The Reality of the Mass Media
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...…as “the victim” and Moro and the prosecutors of the Lava Jato Operation as “the perpetrators”, the “participants” in this case are figures of public interest and responsible for acting in a narrative that can attract interest and stimulate the interest of the audience, as Luhmann (1996) indicates....
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...Besides the victim/perpetrator binary, the people who discover the truth – usually journalists and internet actors who are watchdogs of democracy – are fundamental participants, because they make the scandal visible to the public (LUHMANN, 1996)....
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...But in the classical mass media, however, the situation is different – the ‘crucial point at any rate is that no interaction among those co-present can take place between sender and receivers’ (Luhmann, 2000: 2)....
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...5 What follows from all this for the question of the structure of the educational system? Using the distinction of interaction, organization and society in Luhmann (1975), the distinction between unity and difference of the educational system in society can be determined more precisely....
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...Nevertheless, Luhmann (1991) has repeatedly stressed that sociology is not able to take up the perspective of a first-order world observer, who knows what is right for the described system – even if representatives of a critical sociology claim to do just that. Rather, sociology functions as a second-order form of observation, which observes observations and reveals blind spots of that which has been described, without being protected from its own forms of blindness. Hence, the differentiation between self-description and outside description does not refer to a hierarchy between the disciplines: sociology does not hold the position of the last observer described in Michael Power’s (1997) Audit Society, as sociology also finds its external observer, which judges its success – for instance, politics informed by the mass media or, in our case, the educational system and its self-descriptions....
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...Nevertheless, Luhmann (1991) has repeatedly stressed that sociology is not able to take up the perspective of a first-order world observer, who knows what is right for the described system – even if representatives of a critical sociology claim to do just that....
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