Politics and the virtual event: An overview of the Hill‐Thomas hearings
Politics and the virtual event: An overview of the Hill‐Thomas hearings
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政治与虚拟事件：希尔-托马斯听证会概述
DOI：
10.1080/10584609.1994.9963031
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发表时间：
1994
影响因子：
7.5
通讯作者：
R. Hart
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作者：
R. Hart
这篇文章将参议院司法委员会1991年10月举行的关于安妮塔·希尔和克拉伦斯·托马斯的听证会描述为一个虚拟事件。也就是说，这一事件是一个意外发生的高度戏剧性的遭遇，具有吸引媒体注意力所需的人文素质，但没有立即影响政体的法定变化。本文分离出虚拟事件的四个特征类属密度、阐释密度、文本密度和心理密度，并将这些特征追溯到电视现在给政治领域带来的相当后现代的假设。
The article characterizes the hearings conducted by the Senate Judiciary Committee in October 1991 relative to Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas as a virtual event. That is, the event was a highly dramatic encounter arising unexpectedly that possessed the human qualities needed to attract media attention but that effected no immediate, statutory changes in the polity. The article isolates four characteristics of the virtual event—generic density, hermeneutic density, textual density, and psychological density—and traces these features to the quite postmodern assumptions that television now brings to the political sphere.