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This study explores the use of TikTok by public broadcasters France TV, BBC and SVT to measure its informational and promotional relevance on the platform, and to identify the types of videos that generate the highest levels of engagement among users. By examining the news profile associated with the information and the corporate profile of each of the selected broadcasters, 120 publications were analyzed, counting the number of users and interactions, including likes and levels of engagement of the content. In addition, a content analysis was carried out focusing on the formal, promotional and informative characteristics of the posts. The findings revealed an interest in both promotional and informational content shared by the platforms on TikTok. In the case of SVT, higher levels of engagement are observed in comparison to the BBC and France TV profiles. Among the contents with the highest engagement, those of an informative kind with a focus on social issues stand out, highlighting proximity and immediacy. In the promotional domain, videos about events and cultural content stand out. From a structural point of view, content designed specifically for the platform predominates, as opposed to adaptations and with a duration of <1 min. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, feminism's visibility in Western pop culture and social media has seemingly made it ever more accessible for young people (Banet-Weiser, S. 2019. Empowered: Popular Feminism and Popular Misogyny. Durham, NC: Duke University Press). This article uses the framework of youth 'knowledge cultures' to analyse how feminist knowledge is negotiated and remade in online culture, going beyond characterisations of online feminism primarily in terms of either 'activism', or the linear 'accessing' of feminist ideas. Drawing on an ongoing empirical project located in Australia involving 50 young feminists who regularly engage with feminist social media culture, we highlight participants' affective practices of analysis and critique in connection with three Australian feminist 'influencers' with significant social media presences: Clementine Ford, a white columnist and memoirist; Abbie Chatfield, a white former Bachelor contestant, now podcaster and TV personality; and Lillian Ahenkan aka Flex Mami, a Black entrepreneur, and podcaster. We highlight how practices of distancing and proximity are enacted by participants in affective knowledge practices in relation to these influencers. We suggest the framework of 'accessibility' that predominates in scholarship obscures the complex classed, racialised and gendered dynamics through which knowledge is hierarchically made, contested, and accorded legitimacy in social media knowledge cultures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examines how local television broadcasters use Facebook to enhance social media news engagement. By scraping 1,063 news posts from nine local television stations' Facebook pages, this investigation performs a content analysis on different features of news posts, including news topics, message vividness and interactivity, post time, and length of the post. This study further explores how news post features affect three dimensions of news engagement, indicated by reactions, comments, and shares. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Audiovisual formats such as telenovelas are particularly effective in stimulating knowledge and proactive attitudes towards disease prevention and health preservation, as they combine entertainment with the promotion of self-care. Brazilian telenovelas are productions of great attractiveness and penetration in the population and have, through social merchandising actions, a space to discuss issues such as cancer, one of the main public health problems in Brazil that directly impacts the lives of millions of people. The soap operas of TV Globo, the main producer and broadcaster of Brazilian television, are the object of analysis in our study, through the adoption of the method of content analysis. Our objective, in this sense, was to present a historical survey of the presence of cancer in Brazilian telenovelas, thus, we describe 27 telenovelas broadcast between the 1980s and 2021. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to study the popular educational broadcasting of Julius Sumner Miller and its intersections with contemporary science policy and education. Design/methodology/approach: The paper draws on archival research including resources so far unused by historians of science or of broadcasting and audio-visual resources of Sumner Miller's broadcasts on Australian, Canadian and American television. It begins by contextualising Sumner Miller as both an academic and broadcaster. The second section interprets the core points of his educational philosophy which he articulated in his written and broadcast works. The final section uses his private papers contextualised by works on the history and philosophy of science to interpret and delineate the disparity between Sumner Miller's influence as a populariser of science and the prevailing trends in scientific policy and teaching. Findings: This paper proposes that reconstructing the themes and recurring points he asserted in his broadcasts reveals disjunction between Sumner Miller's high-profile successes and the contemporary trends in both science policy and science education. This paper interprets the circumstance of an internationally known and influential science populariser who was coterminous with but against the grain of the notion of "big science". He therefore sought to popularise science precisely as it was developing in ways he disparaged. Research limitations/implications: This paper breaks new ground by interpreting the different sources, audio-visual and written, created by and about an influential television broadcaster. Originality/value: Although he was widely and internationally known, and the range of his influence on science communication is generally noted, Sumner Miller's broadcasting and the themes and educational philosophy espoused in it is little researched and contextualised. This paper sharpens understanding of his influence but also his points of intersection and disjunction with scientific culture. Hitherto unused archival resources contribute to this understanding. