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36 QUADERNS DEL CAC Genre hybridisation on television 2011 Vol. XIV (1) - June 2011 ISSN (electronic): 2014-2242 / www.cac.cat QUADERNS DEL CAC 36, vol. XIV (1) - juny 2011 Editorial Board Elisenda Malaret (Editor), Dolors Comas d’Argemir, Rafael Jorba, Santiago Ramentol, Victòria Camps, Joan Manuel Tresserras Editors: Josep Gifreu (Director), Maria Corominas (Executive Director), Sylvia Montilla (General Coordinator), Carles Llorens (Book Review Editor), Ramon Galindo (Secretary) Technical Staff: Núria Fernández (Books review, journals review and websites review), Davínia Ligero and Pilar Miró (Editorial Staff) Scientific Advisory Board Salvador Alsius (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona), Monica Ariño (Ofcom, London), Lluís Bonet (Universitat de Barcelona), Milly Buonanno (Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”), Enrique Bustamante (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Marc Carrillo (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona), Divina Frau-Meigs (Université Paris 3-Sorbonne), Ángel García Castillejo (Comisión del Mercado de las Telecomunicaciones), Maria Jesús García Morales (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), François Jongen (Université Catholique de Louvain), Margarita Ledo (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela), Joan Majó (Cercle per al Coneixe- ment), Jesús Martin Barbero (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota), Andrea Millwood Hargrave (International Institute of Communications, Oxford University), Miquel de Moragas (Univer- sitat Autonòma de Barcelona), Nancy Morris (Temple University, Philadelphia), Tomás de la Quadra-Salcedo (Universidad Complu- tense de Madrid), Alessandro Pace (Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”), Jordi Pericot (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barce- lona), Francisco Pinto Balsemão (European Publishers Council), Emili Prado (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), Monroe E. Price (University of Pennsylvania), Artemi Rallo (Universidad Complu- tense de Madrid), Philip Schlesinger (Glasgow University), Miquel Tresserras (Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona), Gloria Tristani (Spiegel & McDiarmid LLP, Washington), Imma Tubella (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya), Manuel Ángel Vázquez Medel (Universidad de Sevilla), George Yúdice (University of Miami), Ramón Zallo (Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea). Catalan Audiovisual Council President: Ramon Font Bové Vice president Josep Pont i Sans Translation: Tracy Byrne Secretary: Santiago Ramentol i Massana Page Layout: Francesc Mercadé Members of the Council: Dolors Comas d’Argemir i Cendra, Carme Legal Deposit: B.21287-2011 (english electronic version) Figueras i Siñol, Elisenda Malaret i Garcia, Josep Micaló i Aliu, ISSN (paper): 1138-9761 / ISSN (electronic): 2014-2242 Esteve Orriols i Sendra http://www.cac.cat General secretary: Joan Barata i Mir A/e: [email protected] Sancho de Ávila, 125-129 - 08018 Barcelona Tel. 93 557 50 00 - Fax 93 557 00 01 www.cac.cat - [email protected] QUADERNS ISSN (electronic): 2014-2242 / www.cac.cat DEL CAC Contents Introduction 3 CHARO LACALLE Constructing the identity of youth in fiction: Invited Author 5 interviews with professionals 101 MILLY BUONANNO SUE ARAN, PILAR MEDINA, The biographical genre in an antiheroic society and ROSA-ÀURIA MUNTÉ AND MIQUEL RODRIGO the happy anomaly of Italian fiction 5 Young people, love and television series. The incidence of media literacy on the Monographic theme: (re)interpretation of TV love relationships 109 Genre hybridisation on television 13 GÉRARD IMBERT Critical book reviews 119 From hybridisation to liquefaction of categories and identities in post-television 13 TOM GLAISYER Wu, T. The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall FABIOLA ALCALÀ, SALVADOR ALSIUS AND FRANCESC SALGADO of Information Empires. 119 News ethics in borderland country 19 MARÍA JOSÉ PÉREZ DEL POZO SARA ORTELLS Boyd-Barret, O. (editor) News Agencies in the Commodification and infotainment: the basis Turbulent Era of the Internet. 121 of new news 31 VIKTORIJA CAR MIQUEL GARCIA HORCAJO Dahlgren, P. Media and Political Engagement: Hybridisation strategies in reality TV in mass Citizens, Communication, and Democracy. 123 television programmes 39 FERNANDO QUIRÓS ESTEFANÍA JIMÉNEZ AND PETXO IDOYAGA Almiron, N. Journalism in crisis: Hybridisation between informative genres and Corporate Media and Financialization. 125 spectacle in the Basque public television service (ETB) 45 IÑAKI GARCIA-BLANCO LLÚCIA OLIVA AND XAVIER SITJÀ Silverstone, R. La moral de los medios de comunicación: The dumbing-down of television news 53 Sobre el nacimiento de la polis de los medios. 