New Sincerity VS Irony: Analysis of the Existing Cultural and Political Discourses in the Media Space

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10.2991/assehr.k.200901.038How to use a DOI?

Keywords

New Sincerity, cultural discourse, political discourse, media space, traditional media, new media, irony, postmodernism, post-postmodernism

Abstract

The paper considers the issue of relatively recently appeared trend called “New Sincerity” and its significance in cultural and political discourses. Tracing the becoming of New Sincerity as a cultural paradigm, it’s stated to say that it cannot be excluded from larger cultural debate on the crisis of postmodernism. The authors also show the way how New Sincerity is influencing the changes in the society through integration into both traditional and new media, based on concrete examples. Moreover, they prove that new media foster embedding of New Sincerity in the existing culture. The authors come to conclusion that there are necessary conditions for New Sincerity as a cultural norm to set in and replace, or more likely complement, irony. However, there is still a thin line between New Sincerity and oversharing, and there is a threat of using fake New Sincerity for personal gain. Nevertheless, this issue needs further investigation.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Alexander Sokolov
AU  - Polina Shabrova
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/09/01
TI  - New Sincerity VS Irony: Analysis of the Existing Cultural and Political Discourses in the Media Space
BT  - Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities - Philosophy of Being Human as the Core of Interdisciplinary Research (ICCESSH 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 191
EP  - 196
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200901.038
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200901.038
ID  - Sokolov2020
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