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

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  • NICOLAE PERPELEA

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

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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.

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  • Nicolae Perpelea, 2012. "THE DIASPORIC AUDIENCE AND THE MORAL RHETORIC IN THE “COMMUNITY OF NEWS” (English version)," Revista Romana de Sociologie, Revista Romana de Sociologie - actualizata si mentinuta de Editura Lumen/ Romanian Journal of Sociology, vol. 1, pages 21-47.
    • Handle: RePEc:lum:rev19g:v:1-2:y:2012:i::p:21-47
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    Keywords

    mediation; Romanian diaspora; news media; community of news; distant suffering; proper distance; moral emotions;
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    • A23 - General Economics and Teaching - - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics - - - Graduate

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