著者

川端 美樹

出版者

目白大学

雑誌

目白大学総合科学研究 (ISSN:1349709X)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.2, pp.209-219, 2006

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The purpose of this study is to discuss the recent diversification of and sophistication in the visual presentation on TV programs in Japan, especially about the frequent uses of open captions in tabloidized TV news and infotainment programs. Since the 1980s, News programs in Japan have been popularized and become more entertainment-oriented. With this tendency, not only news content has become "softer", but also the means of audio and visual representation has become more diversified and sophisticated. For example, they use increasingly more graphic effects and open captions, in order to attract a larger audience and make the content more comprehensible. In consequence, do they guide the audience better or do they mislead them, in terms of their understandings of the information or their perception of their society and themselves? In this study, the author tries to examine these schemes of visual representation with a preliminary content analysis of the News programs and discusses their cultural and socio-psychological meaning.