THE ROLE OF THE GOOD NEWS IN BULGARIA: A POSITIVE MODEL FOR PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL PROSPERITY
THE ROLE OF THE GOOD NEWS IN BULGARIA: A POSITIVE MODEL FOR PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL PROSPERITY

Author(s): Maria Popova
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Media studies, Communication studies, Theory of Communication
Published by: Факултет по журналистика и масова комуникация, Софийски университет „Св. Кл. Охридски”
Keywords: good news; emotion; Bulgarian TV channel; media; journalism
Summary/Abstract: Media content is personalized, connected with the massive flow of information, produced by different kinds of media channels (traditional and online), as well as a variety of producers (professional journalists or consumers). Many researchers work on the mediatization of emotions, such as digital mourning practices (Giaxoglou and Doveling, 2018), mediated anger in political covering (Wahl-Jorgensen, 2019), affective news in journalism (Beckett and Deuze,2016), digital affect cultures (Döveling et al., 2018), affective publics (Papacharissi, 2015), etc. More and more TV channels include good news in their newscasts. The incorporation of positive news values indicates the society’s need for a positive model for personal development and social prosperity. This is typical for social media, as well as for traditional media, where dramatic, tragic, funny, and emotional news dominates, too. My research covers the weekly program “We believe in the good”, which is part of the evening newscasts of Bulgarian private channel bTV. The case study is based on an observation of the program for a period of 55months (November 2014 – May 2019) and covers 163 news pieces that are analyzed by different criteria, such as dominant topics, forms of positive news, civil participation, opinion sources of information, types of personal reaction, and collective solidarity).

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