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  1. The Morality of Television Genres: Norm Violations and Their Narrative Context in Four Popular Genres of Serial Fiction.Helena Bilandzic, Matthias R. Hastall & Freya Sukalla - 2017 - Journal of Media Ethics 32 (2):99-117.
    ABSTRACTIn a quantitative content analysis, social norm violations and their narrative context are analyzed in 225 episodes of 15 television series of four popular television genres. Extending previous studies, the authors’ results indicate that aggressive norm violations are only a fraction of all norm violations, which are dominated by lying/deception, swearing/use of vulgar language, and verbal attacks. The narrative context shows that norm violations are often motivated by egoism, receive low punishment, are rarely forgiven and seldom reflected by the characters; (...)
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  • From Good to Bad and Everything in Between: An Analysis of Genre Differences in the Representation of Moral Nature.Serena Daalmans, Ellen Hijmans & Fred Wester - 2017 - Journal of Media Ethics 32 (1):28-44.
    This study explores the presence of different moral natures—neutral, good, bad, ambivalent—and its association with sociodemographic characteristics in 3 television genres, through content analysis. Results show that morally ambivalent characters dominate the cast of fiction, whereas neutral characters form a majority in news and information programming. In all genres, morally ambivalent characters are typed by social and professional transgression, while morally bad characters are typed by transgressions of the law. Although two thirds of all transgressions are punished, morally bad characters (...)
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