Media-hype - Self-reinforcing news waves, journalistic standards and the construction of social problems
Media-hype - Self-reinforcing news waves, journalistic standards and the construction of social problems
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DOI：
10.1177/0267323105058254
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发表时间：
2005-12-01
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Vasterman, PLM
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作者：
Vasterman, PLM
新闻似乎常常有自己的生命，在一个特定的故事或主题上掀起巨大的新闻浪潮。 “媒体炒作”一词经常出现在关于这种自我夸大的媒体报道的大众辩论中，但这个概念从未进入科学话语，主要是因为它隐含的价值判断。然而，通过排除“夸大”和“扭曲”等标准，并关注这些媒体产生的新闻浪潮中放大和放大的过程，这个概念可以成为新闻研究的宝贵工具。本文提出了一个媒体炒作的理论框架，不仅是为了分析媒体炒作的具体动态，也是为了处理它在框架和社会放大过程中所扮演的角色。对荷兰“毫无意义”街头暴力的媒体报道进行内容分析，用于评估媒体炒作对媒体在社会中所扮演的角色的影响。
News often seems to develop a life of its own, creating huge news waves on one specific story or topic. The term 'media-hype' is often used in popular debate about this kind of self-inflating media coverage, but the concept has never made it into the scientific discourse, mainly because of its implicit value judgements. However, by excluding criteria like 'exaggeration' and 'distortion' and by focusing on the process of amplification and magnification during these media-generated news waves, the concept can become a valuable tool for news research. A theoretical framework of media-hype is developed in this article, not only to analyse the specific dynamic of media-hype, but also to deal with the role it plays in the process of framing and social amplification. A content analysis of media coverage of 'senseless' street violence in the Netherlands is used to evaluate the consequences of media-hype for the role the media play in society.