scholarly journals Interreligious Dialogue in Public Service Broadcasting. A Case Study in Catalonia (Spain)

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 441
Author(s):  
Amparo Huertas Bailén
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Potential Contribution ◽  
Public Television ◽  
Online Service ◽  
Catholic Religion ◽  
The Media

This text addresses how the media deals with interreligious dialogue based on the case study of the Catalan public television stations. Our theoretical framework revolves around the concept of mediation, which is regarded as a communicative concept that emphasizes the socializing power of the mass media as well as its potential contribution to social cohesion. A quantitative and qualitative analysis is presented of a sample of 41 multi-religious audiovisual pieces broadcast between 2015 and 2018, which were located in the Corporation’s on-demand online service. The religious diversity that currently exists in European cities is reflected in the media content. Although it is true that the Catholic religion features in 63% of the sample, it only becomes the focal point on less than half of the occasions in which it appears. The religious options with more presence are Catholicism in relation to Islam and atheism in relation to Catholicism, but these cases only account for 26.8% of the sample. Interreligious dialogue appears as the main focus of the discourse in only 14.6% of the sample and, in general, the tendency towards a Euro-Catholic-centric discourse has been detected.

scholarly journals The General, His Fandom, and a Participatory Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 82 ◽  
pp. 53-78
Author(s):  
Angelina Ilieva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Focal Point ◽  
Public Image ◽  
Fan Culture ◽  
The Public ◽  
Military Medical Academy ◽  
Medical Academy ◽  
The Media ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
The Military

In February 2020, the Bulgarian government established the National Operational Headquarters for Combating the COVID-19 Pandemic in Bulgaria. General Ventsislav Mutafchiyski, a military doctor, professor at the Military Medical Academy in Sofia, was appointed as its chairman. This paper presents a case study on the public image of Ventsislav Mutafchiyski, its readings and interpretations by the audience, and the specific fan culture that emerged around his media persona during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Bulgaria. Placed in the spotlight of the media at the very beginning of the crisis, Mutafchiyski became extremely popular as the public figure most strongly associated with the fight against the spread of the disease in the country. Around his media persona, shaped in the public imagination as a wartime leader, a fan culture has grown with all its characteristic features and dimensions: fans and anti-fans, affirmative and transformative fandom. As a fictional character, Mutafchiyski has appeared in numerous forms of vernacular creativity: poems, songs, material objects, jokes, fake news, conspiracy theories, and memes. In this way, the General has become the main character of Bulgarian pandemic folklore and the focal point of a participatory pandemic.

scholarly journals Politicization as a Factor of Shaping News in the Public Service Media : A Case Study on Public Television in Poland

2021 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
pp. 29-51
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Węglińska ◽  
◽  
Łukasz Szurmiński ◽  
Maria Wąsicka-Sroczyńska ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Public Television ◽  
The Public

scholarly journals Media aesthetic component of communication and its manifestation in infographic content

Lumina ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-96
Author(s):  
Svetlana Simakova
Keyword(s):  
Visual Image ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Visual Media ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media

The goal of the present study is to demonstrate the media-aesthetic potential of infographic messages on particular cases. This can be done due to an integrated approach to the analysis of the visual content of media content. That indicates the case study method implementation as well as description and generalization. The theoretical basis of the research is represented by scientific studies of various directions. That includes the history of media and visual media culture; features of the concepts of media culture and media language, media aesthetics; infographics as a tool of media language. The empirical basis of the study is journalistic materials containing infographic content of such publications as by RIA Novosti (ria.ru), TASS (tass.ru). The examples of visual image implementation in the transmission of information — media content containing infographics — are given and analyzed. Considering media aesthetics as the formation of a sensory perception of the proposed media content, the author turns to the philosophical and aesthetic foundations of visual practices in the media and post-humanistic trends in journalism. As a result of the analysis of the theoretical and practical basis of the research, the author comes to the conclusion that today the role of the media aesthetic component of messages is most relevant. And infographics, as the connecting link of language and consciousness, is its most striking tool.

scholarly journals Contenidos infantiles convergentes, identidad latinoamericana y los desafíos de las televisiones públicas

