Competitive pressure and arousing television news: a cross-cultural study

被引:9
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作者
Vettehen, Paul Hendriks [1 ]
Zhou, Shuhua [2 ]
Kleemans, Mariska [1 ]
D'Haenens, Leen [3 ]
Lin, Trisha T. C. [4 ]
机构
[1] Radboud Univ Nijmegen, NL-6525 ED Nijmegen, Netherlands
[2] Univ Alabama, Coll Commun & Informat Sci, Tuscaloosa, AL USA
[3] Catholic Univ Louvain, Ctr Media Culture & Commun Technol, B-3000 Louvain, Belgium
[4] Nanyang Technol Univ, Wee Kim Wee Sch Commun & Informat, Singapore, Singapore
关键词
competitive pressure; arousal in news; content analysis; cross-cultural research; PUBLIC AFFAIRS CONTENT; SENSATIONAL NEWS;
D O I
10.1080/01292986.2011.642394
中图分类号
G2 [信息与知识传播];
学科分类号
05 ; 0503 ;
摘要
In many scholarly writings about journalism, the idea can be found that competitive pressure urges journalists to make news more arousing. This hypothesis was tested in two cultural settings: the Western European culture and the Chinese-dominated culture. A total of 3028 TV news stories from seven different markets, or 12 different news programs, were analyzed on the presence of arousing news characteristics. High competitive pressure at the market level appeared to contribute to the prevalence of arousing news, but this effect was more pronounced in the Chinese-dominated culture than in the Western European culture. Effects of high competitive pressure at the station level were only observed in the Western European culture.
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页码:179 / 196
页数:18
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