Democratic hybridities: A Model to Emphasize Struggles of Democracy and Media
Grounded in a discourse-theoretical approach, this presentation locates democracy and the democratic roles of media in a series of socio-political struggles, which render their meaning contingent and hybrid. The object of the presentation is to investigate the consequences of defining democracy itself, and its relationship to media, as object of socio-political struggles, which raises questions about their core characteristics, their conditions of possibilities, the areas of internal struggle and the external threats. Together, these elements, illustrated by diverse examples, will form a model that will allow to place more emphasis on the hybridities of democracy, media and their relationship.