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Johannes W. J. Beentjes - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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research note sensationalism in dutch Current Affairs programmes 1992 2001
European Journal of Communication, 2006Co-Authors: Paul Hendriks Vettehen, Koos Nuijten, Johannes W. J. BeentjesAbstract:Both news critics and scholars often contend that increasing competition in the news market urges journalists to sensationalize their stories. Starting from this hypothesis, this article investigates changes in the level of sensationalism in three Dutch Current Affairs programmes that merged in 1996 as part of a strategy to fight increasing competition. A content analysis of these programmes in 1992 and 2001 shows a partial trend towards greater use of sensationalism.
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Research Note: Sensationalism in Dutch Current Affairs Programmes 1992–2001
European Journal of Communication, 2006Co-Authors: Paul Hendriks Vettehen, Koos Nuijten, Johannes W. J. BeentjesAbstract:Both news critics and scholars often contend that increasing competition in the news market urges journalists to sensationalize their stories. Starting from this hypothesis, this article investigates changes in the level of sensationalism in three Dutch Current Affairs programmes that merged in 1996 as part of a strategy to fight increasing competition. A content analysis of these programmes in 1992 and 2001 shows a partial trend towards greater use of sensationalism.
Paul Hendriks Vettehen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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research note sensationalism in dutch Current Affairs programmes 1992 2001
European Journal of Communication, 2006Co-Authors: Paul Hendriks Vettehen, Koos Nuijten, Johannes W. J. BeentjesAbstract:Both news critics and scholars often contend that increasing competition in the news market urges journalists to sensationalize their stories. Starting from this hypothesis, this article investigates changes in the level of sensationalism in three Dutch Current Affairs programmes that merged in 1996 as part of a strategy to fight increasing competition. A content analysis of these programmes in 1992 and 2001 shows a partial trend towards greater use of sensationalism.
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Research Note: Sensationalism in Dutch Current Affairs Programmes 1992–2001
European Journal of Communication, 2006Co-Authors: Paul Hendriks Vettehen, Koos Nuijten, Johannes W. J. BeentjesAbstract:Both news critics and scholars often contend that increasing competition in the news market urges journalists to sensationalize their stories. Starting from this hypothesis, this article investigates changes in the level of sensationalism in three Dutch Current Affairs programmes that merged in 1996 as part of a strategy to fight increasing competition. A content analysis of these programmes in 1992 and 2001 shows a partial trend towards greater use of sensationalism.
Koos Nuijten - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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research note sensationalism in dutch Current Affairs programmes 1992 2001
European Journal of Communication, 2006Co-Authors: Paul Hendriks Vettehen, Koos Nuijten, Johannes W. J. BeentjesAbstract:Both news critics and scholars often contend that increasing competition in the news market urges journalists to sensationalize their stories. Starting from this hypothesis, this article investigates changes in the level of sensationalism in three Dutch Current Affairs programmes that merged in 1996 as part of a strategy to fight increasing competition. A content analysis of these programmes in 1992 and 2001 shows a partial trend towards greater use of sensationalism.
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Research Note: Sensationalism in Dutch Current Affairs Programmes 1992–2001
European Journal of Communication, 2006Co-Authors: Paul Hendriks Vettehen, Koos Nuijten, Johannes W. J. BeentjesAbstract:Both news critics and scholars often contend that increasing competition in the news market urges journalists to sensationalize their stories. Starting from this hypothesis, this article investigates changes in the level of sensationalism in three Dutch Current Affairs programmes that merged in 1996 as part of a strategy to fight increasing competition. A content analysis of these programmes in 1992 and 2001 shows a partial trend towards greater use of sensationalism.
Toril Aalberg - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Public Service Broadcasting, Hard News, and Citizens’ Knowledge of Current Affairs
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, 2016Co-Authors: Toril Aalberg, Stephen CushionAbstract:Public service broadcasters are a central part of national news media environments in most advanced democracies. Although their market positions can vary considerably between countries, they are generally seen to enhance democratic culture, pursuing a more serious and harder news agenda compared to commercial media . . . But to what extent is this perspective supported by empirical evidence? How far can we generalize that all public service news media equally pursue a harder news agenda than commercial broadcasters? And what impact does public service broadcasting have on public knowledge? Does exposure to public service broadcasting increase citizens’ knowledge of Current Affairs, or are they only regularly viewed by citizens with an above average interest in politics and hard news?The overview of the evidence provided by empirical research suggests that citizens are more likely to be exposed to hard news, and be more knowledgeable about Current Affairs, when they watch public service news—or rather news in media systems where public service is well funded and widely watched. The research evidence also suggests there are considerable variations between public broadcasters, just as there are between more market-driven and commercial media. An important limitation of previous research is related to the question of causality. Therefore, a main challenge for future research is to determine not only if public service broadcasting is the preferred news provider of most knowledgeable citizens, but also whether it more widely improves and increases citizens’ knowledge about public Affairs.
