Chamada aberta: artigos livres e dossiê Mídia e Política
Ziz Journal invites researchers from Political Science and related areas to submit works for the second edition. Papers will be received by continuous flow and published upon approval. We are accepting free works, within the scope of the journal, and works focused on the Media and Politics dossier. We accept works in Portuguese, English and Spanish.
Media and politics: a historical and historiographical relation between communication and politics
The relationship between media and politics is secular. From the resurrection of the Ku Klux Klan after the success of The Birth of a Nation, through Adolf Hitler using the radio as an unprecedented dissemination tool, to the influence of social media on the rise of the extreme right in the contemporary: the media - in particular when they arise - historically played a fundamental role on political factors, becoming fundamental in the constitution and maintenance of many regimes. Therefore, there is an understanding that not only the conditions for disseminating the ideas of different political actors do not compete with a (re)productive capacity of the same intensity in order to generate political consensus, but also that, as known since Aristotle, the change in form expresses a transformation in content. For McLuhan, the “medium is the message”, that is, the legacy of the impact of a message vitally depends on the characteristics of the medium where it was transmitted.
Furthermore, the development of technological potentials introduces changes in political strategy, such as the radio used in the Vargas hegemony government (maintaining the conditions of the 1930 coup) and in the Brizola legality campaign (resistance in 1962 against the emerging coup d'état). Technological events arise as possibilities of their time, making essential events emerge, hence technology is not an amalgamation of another means of communication, but specificity of the plasma of its zeitgeist - a precious element for the Theory of History.
The purpose of this dossier is, through a historiographical perspective, to receive works that deal with the relationship between communication and politics. The idea is to offer an overview of the symbiosis between the two fields, and work on its reconstructions through a heterogeneous space-time. In this way, it will be possible to contribute to the state of the art by providing broad inputs to three distinct fields: History, Communication and Political Science. That being said, we seek to open a space for interdisciplinary discussion to elaborate and expose this fruitful relationship between technologies and trends in communication and the ancient art of politics, in order to add historical debates or resume new historiographic perspectives.
Submissions can be focused on, but not limited to, the following thematic axes:
- I) Media and authoritarianism (example: Nazism and radio, far right and social media, The Birth of a Nation and KKK Recruitment, Steve Bannon's modus operandi etc.)
- II) The role of print media in political campaigns (example: Different magazine aesthetics when portraying different politicians; effects of McCarthism in the media).
III) Media and ideology (example: Leni Riefenstahl's Nazi documentaries; revengeful discourse of evening police programs.
Organized by:
Sergio Schargel - Ph.D candidate in Political Science at UFF, Ph.D candidate in Media at Uerj. Contact: sergioschargel_maia@hotmail.com. Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/0215890727285473. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5392-693X.
Bernardo Brum - Master candidate in Media at UERJ. Contact: bernardodibrum@gmail.com. Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/8881604524185552
João Pedro Passos de B. Borges - Graduate candidate in History at UFTM. Contato: passospbb@gmail.com. Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/7779284634001288. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3365-4997
