Media construction of deviance – othering of Roma minority in television news discourse

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15260%2F21%3A73616476" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15260/21:73616476 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://spp.slu.cz/artkey/spp-202102-0001_media-construction-of-deviance-8211-othering-of-roma-minority-in-television-news-discourse.php" target="_blank" >https://spp.slu.cz/artkey/spp-202102-0001_media-construction-of-deviance-8211-othering-of-roma-minority-in-television-news-discourse.php</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.25142/spp.2022.004" target="_blank" >10.25142/spp.2022.004</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Media construction of deviance – othering of Roma minority in television news discourse

Original language description

How was the Roma minority represented in the main evening news program Události of Czech Television, the public service media, between 2000 and 2015? This article focuses on the visual representation of Roma and the key signs used in television news reports. It presents findings from analysis based on quantitative content analysis and semiotic analysis. Visual representation of the Roma on television news is dominated by images of groups, children and young adults and shots of the environment and places where they live including clutter and ramshackled houses. On the contrary, representations of Roma as authorities are missing. Analysis revealed a long-term repeated thematization of Roma otherness. Although the voice-over is correct, the visual signs used in reports connote negative meanings and stereotypes. Through such visuals Roma are constructed as culturally different. Thus news accentuated and reproduced negative attitudes that a large part of the Czech majority maintains towards Roma.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50802 - Media and socio-cultural communication

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Social pathology and prevention

ISSN

2464-5877

e-ISSN

2464-5885

Volume of the periodical

7

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

24

Pages from-to

11-34

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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