Thesis (M.A. (Journalism and Media Studies))--Rhodes University, 2005. / "Thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts (Journalism and Media Studies)" -T.p.

[pt] Esta pesquisa pertence ao campo das relações entre a cultura de massa e identidade nacional e propõe uma análise de recepção das reportagens produzidas pela Caravana do Jornal Nacional, um projeto de telejornalismo executado pela Rede Globo, às vésperas das eleições presidenciais de 2006. Ao percorrer o Brasil de Sul a Norte, a Caravana JN foi ao encontro dos cidadãos que vivem em regiões afastadas dos grandes centros, com o objetivo de levantar os desejos dos brasileiros. Nosso desafio foi reencontrar as pessoas entrevistadas pela equipe de jornalistas, na época, e questioná-las sobre essa experiência de participar de um projeto de telejornalismo e de vivenciar um contato com os profissionais do meio. Vamos avaliar como esses grupos entenderam as representações feitas nas reportagens da Caravana JN, realizadas nas comunidades visitadas, investigar como foi o encontro dos profissionais do JN com o seu próprio público, de que forma as comunidades decodificaram a passagem da Caravana e que tipo de interações sociais o projeto foi capaz de promover. O trabalho de campo foi realizado em duas cidades da região Sul e uma do Sudeste do Brasil. Nossas análises se voltam para as rotinas produtivas do telejornalismo e ao que a Caravana JN significou, em termos de inovação, dentro da trajetória de um produto da comunicação de massa, líder de audiência há quase quatro décadas. / [en] This research belongs to the field of relationship between mass culture and national identity and proposes an assessment on how the special coverage produced by the Caravana do Jornal Nacional was received by the Brazilian communities. Caravana JN was a significant project on broadcast journalism executed by Rede Globo right before the national presidential elections. As it was traveling from south to north of Brazil, the Caravana JN went to the encounter of citizens that live in very remote areas with the objective of investigating what would be their wishes and dreams. One of the challenges of this study was to find the same people that were interviewed by the journalist team then, in order to inquire about the whole experience. More than an evaluation about the representations illustrated on this special coverage of the visited communities, this study also investigates how was the encounter between the television professionals and their audience, in what way the communities decoded the Caravana passage and what kind of social interactions the project was capable to promote. The field part of this research was done in two cities of the South and one of the Southeast regions of Brazil. Our analyses was focused on the production routines of broadcast news in which the Caravana JN made impact in terms of innovation, and on the trajectory of a mass communication product that maintains the highest and record audience ratings of the for more than four decades.

The term "young adults" is often used loosely without a clear definition of who this demographic is. This study defines young adults by examining generational differences, their beliefs, uses and nonuses of media, news interests, wants, values for following the news, and expectations and reading experiences of news stories. The uses and gratifications approach and expectancy-value theory provided a framework for this study. Three methodological approaches were used: a secondary data analysis of three national surveys, focus groups and an experiment. The secondary data analysis findings showed the youngest age group (18-24) is leading the new news routine online with news aggregator sites, major and local news sites. The two youngest age groups (18-24 and 25-29) differ from each other and older age groups in their worries, goals, perspectives, beliefs, news interests, media uses, nonuses and political knowledge, and should be studied separately. Stances on social issues and technology are not as clearly defined by age. The findings suggest one's life stage is behind some of the differences. Since no published study to date has conducted focus groups exclusively with nonreaders of print newspapers ages 18-29 to examine their news consumption and nonuses of print newspapers, the present study broke new ground. The findings showed these young adults want searchable, effortless, shorter, more local, accessible anytime news. Both groups (18-24 and 25-29) wanted less negative news, but the younger group justified crime coverage. A few younger group participants expressed a difficult time reading the news and a bias in coverage, especially politics. The experiment used storytelling devices in an attempt to make news writing more digestible, interesting, relevant to young adults' lives, and informative. The findings showed "chunking" text improved perceived comprehension. The device of adding background information, context and a definition improved text recall. The experiment also examined expectations that young adults have prior to reading hard news. For a politics story, experimental group participants expected to understand the story less and have less of an interest than they did. Using these findings, this study suggests ways to get more of this audience (18-29) to tune into the news. / text

