Abstract

GONZALEZ, Ximena. The Aesthetic Dimension Of The Media Power. Enlace [online]. 2009, vol.6, n.3, pp.97-104. ISSN 1690-7515.

The power of the media is, in most cases, analyzed from the command-obedience relation, it means as a coercive power. This involves to be centered in the effects of this power, and not in what the media power particularity makes in the restructuring of the current societies. This article strikes to characterize this media power - multiplied by the massive development of the technologies of information and communication - no longer as a "power on" but as a symbolic power, that is to say as a merely aesthetic power.

Keywords : Information and Communication Technologies; Media; Symbolic Power; Aesthetics.