Abstract
Former comedian Zelenskyy successfully became the president of Ukraine through the comedy series “Sluga narodu.” It is worth exploring the public meaning of this pop culture phenomenon for people suffering similar structure searching for a paradigm for salvation. This article uses concepts of public sphere such as forums, private citizens, connection, public opinion, authoritative representatives, legitimation to conduct textual analysis for this TV series. This paper found that it is the people, who build the base of democracy from humanistic perspectives by insisting truth, human dignity and integrity with firm belief in autonomy through virtues, morality and ethics, to overturn nightmares from poverty and corrupt to happiness and prosperity. The saviors come from “we the people” rather than elites, experts, or foreign powers.
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Ying-Ying Chen, National United University, Taiwan
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Conference: ACAH2023
Stream: Media Arts Practices: Television
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Chen Y. (2023) Combating Corrupt Governments Through the Imagination of Public Sphere: Textual Analysis of TV Series “Sluga Narodu” ISSN: 2186-229X – The Asian Conference on Arts & Humanities 2023 Official Conference Proceedings https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2186-229X.2023.33
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2186-229X.2023.33
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