The identity constructions of media professionals. Coping with modernist articulations of the media professional as author and the recognition of difference
2013
Abstract
This chapter first focuses on the resistant modernist fantasy of the media professional as Author, and then move on to its still modernist counterweight, the democratic-populist fantasy of the death of the Author. The strong disconnection of these fantasies with the present-day cultural-democratic configuration, characterised by a more post/late/liquid-modernist logic, allows for the articulation of a third fantasy, which foregrounds participation, but reframes it to increase its alignment with this post/late/liquid-modernist culture through the recognition of difference and conflict by placing it within an agonist framework.