電視新聞利用剪接將影像轉化成為敘述工具，由於剪接者手法上的差異，使得電視新聞可以利用不同的方式來敘述故事。這種多元的敘事風格，讓觀眾可以透過不同的影像形式抒發情感，其中「感動」是電視新聞中最常運用之情感效果。因此，本研究主要針對電視新聞中的影像與其引發感動的原因作為研究重點，以電視新聞專題做為研究對象，而發展出以下三個問題：一、電視新聞專題中的感動：要素為何？二、電視新聞專題畫面如何表現感動要素？三、電視新聞專題的剪接如何表現感動？ 由於感動是一個心裡描述的過程，任何的情緒皆無法透過數字來檢視它的強弱程度，因為它的形成過程中有許多複雜的因素，這些都必須藉由參與者的描述才可以得知。而感動的面貌隱藏於影像之中，電視新聞中的感動影像也不可能經由問卷中的量表來制定。因此本研究採用質性研究之深度訪談與文獻分析作為研究工具。 電視新聞中的感動藉由影像的敘述方式來呈現，透過訪談與分析，本研究得到以下結論：一、電視新聞以影像作為表達情緒的工具，利用既有的新聞故事，透過當中的人、事、物將情感展現出來，其中的感動來自於真實的情感與人物之間彼此的互動。二、影像利用剪接串聯情感時，必須強調其中的因果關係，沒有因果關係的影像，不會讓人感動。三、除了因果關係與共同經驗外，美也是造成感動的因素之一。在許多的藝術形式中，美經常被用來製造感動，影像當然也不例外，在電視新聞當中，美感的塑造是在既有敘事結構之外的影像運用。四、感動來自於一個有系統的故事，任何片段的感動，必定由其結構性的故事情節所引起，而一個故事能夠透過影像完整呈現，依賴的便是剪接。 關鍵字：電視新聞、影像、剪接、感動 / The image of television news is presented by editing. Because of the different techniques of editors, television news could be presented in various ways. The diversified modes of image allow the audience to off-load their feelings. To move them is the frequent technique used. This research focuses on the special television news subject.The researcher attempts to figure out the reasons that image evoke feeling. There are three main topics. One topic is to find out what is the element of touching in special television news subject. Then the following is to analyze the elements. Finally, the researcher tries to find out how the editing expresses affection. Touching is the process of inside description. The feeling is impossible to examine the degree by figures. The constructing process includes of many complicated factors, which have to be expressed by the actors. Furthermore, because the touching is concealed from the image, the touching image is not possible to quantify by questionnaire. The research proceeds by interview and document analyze. Touching of television news is presented by the expressing of image. By interview and analyze, this research concludes in four aspects. First, image is the instrument to express emotion in television news. A news story is constructed by the events, the actors, and the objects. The touching comes from the interaction of all the subjects. Second, editing has to emphasize on the cause and effect to connect the feeling. Without the emphasis, the image is not touchable. Third, in addition to cause and fact and the common experience, beauty is the important factor to touch people. In many forms of arts, beauty is applied to evoke emotion. Image is no exception. In television news, the application of beauty is beyond description. Finally, touching is evoked from a systematic story. Any part of touching must have arose from the constructive plots. A story which can be presented in complete relies on the editing. Keywords: television news、image、editing、touching

The study looks into the 2008 American Presidential Election from two sides; the way the news channels frame the event and the way a sample of the audiences interpret it. Drawing on literature concerning framing theory which describes the practices employed by mass media to present world events in familiar and understandable formats to audiences, the study examines the coverage of the 2008 American Presidential Election on three trans-border news channels broadcasting in Arabic. A number of stories covering the American election campaign broadcasted on Alarabiya, Alhurra and Aljazeera, are included. The study assesses general frames used to describe the event by each channel. The analysis reports the frames generally employed by the three channels are relatively similar, suggesting a global effect on the media in following the Anglo-American model of journalism when reporting international events. The differences appear when reporting regional issues between the two Arabic trans-border channels Alarabiya and Aljazeera on one side and Alhurra on the other suggesting a link between journalistic ideology and framing. The second part of this thesis is the exploratory audience study which attempts to provide insights into perception of Arab news coverage - particularly in Saudi Arabia. The audience study uses a questionnaire and focus group methodologies on a sample of participants with high television news consumption levels, measuring the perception of news channels credibility in specific and credibility of media in general, and exploring the possible presence of a link between consumption level of news and perceived news credibility. Moreover, examining how audience analyse news and how their opinions about the event have been shaped by media framing.