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-133
Author(s):  
AVILLARRUBIA Andrea Villarrubia-Martínez ◽  
Águeda Águeda Delgado-Ponce ◽  
Ignacio Aguaded-Gómez
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Public Television ◽  
Local Identity ◽  
Television Programs ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Female Protagonists ◽  
The Media ◽  
Service Mission ◽  
Tv Shows

Before the pandemic crisis, the irruption of the convergent scenario and the television digitalization forced the Latin American public television to develop strategies that consider new forms of audiovisual consumption and to make the resources profitable, such as the development of digital platforms and co-production with independent creators. Pakapaka, TVN and Señal Colombia coproduced children television programs with Chilean filmmakers that achieved a high audience and received acknowledgements at audiovisual festivals for their quality, their contribution to the local identity and Latin American own nature. Based on a content analysis carried out on tv shows aimed to children, present in both Chilean public digital platforms: CNTV Infantil (former Novasur) and TVN Kids, this study describes the collaborative model from the media literacy perspective, with emphasis on the diversity of children’s programs, considering their origins, acquisition, financing, and characteristics of the protagonist’s characters. The results indicate that the contents are varied and that the presence of female protagonists, native peoples and migrants, although incipient, constitutes a contribution to the identity of the continent’s childhoods. In conclusion, it is essential that public service television can count on permanent funding that promotes the realization of relevant content for children, in accordance with their public service mission, especially in today pandemic crisis and confinement.

Language revitalization through the media: A case study of Amazigh in Morocco

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (266) ◽  
pp. 121-141
Author(s):  
Hassan Belhiah ◽  
Mohamed Majdoubi ◽  
Mouna Safwate
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Language Revitalization ◽  
Language Shift ◽  
Public Television ◽  
Language Policies ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Media ◽  
Political Economic

AbstractGiven the pivotal role mass media play in effecting political and social change, they can also contribute to the revitalization of an endangered or minoritized language if language policies are effectively implemented. Drawing on official documents regarding Amazigh broadcasting on Moroccan public television and interviews with Amazigh experts and media practitioners, this study scrutinizes the efforts exerted to revitalize Amazigh, the language of pre-Arab populations in North Africa. The results of the study indicate that while the status of Amazigh has changed drastically in the last two decades, its dissemination in public television is hampered by political, economic, and logistic forces. The study has implications for the areas of language revitalization, language shift reversal, language policy, and language planning.

scholarly journals KOMODIFIKASI DALAM AJANG PENCARIAN BAKAT PENYANYI DANGDUT LIGA DANGDUT INDONESIA DI INDOSIAR

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 24
Author(s):  
Kurniawan Kurniawan ◽  
Hayati Nupus
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
Commercial Television ◽  
State Culture ◽  
Television Broadcasting ◽  
The Media ◽  
Modern Nation State

Liga Dangdut Indonesia (Indonesian Dangdut League) is a popular dangdut singer talent contest in Indosiar television station. It is part of the media strategy to gain ratings and audience share to compete for a slice of the limited advertising cake in the free-to-air commercial television broadcasting. This competiton encourages television managers to think hard to create flagship programs that become media commodities to attract viewers and advertisers. This study aims to identify some forms of commodification on Liga Dangdut Indonesia. Study of dangdut is important for communication research because it will help more understanding about the modern nation-state culture of Indonesia. Drawing on a critical political economy framework, this study uses Mosco's theory regarding processes of commodification of media content, audiences, and workers. Researchers added Fuchs's theory of digital workers to see the phenomenon of commodification in the digital age. This is a qualitative research with case study method. Data collection techniques are carried out by observation and interviews as well as exploring news, audiovisual material, and reports. Researchers found that commodification occurs in the contest in the form of the commodification of media content, audiences, workers, and digital workers. This commodification hides exploitative social relations by presenting them in a form that mistifies dangdut as global, upper-class, nobel culture.

scholarly journals Beyond the hashtag: Circumventing content moderation on social media

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (12) ◽  
pp. 4492-4511 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ysabel Gerrard
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Eating Disorder ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Recommendation Systems ◽  
Public Service Announcements ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Media Companies ◽  
Search Mechanism

