Establishing news confidence: a qualitative study of how people use the news media to know the news-world

Ostertag, Stephen F.

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“…fluffy, superficial, incomplete) they remained confident and secure in their knowledge and understanding of important national news and information (Ostertag, 2010a(Ostertag, , 2010b. This was often not the case when asked about 'other' people in the US.…”

Section: Situating the News In Civil Societymentioning

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“…Today, however, we see public evaluations of the press hitting lows not seen in the past two decades (Pew Research Center, 2009) and an increasingly polarized audience that is more cynical of the news than it has been for years (Pew Research Center, 2004). Yet some people remain steadfast in their belief that, despite these criticisms, they can gain a solid understanding of current news and political events from the available options (Gronke and Cook, 2007;Ostertag, 2010aOstertag, , 2010bSchroder and Phillips, 2007). 1 This combination of crisis in legitimacy with confidence in knowing the news provides an unusual opportunity for cultural sociologists, and recent developments in American cultural theory (focusing on the civil sphere) and European media theory (focusing on media as practice) point us in one promising direction.…”

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Becoming Pure: The Civil Sphere, Media Practices and Constructing Civil Purification

Ostertag

2013

Cultural Sociology

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This paper integrates the US civil sphere, European media as practice, and social psychological literatures to demonstrate how people construct their own civil purity and become pure. It uses indepth interview data to uncover a language of civil purity that people draw on to construct their own belonging in civil society. It argues that some people create an imagined public-at-large that they infuse with polluting qualities associated with the binary cultural codes of civil society. This image functions as a mental heuristic, against which people compare themselves and see themselves as 'better than' on a number of moral values associated with civil society. This process of constructing civil purity is linked to one of the civil sphere's two fundamental social institutions, namely communication. As a form of nonfiction media with record lows in trust and credibility, the mainstream news serves as a social topic through which we can witness the construction of civil purity.

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Section: Situating the News In Civil Societymentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Becoming Pure: The Civil Sphere, Media Practices and Constructing Civil Purification

Ostertag

2013

Cultural Sociology

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“…Éstos se presentan como una técnica cualitativa que permite obtener un conocimiento aproximado de la realidad social que se pretende investigar, mediante la comunicación que se produce en el seno del grupo. Así, el grupo de discusión se configura como una micro-representación de una macrosituación social (Ostertag, 2010;Wood, 2007).…”

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Sexualidad, género, religión e interculturalidad en los relatos informativos civilizatorios y culturales de las televisiones españolas

Alsina

Jiménez

Gifreu

et al. 2016

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Cómo citar este artículo / Referencia normalizada M Rodrigo-Alsina et al (2016): "Sexualidad, género, religión e interculturalidad en los relatos informativos civilizatorios y culturales de las televisiones españolas". Revista Latina de Comunicación Social, 71, pp noticias. Finalmente, a su vez, analizamos mediante el método Delphi la opinión de distintos expertos sobre estas mismas noticias. Resultados y Discusión. Gracias al análisis del discurso se desvelan las representaciones y los estereotipos mediáticos que las audiencias y expertos identifican fácilmente. Conclusiones. Hay que señalar que tanto las audiencias como los expertos fueron muy críticos con las piezas sometidas a su interpretación, y percibieron claramente las insuficiencias y los estereotipos utilizados. Sin embargo, sobre todo las audiencias de mayor edad, a la hora de abordar dichos temas en general suelen tener los mismos prejuicios que denuncian en los informativos.[EN] Introduction. This paper analyzes several Spanish TV news about sexuality, gender, religion and interculturality to explore how these news are interpreted by audiences and experts. Methodology. We have used three complementary methods. First, we have conducted a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of different sexual, religious and intercultural identities portrayed by the TV news. We have also analyzed how audiences interpret these news through focus groups. Finally, we have used a delphi method to analyze the interpretation of TV experts. Results and Discussion. The CDA illustrated common stereotypes identified by audiences and experts. Conclusions. Audiences and experts were very critical with TV news and perceived the limitations and stereotypes portrayed. However, older audiences used the same stereotypes demonstrated in the focus groups. In general, this study shows that when receivers interpret sensitive issues, they trend to accept or reject media discourses, letting little space for the negotiation of meanings.

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“…This qualitative approach furnishes approximate knowledge of the social reality being studied, gleaned from communication within a group. The focus group is thus configured as a microrepresentation of a social macro-situation (Ostertag, 2010;Wood, 2007).…”

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Sexuality, gender, religion and interculturality in new stories on civilisations and cultures broadcast by Spanish television

Rodrigo-Alsina¹,

García-Jimenez²,

Gifreu-Pinsach³

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Establishing news confidence: a qualitative study of how people use the news media to know the news-world

Cited by 15 publications

References 17 publications

Becoming Pure: The Civil Sphere, Media Practices and Constructing Civil Purification

Becoming Pure: The Civil Sphere, Media Practices and Constructing Civil Purification

Sexualidad, género, religión e interculturalidad en los relatos informativos civilizatorios y culturales de las televisiones españolas

Sexuality, gender, religion and interculturality in new stories on civilisations and cultures broadcast by Spanish television

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