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Effects of Television News Media Narratives on Social Behavior
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Effects of Television News Media Narratives on Social Behavior

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Narratives define television news media. Often, these narratives can have profound effects on the attitudes, beliefs, and social behavior of viewers. This paper explores some of those effects, examining how television news narratives divide and isolate societal groups through stereotyping, violence normalization, desensitization, and an overemphasis on partisan political conflict and drama. Two alternative television news models are presented as opportunities for increasing media literacy, critical thinking, and civic engagement: the Public Health model and an “Infotainment” model, based on the phenomenal success of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. The author concludes by suggesting that rising populist anger and skepticism against the mainstream media can be positively leveraged to pressure corporate powers into offering higher quality journalistic programming.

Category: Media Psychology Tags: attitudes, beliefs, civic engagement, critical thinking, desensitization, Fielding Graduate University, journalism, media, media effects, media literacy, narratives, news, social behavior, stereotyping, television
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Narratives define television news media. Often, these narratives can have profound effects on the attitudes, beliefs, and social behavior of viewers. This paper explores some of those effects, examining how television news narratives divide and isolate societal groups through stereotyping, violence normalization, desensitization, and an overemphasis on partisan political conflict and drama. Two alternative television news models are presented as opportunities for increasing media literacy, critical thinking, and civic engagement: the Public Health model and an “Infotainment” model, based on the phenomenal success of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. The author concludes by suggesting that rising populist anger and skepticism against the mainstream media can be positively leveraged to pressure corporate powers into offering higher quality journalistic programming.
 
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Media Psychology

Fielding Graduate University

News & Journalism, Politics

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  1. Introduction
  2. Wanna Go for a Ride?
  3. I Can't Quit You, Baby
  4. Narrating the News
  5. Typecast: The Impact of Media-Perpetuated Stereotypes
  6. Fantasy Depictions of a Violent, Scary, Sad World
  7. Living in a Numbed Down Society
  8. Selling Fragments of Affirmation
  9. Making Media More Healthy for Public Consumption
  10. Learning to Laugh and Laughing to Learn
  11. Conclusion

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