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Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies - Volume 5, Issue 1, 2013
Volume 5, Issue 1, 2013
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Infotainment in news reports: The case of the 2010 Catalan elections
Authors: Nereida Carrillo and Carme Ferré-PaviaThis article presents the results of an analysis of infotainment elements in news reporting during the electoral campaign for the 2010 Catalan Parliament. The general aim of the research was to analyse the hybridization of genres in political media content in Catalonia by listing the elements of entertainment that were used in electoral information and studying any patterns that emerged. A sample of 240 units of analysis taken from the Catalan media during the electoral campaign (12–26 November 2010) was evaluated. The general conclusion is that elements of entertainment are used to refer to the topic and the content, and to describe the political actors. There is a tendency to personalize and to use the emotional language that is such a feature of horserace reporting. The article also contributes to the ongoing debates about infotainment in news and its possible influence on public life
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Women in blue staging the nation: The gendered articulation of the ‘New State’ in early Francoist propaganda documentaries
By Elena OrozAlthough previous studies have underlined how Francoist film propaganda during and immediately after the Spanish Civil War aimed to revive Spain’s glorious past, women’s role in national history and state building has barely been analysed. This article explores cinematographic representation of the Sección Femenina (Women’s Section) of the Spanish Falange during the early years of Franco’s regime, when the propaganda was led by the Falangist sector. Through textual analysis, the rituals, symbols and rhetorical strategies deployed in two documentaries are analysed. These documentaries depict the two main public rallies of the Sección Femenina, one in Medina del Campo at the end of the Civil War in 1939 and the other in El Escorial in 1944. A comparative analysis reveals that while the Sección Femenina played an active and progressive role in the articulation of the nation in 1939, by 1944 its function was mainly to represent tradition but outside the spaces where politics were negotiated and were visible
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So cruel … yet so cool: Teenager readings of love and attraction on Sin tetas no hay paraíso
Authors: Núria Araüna, Iolanda Tortajada and Arantxa CapdevilaThis research focuses on the way in which Spanish teenagers negotiate a highly rated global format TV series regarding representations of affective and sexual relationships. Results from two focus groups show that teenagers do not problematize the link between violence and desire implied by the storyline. Girls express a consensual admiration towards female characters with post-feminist traits and also show their desire to experience the main female character’s love story, which reflects traditional femininity. In both cases, suffering and sacrifices for love’s sake are justified; furthermore, men who are tough yet sweet are considered extremely attractive. Boys seem to be more reluctant to enter into and tolerate troubled relationships. They try to distance themselves from the narrative of the series, mocking the main male character. Teenagers say they are not affected by media products, yet they strongly identify with the characters and the storylines
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A need for translation? Conceptualizing professional communication in Spain
More LessResearch on global public relations is heavily focused on interpreting practice through the lenses of dominant US ideology. This is particularly the case for analyses of professional communication and public relations in Europe. This research explores the development and current practice of public relations in Spain, a country that has received little attention in global public relations research, but which has followed a unique path of public relations development. The context of Spanish public relations raises questions about the ability of researchers to broadly apply the principles of Excellence to a country’s public relations, and this study uncovers unique cultural principles that fall outside the purview of public relations in Spain, including models that emphasize creativity and improvisation. Perhaps even more importantly, this research reveals that Spanish communication professionals may be operating under a false standard of Excellent public relations, having translated normative US models into a mistaken conceptualization that communications exist as prescribed in the United States
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Young female journalists in Austria’s journalists’ union: Part of the working poor?
More LessIn the last four decades, journalism has witnessed tremendous change. In Austria, this once highly organized profession has experienced rapid drops in union membership, with recent studies showing that only half of Austrian journalists are union members. The most notable changes have been the growing number of freelance and female journalists and the arrival of new kinds of media providers in an increasingly competitive market. Nonetheless, the union, which still represents the normative core for the field, is predominantly made up of well-paid and hugely influential men. This article uses empirical data collected by the University of Salzburg in 2010 and the field theory of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu to explore inequalities between the sexes in the Austrian journalists’ union and discusses how women union members, in proximity to the normative core of the journalistic field, are struggling with lower wages, lower status in companies and little job security
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The wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles: Royal mediation and press mediatization
More LessBearing in mind the relationship between discourse and society at large, this article addresses the way the British monarchy represented Charles’s second marriage and the way the media constructed their accounts in the period from 10 February (announcement) until 9 April 2005 (wedding) in relation to wider issues such as power relations, newspaper economic structures and popular culture. Particular attention is paid to the multifunctional features of discourse (i.e. its ideational, interpersonal and textual functions), which requires a contextualized reading of a dual process of mediation: on the one hand, the staging of the ceremony by St. James’s Palace and its strategy for attaining monologic closure and, on the other hand, discursive representations by the British press open to a polyphony of voices and discursive frames
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Shielding risk
More LessThis article suggests that a theory of risk communication is incomplete without incorporating how risk is not only promoted, but also shielded: shielding risk refers to the strategic use of dominant cultural symbols, narratives and communication formats to deflect and often negate claims about risks. Many risk narratives are normatively based on institutional information sources, and reified through communication formats. It appears that all cultures shield risks, and our failure to locate and understand these may reflect limited theoretical perspectives about the relationship between a general theory of communication and social action, on the one hand, and risk communication, on the other. Clarifying how risk is shielded by institutional formats of social control can illuminate the role of mediated information and entertainment-oriented narratives in constructing social reality. I discuss the shielding of risk communication by focusing mainly on examples from the United States: guns, expanding prison population and military influences on universities
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Reporting Catalonia in Belgian newspapers
Authors: Alexander Dhoest and Sara BastiaensensAs two regions with national aspirations for autonomy, Catalonia and Flanders are often compared. This article analyses how this is reflected in the press, focusing in particular on Belgian press reports about Catalonia. On the one hand, we analyse how much Catalonia is written about, as an indication of the perceived relevance of Catalan news to Belgian readers; in particular, we investigate whether Flemish newspapers (which may feel more proximity to the Catalan case) write more about Catalonia than French-language newspapers. On the other, we analyse how Catalonia is written about. Specifically, is the Catalan context explicitly compared to Belgium? Is there a focus on particular themes related to national conflicts? And is there a difference between (Flemish) Dutch-language and French-language newspapers in this respect? A full year of reporting (1 June 2010 to 31 May 2011) was analysed, both quantitatively and qualitatively, for our research
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