This study determined attitudes held by television reporters nationwide toward PR practitioners' demonstrated knowledge of the technical side of television news. Findings. that emerged from the study were: 1. Television reporters were undecided whether practitioners needed an educational background in PR, and believed they needed an educational but not a professional background in television reporting. 2. They believed practitioners knew too little and should improve their knowledge, and that practitioners' employers would benefit therefrom. 3. They valued the assistance of practitioners. 4. There were moderate degrees of off-the-job contact and interest therein. 5. They divided evenly on the question concerning practitioners' specific demonstrated knowledge of the technical side of television news.

That Barack Obama's race was a factor, for both blacks and whites, in the 2008 general election is well-documented. As the majority in this country, the white electorate's response to the nation's first successful African-American presidential contender is of particular interest because it revealed the persistent effects of racism. Scholars have suggested contemporary forms of racism (e.g., Ditonto et al., 2013) explained the reluctance of white citizens to cast their ballots for an African American. This dissertation approaches the topic from a different angle, arguing deep-seated beliefs about which individual characteristics define a legitimate president, race in this project, affected voting decisions, especially among whites. Such beliefs, or "status expectations" (Ridgeway&Berger, 1986), are evident every day in social interactions and are also reflected in the mass media, especially in the vivid medium of television, which was proposed to reinforce status beliefs about presidential legitimacy among white viewers. African Americans, in contrast, were hypothesized be inured to status beliefs represented in television campaign coverage because of a protective, ingroup orientation called "linked fate," (Dawson, 2004), the belief that life chances of the individual are inextricably intertwined with life chances of the black race as a whole. Therefore, while mass media would affect whites' assessments of presidential legitimacy, linked fate would lead African Americans to reject the status beliefs about presidential legitimacy embedded in televised content because this medium has historically derogated their "ingroup". Findings, however, did not support this proposed insulating effect of linked fate, which was operationalized as perceived black racial group favoritism. In fact, moderating relationships, even when statistically significant, typically added little explanatory value to or confounded interpretation of the presidential legitimacy models. Thus, baseline models with main effects were the clearest and most statistically powerful in discerning which variables had the greatest impact on Obama and McCain presidential legitimacy assessments. For both candidates, party identification and race were consistently the most influential predictors. But, for McCain, the effect of conservative partisanship was particularly acute, with an effect size more than three times the effect size of race and four times the size of the most powerful media effect, Fox News believability. In contrast, multiple predictors of comparable effect size factored into Obama legitimacy assessments. Measured by both number of statistically significant media variables and magnitude of effect sizes, Obama's legitimacy assessments were more affected by media predictors than were McCain's. For Obama presidential legitimacy, the most influential variables were Democratic partisan identification, black race, Fox News believability (negatively related), and perceived black racial group favoritism. The next most influential predictors were CNN believability, MSNBC believability, and a status expectation measure of Obama's legitimacy. A third grouping of influential predictors consisted of broadcast believability, an education control variable, and a status expectation measure of McCain's legitimacy (negatively related). These predictors yielded a model that explained 43% of the variance in Obama legitimacy assessments, in contrast to the 28% of variance explained by the model without media variables. Though McCain's presidential legitimacy evaluations were driven primarily by Republican partisan identification and, to a lesser extent, race, several media variables attained statistical significance in the McCain model: the number of days respondents watched television for campaign news, CNN believability, and Fox News believability, all of which augmented McCain's legitimacy assessments. The proportion of variance in McCain legitimacy assessments explained by the model with media effects was 20%, compared to 16% in the model without media predictors, figures substantially lower than the 43% and 28% in the respective Obama models. The range of predictors in the Obama legitimacy model implied myriad perspectives notably absent in the McCain legitimacy model, a pattern that mirrored the diverse coalition that ultimately supported him. Therefore, despite only partial support for this dissertation's hypotheses, the results were consistent with the current partisan and racial divisions in this country, divisions that were affected by the media in the 2008 election.

