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Jason L. Mast
Researcher at University of Warwick
Publications - 19
Citations - 450
Jason L. Mast is an academic researcher from University of Warwick. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sociology of culture & Performative utterance. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 19 publications receiving 430 citations. Previous affiliations of Jason L. Mast include Goethe University Frankfurt & Zeppelin University.
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Social performance : symbolic action, cultural pragmatics, and ritual
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a systematic analytical framework based on the performance metaphor to explain large-scale social and cultural processes, from September 11 to the Clinton/Lewinsky affair, to the role of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
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Social Performance: Introduction: symbolic action in theory and practice: the cultural pragmatics of symbolic action
TL;DR: The question of theory and practice permeates not only politics but culture, where the analogue for theory is the social-symbolic text, the bundle of everyday codes, narratives, and rhetorical configurings that are the objects of hermeneutic reconstruction as discussed by the authors.
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Social Performance: The cultural pragmatics of event-ness: the Clinton / Lewinsky affair
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The Performative Presidency: Crisis and Resurrection during the Clinton Years
TL;DR: The Performative Presidency as mentioned in this paper describes how interactions between leaders, publics, and media are organized in a theatrical way, and argues that mass mediated plot formation and character development play an increasing role in structuring the political arena.
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Legitimacy Troubles and the Performance of Power in the 2016 US Presidential Election
TL;DR: The 2016 US presidential election was characterized by themes of newness, fragmentation, and rupture as mentioned in this paper, and these features were precipitated by manifestations of legitimacy troubles in a host of America's political and civil spheres, and in and among its democratic institutions.