Social media companies make important decisions about what counts as “problematic” content and how they will remove it. Some choose to moderate hashtags, blocking the results for certain tag searches and issuing public service announcements (PSAs) when users search for troubling terms. The hashtag has thus become an indicator of where problematic content can be found, but this has produced limited understandings of how such content actually circulates. Using pro-eating disorder (pro-ED) communities as a case study, this article explores the practices of circumventing hashtag moderation in online pro-ED communities. It shows how (1) untagged pro-ED content can be found without using the hashtag as a search mechanism; (2) users are evading hashtag and other forms of platform policing, devising signals to identify themselves as “pro-ED”; and (3) platforms’ recommendation systems recirculate pro-ED content, revealing the limitations of hashtag logics in social media content moderation.

scholarly journals Public television and media literacy: the role of TV ombudsman programmes in Portugal and Brazil

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 245-265
Author(s):  
Sara Pereira ◽  
Jairo Faria ◽  
Clarisse Pessôa
Keyword(s):  
Media Literacy ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Media Education ◽  
Public Broadcasting ◽  
Public Television ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Media

Is Media Literacy a dimension of the Public Service of the Media? Does public service television, in Portugal and in Brazil, contemplate Media Education in their policies and grids? Taking these questions as a departure and debating point, we have used sixteen editions of the ombudsman programmes of the public broadcasting companies of Brazil (Empresa Brasil de Comunicação – EBC) and Portugal (Rádio e Televisão de Portugal – RTP) as analysis corpus. In order to examine O Público na TV (The Public on TV) from EBC and A Voz do Cidadão (The Citizen’s Voice) from RTP, we have used a set of analysis categories which will allow, among other aspects, to understand the contribution of these programmes to the promotion of Media Literacy of the societies where they are broadcast and of the public they will reach. Generally speaking, the results show that, by developing a role of mediation with the public/audiences, the Ombudsman plays an important role as a Literacy Agent for the Media towards those audiences, even though that role could be reinforced and could express, in a more direct and clear form, the objective of Media Literacy.

scholarly journals Is COVID-19 on the Covers of Socio-Political Magazines an Example of Media Polarisation? Case Study from Poland

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-53
Author(s):  
Anna Jupowicz-Ginalska
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Media Image ◽  
Ideological Bias ◽  
Religious Perspectives ◽  
The Media

AbstractThe main purpose of this paper was to explore the media image of the COVID-19 pandemic through the perspective of Polish media polarisation. In order to achieve this, a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the content of covers from 10 socio-political magazines, representing different ideological inclinations [left-wing, liberal, conservative, right-wing and Catholic] was conducted between January and June 2020. The study focused not only on the scale to which the coronavirus appeared on the covers, but also on the textual and visual representation of it. Additionally, the contexts in which COVID-19 appeared were analysed. As it turned out, apart from the medical context, the pandemic was mostly presented through political, social, economic and religious perspectives, of which the first was the most visibly connected with polarising media content, indicating clear links between the ideological bias of the magazines and the ways they described reality.

Hybridisation of Slovene Public Broadcasting: From National Community towards Commercial Nationalism

2013 ◽  
Vol 146 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zala Volčič ◽  
Melita Zajc
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Public Broadcasting ◽  
Public Television ◽  
The Public ◽  
Audience Fragmentation ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Public Broadcaster ◽  
The One ◽  
Digital Delivery

Public broadcasting institutions have existed as central and publicly funded national institutions, providing services in the public interest. The coincidence of technological, political and economic circumstances in the last 20 years or so, however, has challenged their monopoly position. Technological developments – specifically digitalisation – have expanded spectrum availability. In some cases, public television has been commercialised, privatised or marginalised by the introduction of commercial channels. This article focuses on a specific case study of the Slovene public broadcaster. It addresses the fate of public service television in the digital and post-communist era, tracing the transformation from state broadcasters to the era of digital delivery, audience fragmentation and commercial nationalism. It explores, on the one hand, the way in which public service broadcasters have embraced and capitalised on new forms of digital distribution and, on the other, how they continue to embrace national(istic) and commercial imperatives.

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