Scientists and deliberativeness of European public television news

Wurff, R.J.W. van der; Verhoeven, Piet; Gadellaa, M.

doi:10.22323/2.12030202

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“…An important example in this regard relates to the reporting of leaked documents showing attempts by the Danish government in closing a deal "behind doors," all of this without the participation of many countries, especially those less economically powerful. These documents were first published by The Guardian 12 , and both FSP 13 and Source: <http://unfccc.int/home/items/3358.php> 's Website Per Year (1999-2013 JN 14 followed its lead. Political outrage in African and other countries immediately emerged, which was also reported by both Brazilian media outlets.…”

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The prism of the public sphere: The COP15 coverage by the Brazilian media system

Lycarião

Wozniak

2017

Journal of Deliberative Democracy

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Current studies of political communication offer valuable contributions to assessing and measuring mediated deliberation. But in our understanding of the news media's role in a deliberative system a number of questions remain unanswered, especially concerning problems posed by social complexity. This paper aims to contribute to closing this gap by conducting an empirical analysis on how distinct contributions to public deliberation-namely the provision of publicity and intelligibility-are articulated via outputs offered by different types of media outlets, specifically in the case of the Brazilian coverage of the 15th UN's Climate Change Conference (COP15). Our results suggest that this coverage seems to have fostered citizens to search for more information about this Conference and augmented the visibility of UN's climate negotiations. This gives support to the idea that news media system works like a prism of the public sphere, promoting accountability of complex governance processes by offering information and public scrutiny adequate for a heterogeneous citizenry.

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“…Based on this paradigm, increasingly sophisticated methods and analyses have been developed to assess the "deliberativeness" of media content (cf. Wessler & Rinke, 2014;van der Wurff, Verhoeven, & Gadellaa, 2013).…”

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The prism of the public sphere: The COP15 coverage by the Brazilian media system

Lycarião

Wozniak

2017

Journal of Deliberative Democracy

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“…Featuring civil society representatives in news coverage has been shown to increase the occurrence of uncivil acts in coverage in the context of a specific "hot-button issue" like abortion (Ferree et al, 2002) but does not seem to lower the deliberative quality of routine television news coverage (Rinke, 2013). Featuring academic experts, on the other hand, improves the ideational inclusiveness, multiperspectivalness, and nuance, and leads to more rebuttal acts (van der Wurff, Verhoeven, & Gadellaa, 2013).…”

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Mediated Deliberation

Rinke

2016

The International Encyclopedia of Political Communication

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Deliberation is a form of discussion in which an individual or a group carefully examines a problem and considers proposals for solution that reflect a variety of perspectives with the aim of arriving at a well-reasoned solution. Mediated deliberation is the subtype of such discussion undertaken by means of mediated communication. Mediated deliberation was introduced by Benjamin I. Page who defined it as "discussions among government officials, experts, and professional commentators, which are conveyed to a broader audience through the mass media of communications" (1995, p. 245). Contemporary understandings extend beyond this focus on the transmission of political elite discussion and encompass any discussion enabled by media communication, including citizens as independent actors. Mass-mediated deliberation is the most normatively and empirically important type of mediated deliberation in modern large-scale societies, since-although it does not generally allow interaction between "senders" and audiences-it is the form of communication with the greatest potential for the political inclusion and engagement of citizens. Mediated deliberation through mass communication is a process whereby newspapers, online news outlets, and other media help the wider public understand and think through issues in at least a quasi-deliberative way. "Deliberativeness" is a gradual quality of any communication. It denotes the degree to which a communicative act, or series of acts, conforms to a catalog of deliberation principles like respecting all those affected by policies, the responsive exchange of "good" reasons, and so on (see below for a more detailed catalog). As a deliberation subtype, mediated deliberation has strong normative connotations and implies assumptions about the collective responsibilities of media producers and users. Although researchers have focused on mediated deliberation in public affairs media, the concept extends seamlessly to cultural media such as literary works, movies, and entertainment television. Mediated deliberation in deliberative democratic theoryDeliberative democratic theory has paid relatively little attention to mediated deliberation. Paradoxically, given the importance of mediated modes of communication in modern societies, a focus on small-group nonmediated deliberation has prevailed in this literature. This development is due to a shift in interest moving towards questions of democratic deliberation rather than deliberative democracy on a broad scale

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