[pt] Esta dissertação olha para o telejornal local RJTV primeira edição, da TV Globo, analisando, em alguns de seus segmentos, espaços em que ele desempenha um papel de mediador entre o telespectador e o espaço onde ele vive. A hipótese defendida por este trabalho é a de que o telejornal observado, para concretizar uma intenção de se aproximar cada vez mais de seu público, adota inovações em termos de formato e de conteúdo. O objetivo aqui é estudar a mensagem telejornalística em sua articulação entre texto, som e imagem em movimento e também atentar para outra relação: a do receptor com o produtor, que constitui a comunicação como um processo. / [en] This dissertation looks at TV Globo`s local news program RJTV primeira edição, analising, in some of its segments, spaces where it plays a mediator part between the TV spectator and the space where he lives. The main hypothesis of this work is that the program observed adopts format and content innovations, attempting to achieve a closer relation with its audience. Our objective is to study the television message considering that it is constituted by a combination of text, sound and motion image. We intend also to pay attention to other relation: the one that is established between the receptor and the producer, which constitutes the comunication as a process.

O objetivo desta tese é mostrar como o discurso dos telejornais pode construir determinada memória social de um acontecimento, pelo entrelaçamento de vozes, imagens e designações. Para isso, partimos da análise de elementos lingüísticos, argumentativos e enunciativos desse tipo de discurso, que tem papel fundamental na mediação dos demais discursos sociais. Procuramos mostrar como os telejornais articulam as várias vozes tornadas públicas no espaço da mídia e organizam as estratégias de referenciação dos fatos num processo de construção de um mundo textual homogêneo, que se tornará material simbólico a ser captado pela memória social. Como se trata de um discurso verbo-visual, investigamos também a confluência de elementos lingüísticos e imagéticos na trama discursiva, que a nosso ver aumenta o poder de penetração na memória social pela via da memória eletrônica da televisão, que controla lembranças e esquecimentos por meio da seleção e da edição de acontecimentos, fixando-lhes determinados sentidos e construindo modos de recordação. Empreendemos o exame do discurso de telejornais mediante um estudo de caso, o episódio dos ataques aos Estados Unidos em 11 de setembro de 2001, tendo como base teorias da argumentação, conceitos da análise do discurso, como o de polifonia, estudos sobre os processos de referenciação, concepções a respeito da imagem e teorias da memória social. O corpus da tese é constituído pelas edições de 11 de setembro de 2001, 2002, 2003 e 2004 do Jornal Nacional e do Jornal da Record, o que possibilitou analisar a cobertura televisiva sob uma dupla perspectiva: uma dimensão sincrônica e sua extensão diacrônica. Assim pudemos avaliar as estratégias de manipulação cognitiva e afetiva pelas quais se construiu uma versão paradigmática dos fatos, com pouca reflexão sobre seu contexto ou suas implicações históricas, o que por si só pode ter resultado em significativos efeitos sobre a memória social dos eventos. A análise resultou também na observação de muitos pontos de contato entre os dois telejornais, sobretudo no que se refere aos padrões de mediação da realidade e de distribuição dos conteúdos simbólicos, marcas inequívocas da poderosa máquina televisiva, que reinventa a esfera pública ao controlar o intercâmbio de signos e ideologias e posicionar-se como testemunha de um presente perpétuo. / The objective of this dissertation is to show how the discourse of television news programs may build a certain social memory of an event due to the interminglement of voices, images and designations. To this end, we based ourselves on the analysis of the linguistic, argumentative and enunciative elements of this type of discourse, which has a critical role in the mediation of other social discourses. We tried to show how television news programs articulate the many voices that are made public in the media space and organize the strategies of fact referentiation in a process of construction of a homogenous contextual world, which will become symbolic material to be captured by social memory. As this is a verbal and visual discourse, we also investigated the confluence of linguistic and imagery elements in the contrived discourse, which, in our opinion, increases the power of penetration into social memory by way of television\'s electronic memory, which controls memories and forgetfulnesses by means of the selection and edition of events, giving them certain meanings and building ways to remember. We undertook the examination of the discourse of television news programs by way of a case study, the episode of the attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001, based on argumentation theories, discourse analysis concepts, such as polyphony, studies on the referentiation processes, conceptions of image, and social memory theories. The corpus of this dissertation is made up of the editions of September 11, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004 of the Jornal Nacional and Jornal da Record, which allowed us to analyze the television coverage under two perspectives: a synchronic dimension and its diachronic extension. Therefore, we could evaluate the strategies of cognitive and affective manipulation by way of which a paradigmatic version of the facts was built, with little reflection about their context or historical implications, which, alone, may have had a significant effect on the social memory of the events. The analysis also resulted in the observation of many points of contact between the two television news programs, particularly with respect to the standards of mediation of reality and distribution of the symbolic contents, unmistakable hallmarks of the powerful television media, which reinvents the public sphere by controlling the exchange of signals and ideologies and standing as a witness of a perpetual present.

