Audiovisual infotainment in European news: a comparative content analysis of Dutch, Spanish and Irish television news programs
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| Publication date | 2015 |
| Journal | Conference papers: International Communication Association: annual meeting |
| Event | 65th Annual International Communication Association Conference |
| Volume | Issue number | 2015 |
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| Abstract |
This study investigates to what extent audiovisual infotainment features can be found in the narrative structure of television news in three European countries news. Content analysis included a sample of 639 news reports (or reporter packages) aired in the first three weeks of September 2013, in six prime- time TV news broadcasts of Ireland, Spain and the Netherlands, one public and one commercial TV news broadcast in each country. The findings of the study show that Spain and Ireland included much more technical features or characteristics of infotainment in television news compared to the Netherlands. The findings also show that that the use of infotainment techniques is more often present in public, than in commercial (or private) broadcasting. Regarding the use of audiovisual narrative features in soft news and hard news topics, the finding indicates that the news sections/topics as coded in the present study do not properly reflect soft versus hard news.
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| Document type | Article |
| Note | Proceedings title: Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Caribe Hilton, San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 21, 2015 Publisher: International Communication Association Place of publication: Washington, DC |
| Language | English |
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