Portraying Poverty: The Economics and Ethics of Factual Welfare Television
Portraying Poverty: The Economics and Ethics of Factual Welfare Television
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DOI：
10.1177/1749975517712132
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发表时间：
2017-09-01
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
Jensen, Tracey
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作者：
De Benedictis, Sara;Allen, Kim;Jensen, Tracey
自2013年以来，英国电视上出现了一种新的纪实节目类型，这些节目聚焦于申领救济金的人的日常生活。事实福利电视(FWT)的出现恰逢公众和政治对贫困和英国福利国家的辩论愈演愈烈，事实证明，FWT是一种极具争议和争议的类型。虽然节目制作人辩称，FWT履行了告知观众的公共服务使命，但批评者指责制片人制作不准确、挑衅性和不道德的电视节目。对FWT的社会学调查集中在这些节目中的陈述和观众的接受上，认为这些有助于强化反福利情绪。这篇文章提出了一条补充的、紧迫的调查路线，通过将文化劳动、劳动力多样性以及广播领域内日益激烈的竞争和放松管制的问题纳入其中，将其直接定位于其生产条件下。我们认为，管理广播的市场逻辑约束了文化工作者，并助长了社会阶级和贫困的简单化和污名化的表现。通过这样做，我们对电视制作、表现以及消费之间的关系提供了新的见解。
Since 2013 there has been an explosion of a new genre of factual programming on British television that centres on the everyday lives of people claiming benefits. The emergence of Factual Welfare Television (FWT) has coincided with intensifying public and political debates about poverty and the British welfare state, and has proved a deeply controversial and contested genre. While programme-makers have argued that FWT fulfils a public service mandate to inform audiences, critics have accused producers of making inaccurate, provocative and unethical television. Sociological enquiries into FWT have focused on the representations within these programmes and audience reception, arguing that these contribute to hardening anti-welfare sentiment. This article presents a complementary and urgent line of enquiry into FWT, locating it squarely within the conditions of its production by including questions of cultural labour, diversity in the workforce, and increasing competition and deregulation within broadcasting. We argue that market logics governing broadcasting discipline cultural workers and contribute to the production of reductive and stigmatising representations of social class and poverty. In doing so, we offer new insights into relationships between television production, representation and - consequently - consumption.