Mediatization of Politics: Public Scrutiny Television in Mexico

Abstract

Parting from the “citizen scrutiny” concept elaboration, as a political participation way, there is a consideration about its publicity conditions, by the confrontation of the institutional, interactive and communicative basis that make it possible in representative democracy, which determines its reach and repercussions as a political influence phenomenon to watch elect governors and with effects on mediatized public opinion conformation. The analysis shows, by one side, that is a practice kept to political mediation processes derived from representation, which subject are citizens and directed to influence on collective matters, but as different to the protest action as to the participative deliberation, from which keeps likeness.

On the other side, that such practice is also kept to cultural mediation processes in the civil society’s public sphere, among them those who are refered to media communication that lead to the “mediatization” of that citizen practice, through the “mediatized public scrutiny” phenomenon that mass communication media institute, which can take place by its symbolic representation in “opinion” gender television shows.