Communication in mediation in television journalism [Articol]

Abstract

The research of journalistic mediation as a model of public communication, which also includes the televised activity of mediation, represents a challenge in itself, determined by the low interest of researchers in this subject and, respectively, by the very small number of studies which approach it. The works currently existing in the international scientific circuit treat journalistic publishing as a mission deriving from the social function of the media, and the TV shows oriented towards mediation – as ordinary talk shows. This approach, tangential and unilateral, did not allow the multidimensional investigation of the subject, which imposed the identification of a new research perspective, in order for the journalistic remedy, including the televised one, to be examined first of all mediacommunication functions, as an autonomous journalistic activity. Thus, the purpose of the research carried out within this study lies in the conceptualization of mediation communication in television journalism and in the projection of its identity profile in the contemporary media context. In order to achieve this desideratum, the investigative effort was oriented towards exploiting the essence of the journalistic mediation activity in general and of the communication in mediation in television journalism in particular, as well as their specificity by describing the main insignia, characteristics, missions, etc. The case study was conducted on the basis of the shows Vorbeste Moldova and Vremea pravdâ, from Prime TV channel