Open AccessCollective Memory and the Transformations of Political Myth in the Era of the Mass Media
Author(s) -
Jeffrey Andrew Barash
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
acta scientiarum. human and social sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1807-8656
pISSN - 1679-7361
DOI - 10.4025/actascihumansoc.v43i3.61020
Subject(s) - mythology , politics , mass media , function (biology) , perspective (graphical) , character (mathematics) , space (punctuation) , collective memory , sociology , media studies , political science , aesthetics , history , epistemology , social science , art , law , philosophy , classics , visual arts , mathematics , linguistics , geometry , evolutionary biology , biology
If myths have been narrated since time immemorial, this study argues that a novel kind of political myth has emerged over the past decades that has been adapted to a specifically modern significance and function. To account for the appearance of this novel form of political myth, I investigate the role of the mass media. In this perspective, the development and technological advance of the mass media has brought about a transformation in the modes of public experience and remembrance and a corresponding metamorphosis in the specific character of public space that lends to contemporary political myth its unique significance and function