Television and Politics

In den 50er Jahren tritt das Fernsehen seinen bis heute anhaltenden Siegeszug an. Diese Entwicklung findet in Martin Morlock einen stilistisch brillanten Kommentator, der von 1958 bis 1963 als »Telemann« das deutsche Fernsehgeschehen mit kritischem Blick begleitet. Zu einem Zeitpunkt, an dem die Nutzung der Technik noch nicht festgelegt ist, formuliert Morlock deren potentielle Leistungen, Funktionen und Inhalte. Damit verbunden ist ein Plädoyer für den autonomen Zuschauer, der den Sendeinhalten nicht willenlos ausgeliefert ist – eine These, die gerade in Anbetracht der aktuellen Debatten über Gewalt in den Medien bemerkenswert ist.

The publication of the sixth volume of the official history of the BBC, Pinkoes and Traitors: The BBC
and the nation 1974‐1987 by Jean Seaton is reviewed. The book is found to contain numerous
errors, mis‐statements of facts and significant omissions rendering the book an unreliable source
for those researching either the history of the BBC or the impact of the BBC on Britain’s political
and cultural life. Seaton’s major errors and omissions are catalogued as an aid to future researchers
and alternative, more reliable, secondary sources identified.
KEYWORDS
BBC, HISTORY, BROADCASTING, TELEVISION, RADIO, BBC LOCAL RADIO, BBC NATURAL HISTORY UNIT, BRITISH
HISTORY, ASA BRIGGS, JEAN SEATON, HUW WHELDON, ALASDAIR MILNE, PLAY FOR TODAY, THE HITCHHIKER’S
GUIDE TO THE GALAXY, GARDENER’S QUESTION TIME, THE MOUSETRAP, HOWARDS’ WAY, THE THORN BIRDS,
LIFE ON EARTH, NEWSNIGHT, PANORAMA, I, CLAUDIUS, BOYS FROM THE BLACKSTUFF, EDGE OF DARKNESS, BLUE
PETER, BAGPUSS, THE WOMBLES, NATIONWIDE, GRANDSTAND, POT BLACK, THE GENERATION GAME, MATCH OF
THE DAY, BLACK AND WHITE MINSTREL SHOW, EASTENDERS, STARSKY AND HUTCH, MARK TULLY, GRAHAME C
GREENE, CHRISTOPHER ANDREW, TIMOTHY GARTON ASH, TOM BOWER, PAT LOUGHREY, DAVID MCKITTRICK,
BRYCE MCCRIRICK, KELVIN MACKENZIE, GILES OAKLEY, NAOMI SARGANT, RONNIE STONHAM, DAVID
ATTENBOROUGH, DERYCK COOKE, DERRICK AMOORE, SALLY DOGANIS, TIM EGGAR, AUSTEN KARK, SARA
NATHAN, STEWART PURVIS, STEWART PARKER, PHILLIP WHITEHEAD, TONY SMITH, ALASDAIR MILNE, AUBREY
SINGER, ANNA HOME, HUMPHREY BURTON MARK DAMAZER, FRANCESCA KIRBY‐GREEN, DONALD GRATTAN,
ALAN YENTOB, BROADCASTING STANDARDS COUNCIL

[Resumen] ¿Qué realidad es la que se proyecta a través de las series? ¿Estamos empezando a conocer la realidad a través de ellas mejor que a través de otros dispositivos informativos o de conocimiento? ¿Podemos llegar a formarnos una opinión de la realidad en función de cómo nos la cuentan las series de televisión? La pregunta clave sería plantear hasta qué punto esta "segundo realidad" que los espectadores conocen a través de las series puede llegar a ser más real.... Uno de los hilos narrativos de este libro es preguntarse si las series de televisión no solo son un género de entretenimiento sino un género formativo e informativo de alto valor social que refleja de un modo tal la realidad que hasta cierto punto puede llegar a vampirizarla.

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Nobel laureate Niko Tinbergen coined the term ‘supernormal stimulus’ after discovering that birds who lay small, pale blue eggs speckled with grey prefer to sit on larger, bright blue eggs with black polka-dots. He found that he could exaggerate the key qualities of any natural stimulus to produce a stronger reaction yet--be it nurturance, courtship, fear or aggression.
    Animals encounter supernormal stimuli mostly when experimenters build them.  Humans can generate their own and media are awash with them: friendly smiling faces more consistently welcoming than ones own friends, animated cartoon characters with wider eyes than any real child’s, seductive bodies exceeding any proportions found in nature, and a huge array of supernatural menaces.
    This chapter examines film, television, spectator sports, video games, and social websites as well as more traditional media such as print and musical performance in terms of the concept of supernormal stimuli.