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite critical and popular acclaim, the travel/food television series of Anthony Bourdain have not received much academic attention. This paper examines the negotiations required of the series' production team with regard to industry and ethics, including engagement with multiple forms of 'quality' to acquire audience share, which can exist in tension with the ethical requirements of veracity and protecting factual media subjects from harm. Ultimately, this paper shows that, while the series did negotiate both industrial and ethical requirements with regard to the places and cultures they represented, they were prone to ethical slippage with regard to practitioner/subject Bourdain himself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Introduction. Based on Shoemaker's model of gatekeeping, this study addresses two questions: What social representations of sports are promoted by the prime time news program of the public television broadcaster Radio Televisão Portuguesa (RTP)? How do editors assess sports news stories during the editorial decision-making process? Material and Methods. For this, we quantitatively examined all the sports content in the prime time 'Telejornal' daily news program of RTP during a trimester. Moreover, we studied the factors that influenced editorial decisions, by conducting naturalistic participant observation and semi-structured interviews. Results. Results indicate that facts of greater public protagonism, which cause a significant emotional reaction and are relatable to the public, are more newsworthy. The main constraints influencing the editorial decisions were organized in three co-dependent areas: Social System (macro level), RTP Organization (meso level) and Telejornal Newsroom (micro level). Conclusions. Findings contribute to a reduction in social stereotypes created by television broadcasters, and to sports actors optimizing their communication strategy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The shortage of general practitioners (GPs) and the fact that country doctors' practices are vanishing—a situation that is currently taking a turn for the worse in some regions of Germany—are issues that have been dealt with in the media as a topic of specific discussion for some time now. In the process, news coverage is dominated by certain depiction patterns, referred to as frames, which are shaped in terms of textual and visual impact. The present explorative study addresses the questions of which media depiction and interpretation patterns (frames) are encountered on the shortage of general practitioners in news coverage in the Federal Republic of Germany and how general practitioners, the circumstances, and the benefits of their care are presented in this context. In the course of a search via the Lexis Nexis database, a total of 655 news items were found or selected that mainly deal with the shortage of general practitioners (period from 1 January 2017 to 31 December 2022). Furthermore, the media libraries of the two public television broadcasters ARD and ZDF were specifically searched for documentaries on the shortage of general practitioners for the said period. A qualitative content analysis was subsequently performed, in which characteristic reporting patterns on the topic under consideration were identified based on frame-defining categories. Five frames could be identified that outline the shortage of general practitioners in different ways. The first three frames present the dominant image of GPs as highly stressed, aged, or frustrated primary care providers who attempt to keep their practice going for as long as possible despite their increasing stress levels. The other frames portray the phenomenon of the shortage of GPs, in particular, as a side effect of demographic and structural changes, discuss the (diminishing) appeal of the profession of a general practitioner, or discuss the issue of remote areas that no longer have access to a GP practice and now receive 'alternative solutions'. The frames identified reflect societal views and anxieties regarding the consequences of a progressive shortage of GPs, which have been spurred on by the media. They reflect the significance of the GP as a trustworthy and competent primary care provider who is not readily replaceable, neither in his/her role as a guide in the healthcare system nor with regard to his social function. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although Subtitling for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (SDH) is well established as a modality of audiovisual translation, many questions remain to be answered about viewers' real needs. Despite the improvements in UNE standard 153010:2012, Spanish digital television broadcasters still do not offer equal SDH services. This limits the audience's access to the multimedia content on their channels. This study aims to discover the needs and wishes of Spanish viewers regarding the subtitling services currently offered by Spanish digital television, to highlight the subtitle features that should be modified to enhance the accessibility of subtitling services. To collect this data, a survey was created and distributed among both the d/Deaf and hearing audiences of Spanish digital television. A total of 104 volunteers took part in the study: 42 d/ Deaf and Hard of Hearing and 62 hearers. The results show that the two groups have similar opinions about the Spanish SDH service, which might benefit all users. Indeed, the new goal is to offer the best solutions for subtitling services to the widest audience possible. The study also confirms many of the findings of the Long questionnaire in Spain by Arnáiz-Uzquiza, and in the UK by Romero-Fresco. