From Family Doctor to Healthentainment: Health Topics in the Italian Public Service from Neo-Television to Post-television
From Family Doctor to Healthentainment: Health Topics in the Italian Public Service from Neo-Television to Post-television
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The paper analyses health and public health representation within RAI (Radiotelevisione Italiana) programmes in the shift from neo-television to post-television. To this purpose, it presents the result of a qualitative media content analysis on three different RAI programmes, attributable to different television genres and aired in the two periods considered. The analysis shows that in the shift from neo-television to post-television a recurrent genre arose which we call healthentainment: evolving from health representation to health storytelling, this genre integrates varied expert knowledge with new topics and new means of public involvement; flexible regarding information content, it is however firmly science-based.
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Keywords:
ItalyPublic healthRAI (Radiotelevisione Italiana)neo-televisionpost-televisioninformationentertainmentedutainment