Videocracy
Videocracy is the power of the image over society.[1]
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Examples
"Voter-generated-content", such as videos on YouTube, have been identified as examples of a developing videocracy.
In Italy, the election of Silvio Berlusconi as prime minister in 1994 was seen by many as a "media coup d'état [and] a drift towards 'videocracy'".[2]
John Kifner writes that in Romania a "videocracy" was involved in the overthrow of Nicolae Ceauşescu in the "first revolution on live television".[3]
gollark: I was not aware of this.
gollark: It would be extremely cool if the origin of memes could be traced across the internet.
gollark: What we need, clearly, is a crop/screenshot-resistant open-source standard for steganographically encoding meme provenance.
gollark: This is probably just a case of reddit wanting advertising, but I dislike it.
gollark: You could have programs which read it for you.
See also
Notes and references
- "Towards a "Videocracy"? Italian Political Communication at a Turning Point". European Journal of Communication. 10 (3): 291–319. September 1995. doi:10.1177/0267323195010003001. (subscription required)
- Gianpietro Mazzoleni (2003). "The Italian Broadcasting System Between Politics and the Market". In Miller, Toby (ed.). Television: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies. 5. Routledge. p. 40. ISBN 0-415-25502-3.
- Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi; Ali Mohammadi (1994). Small Media, Big Revolution: Communication, Culture, and the Iranian Revolution. University of Minnesota Press. p. xix. ISBN 0-8166-2217-5.
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