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study primarily focuses on the scale at which PTV Sports are adopting advance broadcasting technologies, and whether the management at PTV Sports are technologically conscious or not. In this research, it is analyzed that PTV Sports which has an incredible history, as it is associated to PTV that has achieved great feats in sports broadcasting in this region, why it is not able to incorporate modern broadcasting technologies the way it should have. Qualitative research method is applied in which in-depth interviews are conducted from a total of twelve experts, that are television sports broadcasters, sports journalists and transmission engineers from the PTV, PTV Sports and private television channels in Pakistan. Among these twelve, six are from PTV and PTV Sports, and the remaining six are associated to private television channels, keeping in view the prerequisites of this study. The communication theories of Diffusion of Innovation and Technological Determinism are applied to examine the data collected during this study. The outcome obtained after the data interpretation from the answers of interviewees suggest that the traditional mindset is not a major reason for PTV Sports not adopting advance broadcasting technologies, as it is corruption that has brought PTV to this disastrous stage the results of which are clearly visible in PTV Sports. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Russian President Vladimir Putin has demonstrated a keen interest in questions of history and political theory over his more than two decades at or near the apex of Russian power. These questions became particularly salient in Russia's political discourse after Putin returned to power in 2012 and inaugurated the so-called "conservative turn." This paper examines how Putin characterized liberalism between his return to power in 2012 and the start of the "special military operation" in Ukraine on 24 February 2022. It contends that, over this decade, Putin consistently positioned himself as a moderate critic of Western liberalism as opposed to an uncompromising ideologue, even after the 2014 Ukraine crisis. To highlight this tendency, this paper simultaneously examines two prominent Russian state television personalities – Dmitrii Kiselev and Vladimir Solov'ev – who have used strident rhetoric in describing Western liberalism, notably after the 2014 crisis in Ukraine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyses sports events as mega-events with global appeal and increasing socioeconomic and cultural significance, and as genres which have now become important in the television industry's transformation from broadcast to online streaming. It presents findings from a qualitative production analysis of how the Tour de France 2022 was shaped in a twofold strategic context. Genre specific aspects of the media event in the ongoing transformation of the television industry and wider strategic interests behind the hosting and organization of the start of the race in Denmark 2022 are discussed and their intertwinements are described. Based on interviews, documents, observations, screenshots and select broadcasts, the article presents a thematic analysis of how the event in Denmark was shaped in a shared concern for television's ability to provide exposure of the race and the Danish context and public service broadcaster TV 2's particular strategic branding interests in the event. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Digital transmissions in Albania began in July 2004. Despite developing outside of any legal framework, terrestrial digital television quickly became an important aspect of the Albanian media market. Albania ratified the 2006 Geneva Convention on the digitalization of terrestrial TV broadcasters, and efforts to regulate the digitalization of audiovisual media began in 2007 with the approval of the first law for digital transmissions. The process of digitalization faced strong opposition due to pressure from existing television operators and their political connections. These obstacles caused significant delays, so the June 2015 deadline for the switchover was missed, and the finalization of the process failed to address the issues of illegality and concentration that plagued the Albanian audiovisual media market. Despite the existence of simple and enforceable legal ownership restrictions under the 2013 media law, the close connections between audiovisual operators, politics, and the justice system, allowed the market to become concentrated in the hands of a few owners, damaging media pluralism in the country and hindering the development of democracy. According to the European Commission's 2022 annual report on Albania, the country is moderately prepared in the field of freedom of expression and media independence. The quality of journalism is hampered by the intersection of business and political interests, as well as the concentration and lack of transparency of media funding. The report notes that the lack of independence of the regulatory authority undermines media freedom in the country and calls on Albania to ensure compliance with European standards on transparency and limitation of media ownership, state advertisements, and other related issues. The purpose of this article is to highlight the issues and analyze the problems that arose during the digitalization process and the implementation of the law on audiovisual media in Albania. By providing a clear overview of the situation in the Albanian audiovisual media market, this article aims to address the challenges that the legislature must confront in the future, by the obligations arising from Albania's negotiations for membership in the European Union. