识别政治责任报道中的信息机会:冠状病毒大流行期间英国权力下放系统电视新闻报道研究

IF 4.1 1区 社会学 Q1 COMMUNICATION
Stephen Cushion, Llion Carbis
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摘要

新闻媒体如何报道谁对政治决策负责,对于知情的公民来说是至关重要的。本研究利用资讯机会的概念,发展一种检视政治责任报导的新方法,以探讨电视新闻如何能增进观众的理解。我们研究了电视新闻是如何报道在冠状病毒大流行期间谁负责制定英格兰、苏格兰、威尔士和北爱尔兰的政策的。根据对五家英国电视新闻简报(N = 181)的内容分析研究,我们发现,在大流行开始时,报道并未定期将政治责任归咎于英国所有四个政府。一旦各国开始采取不同的封锁措施,报告立法决定的清晰度就会提高,但仍然错过了澄清哪个政府对具体政策负责的机会。最后,我们认为,研究媒体如何报道政治责任的学者需要找到创造性的方法来理论化和实证研究信息机会,以增强公众的理解。
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Identifying Informational Opportunities in Political Responsibility Reporting: A Study of Television News Coverage During the Coronavirus Pandemic in the UK's Devolved System
How the news media report who’s responsible for political decisions is fundamental to an informed citizenry. Our study develops a new way of examining political responsibility coverage by drawing on the concept of informational opportunities in order to explore how television news could enhance audience understanding. We examine how television news reported who was responsible for making policies across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland during the coronavirus pandemic. Drawing on a content analysis study of five UK television news bulletins (N = 181), we found that reporting did not regularly attribute political responsibility to all four governments of the UK at the start of the pandemic. Once the nations began to adopt different lockdown measures the clarity of reporting legislative decisions improved, but there were still missed opportunities to clarify which government was responsible for specific policies. By way of conclusion, we argue that scholars examining how the media report political responsibility need to find creative ways of theorising and empirically studying informational opportunities in order to enhance public understanding.
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CiteScore
12.10
自引率
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发文量
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期刊介绍: The International Journal of Press/Politics is an interdisciplinary journal for the analysis and discussion of the role of the press and politics in a globalized world. The Journal is interested in theoretical and empirical research on the linkages between the news media and political processes and actors. Special attention is given to the following subjects: the press and political institutions (e.g. the state, government, political parties, social movements, unions, interest groups, business), the politics of media coverage of social and cultural issues (e.g. race, language, health, environment, gender, nationhood, migration, labor), the dynamics and effects of political communication.
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