INTERNATIONAL TV NEWS, FOREIGN AFFAIRS INTEREST AND PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE: A comparative study of foreign news coverage and public opinion in 11 countries

被引：70

作者：

Aalberg, Toril ^{[1
]}

Papathanassopoulos, Stylianos ^{[2
]}

Soroka, Stuart ^{[3
]}

Curran, James ^{[4
]}

Hayashi, Kaori ^{[5
]}

Iyengar, Shanto ^{[6
,7
]}

Jones, Paul K. ^{[8
]}

Mazzoleni, Gianpietro ^{[9
]}

Rojas, Hernando ^{[10
]}

Rowe, David ^{[11
]}

Tiffen, Rodney ^{[12
]}

机构：

[1] Norwegian Univ Sci & Technol, Dept Sociol & Polit Sci, Trondheim, Norway

[2] Kapodistrian Univ Athens, Fac Commun & Media Studies, Athens, Greece

[3] McGill Univ, Dept Polit Sci, Montreal, PQ, Canada

[4] Goldsmiths Univ London, Media & Commun Dept, London, England

[5] Univ Tokyo, Grad Sch Interdisciplinary Informat Studies, Tokyo 1138654, Japan

[6] Stanford Univ, Dept Commun, Stanford, CA 94305 USA

[7] Stanford Univ, Dept Polit Sci, Stanford, CA 94305 USA

[8] Univ New S Wales, Fac Arts, Sch Social Sci, Sydney, NSW, Australia

[9] Univ Milan, Dept Social & Polit Studies, I-20122 Milan, Italy

[10] Univ Wisconsin Madison, Sch Journalism & Mass Commun, Madison, WI 53715 USA

[11] Univ Western Sydney, Inst Culture & Soc, Penrith, NSW 1797, Australia

[12] Univ Sydney, Dept Govt & Int Relat, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia

来源：

JOURNALISM STUDIES | 2013年 / 14卷 / 03期

关键词：

commercial television; foreign affairs; information environment; international news; media systems; news interest; public broadcasting; public knowledge; MEDIA;

D O I：

10.1080/1461670X.2013.765636

中图分类号：

G2 [信息与知识传播];

学科分类号：

05 ; 0503 ;

摘要：

This article investigates the volume of foreign news provided by public service and commercial TV channels in countries with different media systems, and how this corresponds to the public's interest in and knowledge of foreign affairs. We use content analyses of television newscasts and public opinion surveys in 11 countries across five continents to provide new insight into the supply and demand for international television news. We find that (1) more market-oriented media systems and broadcasters are less devoted to international news, and (2) the international news offered by these commercial broadcasters more often focuses on soft rather than hard news. Furthermore, our results suggest that the foreign news offered by the main TV channels is quite limited in scope, and mainly driven by a combination of national interest and geographic proximity. In sum, our study demonstrates some limitations of foreign news coverage, but results also point to its importance: there is a positive relationship between the amount of hard international news coverage and citizens' level of foreign affairs knowledge.

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页码：387 / 406

页数：20

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