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Within media research and cultural studies, the mediation of politicians and the play-off between versions of high and low politics are attracting increasing interest. Media and the Restyling of Politics brings together the work of leading academics in media and cultural studies to pursue an agenda of research, analysis and debate about the changing nature of political culture and its mediation. The contributors question the ways in which emerging forms of political style relate not only to new conventions of celebrity and publicity but to ideas about representation, citizenship and the democratic process. Topics covered include: celebrity politicians, the marketing of politics, identity and popular culture.
Citizen Consumers: Towards a New Marketing of Politics?
Citizen Consumers: Towards a New Marketing of Politics?
It is an irony of our times that warnings about the ‘capitalist threat’ are now more likely to come from businessmen and women than politicians. Financier George Soros (1997) wrote famously of the threat of neo-liberalism, ‘the belief in the magic of the marketplace’, to democratic society. Body Shop founder Anita Roddick built an international reputation drawing attention to the ‘ugly reality’ of untrammelled global capitalism: gross inequality, forced labour, sweatshops, environmental poisoning and brutal repression of human rights. Take it Personally is the title and advice of her new book dedicated to the activists and grassroots organisations who challenge the ‘myth of the global economy’.
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