Who's afraid of infotainment?

被引：106

作者：

Brants, K ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Amsterdam, MA Programme European Commun Studies, Amsterdam Sch Commun Res, NL-1012 CE Amsterdam, Netherlands

来源：

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION | 1998年 / 13卷 / 03期

关键词：

election campaigns; infotainment; political communication; television news;

D O I：

10.1177/0267323198013003002

中图分类号：

G2 [信息与知识传播];

学科分类号：

05 ; 0503 ;

摘要：

Many authors in Europe and the USA claim that commercialization and competition in broadcasting lead to a downgrading of political information and, even worse, to a crisis in political communication highlighted by the increasing reliance of television news media on entertainment formats. The justification for this 'infotainment scare' is put to the test by an overview of research on politics in television news in a number of(Northern) European countries, a first-hand research project on the campaign communications in the 1994 elections in the Netherlands, and a discussion of the implicit and explicit assumptions the scare is based on.

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页码：315 / 335

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