Video malaise
Videomalaise is a form of mediamalaise (malaise [maˈlɛːzə], Latin-French: adversity, unfavorable circumstance, misery). With the thesis of the video malaise it was claimed that television would lead to alienation from politics . Negative portrayal of politics on television would lead to the feeling of being unable to influence politics.
The term was introduced by Michael J. Robinson in the 1970s . Robinson later expanded his thesis to include the press . His thesis was barely supported empirically in the early 1990s.
See also
swell
Web links
- Essay on the thesis of the video malaise ( Memento from July 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
literature
- Holtz-Bacha, Christina: Does television spoil politics for us? In the footsteps of the “video malaise”, in: Kaase, Max / Schulz, Winfried (Ed.): Mass communication. Theories, Methods, Findings (Cologne Journal for Sociology and Social Psychology Special Issue 30), Opladen 1989, p. 239
- Holtz-Bacha, Christina: distraction or turning away from politics? Media use in a network of political orientations, Opladen 1990, p. 11
- Holtz-Bacha, Christina: Mass media and political mediation - Is the video malaise hypothesis an adequate concept ?, in: Jäckel, Michael / Winterhoff-Spurk, Peter (ed.): Politics and media. Analyzes on the development of political communication, Berlin 1994, pp. 181–191
- Robinson, Michael J. (1975): American political legitimacy in an era of electronic journalism: Reflections on the evening news, in: Cater, Douglas / Adler, Richard (eds.): Television as a social force: New approaches to TV criticism , New York, London, pp. 97-139
- Robinson, Michael J. (1976): Public Affairs Televisions and the Growth of Political Malaise: The Case of “The Selling of the Pentagon”, in: The American Political Science Review, 70, pp. 409-432
- Wolling, Jens: Disenchantment with politics through the mass media? The influence of the media on citizens' attitudes towards politics, Opladen / Wiesbaden 1999, p. 57