Attention, please! Structural influences on tabloidization of campaign coverage in German and Austrian elite newspapers (1949–2009)

Magin, Melanie

doi:10.1177/1464884917707843

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“…All these are 'representations of menace; they present potential instrumentalizations of the idea of autonomous journalism and threats to the functions of qualified cultural journalism' (Jaakkola, 2015: 54). Commercialization has also been claimed to skew news towards a more commercially oriented and trivial tone and simultaneous 'tabloidization' to popularize editorial content and threaten what could be considered to be quality journalism or 'real news' (Franklin, 1997;Magin, 2017).…”

Section: Autonomy In Peril? the Commercialization Of Cultural Journalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Enter Culture, Exit Arts?

Purhonen¹,

Heikkilä²,

Hazır³

et al. 2018

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Key debates of contemporary cultural sociology -the rise of the 'cultural omnivore', the fate of classical 'highbrow' culture, the popularization, commercialization and globalization of culture -deal with temporal changes. Yet, systematic research about these processes is scarce due to the lack of suitable longitudinal data. This book explores these questions through the lens of a crucial institution of cultural mediation -the culture sections in quality European newspapersfrom 1960 to 2010.Starting from the framework of cultural stratification and employing systematic content analysis both quantitative and qualitative of more than 13,000 newspaper articles, Enter Culture, Exit Arts? presents a synthetic yet empirically rich and detailed account of cultural transformation in Europe over the last five decades. It shows how classifications and hierarchies of culture have changed in course of the process towards increased cultural heterogeneity. Furthermore, it conceptualizes the key trends of rising popular culture and declining highbrow arts as two simultaneous processes: the one of legitimization of popular culture and the other of popularization of traditional legitimate culture, both important for the loosening of the boundary between 'highbrow' and 'popular'.Through careful comparative analysis and illustrative snapshots into the specific socio-historical contexts in which the newspapers and their representations of culture are embedded -in Finland, France, Spain, Sweden, Turkey and the UK -the book reveals the key patterns and diversity of European variations in the transformation of cultural hierarchies since the 1960s. The book is a collective endeavour of a large-scale international research project active between 2013 and 2018. Semi Purhonen is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tampere, Finland. Between 2013 and 2018, he worked as academy research fellow at the Academy of Finland and was the Director of the research project 'Cultural Distinctions, Generations and Change', which lays the ground for the present book. His research interests are in the fields of cultural sociology, consumption, lifestyles and social stratification; sociology of age, generation and social change; and comparative research and sociological theory. Riie Heikkilä is a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Tampere, Finland. Her main research interests include cultural capital, cultural consumption and social stratification, and comparative sociology in general. Her research project 'Understanding Cultural Disengagement in Contemporary Finland' has funding from the Academy of Finland until 2020. Irmak Karademir Hazır is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the Department of Social Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, UK. Her research focuses on topics such as taste, socio-cultural change, Bourdiesian analysis of Turkish consumption scene and embodiment. She has worked as a board member of the European Sociological Association, Consumption Research Ne...

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Section: Autonomy In Peril? the Commercialization Of Cultural Journalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Enter Culture, Exit Arts?

Purhonen¹,

Heikkilä²,

Hazır³

et al. 2018

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“…While public service broadcasters, quality newspapers, and weekly news magazines were long assumed to be driven mainly by professional considerations, mass market-oriented news outlets, such as tabloids, have been influenced more by commercial considerations, although nowadays no news outlet can fully escape the transformational effects of competition and commercialization. Commercial news logic thus encompasses elements of infotainment, confrontainment, emotionalization, and personalization (Mazzoleni, 2008a(Mazzoleni, , 2008b and gauges newsworthiness of a message by its potential to attract attention (Magin, 2017;Umbricht & Esser, 2016).…”

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What Drives Populist Styles? Analyzing Immigration and Labor Market News in 11 Countries

Wettstein

Esser

Büchel

et al. 2018

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

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The success of populist political actors in Western democracies and the dramatization and emotionality of political communication in news media have been the object of several theoretical and empirical studies in the past decade. It has been argued that the mediatization of politics and the convergence of populist and tabloid communication styles foster these developments by mutual promotion in mass communication. This article uses a cross-national quantitative content analysis to disentangle associations among news genres, populist actors, content, and style. In spite of indisputable prevalence of populist styles in tabloid style media, populist ideology is identified as their strongest source.

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“…For instance, examining national UK newspapers over time, McLachlan and Golding (2000) found that in tabloids entertainment news increased, while it fluctuated in elite newspapers. In a more recent longitudinal study, Magin (2019) found only a slight increase of tabloid characteristics in German and Austrian elite newspapers. But do these variations in hard and soft news content also lead to differences in knowledge gain?…”

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What do people learn from following the news? A diary study on the influence of media use on knowledge of current news stories

Beckers¹,

Aelst

Verhoest

et al. 2020

European Journal of Communication

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One of the main functions of news media in democracies is informing the citizenry on day-to-day affairs. However, the way in which citizens gather news has changed as nowadays people have more opportunities than ever before to adapt their media consumption based on their preferences. One of the major game changers was the introduction of social media. This raises the question to what extent traditional media still contribute to people’s knowledge of current affairs. Using a time-diary study in the Flemish media context, we investigate the influence of different forms of news consumption on current news knowledge. We conclude that traditional (print and audiovisual) media, including popular outlets, continue to be the major contributors to people’s knowledge about current affairs and that social media hardly contribute at all.

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Attention, please! Structural influences on tabloidization of campaign coverage in German and Austrian elite newspapers (1949–2009)

Cited by 30 publications

References 27 publications

Enter Culture, Exit Arts?

Enter Culture, Exit Arts?

What Drives Populist Styles? Analyzing Immigration and Labor Market News in 11 Countries

What do people learn from following the news? A diary study on the influence of media use on knowledge of current news stories

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