Politics and the virtual event
An overview of the Hill‐Thomas hearings
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6335015 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roderick P Hart (The University of Texas at Austin, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 263-275 |
| Publication date | 1994-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1058-4609 • E-ISSN: 1091-7675 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10584609.1994.9963031 |
| OpenAlex | W2053313132 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 3 |
The article characterizes the hearings conducted by the Senate Judiciary Committee in October 1991 relative to Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas as a virtual event. That is, the event was a highly dramatic encounter arising unexpectedly that possessed the human qualities needed to attract media attention but that effected no immediate, statutory changes in the polity. The article isolates four characteristics of the virtual event—generic density, hermeneutic density, textual density, and psychological density—and traces these features to the quite postmodern assumptions that television now brings to the political sphere
Epistemology · Event (particle physics · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Polity · Postmodernism · Sociology · Statutory law · Law · Media Studies and Communication · Philosophy · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Social Media and Politics
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,15 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2021 (23) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |