THE DIASPORIC AUDIENCE AND THE MORAL RHETORIC IN THE “COMMUNITY OF NEWS” (English version)

Nicolae Perpelea ()
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Nicolae Perpelea: Institutul de Sociologie al Academiei Romane, Calea 13 Septembrie nr. 13, sector 5, 050711 Bucuresti, Romania

Revista Romana de Sociologie, 2012, vol. 1-2, 21-47

Abstract: The article presents a critical review of how media news tells stories of moralsuffering related to the new Romanian diaspora (emerged after the EU enlargement). These "news stories" invite the individual spectators to become public actors of a "community of news". The author argues that due to the fact that the hosting of ethic controversies in the media has been turned intoa show, a perverse effect of narcissistic morals has become increasingly conspicuous: the regress of public indignation from the protest-like attitude towards a voyeuristic and mundane, seemingly affected, stance.

Keywords: mediation; Romanian diaspora; news media; community of news; distant suffering; proper distance; moral emotions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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