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- Title
The Codes and Conventions of Irish Current Affairs Television: A Production-Based Approach.
- Authors
Devereux, Eoin
- Abstract
Taking the 1992 RTÉ Tuesday File documentary Are You Sitting Comfortably? as a case study, an ethnographic approach is used to examine the codes and conventions of Irish current affairs television. Against a background of the production pressures which surrounded the making of the documentary, the organisational context in which Are You Sitting Comfortably? was produced is considered, the perceptions those involved in the making of current affairs television have of audience interest in social problems are explored, and the manner the programme symbolises poverty and social exclusion is outlined. I conclude that Are You Sitting Comfortably? does not fit neatly into Kelly's (1984) model of Irish current affairs television, in that it is not made from a middle-ground perspective, does not use a regular presenter and sets out to emphasise the deep divisions in the Ireland of the early 1990s.
- Subjects
IRELAND; DOCUMENTARY television programs; SOCIAL norms; DOCUMENTARY mass media; TELEVISION programs; MASS media; APPLIED sociology; SOCIAL sciences; SOCIAL problems on television
- Publication
Irish Journal of Sociology, 1995, Vol 5, Issue 1, p110
- ISSN
0791-6035
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/079160359500500106