Fictionalization
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
See also
Web links
- http://www.medienstudent.de/studi/Kriege%20in%20Echtzeit.ppt - "Wars in real time": On the change in international war reporting (by Janni Tsiatsios and Max von Viereck; PPT presentation)
- http://www.uni-konstanz.de/FuF/ueberfak/sfb511/teilprojekte/luckmann.htm - Aesthetic phenomena in oral communicative forms and genres: From framing to performance - Subproject 8: Anthropological functions of non-written communicative forms and genres : Thematization of the human, secondary aestheticization and fictionalization
- http://www.nadir.org/nadir/archiv/PolitischeStroemungen/krise/node9.html - Crisis - which crisis? Fictionalization