(ANSA) - KARPACZ, SEP 9 - "Social media have largely
increased the role of images in political communication, leading
to the hegemony of emotions in campaigns. As a result,
information has been reduced to 'infotainment' and politics to
'politainment.' But, if everything is entertainment, what
happens then to politics and journalism?" said journalist
Alessio Postiglione, director of the Master's in Communications
at Rome Business School, speaking at the panel on 'Politician or
journalist: who has more power?" at the 31st Economic Forum in
Karpacz, Poland. "We have moved - he explained - from a public
sphere characterized by political-journalist confrontation to an
infosphere that increasingly foregoes word-based reflection in
favor of emotions linked to images. The success of Tik Tok and
Instagram, i.e., video and images, compared to older, text-bound
socials like Facebook, captures this trend." (ANSA).
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