Mediacracy is a system in government where the mass media effectively has control over the voting public. It is closely related to a theory on the role of media in the United States political system, which argues that media and news outlets strongly influence citizens' evaluations of candidates and political issues, thereby possessing effective control over politics in the United States.
Mediacracy is a system in government where the mass media effectively has control over the voting public. It is closely related to a theory on the role of media in the United States political system, which argues that media and news outlets strongly influence citizens' evaluations of candidates and political issues, thereby possessing effective control over politics in the United States.
==Background== The term "mediacracy" was first coined in 1974 by writer and political commentator Kevin Phillips, who used the term in the title of his book Mediacracy: American Parties and Politics in the Communications Age. Since then, the concept has gained popularity and is used by political scientists and researchers alike to discuss the impact of media on both voting behavior and cultural trends. Most recently, the term has seen a resurgence due to the works of economist and author Fabian Tassano. In his book Mediocracy: Inversions and Deceptions in an Egalitarian Culture Tassano argues that the 'dumbing down' of popular media when coupled with increasing obscurity in scholarly discourse leads to a society which has the appearance of egalitarianism, but ultimately is a society ruled by elites. As a reflection of this, the term mediacracy is usually accompanied by negative assumptions about the true nature of media in the United States, along with the aims and desires of mass media as a whole.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).