberate transformation of a Japanese new religious movement known as GLA or God Light Association from a popular shamanistic neo-Buddhist form of religiosity to an increasingly "rational" and psychological religion. This paradigm shift revolved around the contested practice of past-life glossolalia promoted by the religion's founder as proof of reincarnation. Direct or mediated representation of this phenomenon, serving initially as a locus of power, came to be viewed negatively as expressive of GLA's roots with Japan's folk religious past. Unsuitable for the new secularized target clientele in an age of globalization, representations of this behavior and the man who fostered it were gradually suppressed and history was re-inscribed.

Australia: Mediated Representation of Global Politics

2010 ◽  
Vol 27 (9-10) ◽  
pp. 1510-1533 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Rowe ◽  
Callum Gilmour ◽  
Thomas Petzold
Keyword(s):  
Global Politics ◽  
Mediated Representation

scholarly journals Populist Democrats? Unpacking the Relationship Between Populism and (Liberal) Democracy at the Citizen Level

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrej Zaslove ◽  
Maurits Meijers
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
Satisfaction With Democracy ◽  
Unique Data ◽  
Support For Democracy ◽  
Democratic Support ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Mediated Representation

It is widely feared that the onset of populism poses a threat to democracy, as citizens' support for democracy is essential for its legitimacy and stability. Yet, the relationship between populism and democracy at the citizen level remains poorly understood, particularly with respect to support for liberal democracy. Data measuring citizens' populist attitudes in conjunction with a comprehensive range of measures of democratic support has been lacking. Using unique data from the Netherlands, we study the relationship between individuals' populist attitudes and their attitudes towards democracy in three studies. We examine the association between populism and support for democracy and satisfaction with democracy (Study 1); populism and support for liberal democracy (Study 2); and populism and support for majoritarian conceptions of democracy (Study 3). We find that while populist citizens are dissatisfied with how democracy works, they are no less supportive of the principle of democracy. Contrary to most theorizing, we find that populist citizens are largely supportive of key institutions of liberal democracy, but reject mediated representation through political parties. At the same time, populists strongly support forms of unconstrained majoritarian rule. These findings suggest that the relationship between populism and support for (liberal) democracy is more complicated than commonly assumed.

scholarly journals Sound Bites

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eike Mark Rinke
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
The Past ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Mediated Representation

A sound bite is an authentic mediated representation of an uninterrupted segment of audible speech. As such it can occur in all media involving audio and is a key component of material news cultures. During the past decades, one of the most widely replicated findings in a wide range of countries has been that the number of sound bites is shrinking. This has attracted attention from journalism scholars and the general public because shrinking sound bites are indicative of a move toward more interpretive or even interventionist models of journalism and because they have well‐documented detrimental consequences for the quality of public discourse that journalism helps to construct. [Publication of this chapter on SocArXiv courtesy of John Wiley and Sons, Inc.]

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