Polska debata publiczna w dobie polaryzacji. Świadomość dyskursowa elit symbolicznych
Polish Public Debate in Times of Polarization: The Discursive Awareness of the Symbolic Elites

Summary/Abstract: The critique of the Polish public debate and its polarized constitution is widely discussed in academic and media discourse. The aim of the present study is, first, to analyze the media symbolic elites’ self-knowledge about structural and communicational problems of the public debate, particularly those which refer to media polarization. Second, the aim is to problematize a discursive awareness of media authors, i.e. their competence to distinguish between reality and its discursive surplus as well as the readiness to analyze their input into the public debate. The data stem from 21 in-depth interviews with journalists, publicists, and public intellectuals linked with Polish opinion-forming media carried out from June to October 2021. Although the respondents formulate an in-depth critique of the symbolic 100 Magdalena Nowicka-Franczak elites, they are rather seldomly ready for critical self-analysis, for questioning a substantive character of media polarization, or for problematizing a reproduction of social divisions inherent in the very diagnosis of media polarization.

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