Unit:
Κατεύθυνση Δημοσιογραφία και Νέα ΜέσαLibrary of the Faculties of Political Science and Public Administration, Communication and Mass Media Studies, Turkish and Modern Asian Studies, Sociology
Supervisors info:
Ρόη Παναγιωτοπούλου - Ομότιμη Καθηγήτρια - Επικοινωνίας και ΜΜΕ - ΕΚΠΑ
Original Title:
Η «κοινή γνώμη» στο Facebook: Αυθόρμητη έκφραση ή κατασκευή; Η περίπτωση της Συμφωνίας των Πρεσπών
Translated title:
“Public Opinion” on Facebook: Spontaneous Expression or Construct? The case of the Prespes Agreement
Summary:
The rapid growth of the internet was often accompanied by overtly optimistic expectations for the revitalization of Democracy. The internet opened roads to independent and free information, while at the same time, as a field of dynamic two-way communication, allowed for social meetings based in common principles, values and demands, which have been proved to carry their results to the “real” world. Do social media in particular allow infinetely increasing knowledge to be transformed into political action? Or is it the case in the tug-of-war between globalization and the formation of identities, that the scenes inscribed on a person are proving to be stronger than the social transformation that the medium brings? How weakened is the control of established political elites and how free is public discourse developed on these platforms, laying out demands that are subsequently framed as “public opinion”? Is “public opinion” as derided from social media a product of spontaneous expression or a construction that strengthens the position of any seen or unseen interest which wishes to invoke it to serve its own selfish reasons? The present paper attempts to provide an answer by referring to Facebook and the fermentation among its users regarding the Prespes Agreement, a construct which went against the core of the foundational of myth of the dominant nationalistic ideology, which recognizes the supremacy of the Greek nation in its uninterrupted continuity from antiquity until today.
Main subject category:
Social, Political and Economic sciences
Keywords:
Public Opinion, Facebook, Prespes Agreement, social media
Number of references:
189
