- Videocracy
Videocracy is the power of the
image oversociety . ["Towards a "Videocracy"? Italian Political Communication at a Turning Point", European Journal of Communication 10 (3), 1995, pp.291-319] [ [http://209.85.135.104/search?q=cache:CsdtxPd_rF4J:www.topos.ru/veer/01/dar14.html+%D0%92%D0%98%D0%94%D0%95%D0%9E%D0%9A%D0%A0%D0%90%D0%A2%D0%98%D0%AF&hl=pl&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=pl&client=firefox-a topos.ru] ]Examples
"Voter-generated-content", such as videos on
Youtube , have been identified as examples of a developing videocracy. [ [http://209.85.135.104/search?q=cache:vjb8pZ4Et1EJ:www.blogs.uni-osnabrueck.de/americanstudies/author/jakruege/+videocracy+academic&hl=pl&ct=clnk&cd=25&gl=pl&client=firefox-a American Studies at Osnabrück University website] ]In
Italy , the election ofSilvio Berlusconi as Prime Minister in 1994 was seen by many as a "mediacoup d'état [and] a drift towards 'videocracy'". [ [http://books.google.pl/books?id=F_7QgEFjRjsC&pg=PA40&dq=videocracy&ei=aSTNSIDXGIm6zATWjeG1Cw&sig=ACfU3U2-Ag7WuvbvvsBoTiw1KdFbTRPHPQ Miller, Toby, "Television: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies", Routledge, 2003, p. 40] ]John Kifner writes that in
Romania a 'videocracy' was involved in the overthrow ofNicolae Ceauşescu in the "first revolution on live television". [ [http://books.google.pl/books?id=s1-r6XOP2CUC&pg=PR19&dq=videocracy&lr=&ei=IS3NSOfzM5LkywS1zPWUAw&sig=ACfU3U0d_GSLHQnMAQYQlXK_jyPERUak1g Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi, Ali Mohammadi, "Small Media, Big Revolution: Communication, Culture, and the Iranian Revolution", University of Minnesota Press, 1994, p. xix] ]ee also
Logocracy - any system where the 'word' is the key to power, and therefore seen by some as the opposite to videocracy. [ [http://209.85.135.104/search?q=cache:pV1fVOKVmPcJ:www.vavilon.ru/texts/prim/genis4-5.html+%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%8F&hl=pl&ct=clnk&cd=5&gl=pl&client=firefox-a vavilon.ru] ]Notes and references
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