Ever more violent and radical presidential elections?

In our podcast Wait a minute !place to Presidential moment!, our weekly meeting devoted to the presidential election campaign, behind the scenes and its angry questions. After having mentioned the oratorical art of the candidates, the financing of the presidential elections, the Web and the social networks in the conquest of power, the errors of the omnipresent polls, place the violence in the electoral campaigns.

What resonance does this violence have on social networks?

When we talk about political violence, what are we talking about? Can physical violence be separated from verbal violence? While presidential campaigns create a context of confrontation, while incidents are relayed, in near real time, on social networks and by the media, can we say that electoral campaigns for the conquest of the Elysée are they always more violent and radical? What is the media’s responsibility in disseminating images and discourse of violence? How did the short format of videos on social networks, the clashing phrase, urge politicians to resort to invective to create a buzz?

In this episode, two speakers discuss this complex subject: Béatrice Fracchiolla, university professor at the University of Lorraine in language sciences, specialist in the analysis of political discourse, and François Audigier, university professor at the University of Lorraine in contemporary history, specialist in militant violence. Good listening.

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