O presente estudo analisa como o veículo Emissoras Pioneiras de Televisão (EPTV) seleciona, trata e disponibiliza as informações ambientais relacionadas à água, através do seu programa de telejornalismo diário, o Jornal Regional (JR). A partir do reconhecimento da televisão como uma importante mídia de massa, que inculca e cultiva ideologias junto aos telespectadores, a intenção foi estudar as mensagens e representações da água no JR na região de Campinas, Estado de São Paulo, onde o programa é líder de audiência no gênero telejornal. Nessa região, o atual modelo de desenvolvimento promove a alta concentração demográfica, urbana, industrial e conseqüentemente, um dos menores índices de disponibilidade hídrica per capita e de qualidade de água do Brasil. Foram monitorados três meses consecutivos da programação do JR, selecionando matérias com referências à água para análise quantitativa e qualitativa. Também foi realizada entrevista com o gerente de jornalismo da emissora quanto ao processo de produção da notícia no JR. Através dos estudos bibliográficos verificou-se a relação mercantil e ideológica entre a Rede Globo (emissora que a EPTV retransmite para a região) e a EPTV, contextualizando o caráter privado, que é sujeito aos interesses da elite econômica e política. Nesse contexto criase uma representação da realidade que é uma forma de distorção sistemática pela qual os telespectadores vêem o mundo objetivo por um "filtro" que promove ou omite fatos de forma arbitrária. Nesse cenário verificou-se que a água nas mensagens do JR tem caráter de mercadoria, sendo sua disponibilidade resultado da gestão de recursos e desvinculada de sua condição natural e função ambiental. Os problemas ambientais que degradam a qualidade e limitam a disponibilidade da água na região são atribuídos ao consumo doméstico e sua produção de esgoto. As administrações públicas municipais são apontadas como as responsáveis pela reversão do quadro atual através do tratamento de esgoto. A água também é associada à imagem de meio ambiente que, por sua vez, é representado como ‘paisagem natural’ em uma perspectiva de espetáculo para o entretenimento do telespectador. / The present study analyzes how EPTV (Emissoras Pioneiras de Televisão - Pioneer Broadcasting Television Stations) selects, deals with and discloses environmental information related to water through its daily news program, the Jornal Regional (JR). Starting from the acknowledgment of television as an important mass media, which implants and promotes ideologies along its viewers, the intention was to study water messages and representations on JR in the region of Campinas, State of São Paulo, where the program is the audience leader in the genre TV news. In this region, today's model of development promotes high demographic, urban and industrial concentration and, subsequently, one of the lowest indexes of hydric availability per capita and water quality in Brazil. Three consecutive months of JR's programming were monitored, selecting for quantitative and qualitative analysis reports with references to water. An interview with the Press Manager of that broadcasting station was conducted on the news production process of JR. Bibliographic studies revealed a commercial and ideological relationship between Rede Globo (Major Broadcasting Station that EPTV rebroadcasts to the region) and EPTV, contextualizing a commercial relationship, which is subject to the interests of the economical and political elite. In such a context, EPTV creates a representation of reality, which is a form of systematic distortion by which viewers see an objective world through a "filter" that promotes or omits facts in an arbitrary fashion. In this scenario, water is regarded as merchandise on JR's messages, being its availability a result of resources management and disconnected from its natural conditions and environmental role. Environmental issues that degrade quality and limit water availability in the region are attributed to domestic consumption and sewage production. Municipal public administrations are appointed as responsible for the reversal of this situation by means of sewage treatment. Water is also associated to an image of environment which is represented as ‘natural landscape’ in a spectacle perspective for the entertainment of viewers.