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Georgiana Andreea DRĂGAN

The faces of a modern trickster: Fake doctor Matteo Politi’s story in Romanian media landscape

Romanian Journal of Journalism and Communication, issue 1 (61), year XV (XIX), 2020

section: Journalism

pages: 63-73

abstract

This paper treats how media presented the particular case of Mr. Matteo Politi, an Italian’ fake` plastic surgeon, who practiced medicine in Romanian medical private system. The aim of this paper is to see if Matteo Politi was portrayed as a trickster in Romanian media landscape and what were the frames used by the public and by the media when discussing the case of Politi. The main research questions taken into consideration were: 1. what are the frames used by the journalists and the public when discussing the subject of Politi. 2. what are the differences and similarities between public and media frames? 3. how do they reflect the archetype of trickster? To analyze this, I`ll use qualitative content analysis, applied on two online news websites (adevărul.ro and hotnews.ro) analyzing first, the articles written by the journalists, and then the comments of the readers.

keywords

Trickster, archetype, fake doctor, Romania

abstract (second language):

Cet article est consacre a la presentation dans les media roumaines du cas du ci-dit „docteur” Matteo Politi; celui-ci practiquait la chirurgie plastique et avait une grosse clientelle dans des cliniques prives. L’objectif de cet article est de prouver que les medias et les lecteurs qui avait laisse leur commentaires sur le forums des publications online ont interprete le cas du faux-docteur dans les cadres de l’archetype du trickster. J’ai utilise l’analyse de contenu qualitative et l’interpretation hermeneutique afin d’identifier les themes dominants dans les article de presse et dans les commentaires. J’ai identifie trois themes majeurs, integres dans l’archetype du trickster: le tricheur, celui qui se construit une identite fausse, l’anomalie du systeme.

keywords (second language):

Trickster, archétype, faux médecin, Roumanie

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 Higher Education Scientific Research (code 779), as B+, and indexed full text by EBSCO and ProQuest.