Serial dramas depoliticize value disputes by staging them as concrete real-life consequences.

Evidence

Long-running serial dramas are the principal vehicle for promoting personal and social changes (Bandura, 2006a; Singhal et al., 2004). These dramatic productions are not just fanciful stories. The plotlines portray the realities of people’s everyday struggles, fears, and aspirations, as well as the positive and negative effects of various social practices. The dramas help people to see a better life and provide the strategies and incentives to enable them to make personal and social changes so they can realize their hopes and dreams. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2806 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: TV dramas offer grievance backstories but ultimately reframe them as illegitimate — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race…, 169; Fiction can compress political conflicts into individual moral showdowns resolved by revenge. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 252; Fictional TV dramas displaced public debate over real government policy — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race…, 129 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Serial dramas serve as deliberate vehicles for promoting personal and social change #complicates (0.76) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2806