Jurnal the Messenger (Mar 2016)

Media dalam Perspektif Masyarakat Tontonan “Jokowi Spectacle”

  • Sukma Ari Ragil Putri

DOI
https://doi.org/10.26623/themessenger.v7i1.283
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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In this era, celebrities are shaped and disseminated by the media. Media generates celebrities. When someone become the most popular person in the news then he/she would instantly become a celebrity. One of the figures that always make an interesting spectacle is Jokowi. As a presidential candidate of PDI Perjuangan, Jokowi have all aspects to be an interesting spectacle because of his construction of self-image that is different from the self-image of other president in Indonesia. As a media darling, Jokowi makes a Jokowi Spectacle. It becomes much more interesting when Jokowi Spectacle is compared with its successor, Obama Spectacle.

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