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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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Author	Revilla, Juan Carlos Dávila, María Celeste Fernández-Villanueva, Concepción
Copyright Year	2020
Abstract	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.
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ISSN	03412059
e-ISSN	16134087
DOI	10.1515/commun-2020-2082
Journal	Communications
Issue Number	1
Volume Number	46
Language	English
Publisher	Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Publisher Date	2021-03-08
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Comm Communication Tv Violence Content Analysis Legitimation Normative Framework Narrative Genre Journal: Communications, Vol- 46
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Arts and Humanities Communication

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