Deaf see TV news differently: A first step in finding a better path to knowledge

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Danielle L. Mulrennan
Keyword(s):  
Interaction Analysis ◽  
Television News ◽  
Multimodal Interaction ◽  
Broadcast News ◽  
Video Ethnography ◽  
Deaf Person ◽  
News Broadcasts ◽  
Tv News ◽  
Deaf Adults ◽  
The Media

AbstractTelevision broadcast news is an audio-visual construct of facts and information enabling the viewer to experience and understand current and historical events (Shook et al., 2009). The viewer absorbs the meaning through the senses of sight and hearing, however, the efficacy of the news message is likely to diminish when one’s ability to use either of these senses becomes impaired. There is a dearth of research on interactions between Deaf adults and the media, and in particular, television news broadcasts (Cheong and Karras, 2009). This study has explored the role of television broadcast news within the home environment of a Deaf person, the interactions with the television set as a social tool, and how the television news message becomes mediated in order to overcome the limitations of impaired reception.By using the interpretative paradigm, this study focused on five Deaf adults as they engaged in the action of watching television news. Data were recorded using video ethnography and the methodology of Multimodal Interaction Analysis (Norris, 2004) has been utilized.

scholarly journals Audiovisual Translation in Romanian TV News Programmes

Linguaculture ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-145
Author(s):  
Raluca Sinu
Keyword(s):  
Television News ◽  
Short Description ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Broadcast News ◽  
Public Television ◽  
News Broadcasts ◽  
Signed Language ◽  
Tv News ◽  
Television Service ◽  
Audiovisual Translation

This paper proposes an investigation into the place of audiovisual translation in Romanian television news programmes. Although news translation has attracted a lot of attention in recent years, the same cannot be said about the various forms of audiovisual translation used in news programmes, which might range from interlingual subtitling and voice-over to media interpreting and signed language interpreting. The present paper attempts to highlight the contexts in which these types of translation are used in Romanian broadcast news, their features and functions. We will begin by discussing the concept of news translation and contrast it with audiovisual translation in the news. This will be followed by an overview and short description of the different forms of audiovisual translation encountered in the news. Based on this framework, we will then conduct a small-scale survey of several news broadcasts of the Romanian public television service in order to identify the situations in which a particular type of audiovisual translation tends to be used, as well as the reasons for resorting to it and ensuing results.

Look Who's Talking! Islamic Discourse in the Chechen Wars

2006 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Radnitz
Keyword(s):  
Public Discourse ◽  
Television News ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Print Journalism ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Broadcasts ◽  
Psychological Warfare ◽  
The Media ◽  
Radio Free Europe ◽  
Chechen Wars

In any contemporary conflict, the war of ideas may be just as important as the war on the battlefield. Throughout history, propaganda has been used as a tool of psychological warfare. The prevalence of technology makes the mass media an ever more vital tool in spreading one's message, both to combatants and throughout the world. The case of the Chechen wars demonstrates the importance both sides placed on publicity in the course of fighting. In addition to the use of print journalism, the Chechen wars witnessed the employment of television news broadcasts, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and the Internet as a means to spread messages. Given the importance of the media, the public and private discourse by the combatants has been seen as crucial to their cause. The language of Islam carries a set of widely shared symbols, many related to war, that can be used to manipulate public opinion. This article will analyze how Islamic language was used in the two Russian invasions of Chechnya in the 1990s (1994–1996, 1999–2002). It analyzes three pairs of variables: Russian and Chechen public discourse, especially regarding the language of Islam; Chechen public and Chechen private discourse; and the discourse of both sides in the first war compared to the second war.

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 De la producción a la recepción. Una propuesta de observación multi local y sincrónica para el análisis de noticias televisivas

2020 ◽  
pp. 185
Author(s):  
Mercedes Calzado ◽  
Vanesa Lio ◽  
Cristian Manchego Cardenas ◽  
Victoria Irisarri
Keyword(s):  
Family Environment ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Television News ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Tv News ◽  
The Media ◽  
Three Space ◽  
Tv Show ◽  
Medios De Comunicacion