Digitisation has modified the way we use the media and the needs of society, which has led public media to expand the development of their mission with new and improved services. The EU28 State public media are devoting part of their efforts—particularly regarding to the economic part—to innovation and development actions in order to reinforce their position in an increasingly competitive market. This research presents an assessment of the progress in innovation of these corporations until mid-2015, giving particular emphasis to web platforms, apps, smart TV and laboratory of ideas. The methodology to undertake such study is based on the analysis of the departments and reports on innovation and development of every European state public media.

This study assessed African Independent Television`s (AIT"s) 2015 presidential election campaign influence on voters" participation in Asaba Metropolis of Delta State. The thrust of the study was to understand from the stand point of empiricism whether indeed AIT"s campaigns in the 2015 presidential election influenced voters participation in the election. The study was hinged on the Uses and Gratifications theory. The survey research method was used in carrying out the study. A sample size of 399 respondents was purposively selected from the population of Asaba residents. The questionnaire was used as the instrument for gathering data for the study. Data collected through the questionnaire were presented in tables and analysed using frequency and percentages while the hypothesis were tested using the chi-square statistical formula. The study found, among others, that a significant proportion of the

Il saggio ricostruisce gli sviluppi della comunicazione politica determinatisi in Francia nella fase finale della Quarta Repubblica, rivolgendo un’attenzione particolare alla progressiva acquisizione di legittimità da parte del mezzo televisivo. Se il vero e proprio inizio del connubio tra politica e televisione in Francia è da collocare nel 1958, anno del ritorno al potere del generale de Gaulle, nondimeno dalla metà degli anni Cinquanta si determinò una svolta importante. L’emergere di nuovi leader decisi ad instaurare un contatto diretto con l’opinione pubblica avrebbe consentito di abbassare progressivamente lo schermo che, nel sistema politico francese, aveva tradizionalmente separato i governanti dalle masse, trovando prima nella radio e poi nella televisione una nuova forma di spazio pubblico. L’articolo, concentrando l’attenzione sulle figure politiche di Pierre Mendès France e Guy Mollet, cercherà di mettere in luce come le loro esperienze di governo costituirono una sorta di anticipazione della personalizzazione assoluta del potere che avrebbe trovato pieno compimento con il legame diretto che la V Repubblica instaurò tra il leader dell’esecutivo e la nazione sia sul versante comunicativo attraverso la televisione, sia su quello istituzionale attraverso l’introduzione del referendum e dell’elezione a suffragio universale diretto del presidente della Repubblica.

In the last decade, many successful US tv series are focused on politics. In each series, politics is dealt with in different ways, as Coleman (2008) showed in his empirical research on British soap operas. Coleman’s work focused on three main dimensions of the political discourse: issue politics, that is those issues stemming from the real-world political agenda; process politics, referring to the depiction of he political process; and every day politics, that is the storylines dealing wth the private sphere and interpersonal power relationships.
In this paper, Coleman’s model is applied to some recent US tv series, in order to understand how they succeed in building their narrative identity upon one or more of these three dimensions.

Cette « Histoire de la télévision sous de Gaulle » ouvrit la voie, il y a vingt-cinq ans, aux recherches sur le passé d’un média toujours très présent. Elle constitue depuis un ouvrage de référence, dont voici la réédition corrigée et augmentée d’une préface inédite sur l’historiographie actuelle du média.
Dans l’évolution des médias français, l’époque fait charnière. Les questions sont multiples. Politiques avec la croyance dans le pouvoir absolu de la télévision, sociologiques quand le medium envahit tous les foyers, culturelles alors que s’inventent un nouveau langage, une nouvelle imagerie populaire, professionnelles enfin avec des métiers nouveaux qui s’organisent dans l’univers particulier d’une institution publique, l’ORTF.
Comme l’écrivait Jean-Pierre Rioux lors de la sortie de la première édition de cet ouvrage, ce « retour sur la décennie gaullienne de la Cinquième République fournit un bon prétexte très argumenté pour une réflexion rétrospective, aujourd’hui, sur l’avenir de la télévision ». Et in concluait : « Ce livre indispensable nous manquait cruellement ». Le voici à nouveau disponible !

En este artículo analiza los intertextos, la sátira, la ironía y la parodia con los que la popular serie Los Simpson lleva a debate los problemas que han aquejado a la sociedad estadounidense, logrando evidenciar frente a un gran público las debilidades y contradicciones del presidente Donald Trump.

In 2016 City Elections in Rome not only the current fragmentation both in Italian left-wing and right-wing parties were well represented, but also the many faces of the personalization process, particularly important in an electoral context where a monocratic seat, were at stake. This is very important to understand why this electoral campaign is a perfect field to test the key role played by the use of populist rhetoric in contemporary Italian politics.