Democracy, Neo-Orality, and the Unraveling of Political Norms: What Can We Social and Political Scholars Do?.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fendt, Jacqueline, author.

Contributor:

Library Stack, distributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democracy.

Memes.

Political science.

Populism.

Genre:

Essays.

Essays

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Open Journal of Political Science, 2025.

Summary:

"Democratic norms are unraveling amid a deep transformation in how we know, feel, and communicate in public. This essay argues that what we are witnessing is not merely institutional decay but a shift in the epistemic and affective foundations of democratic life itself. Drawing on media theory, political communication, legal scholarship, and post-truth studies, we introduce the concept of neo-orality to describe an emerging mode of political discourse defined by immediacy, affect, narrative, and performance. We trace five interwoven dynamics-epistemic fragmentation, performative populism, autocratic legalism, aestheticized politics, and climate silence-as symptoms of this shift. In response, we call for a realignment of method in social and political science: a turn toward closer, slower, and more situated forms of inquiry grounded in participatory, abductive, and design-informed traditions. The essay concludes by offering eight concrete, empirically grounded research directions to guide scholars committed to understanding-and engaging with-democratic life as it is now lived: fractured, mediated-and urgently still in motion"-- provided by distributor.

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