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- Carpentier, Nico, 1969-
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What is a decision? : A post-structuralist exploration of the trinity of decidedness, undecidedness and undecidability
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Ingår i: Politics, Civil Society and Participation. - Bremen : edition lumière. - 9783943245370
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Decidedness has been celebrated in many societal spheres as the unquestioned, fetishized and ultimate moment of the exercise of political agency, where political or business leaders wield their powers and authorities. Conversely, the failure to decide, undecidedness, is seen as the failure of political agency, of leadership, and of politics or business itself. This chapter offers a more nuanced perspective on decidedness and undecidedness, by exploring their interdependent relationship, grounded in a deconstructive strategy. The relationship between these binary opposites will be enriched and deepened by introducing a third notion, undecidability, which is a broader concept that describes the ontological impossibility of a discursive order to ultimately fixate reality. In the first parts of the chapter, the usages of decision and indecision, decidedness and undecidedness, are discussed in combination with an explanation of the notion of undecidability as it has been developed in post-structuralist theory (in particular, in Laclau and Mouffe’s discourse-theoretical framework). These reflections provide support for the definition of the decision as a temporary fixation, which does not escape from the context of undecidability. It is this context that produces undecidedness. Decidedness should not be discredited either, as –despite its limitations– it remains a requirement for the political to function and a significant driving force. The importance of decidedness, and the coping strategies developed to deal with its failures, is theorized in the last part of the chapter, by reverting to the psychoanalytical concept of the fantasy. The conclusion then invokes the idea that in order to understand the social and the political, we need the conceptual strength of the trinity of decidedness, undecidedness and undecidability.
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- Kramp, Leif, et al.
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Introduction : Researching the transforming,environment of media and communications
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Ingår i: Politics, Civil Society and Participation. - Bremen : edition lumière. - 9783943245370
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The chapter introduces the topic of “Politics, Civil Society and Participation”, a book that is dedicated to the fundamental question: How do media and communications practices within European culture schange with their environment? This volume consists of the intellectual work of the 2015 European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School, organized incooperation with the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) and a consortium of 21 European partner universities at the ZeMKI, the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research of the Universityof Bremen, Germany. The chapters cover relevant research topics, structured intofour sections: “Policies and politics of communication”, “Civil participation in andthrough the media”, “Media representations and usages” and “On methods”.
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- Sundin, Ebba, 1961-
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The role of media content in everyday life : To confirm the nearby world and to shape the world beyond our reach
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Ingår i: Journalism, Representation and the Public Sphere. - Bremen : edition lumière. - 9783943245370 ; , s. 83-92
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this chapter, two classic assumptions about the role of media content are considered: the first involves media content related to individual experiences and how this content confirms and assures the ‘state of reality’, the second assumption involves media content related to how individuals can experience ‘reality’ beyond their own reach. Four classic works by Walter Lippmann, Marshall McLuhan, James W. Carey and John B. Thompson, are discussed with the focus on the assumptions of media’s role in interpreting the world. The chapter concludes with a discussion on how the classic texts are still valid from the shift towards a non-media centric viewpoint in the research of media, for example in studies based on the concept of mediatization.
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