Is television capable of informing?

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1982-8160.v10i2p13-23

Keywords:

Television, TV news, visual staging, image, public

Abstract

This article approaches the television matter as information media. It shows that television is a vehicle of democracy, which serves the “masses” (a more wide-ranging type of audience than traditional press readers), but, at the same time, is not capable of manipulating them with ease. It is considered that television audience is an interested part in the process of its proposed spectacularization of world seen on TV. Television assumes a particular role, even though it is possible to affirm that there is no meaning without verbal language. Television puts its viewer, a “kaleidoscope of opinions”, in a dual position: as a “world spectator” and as a “television spectator”.

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Author Biography

  • Patrick Charaudeau, Université de Paris XIII

    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire Communication et Politique

References

CHARAUDEAU, P. La pathémisation à la télévision comme stratégie d’authenticité. In: PLANTIN, C. et al. (Ed.). Les émotions dans les interactions. Lion, França: Presses Universitaires de Lyon, 2000. p. 125-155.

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Published

2016-08-31

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 2 (2016)

Section

Dossier

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How to Cite

Charaudeau, P. (2016). Is television capable of informing?. MATRIZes, 10(2), 13-23. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1982-8160.v10i2p13-23