Manufacturing Consent Through Ritualized Spectacle: Coercive Discourse, Digital Authoritarianism, and the Erasure of Agency in North Korea’s Leader-Cult Music Videos

Chenying Tang

Manufacturing Consent Through Ritualized Spectacle: Coercive Discourse, Digital Authoritarianism, and the Erasure of Agency in North Korea’s Leader-Cult Music Videos

Chenying Tang^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Communication

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Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 15 Jul 2025
Event	International Association for Media and Communication Research Conference, IAMCR 2025: Communicating Environmental Justice: Many Voices, One Planet - Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore Duration: 13 Jul 2025 → 17 Jul 2025 https://iamcr.org/singapore2025 (Link to conference website) https://iamcr.box.com/shared/static/j5shleei5r4gcid0anss9rk2cof80b51.pdf (Conference programme)

Conference

Conference	International Association for Media and Communication Research Conference, IAMCR 2025
Country/Territory	Singapore
City	Singapore
Period	13/07/25 → 17/07/25
Internet address	https://iamcr.org/singapore2025 (Link to conference website) https://iamcr.box.com/shared/static/j5shleei5r4gcid0anss9rk2cof80b51.pdf (Conference programme)

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Manufacturing Consent Through Ritualized Spectacle: Coercive Discourse, Digital Authoritarianism, and the Erasure of Agency in North Korea’s Leader-Cult Music Videos. / Tang, Chenying.
2025. Paper presented at International Association for Media and Communication Research Conference, IAMCR 2025, Singapore, Singapore.

Research output: Contribution to conference › Conference paper › peer-review