TV News – The Daily Horror?

2008 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 141-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dagmar Unz ◽  
Frank Schwab ◽  
Peter Winterhoff-Spurk
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Television News ◽  
Presentation Mode ◽  
Moral Emotions ◽  
Emotional Experiences ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Emotional Processes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Tv News

In two studies we examined the influence of violent television news on viewers’ emotional experiences and facial expressions. In doing so, we considered formal and content aspects of news reports as well as viewers’ gratifications as independent variables. Analyses showed that violence in TV news elicits primarily negative emotions depending on the type of portrayed violence. Effects of presentation mode and of expected gratification on the viewers’ feelings are traceable. On the whole, fear is neither the only nor the most prominent emotion; rather, viewers seem to react to violence with “other-critical” moral emotions, including anger and contempt, reflecting a concern for the integrity of the social order and the disapproval of others. Emotions shown in reaction to the suffering of others, like sadness and fear, occur much more rarely. The results largely show a complex web of relations between media variables, viewers’ characteristics, and emotional processes.

scholarly journals Audiovisual infotainment in European news: A comparative content analysis of Dutch, Spanish, and Irish television news programs

Journalism ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (11) ◽  
pp. 1534-1551
Author(s):  
Amanda Alencar ◽  
Sanne Kruikemeier
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Television News ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
News Reports ◽  
News Broadcasts ◽  
Tv News ◽  
Technical Features ◽  
Comparative Content ◽  
News Programs

This study investigates to what extent audiovisual infotainment features can be found in the narrative structure of television news in three European countries. Content analysis included a sample of 639 news reports aired in the first 3 weeks of September 2013, in six prime-time TV news broadcasts of Ireland, Spain, and the Netherlands. It was found that Spain and Ireland included more technical features of infotainment in television news compared to the Netherlands. Also, the use of infotainment techniques is more often present in commercial, than in public broadcasting. Finally, the findings indicate no clear pattern of the use of infotainment techniques across news topics as coded in this study.

scholarly journals Betrayal and Fear: Press Coverage of Canadian Skinheads

1992 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Murray Forman
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Institutional Structure ◽  
Press Coverage ◽  
News Reports ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Media ◽  
Public Strategies

Abstract: This paper examines the ways in which skinheads and the press in Canada mutually engage in public strategies to subvert each other's significatory powers. Arguably, skinheads present a limited challenge to the social mainstream which, like their style, exists primarily on the surface. In analyzing the media response, the discursive containment of subcultural resistance is revealed as news reports retain the social order of the existing institutional structure. As skinheads attempt to draw attention to themselves and to society's hidden contradictions, the media exploit their spectacularity, transforming it into a saleable news commodity. Résumé: Cet article propose une étude des façons dont les "skinheads" et la presse au Canada se livrent un duel sur la place publique dans le but de subvertir leurs significations et leurs pouvoirs respectifs. On reconnaît qu'à première vue les "skinheads" posent un défi à la majorité de la société. L'analyse de la réponse des médias révèle que le discours de la presse atténue la dimension rebelle de cette sous-culture et tend à renforcer l'ordre social et la structure institutionnelle établis. Les "skinheads" veulent attirer l'attention sur eux-mêmes et sur les contradictions de la société; les médias exploitent leurs côtés spectaculaires à des fins commerciales.

scholarly journals The Social Construction of Defect Personal Stories of Emotions in Eating Disorders

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. p58
Author(s):  
Hilde Berit Moen
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Emotional Experiences ◽  
Eating Disordered ◽  
Emotional Processes ◽  
Personal Stories ◽  
The Social

