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미디어를 통해 정책의제 설정과 정책홍보가 늘어나면서, 정치인과 정당은 미디어의 표현기법과 뉴스 생산조건에 맞춰 나가야 하는 압박을 받고 있다. 미디어의 생산조건에 맞추는 정치로 정치인들은 정책 설명을 통해 국민을 이해시키려 하기보다는 미디어를 통해 자신의 이미지를 알리기 위한 연출기법을 배우는 데 더 의존하게 된다. 정치인들의 연출기법 차용은 효과적인 정책홍보라는 원칙에 위반되지는 않지만, 정치가 미디어의 생산조건에 맞춰나가면서 점점 더 정책의제 설명보다는 이미지 연출에 의존하는 현상이 두드러지고 있다. 폴리테인먼트를 통한 정치연출은 유권자들에게 정치인 개인에 대한 평가는 물론, 정당의 정책수행 능력평가와 대의 민주주의의 정당성 확보에 이르기까지 광범위하게 영향을 미치고 있다. 또한 미디어 생산시간에 맞춘 폴리테인먼트의 강화는 숙의 민주주의의 합리적인 발전을 어렵게 만들며, 연출을 통한 가상정치의 확산이라는 불합리한 현상까지 발생시키고 있다. 이 연구에서는 미디어 생산시간이 정치과정에 미치는 영향을 알아보기 위해 지금까지 두 차례에 걸쳐 실시된 독일총선에서의 TV토론을 사례로 분석했다. 그 결과 미디어의 연출적 요소가 미디어를 통한 정치적 토론은 물론, 정치 커뮤니케이션 전 과정에 걸쳐 영향력을 행사하고 있음을 알 수 있었다.

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Under the pressure of the selection of topics and the presentation rules of mass media, politics in media society increasingly resort to professionalized forms of theatrical staging as a means of self-portrayal. Although these staging methods are not contradictory to what is actually going on in pol...

Under the pressure of the selection of topics and the presentation rules of mass media, politics in media society increasingly resort to professionalized forms of theatrical staging as a means of self-portrayal. Although these staging methods are not contradictory to what is actually going on in politics, they strongly advantage the tendency to focus exclusively on the staging of an event. Through their competition for public attention, politicians have been developing sophistication regarding placement and staging of events as well as regarding factual information. In the process of this transformation, politics that are issue-related and based on binding decisions are being gradually transformed into symbolic politics. Moreover, through their appearance on TV, politicians first of all need to possess presentational skills which are not necessarily related to their political achievements. Still, presentational skills decide over the success in politics of those politicians. The reason is that a politician who possesses presentational skills is still being perceived as being successful even if his political achievements notedly lag behind. On the other hand, political achievements are being underrated if a politician lacks the talent to present himself in front of the media. “The staging of politics, “politainment”, on the stage of mass media is evolving into a key structure which is responsible for a new coinage of politics in all different kinds of dimensions: the selection of staff, the role of action programs and their impact for the legitimation of political acting, even in relation to therole of pivotal political institutions such as parties and parliaments in the political process. The TV debates during the Bundestag elections of the year 2002 and 2005 are being analyzed and judged as “staging of politics”(politainment). Self-dramatization in media society concerning media discourses about politics and political self-portrayal has become a basic principle of political communication. Self-dramatization is a vital challenge for adequate political communication and content-based orientation in our present media democracies.

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