Este artículo presenta un ejercicio metodológico realizado en el marco de un proyecto de investigación sobre los nuevos modos de construcción de la noticia policial en televisión. El tópico de la inseguridad se enmarca en un proceso social, cultural y político vinculado al crecimiento de la violencia y el delito en las sociedades contemporáneas, pero también al incremento y transformación de su visibilidad. Partiendo de la hipótesis de que los medios de comunicación son dispositivos centrales en la construcción del espacio de lo público, indagamos en la producción de contenidos sobre “inseguridad” en noticieros de televisión, en los modos de acceso a las fuentes, circulación de la información, estrategias de presentación de las noticias y la forma en que las audiencias las decodifican e interpretan. Para esto, nos propusimos observar, en forma simultánea, tres espacios/situaciones durante la emisión de un noticiero central de un canal de aire de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires. Por un lado, en la instancia de producción, la sala de control y el móvil principal del día. Por otro, incorporamos la recepción visualizando en vivo el mismo noticiero en un ámbito familiar. La experiencia implicó la participación de cuatro investigadores en tres locaciones distintas. El objetivo es presentar la potencialidad y dificultades que emergieron de este ejercicio de observación participante grupal y multisituada. This article presents a methodological exercise carried out as part of a research project on the new modes of construction of police news on television in Argentina. The topic of insecurity is part of a social, cultural and political process linked to the growth of violence and crime in contemporary societies, but also to the increase and transformation of its visibility. From the hypothesis that the media are central in the construction of public spaces, we investigate the production of content regarding “insecurity” in television news, focusing on the ways of accessing the sources, circulation of information, news presentation strategies and how audiences decode and interpret them. To reach this objective, we observe simultaneously three space-situations during a central TV news show broadcast by an over-the-air channel in Buenos Aires. On one hand, we analyze the production of news, from the broadcasting room and the main live reporting from the street. On the other hand, we also study news reception by visualizing the same TV show in a family environment. The experience involved the participation of four researchers in three different locations. The paper presents the potentiality and difficulties that emerged from this multi local and synchronic observation exercise.

Comprehension of television news signed language interpreters

Interpreting ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ella Wehrmeyer
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Language Proficiency ◽  
Stated Preference ◽  
Television News ◽  
Low Literacy ◽  
Limited Size ◽  
News Broadcasts ◽  
Signed Language ◽  
Tv News ◽  
Main Factors

This questionnaire-based study evaluates interpretations of TV news broadcasts into South African Sign Language from the perspective of 360 adult Deaf respondents, who identify factors hindering comprehension. Methodologically, findings are based on both open-ended and closed questions. The sources of difficulty identified, together with viewer assessments of current interpreting services and viewer expectancy norms, are explored in relation to the profile of the Deaf target audience represented by the study sample. Despite potentially low literacy levels, the study found a stronger stated preference for subtitles than for signed interpretation. The limited size of the signed language screen inset and the type of signed language used by the interpreters were found to be the main factors limiting comprehension; to a lesser extent, problems can also be related to various features of the interpreters’ performance (facial expression, mouthing, sign articulation and general language proficiency), viewers’ insufficient background knowledge and signing skills, the difficulty of dividing attention between different forms of visual input, as well as the positioning of the screen inset showing the interpreter. The cultural and linguistic heterogeneity of the South African Deaf community poses a further challenge to interpreters. Recommendations for both interpreting practice and further research emerge from the discussion.

scholarly journals Modeling of TV News in the Context of Information Policy of a Television Channel

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 581-598
Author(s):  
Anna Sumskaya ◽  
Pavel Sumskoy
Keyword(s):  
Technological Development ◽  
Television News ◽  
Cognitive Model ◽  
Information Policy ◽  
Projection Model ◽  
News Releases ◽  
Code Structure ◽  
Tv News ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Impact

TV viewers build relationships with the outside world, focusing on the news, which is a television interpretation of reality. Media reality is created on the basis of the information policy of TV channels and determines the agenda of the audience. This paper uses M. McCombs' agenda-setting theory, N. Luhmann's cognitive system communication, W. Lippmann's public opinion concept, J. Baudrillard's simulacrum, J. Fiske's code structure, G. Deborah's Performance Society to study television news of Russian TV channels. Based on the systemic, structural-functional, and semiotic approaches, the application of models of communication, information, the cognitive model of the impact of the media on the mass audience and the model of Russian journalism, a TV news projection model was developed in the context of a television channel's information policy. The model was tested on the basis of analysis of 130 news stories of the final weekly news releases of two federal and two regional Russian TV channels. As a result, we have seen that the media reality is constructed as a result of a selection of facts, modeling of meanings and forms of submission of news. The differences in the themes and forms of the news delivery are due to the territorial affiliation and technological development of the channels. In the production process, the journalist acts as an informer, communicator and manipulator, and the news represent a socially constructed and thoroughly edited reality. The media create a similar media reality, a different level of fiction, intended, albeit for the post-Soviet, but still society of centralized spectacle (according to G. Deborah). Translated meanings correspond to the symbolically-oriented mentality of Russians (according to M. Zagidullina). The media reality formed by the TV channels proves that the domestic journalists follow the special Russian way.