This article explores episodes characterized by overwhelming emotions in Eating Disorders (ED). In ED, emotions and symptoms are connected. The mentalizing perspective understands eating disordered symptoms as a form of regulation of painful emotions and as indicative of a reduced ability to attend to mental states in oneself and others (impaired mentalizing). However, the interpersonal and emotional processes associated with impaired mentalizing are insufficiently attended to in research. Based on interviews with eating disordered patients, this article analyses stories of everyday episodes portrayed as emotionally overwhelming. The results of this analysis establish that a wide array of emotions or emotional experiences are activated, the most prominent being inadequacy, anger, discomfort, fear, and sadness. Episodes are typically “multi-emotional”, characterized by a variety of emotional constellations. The findings do not indicate that eating disordered patients generally have difficulty identifying emotions. Eating disordered symptoms are therefore discussed as a form of defense. The episodes described typically instigate the activation of eating disordered symptoms. Furthermore, the episodes are predominantly social, with other people present, whether physically or in mind. In conclusion, the article discusses the implications of the findings to the understanding of eating disorders and treatment.

African Television News Flow into Australia: A Case Study

1982 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek J Overton
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Television News ◽  
International News ◽  
Negative Image ◽  
Coup D'etat ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Tv News ◽  
News Agencies ◽  
Positive Nature

A six months monitoring, May October 1979, of Tasmanian television news provides insights into the nature of African news. Shortcomings emerge such as the fact that while some regions received extensive attention the coup d'etat in Ghana went totally unreported. The television international news agencies, Visnews and UPITN are looked at. Though at the time of the monitoring Visnews was a monopoly in international TV news supply, UPITN has now broken into the Australian market. UPITN is of considerable interest to Africanists. Until 1979 it had covert ties with the South African Department of Information. Since television news reports on Africa dwellon crises, and provide little information of a positive nature, they project a decidedly negative image of Africa to the Australian public.

scholarly journals The Imaginary of an Invisible Enemy: The SARS-CoV-2 Virion on the Spanish TV News

Tripodos ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (47) ◽  
pp. 127-144
Author(s):  
Isidro Jiménez-Gómez ◽  
Jaime López-Díez ◽  
Gema Bonales-Daimiel
Keyword(s):  
Health Risk ◽  
Risk Communication ◽  
Visual Communication ◽  
Television News ◽  
World Population ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Tv News ◽  
Roughened Surface ◽  
The World

During epidemiological crises, tradi­tional media have played an essential informational role. In this paper we analyze the imaginary of COVID-19 and, specifically, of the representa­tion of the virion of the SARS-CoV-2 virus through news reports from the main Spanish TV channels. This virion, represented as an “invisible enemy” that has confined half of the world population, is presented in the news using 3D illustrations that highlight its roughened surface and elongated spikes ending in tentacles, an image that does not cor-respond to scientific illustrations. These and other attributes suggest that the imaginary of COV­ID-19 has inherited the imaginary of other previous episodes of coronavirus­es being not scientifically accurate but motivated by the journalistic objective of representing the main characteris­tics of the virus and the severity of the danger. Keywords: visual communication, health risk communication, television news, COVID-19, pandemic.    

scholarly journals Rewolucja czy ewolucja? Przemiany polskiego newsa telewizyjnego

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 209-219
Author(s):  
Monika Grzelka ◽  
Agnieszka Kula
Keyword(s):  
Abrupt Change ◽  
Television News ◽  
Dynamic Structure ◽  
News Report ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Tv News ◽  
Tv Program ◽  
News Bulletin

Revolution or evolution? Transformation of TV news reportWe would like to analyze TV news report. This term is frequently used, the researchers do not specify which charakteristics of this genre are the most specific and essential. We understand news as a component of television newscast, regularly scheduled TV program. The form of the news bulletin is apparently unchanged because the sending-receiving mechanisms are constant, with telegenic newscasters, aproperly arranged studio, two-, three-minute long news reports, and the roles the spectators are cast in. These tricks, however, only serve the senders’ strategies, which make it necessary to define the television news report in adynamically changing media reality. Since the genre is an open and dynamic structure and seamlessly adapts to current needs, it is possible to approach it “diachronically” and present its evolution — mild, fluid, predictable change, and revolution — radical, abrupt change.

The Social Order Yields to Functional Analysis

1958 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 158-160
Author(s):  
LAWRENCE SCHLESINGER
Keyword(s):  
Functional Analysis ◽  
Social Order ◽  
The Social

Sex and the Social Order.

