Trends in Political Communication in Hungary

A Postcommunist Experience Twenty Years after the Fall of Dictatorship

Bibliographic Data

ID12977403
AuthorsGabriella Szabó (0000-0002-5336-0179, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, corresponding author), Balázs Kiss (0000-0003-2511-9094, Institute for Political Sciences)
Year2012
Volume17
Issue4
Pages480-496
Publication date2012-07-12
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe International Journal of Press/Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1940-1612 • E-ISSN: 1040-1620
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1940161212452448
OpenAlexW2085669067
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited16

The paper highlights the trends of political communications (PC) that have arisen in Hungary after the collapse of communist regime (1989). The authors have identified four main trends in the field of PC: fragmentation , the multiplication of PC channels and means, endless amount of PC arenas, Internet, Web 2.0, fragmentation of content, amateurism in PC; post-objectivity , the end of the requirement of unbiased and balanced coverage, more emphasis on the rise of opinion, on media as community focal point rather than window to the objective reality; the performative turn, the representation of self, a strong focus on act, dramaturgy, and aesthetics in PC; and popularization , the convergence of popular culture and politics, fan democracy, entertaining politics, involvement of citizens, etc

Aesthetics · Art · Democracy · Dramaturgy · Media studies · Performative utterance · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Spectacle · Technological convergence · Telecommunications · The Internet · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Law · Media Studies and Communication · Social Media and Politics

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