Entertaining the Citizen: When Politics and Popular Culture Converge
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...For party leaders and other ‘celebrity politicians’ (van Zoonen 2005), nationwide television has been all important, whereas for regional and local candidates local and regional newspapers (printed and online) were the main media stages (Skogerbø 2011)....
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...Only three politicians had more than 2,500 followers in the periods of study, and these were all ‘celebrity politicians’ (van Zoonen 2005), meaning that they were well known among voters also outside their local constituencies....
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...For some theorists, such as Habermas (1989, 1992), Sennett (1976) and Postman (1985), personalization of politics have been described as lamentable, for others, they signal a democratization of the relationship between elites and citizens (van Zoonen 2005)....
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...But perhaps more significantly the very idea of a virtual Habermasian public sphere was subjected to extensive critiques from cultural studies scholars (McKee 2005) and feminist theorists (Van Zoonen 2005)....
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