1946 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georgene H. Seward
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
The Social

George Hoggart Toulmin: politics and geology

1978 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 481-481
Author(s):  
ROY PORTER
Keyword(s):  
French Revolution ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
Great Distance ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Christian View ◽  
The Social ◽  
French Enlightenment ◽  
Political Conservatism ◽  
History Of

The physician George Hoggart Toulmin (1754–1817) propounded his theory of the Earth in a number of works beginning with The antiquity and duration of the world (1780) and ending with his The eternity of the universe (1789). It bore many resemblances to James Hutton's "Theory of the Earth" (1788) in stressing the uniformity of Nature, the gradual destruction and recreation of the continents and the unfathomable age of the Earth. In Toulmin's view, the progress of the proper theory of the Earth and of political advancement were inseparable from each other. For he analysed the commonly accepted geological ideas of his day (which postulated that the Earth had been created at no great distance of time by God; that God had intervened in Earth history on occasions like the Deluge to punish man; and that all Nature had been fabricated by God to serve man) and argued they were symptomatic of a society trapped in ignorance and superstition, and held down by priestcraft and political tyranny. In this respect he shared the outlook of the more radical figures of the French Enlightenment such as Helvétius and the Baron d'Holbach. He believed that the advance of freedom and knowledge would bring about improved understanding of the history and nature of the Earth, as a consequence of which Man would better understand the terms of his own existence, and learn to live in peace, harmony and civilization. Yet Toulmin's hopes were tempered by his naturalistic view of the history of the Earth and of Man. For Time destroyed everything — continents and civilizations. The fundamental law of things was cyclicality not progress. This latent political conservatism and pessimism became explicit in Toulmin's volume of verse, Illustration of affection, published posthumously in 1819. In those poems he signalled his disapproval of the French Revolution and of Napoleonic imperialism. He now argued that all was for the best in the social order, and he abandoned his own earlier atheistic religious radicalism, now subscribing to a more Christian view of God. Toulmin's earlier geological views had run into considerable opposition from orthodox religious elements. They were largely ignored by the geological community in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Britain, but were revived and reprinted by lower class radicals such as Richard Carlile. This paper is to be published in the American journal, The Journal for the History of Ideas in 1978 (in press).

Issues of non-standard employment: social and hygienic aspects

2020 ◽  
pp. 392-398
Author(s):  
S. A. Druzhilov
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Labor Relations ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Labor Rights ◽  
Precarious Employment ◽  
Employment Conditions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Labor Safety ◽  
Typical Model

Drastic transformations of the social and labor sphere have led to the emergence of new health risks and sanitary and hygienic problems associated with unreliability of employment. A new socio-economic and psychological phenomenon “precarity” has emerged, which has aff ected the employment conditions of employees, so the description of the phenomenon “precarity” needs to be clarifi ed.The forms of labor employment that diff er from the typical model and worsen the employee’s situation are considered. The criteria based on which non-standard employment is considered unstable are given.Generalized types of unstable employment are identifi ed, the specifi city of which is determined by a combination of two factors: working time and the term of the contract. Unstable working conditions are possible not only in informal employment, but also in legal labor relations. Unreliability and instability of labor has an objective character and is a natural manifestation of the emerging economic and social order. The phenomenon of “precarity of employment” appears as a new determinant of the health of employees. The main feature when referring employment and labor relations to the phenomenon of “precarity” is their unreliability.Specifies the terms used: “precariat”; “precarious work”; precompact; the precariat. An essential characteristic of precarious employment is the violation of social and labor rights and lack of job security. A significant indicator of precarity is underemployment. Precarity induces the potential danger of dismissal of the employee and the resulting stress, psychosomatic disorders and pathological processes in the psyche.Precarious employment and related labor relations have become widespread. Many employees are deprived of social guarantees, including those related to labor safety, payment for holidays and temporary disability, and provision of preventive measures. Th is leads to a violation of the state of well-being, as well as the deterioration of individual and public health.

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