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  • noun The power of the image over society.

Etymologies

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From video +‎ -cracy

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Examples

  • However, even in its critical treatment of Berlusconi, the book departs from the usual media studies method of analysing the political economy of media institutions or the critique of televisual modes of representation to provide something like a critical ecology of Berlusconi's dominance of Italian media and politics, or what the authors refer to as the 'videocracy'.

    Mute magazine - Culture and politics after the net - CULTURE AND POLITICS AFTER THE NET 2009

  • Italy politics: Sex, thighs and 'videocracy' scandal dogging Silvio Berlusconi, add plenty of scantily clad young Italian TV and throw in some of the first serious scrutiny of a national

    WN.com - Business News 2009

  • Italy, he believes, is primarily a visual culture, particularly vulnerable to the seductions of Berlusconi's videocracy.

    Italy: The Family Business Stille, Alexander 2003

  • Katy Perry's breasts get her kicked out of Sesame Street videocracy see all videocracy »

    A.V. Club 2010

  • Roger Ebert taking a break from Twitter Showdowns and AVQ&As to once again present videocracy see all videocracy »

    A.V. Club 2010

  • Roger Ebert taking a break from Twitter Showdowns and AVQ&As to once again present videocracy see all videocracy »

    A.V. Club 2010

  • Roger Ebert taking a break from Twitter Showdowns and AVQ&As to once again present videocracy see all videocracy »

    A.V. Club 2010

  • Katy Perry's breasts get her kicked out of Sesame Street videocracy see all videocracy »

    A.V. Club 2010

  • Roger Ebert taking a break from Twitter Showdowns and AVQ&As to once again present videocracy see all videocracy »

    A.V. Club 2010

  • Roger Ebert taking a break from Twitter Showdowns and AVQ&As to once again present videocracy see all videocracy »

    A.V. Club 2010

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