COMMUNICATING TO AN IDEAL AUDIENCE - NEWS AND THE NOTION OF THE INFORMED CITIZEN

Authors
HAGEN I
Citation
I. Hagen, COMMUNICATING TO AN IDEAL AUDIENCE - NEWS AND THE NOTION OF THE INFORMED CITIZEN, Political communication, 14(4), 1997, pp. 405-419
Citations number
60
Journal title
Political communication → ACNP
ISSN journal
10584609
Volume
14
Issue
4
Year of publication
1997
Pages
405 - 419
Database
ISI
SICI code
1058-4609(1997)14:4<405:CTAIA->2.0.ZU;2-J
Abstract
The news genre presupposes an ideal audience type-the ''informed citiz en.''(1) Here, I will address what it means to ''be informed.'' How sh ould audiences be addressed to enable them to become informed citizens , compared to addressing them as consumers? I will argue that when goi ng beyond the official status attributed to news, one might find that viewers have contradictory feelings regarding the genre. I will provid e examples of such news-related ambivalences and frustrations from my own research.