This paper reports an anticipatory democracy study based on a mathematical, computational and simulation model of anticipatory systems and political culture in hybrid social-political environments. The model is based on the earlier theoretical developments of value mappings model (Voinea, 2021a, b), on the theory of incursive and hyperincursive anticipatory systems (Dubois, 1998a,b), and the anticipatory democracy theory (Bezolt, 1978, 2010), and it is inspired by the philosophical, theoretical and methodological approaches on space and time in film theory, cinematography and storytelling (Panofsky, 1939; Deleuze, 1985/1989; Elsaesser, 2009). The model performance is enhanced by the application of mathematical and computational concept of incursion and hyperincursion to multiple space and time dimensions for achieving convergence on future state and computing the desirable futures. The Case Study describes the hybrid social-political environment modelled and simulated with the emotions, values and identity mappings extracted by visual, text and content analysis from the tv-streaming data in the early days of the Romanian anti-communist revolution in December 1989. The research methodology and simulation experiments build-up on early value mappings computational and simulation modelling (Voinea, 2021a, b; 2022a, b) and reveal that hybrid environments facilitate and reinforce the participation in political protests and political change phenomena by enhancing the public expression of emotions, the emergence of social values of cohesion and solidarity as well as the emergence of social and political polarization, and the dynamics of assuming multiple (political) identities as an expression of high-intensity participation in political protests. This research methodology has been employed in studying several political issues in experiments with hybrid environments in comparison with traditional physical social-political environments, like the role of TV-streaming in (a) facilitating and increasing emotional expression of support for democracy, (b) facilitating and increasing the polarization of society between old communist leadership and new democratic forces taking the lead in the Romanian social and political system. Experimental modelling and simulation results show that the social political system simulated as a (early) hybrid environment proved to facilitate and reinforce the emotional, value-based, and belief-based expressions of participants to political protests and to facilitate their assuming multiple identities. Hybrid environments influence political phenomena by facilitating and reinforcing political psychological expressions, behaviors, communication (political discourse). Emotion, value and multiple identity mappings provide for the anticipatory capabilities in hybrid environments defined as social-political systems.
The preliminary research results reveal that the imbricated model of emotion, value and identity mappings can inform research on meaning co-creation, value co-creation and the research on the modelling, computing, and simulation of anticipatory systems. Applications of the research findings reported in this paper target research developments of modelling by value mappings in the areas with high emotional intensity and stress like healthcare systems, banking and financial markets, and art industries with high social and political impact like movie industry.
Keywords: anticipatory democracy, anticipatory system, value mapping simulation, political culture, film theory, filmmaking, cinematography
