Tag_6: Media, Propaganda

Media and propaganda refers to a variety of different ambiguous roles and in most of the cases this is related with the contradicted interests of national or global corporations. At the same time they support, maintain and render the national patriotic values, necessary for the forming of the nation/state perception addressed to the citizens. Very often unpredictable parameters lead that to over excesses that in their turn create ultra nationalistic and racist reactions. A constant fight for the control and the re-appropriation of these "cutting edges" phenomena, creates tragic and as well comic events, that feed the popular imagination and the creation of current myths. At the end of the story through a populist form of inclusion and exclusion the people in both sides regenerate and perpetuate violence.

One could get a picture of the other side of the dogfights (often done by the very same pilots that act in the real ones); especially in case we consider new systems of reference that allow the viewer to gain new access in a search of a media echo as it appears such as at YouTube. Dozens of video and thousands of comments are mapping a new territory of facing the other, unfortunately most of the time in the worst possible form.