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Among the many perspectives from which Raffaella Carrà could be observed to understand her relevance in the history of Italian television, one of the most significant is the TV show Pronto, Raffaella? (Raiuno, 1983-1985). In 1983, Carrà - together with the Italian TV authors Lianella Carell, Irene Ghergo, Giancarlo Magalli and the director Gianni Boncompagni - decided to leave the big Saturday evening TV shows of which she had been the protagonist for years (such as Canzonissima, Raiuno, 1969-1971; Milleluci, Raiuno, 1974; Ma che sera, Raiuno, 1978; Fantastico 3, Raiuno, 1982) with the aim to occupy the midday schedule slot, which was totally unexplored until then, but potentially rich in strategic and creative opportunities. The style, content, rhythm and direction choices that characterized the birth of her new program marked an essential watershed: in the history of Italian television, Pronto, Raffaella? represents a turning point, despite Carrà hosting the show only for two years, subsequently giving way to other television personalities. Our paper explores the socio-cultural background within which the TV show Pronto, Raffaella? takes place, in order to highlight the cultural, productive and strategic reasons underlying the creation of one of the most iconic and meaningful shows in the lively Italian television of the early Eighties. In parallel, our paper aims to bring out the complexity (and contradictions) in Raffaella Carrà's television personality: a conscious and brave protagonist, who managed to navigate those turbulent years and to guide Italian television from the age of scarcity to the age of availability through the invention of a new language, a style and a narrative genre that will characterize the Italian television schedules for the following decades. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, television stations in Rio Grande do Sul have gone through restructuring processes that have contributed to the extinction or reduction of regional news spaces. The broadcaster RBS TV still meets, in a way, this demand, even if, gradually, it has been reducing its operations in the interior of Rio Grande do Sul. The study aims to problematize the importance of regional journalism, especially television, within the state of Rio Grande do Sul. The analysis was focused on the RBS TV station, specifically on the Jornal do Almoço program. Through the observation methodology (GIL, 2008), six editions of the television news were analyzed during the period of one week. The observational method was aimed at verifying the time allocated to each region in relation to the total time of the television news and which subjects were dealt with by each regional segment. In addition, considerations were presented on the observations of the editions analyzed. As a result, it could be seen that, over the years, the RBS TV station is gradually reducing access to information for communities in the interior of Rio Grande do Sul. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The recent COVID-19 health crisis has shone a spotlight on disinformation as the circulation of false information became more and more prominent. What the World Health Organization (WHO) has defined as an 'infodemic' poses a great risk for democracies and for society in general. In this context, public television channels, with their regional scope, actively participate in the fight against misinformation. This research aims to identify and classify the different verification initiatives and technological tools, as well as the different strategies and codes used in fact-checking tasks by European broadcasters belonging to the CIRCOM network. The methodology undertakes an exploratory approach and employs a questionnaire that is applied to a sample of the members of the network. Managers and professionals with executive profiles were asked about the management, operation and strategies used in the verification process. In light of the results obtained, it can be concluded that the current verification processes are based on human efforts, rather than technological tools, amounting to a total dependence on content curation by the writing teams in the newsroom. Thus, it is evidenced that in most cases, there is neither a specific department for verification, nor sufficient resources, despite the fact that all those surveyed regard disinformation as a priority issue, a threat to democratic integrity and a responsibility of public service media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study investigated whether journalists from educational television stations apprehend contextualized knowledge about the semi-arid territories and their societies, from the stories and programs produced by TV Caatinga, webtv of the Federal University of São Francisco Valley. Questionnaires were applied and interviews were conducted with professionals from partner broadcasters of the university TV based in the Northeast and Southeast. The material was evaluated and compared with the study of the exhibition of TV Caatinga's content in the referred TVs, from the contrastive ethno-research. As main results, it was observed that content contextualized with the Semi-Arid, which enables other ways of representing these territories, closer to reality and without distortions, promoted access and transformation of knowledge for journalists from three stations participating in all stages of the research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"Soupy Sales and the Detroit Experience: Manufacturing a Television Personality" by Francis Shor is a case study of Soupy Sales, an American television personality known for his comedic children's programs and prime time jazz showcase in Detroit in the 1950s. The book explores the challenges of researching local television history from this era and incorporates newspaper reviews, interviews, viewers' memories, and Sales' autobiography to provide a comprehensive analysis. Shor also examines the cultural and historical contexts of Detroit, including the civil rights movement, economic growth, consumer culture, and suburbanization. The book highlights Sales' innovative and improvisational style, his ability to appeal to different age groups, and his contribution to the cultural life of Detroit. Overall, "Soupy Sales and the Detroit Experience" offers valuable insights into the early years of television broadcasting in the US and the impact of local programming. [Extracted from the article]

