2022
“Not a Political Virus” : Manufacturing Consent by Czech Public Service Media in the Pandemic
MOTAL, JanBasic information
Original name
“Not a Political Virus” : Manufacturing Consent by Czech Public Service Media in the Pandemic
Authors
MOTAL, Jan (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)
Edition
Central European Journal of Communication, Wrocław, Polish Communication Association, 2022, 1899-5101
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Article in a journal
Field of Study
50800 5.8 Media and communications
Country of publisher
Poland
Confidentiality degree
is not subject to a state or trade secret
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Impact factor
Impact factor: 0.600
RIV identification code
RIV/00216224:14230/22:00126112
Organization unit
Faculty of Social Studies
UT WoS
000821188200002
EID Scopus
2-s2.0-85133852028
Keywords in English
post-politics; pandemic; television; news; critical discourse analysis; objectivity; risk society
Tags
Tags
International impact, Reviewed
Changed: 21/2/2023 15:09, Mgr. Blanka Farkašová
Abstract
V originále
The article presents an analysis of the news broadcast on Czech public television during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020. Based on the concept of post-politics, the analysis illustrates how Czech Television created consensus, naturalized the measures adopted by the government, and transformed a potentially political space into one that privileged instrumental and technical solutions. The author argues that the later emergence of protest movements in Czechia may also be related to the first wave of the pandemic being presented in a consensual, post-political form in public service media. This activity prevented society from recognizing the socially unequal impact of the pandemic and the measures aimed at reducing its impact. Dealing with the question of how to represent a world that went through a rapid change, because of a pandemic, the article ends with a plea for agonistic media pluralism.
