Kriza demokracije u globalnom medijapolisu
Crisis of Democracy in Global Mediapolis

Summary/Abstract: If Plato was upset that people leaned on their own convictions about virtues, without seeking knowledge, present resident of global pseudo-polis is obsessed by simulated information, pictures and convictions, which create social consciousness with their hyper-production. In shadow of mass-media’s caves, contours of transformed democracy can be seen. This democracy is more and more exposed to the interests of mega-corporations, dominant geopolitical influence, cultural determinism, and redefined fundamentalism. Under such circumstances, to some lonely individual, “in Athena’s Agora”, is even more difficult to form and keep his or her own opinion, ideas and values. Info-space is covered by global network of information and facts; the process of symbolic exchange is taken off humans by machines. Freedom of speech in media is the air of open, public communication, the pillar of democratic structures, but problem is that watchmen of “information gates” still standing guard, but this time in front of cyber spaces.

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