The Dispositive Analysis in Media Research (Methodological Aspects)

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Pages: 7-21
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54664/FQZN3605

Abstract:

The article examines dispositive analysis as a key approach to uncovering the structural dependencies between media, power, and society. Dispositive analysis does not simply offer analytical tools but forms a critical perspective that allows us to think about media reality as a dynamic field of social production of meaning, power, and identity in the context of the digital communication environment. The article presents the dispositive as a key concept in Michel Foucault’s research and reviews the various theoretical approaches and methodologies while at the same time offering its own methodological framework with exemplary guidelines for implementation. Additional focus is placed on disinformation dispositives, emphasizing that when studying them, the analysis could be enhanced by: (1) tracking the individual participants in the dispositive by analyzing what practices and through what types of discourse they tell the truth and (2) the ways in which they maintain the truth. The study of forms of veridiction in the time (era) of post-truth and the rapid development of artificial intelligence, of mediatized relationships, and algorithmically atomized social spaces, is becoming an increasingly important stage, necessary for making sense of different “realities”, behaviors and ways of life.

Keywords:

dispositive, dispositive analysis, methodology, media, Michel Foucault, apparatus, digital society, disinformation.

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