‘Voting is easy, just press the red button’: communicating politics in the age of Big Brother
‘Voting is easy, just press the red button’: communicating politics in the age of Big Brother
This chapter reflects upon the suggestion that Big Brother is like politics. It uses some of the events that took place during Celebrity Big Brother 2007 (CBB07) as a case study to illustrate how Big Brother, ostensibly a piece of popular culture that has nothing to do with politics, communicates ideas of what it means to meaningfully participate in the running of a virtual community
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Cardo, Valentina
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2011
Cardo, Valentina
87fafbf1-f6c0-4454-a39a-9173d7bd7f5e
Cardo, Valentina
(2011)
‘Voting is easy, just press the red button’: communicating politics in the age of Big Brother.
In,
Brants, Kees and Voltmer, Katrin
(eds.)
Political Communication in Postmodern Democracy.
Palgrave Macmillan, .
(doi:10.1057/9780230294783_14).
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This chapter reflects upon the suggestion that Big Brother is like politics. It uses some of the events that took place during Celebrity Big Brother 2007 (CBB07) as a case study to illustrate how Big Brother, ostensibly a piece of popular culture that has nothing to do with politics, communicates ideas of what it means to meaningfully participate in the running of a virtual community
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Winchester School of Art
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Kees Brants
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Katrin Voltmer
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