Autor/es
Descripción
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Colaborador
Soto, María Araceli
Spatial Coverage
Temporal Coverage
2010-2013
Idioma
spa
Extent
184 p.
Derechos
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 2.0 Genérica (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Formato
application/pdf
Identificador
Cobertura
7593303
Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires (autonomus city)
2010-2013
Abstract
The thesis is part of the field of thought on the construction of television news on the air channels of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina. We investigate the development of a certain conception of politics within the framework of this type of informative television programs. For this purpose, we delimited a corpus of TV news during the period 2010- 2013.
In order to approach this object of study, we propose ourselves the objective of analyzing the set of representations about politics, and its role in the definition and interaction of different social actors. Our field of observation is shaped starting from the following up of a body of events presented in television news. In this regard, we carry out a reading of some synchronic, particular segments, in which a certain idea of politics is put into play. We selected a corpus within the evening edition of three of the channels with greater territorial scope: Telefe Noticias, Telenoche and Visión 7.
We took the evening version because it is presented as a daily summary of what happened during the day, and also because it constitutes a news trigger for other media (deferred, radio and morning newspapers, internet interactive data bases, social networks). We select events that do not necessarily belong to topics considered to be specific to the political sphere, but are facts that generate a political reading about social problems.
The approach adopted for the study of this phenomenon is at the crossroads of two problematic areas. One of them refers to the ways of building the news in the television audiovisual media. The other, to the different modes of representation, and the place of actors and political institutions participating in certain events treated by the media. In order to address the intersection of these two areas, we propose a theoreticalmethodological analysis based on perspectives that come from political science and the study of social discourses.
On the one hand, political theory helps to understand the view with which TV news present the facts of social conflictivity and the role of government administration, clarifying some dimensions of the political conception of such productions. In this line, we take the debate focused on the revision of the paradigms of Liberalism and Marxism for redefining the category of politics, which took place at the mid-twentieth century and consolidated towards its end. Theoretical perspectives such as post-structuralist and post-foundational theories, among others, argue that conflict (disorder) is a dimension that is inscribed in the tradition of political theory, questioning those views circumscribed to a single analytical dimension, such as the administration of state agencies (order).
On the other hand, we propose a socio-semiotic methodology for the analysis of audiovisual aspects, in order to investigate the narratives and interpretations that shape the news in the selected series, as well as the relationship between the presented topic and the enunciative proposal that is articulated in each one of the selected cases, and in each of the TV stations that make part of our corpus of analysis. In this course, we can observe the changes that occur both in the generic structures and in the stylistic variants of television news. This double approach allows us to establish not only the regularities and divergences, but also the changes of the political culture that are consolidating in the set of analyzed production of meaning.
During the period under analysis, a series of changes were observed in 2012, which consolidated in 2013. They were constituting a disqualifying vision of government actions, along with a re-evaluation of the role of individuals and/or of associations of civil society without a visible party affiliation. This perspective - majoritarian in private television channels - contrasts with that of public television, which recognizes political militancy, and vindicates government‟s management.
These changes not only imply criteria of newsworthiness and editorial lines, but also account for transformations in media styles, in informative discourse in general, and in the conception of the political culture.
In order to approach this object of study, we propose ourselves the objective of analyzing the set of representations about politics, and its role in the definition and interaction of different social actors. Our field of observation is shaped starting from the following up of a body of events presented in television news. In this regard, we carry out a reading of some synchronic, particular segments, in which a certain idea of politics is put into play. We selected a corpus within the evening edition of three of the channels with greater territorial scope: Telefe Noticias, Telenoche and Visión 7.
We took the evening version because it is presented as a daily summary of what happened during the day, and also because it constitutes a news trigger for other media (deferred, radio and morning newspapers, internet interactive data bases, social networks). We select events that do not necessarily belong to topics considered to be specific to the political sphere, but are facts that generate a political reading about social problems.
The approach adopted for the study of this phenomenon is at the crossroads of two problematic areas. One of them refers to the ways of building the news in the television audiovisual media. The other, to the different modes of representation, and the place of actors and political institutions participating in certain events treated by the media. In order to address the intersection of these two areas, we propose a theoreticalmethodological analysis based on perspectives that come from political science and the study of social discourses.
On the one hand, political theory helps to understand the view with which TV news present the facts of social conflictivity and the role of government administration, clarifying some dimensions of the political conception of such productions. In this line, we take the debate focused on the revision of the paradigms of Liberalism and Marxism for redefining the category of politics, which took place at the mid-twentieth century and consolidated towards its end. Theoretical perspectives such as post-structuralist and post-foundational theories, among others, argue that conflict (disorder) is a dimension that is inscribed in the tradition of political theory, questioning those views circumscribed to a single analytical dimension, such as the administration of state agencies (order).
On the other hand, we propose a socio-semiotic methodology for the analysis of audiovisual aspects, in order to investigate the narratives and interpretations that shape the news in the selected series, as well as the relationship between the presented topic and the enunciative proposal that is articulated in each one of the selected cases, and in each of the TV stations that make part of our corpus of analysis. In this course, we can observe the changes that occur both in the generic structures and in the stylistic variants of television news. This double approach allows us to establish not only the regularities and divergences, but also the changes of the political culture that are consolidating in the set of analyzed production of meaning.
During the period under analysis, a series of changes were observed in 2012, which consolidated in 2013. They were constituting a disqualifying vision of government actions, along with a re-evaluation of the role of individuals and/or of associations of civil society without a visible party affiliation. This perspective - majoritarian in private television channels - contrasts with that of public television, which recognizes political militancy, and vindicates government‟s management.
These changes not only imply criteria of newsworthiness and editorial lines, but also account for transformations in media styles, in informative discourse in general, and in the conception of the political culture.
Título obtenido
Doctora de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en Ciencias Sociales
Institución otorgante
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales