Fictionalization

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In journalism and in more recent media theory, fictionalization is the term used to describe all tendencies towards a blurring of journalistic distinctions between reality and fiction , truth and falsehood as well as original and copy, etc. The statement also means that media offers and content are increasingly fictional, especially then , when the pure representation of reality is suggested. An example of this is the slogan "Nothing is harder than the truth" , with which the "Bild" newspaper advertises. Paradoxically, fictionalization also has an authenticating effect on the media consumer.

Increasing economization , commercialization , tabloidization , entertainment and Americanization as well as the profit primacy in the mass media are assumed to be the reasons for this development .

The phenomenon is known with other observations as the autopoietization of journalism.

literature

  • Margreth Lünenborg: Journalism As A Cultural Process: On The Significance Of Journalism In The Media Society. A draft, Springer-Verlag, 2005, Journalism between facts and fictionalization, p. 169 ff. [1]
  • Knuth Hickethier: The truth of fiction: on the relationship between facticity, fake and fictionalization p. 361 ff. In: Paradoxes of Journalism: Theory - Empiricism - Practice, edited by Bernhard Pörksen, Wiebke Loosen, Armin Scholl [2]
  • Gebhard Rusch: Fictionalization as an Element of Media Action Strategies , University of Siegen : A. Bernard and B. Csuri: Literary Studies as a Science of Fictionality , University of Science Szeged , accessed September 21, 2015

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