<p>Abstract</p><p>Purpose / Aim: The purpose of this study is to find out why people look at K-1. I wanted to investigate what it was about looking at televised martial arts, specifically K-1, that attracts peoples attention and interest, and what it needs it satisfies within the viewer.</p><p>Material / Method: This study consists of three separate parts, where I investigate and analyse the producer side of K-1, the receiver side, and the program in itself as a media text. For the producer part I performed interviews with the chairman of K-1 Sweden, the production manager at Eurosport Sweden and the Eurosport K-1 commentator. As for the receivers I interviewed six people who watch K-1 more or less regularly, in order to find out why the watch the show and what it gives them. The program text analysis I performed on two K-1 programs from Eurosport, and I based it on previous studies done of similar and other kinds of programs. After the separate analysises I discussed the different results in an overarching analysis.</p><p>Main Results: There are several main reasons for watching K-1 on TV. The reasons for watching vary between different persons, but it also vary inside one person depending on different outer and inner circumstances. The most important reasons for watching is to get excitement and as an outlet of inner needs, like cleansing of suppressed feelings of aggression and hostility. In different circumstances people watch K-1 to get pleasure and relaxation. One thing that makes it more interesting to watch is that you often identify either with individual fighters or with a “martial arts identity”. This can also hold a social function, for example in terms of watching the show together.</p>

Abstract Purpose / Aim: The purpose of this study is to find out why people look at K-1. I wanted to investigate what it was about looking at televised martial arts, specifically K-1, that attracts peoples attention and interest, and what it needs it satisfies within the viewer. Material / Method: This study consists of three separate parts, where I investigate and analyse the producer side of K-1, the receiver side, and the program in itself as a media text. For the producer part I performed interviews with the chairman of K-1 Sweden, the production manager at Eurosport Sweden and the Eurosport K-1 commentator. As for the receivers I interviewed six people who watch K-1 more or less regularly, in order to find out why the watch the show and what it gives them. The program text analysis I performed on two K-1 programs from Eurosport, and I based it on previous studies done of similar and other kinds of programs. After the separate analysises I discussed the different results in an overarching analysis. Main Results: There are several main reasons for watching K-1 on TV. The reasons for watching vary between different persons, but it also vary inside one person depending on different outer and inner circumstances. The most important reasons for watching is to get excitement and as an outlet of inner needs, like cleansing of suppressed feelings of aggression and hostility. In different circumstances people watch K-1 to get pleasure and relaxation. One thing that makes it more interesting to watch is that you often identify either with individual fighters or with a “martial arts identity”. This can also hold a social function, for example in terms of watching the show together.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-05T17:53:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 9 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / A tese estuda o Texto Anunciativo Televisivo (TAT) – texto dos intervalos na programação da TV – para experimentar a hipótese de que o tempo interno discursivo funciona como fator de sensibilização passional a serviço do convencimento inerente aos processos comunicacionais. O objetivo principal do estudo é realizar uma análise do tempo interno do discurso, com base em categorias temporais semióticas: os tempos cronológico, rítmico, mnésico e cinemático. O quadro teórico-metodológico da tese se encontra na semiótica da Escola de Paris (semiótica greimasiana), base em que se analisam os textos televisivos na perspectiva comunicacional midiática em conformidade com as noções de narratividade, temporalidade e passionalidade. Orientando-se por esse foco definido, em sua maior extensão, a tese reflete ainda sobre o objeto da comunicação, em perspectiva epistemológica, e sobre outras perspectivas teóricas pertinentes ao objeto empírico (TAT). As conclusões do estudo apontam para o rendimento heurístico da hipótese d / The thesis studies the television advertising text (TAT), texts in commercial breaks on TV, seeking to try out the hypothesis that the internal time of discourse works as a factor of passionate sensitivization on behalf of the persuasion that is inherent in the communicational processes. The main goal of this study is to carry out an analysis of the discourse internal time, based on semiotics time categories: chronological, rhythmic, mnesic, Kinematic time. The theoretical-methodological framework of the thesis lies on the semiotics of the School of Paris (greimasian semiotics). On such basis, television texts are analyzed within the media communicational perspective in accordance with the notions of narrative, time and passionateness. Guided mostly by this definite focus, the thesis also reflects about the object of communication in epistemological perspective and about other theoretical perspectives pertaining to the empirical object (television advertising text). The conclusions point to the heuristic p