La absorción de la política por el espectáculo de lo real. Estudio de casoEl Objetivo

  1. Jesús González Requena 1
  2. Lorenzo Torres Hortelano 2
  1. 1 Departamento de Comunicación Audiovisual y Publicidad II, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (España)
  2. 2 Departamento de Comunicación Audiovisual y Sociología, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (España)
Journal:
Revista Latina de Comunicación Social

ISSN: 1138-5820

Year of publication: 2017

Issue: 72

Pages: 1689-1750

Type: Article

DOI: 10.4185/RLCS-2017-1241 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

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Abstract

Traditionally, the field of politics, while influencing television shows, did so in a few genres ‒ news and political information programs‒ whose conventions acted as a break on its treatment as a spectacle or reality show. But recent years have seen quite a transformation which is the focus of this paper. This is the takeover of the realm of politics by the spectacle of the real with no limits on the hyping of topics, characters and political conflicts. This paper conducts both a quantitative and qualitative investigation of this topic. More specifically, we carry out a test for such a transformation via textual analysis of a Spanish TV program: El objetivo [The Target/Lens] on La Sexta Spanish TV channel. The results of the analysis confirm a fundamental transformation of the interview format in which the presenter acquires a more prominent role than the interviewee in terms of both her continual visual presence and of imposing the rules of the game. In this new format, she constantly interrupts the interviewee and demands headline-grabbing responses. Finally, the results confirm how this rise of the interview as spectacle involves an emphasis of the issues aiming to the trivialization of political content and attitudes.

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Presencia total expresada en % de las entrevistas a J. Borrell y E. Valenciano. Tiempo total de ambas entrevistas: 00:46:50 Vistos así, los datos de presencia primaria y verbal se igualan considerablemente, mientras que los demás datos de presencia se hacen netamente favorables para la conductora del programa.

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