“Not how much, but how.” Contextualizing the presentation of violence broadcast on television : Normativity and narrative genres

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“Not how much, but how.” Contextualizing the presentation of violence broadcast on television: Normativity and narrative genres
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Revilla, Juan Carlos; Dávila, María Celeste; Fernández-Villanueva, Concepción
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Communications, 46, 2021, 1, S. 4-26
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Erscheinungsjahr
2021
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Walter de Gruyter GmbH (CrossRef)
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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>The analysis of TV violence cannot be limited to the quantification of its incidence, but should also take into account the type of violence broadcast and its context (what is depicted and how). Thus, normative models of violence (legitimized violence with positive consequences for the aggressor, or vice versa) could be understood as positive, while contra-normative models of violence (rewarding illegitimate violence and punishing legitimate violence) should be of far greater concern. This paper analyzes the normative contexts of TV violence through a content analysis of randomly selected fragments of TV programming (147 recorded hours). The results show that news programs and TV series/soaps delegitimized violence to a higher extent, while films tend to show legitimized or ambivalent violence. Positive consequences of violence predominate in fictional programs, except for TV series/soaps. Normative presentation of violence is more frequent, especially in nonfiction genres, as fiction has more freedom to depict the socially undesirable.</jats:p>
Umfang
4-26
Sprache
Englisch
ISSN
0341-2059
1613-4087
DOI
10.1515/commun-2020-2082