Gate-keeping in the new media age : a case study of the selection of text-messages in a current affairs programme

Enli, Gunn Sara (avtor)

A key trend in current broadcasting is the combination of traditional TV-formats and digital media. In these multi-platform formats, the Internet and the mobile phone in particular are used as return channels in order to stimulate audience activity. Studies of multi-platform formats have mainly analyzed audience participation with cumulative influence on the production, such as Big Brother and Pop Idol. In this article, I will investigate a formatthat combines traditional journalism with elements of audience participation. In the current affairs format SevenThirty, the audience is invited to respond to issues raised in the program by sending text-messages via the mobile telephone (SMS). The viewers are not guaranteed to get their messages aired; the moderator selects and rejects messages according to the editorial policy, and thus functions as a classic "gatekeeper". The study compares the text-messages received by the TV-station with the ones transmitted on-screen. The main research questions are: What are the main conflicts between journalistic norms of objectivity and participatory ideals of access? How are these conflicts handled in the production? What characterises the "gatekeeper" in the new media age? One of the basic findingsis that "gatekeepers" not only select and edit, but also fabricate text messages.

• Jezik: Angleški jezik
• Vrsta gradiva: Delo ni kategorizirano
• Tipologija: 1.01 - Izvirni znanstveni članek
• Organizacija: FDV - Fakulteta za družbene vede
• Leto izida: 2007
• Št. strani: Str. 47-61
• Številčenje: Vol. 14, no. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-75284
• UDK: 659.3
• ISSN pri članku: 1318-3222
• COBISS.SI-ID: 26327389
• Datum objave v RUL: 21.12.2015

Gradivo je del revije

• Naslov: Javnost = The public
• Skrajšan naslov: Javnost
• Založnik: Taylor & Francis, European Institute for Communication and Culture
• ISSN: 1318-3222
• COBISS.SI-ID: 40119808

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• Jezik: Neznan jezik

Izvleček

Ključen trend v sodobni radioteleviziji je kombinacija tradicionalnih oddaj indigitalnih medijev, zlasti interneta in mobilnih telefonov, s katerima se spodbuja aktivnost občinstev. Članek obravnava kombiniranje tradicionalnega novinarstva z elementi udeležbe občinstev. V politični televizijski oddaji Sedem-trideset vabijo gledalce, da reagirajo na izražena mnenja s pošiljanjem sms sporočil. Objava njihovih sporočil ni zagotovljena; moderator izbira sporočila glede na uredniško politiko in torej deluje kot klasični odbiratelj.Študija ugotavlja, da odbiratelj ne samo odbira in ureja, ampak tudi potvarja sporočila.