Naslov
Media, Sovereignty and Globalization

Autori
Kukoč, Mislav

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
18. Dani Frane Petrića / Zagorac, Ivana ; Martinović, Ivica - Zagreb : Hrvatsko filozofsko društvo, 2009, 90-91

ISBN
978-953-164-138-2

Skup
Filozofija i mediji

Mjesto i datum
Cres, Hrvatska, 20.09.2009. - 23.09.2009

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
globalization; democracy; sovereignty; media; public

Sažetak
In the first stage of its recent history neoliberal policy of economic globalization, with global mass media as its significant instrument, has encouraged democratization of the state, i.e. its popular sovereignty. On the other hand, the territorialist state-centric nature of traditional liberal democracy becomes inadequate in contemporary world where numerous and significant social relations are supraterritorial. Post-sovereign governance induced by globalization has proved to be decidedly less democratic than national governance in a sovereign state. Globalization however becomes antithetical to the state sovereignty, associating the new world order with low-intensity democracy where a narrow élite holds control. In that sense globalization irreversibly shrinks democratic space of the sovereign state and renders political participation irrelevant. Forces of globalization, such as supra-national institutions and communities with transborder mutual relations, global financial markets together with global media have constrained sovereignty of the state, which cannot secure with its territorial mechanisms democratic governance of supraterritorial phenomena such as global communications and global economy. In the second stage of the globalized processes of transition from the territorialistic governance of the sovereign nation state to the supraterritorial global society the global media have significant role as well. Global communications have grown in the first instance as a lucrative form of supraterritorial capitalism. Printed and particularly electronic mass media in that context become primarily a source of demagogic manipulation which anaesthetize human critical self-consensence with vain self-indulgent entertainment. They prepare accordingly transition of sovereignty from democratic citizenship to anonymous élite of the global power centres.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Sociologija, Filozofija

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