NHK Chugakusei Nikki was a weekly educational TV program produced by NHK Nagoya Broadcasting Station. It aired nationally from 1972 to 2012. This show was significant because it focused persistently on “the daily lives of ordinary” junior high school students and attracted a larger audience than other educational TV series. Interestingly, amateur teenage actors played themselves in the program. This study analyses how the program was viewed and produced. It also takes the media studies perspective to discuss why viewers considered the images of junior high school students disseminated by the program to be attractive and realistic. In doing so, it specifically references Dean MacCannell’s concept of staged authenticity. The present study is original because it presents the viewpoint that the producers, viewers, and performers of the TV program were all spectators observing the “back region” of other groups, while simultaneously being performers who showed other groups their own back region. The study finds that the television program was underpinned by the desire of viewers and producers to understand junior high school students, scrutinize their human aspects, and function as appropriate adult for students. The program also represented an attempt to preserve the boundaries between adults and junior high school students, and between being in school and out of school. The study could yield a more comprehensive understanding of the nature of real and everyday life depicted on television and other media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Scholars have criticized how tarento (television personalities) who might be considered "transgender" have for decades provided comic relief on Japanese mainstream television, but few have considered the recent emergence of a different kind of trans celebrity who rejects the entertainment narrative to embrace the "wrong body" discourse (having mismatched corporeality). This article explores this phenomenon through the example of Nishihara Satsuki, a trans-identified internet celebrity-turned- tarento, drawing mainly on discourse analysis of their blog, memoir, and variety program appearances. I demonstrate how Satsuki's celebrity departs from narratives of trans tarento as objects of entertainment to align with hegemonic discourses of the wrong body, which govern how trans individuals are understood in Japan and reflect the broader context of heightened trans visibility elsewhere. In doing so, Satsuki offers an important platform for discussing trans issues and experiences today, which I argue has encouraged the media to take trans representation more seriously. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The vast majority of studies on media preferences and the personalities of media consumers rely on self-reported data on media consumption. The present study takes a substantial step forward in relating personality traits and human values to objective data on media consumption. Anonymized TV viewing patterns were obtained from a TV package provider and matched with the survey answers (n = 117). The survey measured the Big Five traits and human values. A series of regressions showed that data collected by a TV service provider could give an understanding of viewers' personalities in terms of personality traits and motivational goals in the form of human values. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is now more than a decade since the death of celebrity television personality Jade Goody – a high water mark in public dying comparable to the watershed moment in public mourning marked by the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, a decade or so earlier. As Walter has noted in this journal, Goody's very public and highly mediated dying will not be the last. With that in mind, this article analyses the sociological significance of public dying in the decade following Goody's death – the 'tens' of the 21st century. It does so chiefly by focusing on a number of high-profile instances which gained significant media traction, using these to examine the ways in which dying is both performed and made meaningful in contemporary 21st century culture. The argument presented operates on the assumption, following Goffman, of life – and by extension, dying – as performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article provides a framing analysis of media coverage of minimum wage between public and commercial broadcasters in South Korea. To do this, the current study content analyzed 1505 news reports about "minimum wage" aired by two public television broadcasters and two commercial television broadcasters in 2018. The analysis finds that both public and commercial broadcasters directed citizens' attention to the new policy's collective harms framed as "increasing unemployment" and "harms to the economy," while deemphasizing the particularistic benefits of the minimum wage increase and the resulting reduction of inequality gap between the rich and the poor. Further, all the broadcasters have not provided citizens with enough information necessary for a balanced assessment of the pros and cons of the minimum wage increase. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In his 2006 thesis, "'Staying Bush' – A Study of Gay Men Living in Rural Areas", author Edward Green described his subject as the "largely hidden and untold story of gay men living in rural areas". That was a pivotal year for gay men living in the bush, with Australian television broadcasters platforming two of their stories. In the space of one 12-month period, this cohort went from "hidden and untold" to prime time. From as early as 1989, rural politician Bob Katter had been declaring that he would "walk to Bourke backwards if the poof population of North Queensland is any more than 0.001 per cent". Analysing media and popular culture, this article explores the visibility and portrayal of rural gay men in Australia prior to and after 2006. In spite of Katter's minuscule population estimates, the rural gay cohort continues to defy assumptions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]