Att förklara människan : Diskurser i populärvetenskapliga TV-program
Explaining the Human Being : Discourses in popular science television programs
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Summary, in English
A five stage-model of critical discourse analysis has inspired the method which emphasizes the network of communicative practices in which the media text and representation are embedded. That includes media genre, production and narrative conventions as well as the wider historical, social and political/ideological context and discourse practices of which the issues represented are a part. The critical discourse analysis has been complemented by ideas about different documentary modes of representation or basic ways of organizing documentary texts in relation to certain recurrent features or conventions. In the analysis these modes have been applied to understand the degree of transparency and editorial presence and visibility in the science documentaries.
The importance of the discourses presented is related to their more applied meanings. When certain descriptions, explanations and understandings of alleged human “basics” gain priority, it may affect the possibilities to define and handle very concrete social issues in a way that is inconsistent with this fundamental perspective. Thus, the ideological function of the science documentaries (as public service-program and educational media) deserves serious attention.
Department/s
Publishing year
2009
Language
Swedish
Full text
Document type
Dissertation
Publisher
Lund University
Topic
- Media and Communications
Keywords
- public service broadcasting
- human behavior
- human nature
- popular science
- science documentaries
- science on television
- Media analysis
- discourse analysis
- science and the media
Status
Published
Supervisor
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISBN: 91-7267-296-x
Defence date
2 October 2009
Defence time
10:00
Defence place
Lingvisthuset 201, Språk- och Litteraturcentrum, Lunds universitet
Opponent
- Lars-Åke Engblom (Professor)