Watching Women's Liberation, 1970

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bonnie J. Dow
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Feminist Movement ◽  
Women's Liberation ◽  
Broadcast News ◽  
News Broadcasts ◽  
Women’S Liberation ◽  
Tv News ◽  
National Media ◽  
Second Wave ◽  
Part Feature

In 1970, ABC, CBS, and NBC—the “Big Three” of the pre-cable television era—discovered the feminist movement. From the famed sit-in at Ladies' Home Journal to multi-part feature stories on the movement's ideas and leaders, nightly news broadcasts covered feminism more than in any year before or since, bringing women's liberation into American homes. This book uses case studies of key media events to delve into the ways national TV news mediated the emergence of feminism's second wave. First legitimized as a big story by print media, the feminist movement gained broadcast attention as the networks' eagerness to get in on the action was accompanied by feminists' efforts to use national media for their own purposes. The book chronicles the conditions that precipitated feminism's new visibility and analyzes the verbal and visual strategies of broadcast news discourses that tried to make sense of the movement. Groundbreaking and packed with detail, this book shows how feminism went mainstream, and what it gained and lost on the way.

scholarly journals Scientists and deliberativeness of European public television news

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (03) ◽  
pp. A02 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard van der Wurff ◽  
Piet Verhoeven ◽  
Maite Gadellaa
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Television News ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Public Television ◽  
News Broadcasts ◽  
Critical Measure ◽  
Scientific Experts ◽  
European Public ◽  
Tv News ◽  
Current Events

Scientists intermittently appear on television news as experts to inform and comment on current events. This study explores whether their appearance adds a critical measure of substantiated arguments and balanced judgements to public affairs reporting. An explorative analysis of a representative sample of news broadcasts from five public broadcasters in Western Europe in 2006 and 2007 suggests that this is to some extent the case. The implications of these findings for the deliberative quality of TV news are discussed, and a typology of scientific experts in the general news items is proposed.

scholarly journals Saying “story” in the newsroom. Towards a linguistic ethnography of narrative lexicon in broadcast news

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilles Merminod
Keyword(s):  
Television News ◽  
The Other ◽  
Public Broadcasting ◽  
News Item ◽  
Broadcast News ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Linguistic Ethnography ◽  
The Media ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
The One

Despite a general agreement on the narrative nature of news, the question of what it means for the journalists to tell a story is usually taken for granted, while the analysis of the actual narrative practices in the newsrooms often remains shallow. A way of overcoming this state of affairs is to have a look at the narrative practices and norms in the newsroom. On the one hand, one can track the sites of narrative engagement in the newsroom, where journalists are telling or handling stories in order to achieve their work of making news. On the other hand, one can track the metacommentaries that foreground a narrative orientation to news, when journalists evaluate storying choices or when they use a narrative-related lexicon. This paper explores the latter aspect by tracking the uses of the word « histoire » (story) in the newsroom of a Swiss Public Broadcasting Corporation. The paper identifies and analyses three different meanings of « histoire »: « histoire » as a genre, « histoire » as a set of information and « histoire » as a semiotic product. As a reflexive means, « histoire » enables the media practitioners to navigate the very practical tasks entailed by the production of the multimodal artefact that a television news item is

Glamour and Aspiration: Women's Employment and the Establishment of Midlands ATV, 1956–68

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 635-649 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gillian Murray
Keyword(s):  
Significant Influence ◽  
Television News ◽  
Formative Period ◽  
Women's Employment ◽  
Women’S Employment ◽  
Television Production ◽  
News Broadcasts ◽  
Current Affairs ◽  
Female Employees ◽  
Status Of Women

This article uses an extant collection of television news inserts and other television ephemera to examine women's employment at Midlands ATV. Focusing on the years between the first Midlands News broadcasts in 1956 until major contract changes across the ITV network in 1968, it examines the jobs women did during this formative period and their chances for promotion. In particular it suggests that contemporary ideas of glamour and their influence in screen culture maintained a significant influence in shaping women's employment. This connection between glamorous television aesthetics and female employees as the embodiment of glamour, especially on screen, did leave women vulnerable to redundancy as ‘frivolity’ in television was increasingly criticised in the mid-1960s. However, this article argues that the precarious status of women in the industry should not undermine historical appreciation of the value of their work in the establishing of television in Britain. Setting this study of Midlands ATV within the growing number of studies into women's employment in television, there are certain points of comparison with women's experience at the BBC and in networked ITV current affairs programmes. However, while the historical contours of television production are broadly comparable, there are clear distinctions, such as the employment of a female newscaster, Pat Cox, between 1956 and 1965. Such distinctions also suggest that regional news teams were experimenting with the development of a vernacular television news style that requires further study.

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