127 ANASTASIIA GRYNKO Articles 61 Alsius, S. (ed.) The Ethical Values of Journalists. Field Research among Media Professionals in Catalonia. 129 ARANTXA CAPDEVILA, IOLANDA TORTAJADA AND NÚRIA ARAÜNA Gender roles, romantic and sexual relationships in IOLANDA TORTAJADA fictional series. The case of Sin tetas no hay paraíso 61 Giménez Armentia, P.; Berganza Conde, M. R. Género y Medios de Comunicación. Un análisis desde la CRISTINA CULLELL Objetividad y la Teoría del Framing. 131 Harmonisation of the digital dividend in the European Union and its impact on national DTT planning in the United Kingdom and Spain 69 Agenda 133 MARÍA DOLORES MONTERO Books review 133 Interest groups and social movements on TV3 news 79 Journals review 137 Websites review 141 LORENA GÓMEZ Manuscript submission guidelines 145 What El cor de la ciutat (2000-2009) Book review guidelines 147 talks about. A study of the social agenda of Catalan television’s longest serial. 89 1 Quaderns del CAC 36, vol. XIV (1) - June 2011 (1) QUADERNS ISSN (electronic): 2014-2242 / www.cac.cat DEL CAC Introduction This 36th edition [vol. XIV(1)] of Quaderns del CAC offers interested readers a critical and multi-perspective reflec- tion of the single theme that comprises part of its content: the hybridisation of genres on contemporary television. This monograph looks at the trends in hybridisation, as well as encouraging consideration and evaluation of the various forms and practices of operators and programme makers in this respect. Our aim is to focus on conventional genera- list channels, either on commercial television stations or in mixed systems of publicly and privately-owned TV. To start this edition, our guest author, Milly Buonanno, an internationally renowned Italian sociologist in the field of television studies, discusses the cultural role of the biographical genre, particularly when ordinary people become the stars of TV biopics. Along the lines known as the "post-heroic world" by some authors, Buonanno dares to go further and suggests the emergence of an antiheroic society (“The biographical genre in an antiheroic society and the happy anomaly of Italian fiction”). Gérard Imbert starts the "Monographic theme" of genre hybridisation with an essay on the impact of reality TV on all television programming and the consequent blurring of the boundaries between its classic functions and the iden- tities projected by viewers (“From hybridisation to liquefaction of categories and identities in post-television”). Fabiola Alcalà, Salvador Alsius and Francesc Salgado tackle this area from the perspective of the professional ethics of jour- nalism, warning of the dangers involved in some practices and trends for the quality of information (“News ethics in borderland country”). In her article, Sara Ortells claims there is a direct relationship between the spread of infotain- ment, the commodification of news and television competence (“Commodification and infotainment: the basis of new news”). The monograph also includes three case studies. As head of the area of new formats for Televisió de Catalunya, Miquel Garcia Horcajo argues that hybridisation must be considered as a basic premise for today's television to deve- lop and innovate (“Hybridisation strategies in reality TV in mass television programmes”). Estefania Jiménez and Petxo Idoyaga empirically analyse the hybridisation between spectacle and information in four kinds of programme on the Basque public television channel ETB (“Hybridisation between informative genres and spectacle in the Basque public television service (ETB)”). And Llúcia Oliva and Xavier Sitjà apply the barometers of quality TV journalism esta- blished by The Project for Excellence in Journalism to samples of news from the channels Telecinco, TVE and TV3, comparing their level of quality (“The dumbing-down of television news”). In the open “Articles” section of Quaderns del CAC, with contributions subjected to a double blind review, this edi- tion includes six collaborations. Arantxa Capdevila, Iolanda Tortajada and Núria Araüna study the models used to represent sexual and romantic relations between genders proposed by certain fictional series (“Gender roles, roman- tic and sexual relationships in fictional series. The case of Sin tetas no hay paraíso”). Cristina Cullell analyses the consequences in Spain and the United Kingdom of the digital dividend or the frequencies allocated for the European Union in DTT planning (“Harmonisation of the digital dividend in the European Union and its impact on national DTT planning in the United Kingdom and Spain”). María Dolores Montero is interested in studying and evaluating how interest groups and social movements have access to news on the Catalan public television station TV3 (“Interest groups and social movements on TV3 news”). Lorena Gómez presents a study of the main narrative strategies used to introduce and propose social issues in the longest-running daily Catalan serial (“What El cor de la