Multilevel hypocrisy: quando l’ipocrisia mediatizzata è nuda. La crisi economico-finanziaria del 2008 e le sue narrazioni ipocrite=Multilevel hypocrisy: when the mediatizated hypocrisy is naked. The economic crisis of 2008 and its hypocritical tales

Abstract

Multilevel hypocrisy: when the mediatizated hypocrisy is naked. The economic crisis of 2008 and its hypocritical tales. The contemporary communication environment in which we are deep every day is a media environment, that is, permeated by the logics and the dynamics of the media industry. These logics and dynamics contain a physiological dose of hypocrisy, just as with logics and dynamics relating to the political sphere – increasingly hybridized with the media system – which participates in the construction of social reality. The mediatization and hybridization processes have “normalized” the presence of hypocrisy in contemporary society, so much so that it is perceived more and more difficult, particularly in social pacification periods. However – as this paper will try to demonstrate – significant and shocking social phenomena (as the economic and financial crisis of 2008) can blow the mechanisms of “mediatizated hypocrisy”, making visible its presence in the different levels of the media-politics representation