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Auntie Knows Best? Public Broadcasters and Current Affairs Knowledge
British Journal of Political Science, 2012Co-Authors: Stuart Soroka, Blake Andrew, Toril Aalberg, Shanto Iyengar, James Curran, Sharon Coen, Kaori Hayashi, Paul Jones, Gianpetro Mazzoleni, June Woong RheeAbstract:Public service broadcasters (PSBs) are a central part of national news media landscapes. In many countries, PSBs are the first choice of citizens when it comes to news providers. And in perhaps more countries still, PSBs are thought of as specialists in provision of hard news. We test this proposition here using survey data from a large crossnational survey involving indicators of Current Affairs knowledge and media consumption. Specifically, we examine whether exposure to public versus commercial news influences the knowledge citizens possess about Current Affairs, both domestically and internationally. We also test, using propensity score analysis, whether there is variation across PSBs in this regard. Results indicate that compared to commercial news, watching PSB has a net positive influence on knowledge of hard news, though not all PSBs are equally effective in contributing to knowledge acquisition. This knowledge gap between PSB and commercial news media consumption appears to be mitigated by factors such as de jure independence,proportion of public financing, and audience share.
Rob Stones - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Why Current Affairs Needs Social Theory
2015Co-Authors: Rob StonesAbstract:Television news is frequently disparaged by thoughtful commentators for its preoccupation with drama and spectacle at the expense of serious, in-depth, engagement with the critical issues it covers. Whilst insisting these charges possess more than a small dose of truth, Rob Stones argues for more emphasis to be placed on strengthening the capacities of audiences. Drawing from major traditions in social thought, and on academic media analysis, Stones provides the conceptual tools for audiences to bring greater sophistication to their interpretations, developing their capacity to think across items and genres.A detailed account of an episode of the Danish political drama, "Borgen," reveals the extent to which its viewers already deploy similar concepts and skills in order to follow its storylines. Stones shows how audiences can refine these skills further and demonstrates their value with respect to a wide range of Current Affairs texts, including: Israeli settlers on the West Bank; the Rwandan genocide; the Egyptian 'revolution'; the Obama administration's immigration reform bill; the bases of Germany's economic success; the conflict between 'red shirts' and 'yellow shirts' in Thailand; China's diplomatic relations with Burma; and scandals of mistreatment within the UK and Swedish healthcare systems.The book shows that everyone's understanding of Current Affairs can be significantly enhanced by social theory. It will be relevant to students of sociology, politics, media studies and journalism at all levels.
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Social theory and Current Affairs: a framework for intellectual engagement.
The British journal of sociology, 2014Co-Authors: Rob StonesAbstract:The paper aims to facilitate more adequate critical engagement with Current Affairs events by journalists, and with Current Affairs texts by audiences. It draws on social theory to provide the intellectual resources to enable this. The academic ambition is for the framework to be adopted and developed by social thinkers in producing exemplary critical readings of news and Current Affairs texts. To this end it is offered as a research paradigm. The paper situates its argument in relation to the wider literature in media and cultural studies, acknowledging the subtle skills required to appreciate the relative autonomy of texts. However, it draws attention to the lack of an adequate perspective with which to assess the frames, representations, and judgments within news and Current Affairs texts. To address this lacuna it proposes the conception of a social-theoretical frame, based on a number of meta-theoretical approaches, designed to provide audiences with a systematic means of addressing the status and adequacy of individual texts. Social theoretical frames can reveal the shortcomings of media framing of the contextual fields within which news and Current Affairs events take place. Two illustrative case studies are used to indicate the value and potential of the approach: the analysis of a short newspaper report of the return of protesters to Cairo's Tahrir Square in 2011, and a critique of four Current Affairs reports from various genres on the political turmoil in Thailand leading up to the clashes of May 2010.
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Social theory, Current Affairs, and Thailand's political turmoil : seeing beyond reds vs. yellows
Journal of Political Power, 2012Co-Authors: Rob Stones, Ake TangsupvattanaAbstract:The paper argues for social theory’s potential for productive critical engagement with news and Current Affairs accounts. Such accounts typically offer free-floating, surface, spectacles, and oversimplified linear narratives. Social theory suggests that it is much more appropriate to embed complex social processes in plural and configurational narratives. A synthesis of strong structuration theory, critical realism, and cultural sociology is employed to produce a theorised frame – underpinned by configurations of powers, norms, and values – through which to critically engage with, and assess, media accounts of Current Affairs. A sustained and focused analysis of recent political conflict in Thailand reveals the superior capacity of social theory to deal with the complexity of the moral, causal, and strategic issues involved.
