Eetilised dilemmad saates „Tõehetk“ ja nende representatsioon Eesti meedias
Date
2009
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Tartu Ülikool
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The aim of the bachelor thesis “Ethicl conflicts in the gameshow „The Moment of
Truth“ and their representation in Estonian media“ was to find out if and how the
representations of ethical conflicts in this gameshow conform to the vision and studies
of media scholars. In a more narrow plan, the aim of this thesis was to find the ethical
dilemmas this gameshow has brought up, to describe the argumentation about
Estonian „The Moment of Truth“. The used method, for this thesis is argumentation
analysis.
The study found out that there is no discussion about ethics or about the show at all,
where the author would objectively try to analyse the show’s entertaining, public and
social aspects. From this thesis it can be concluded that the biggest attention has been
on the different participants in this show (players, agents etc.) and their possible value
judgement. It is remarkable that all these evaluations have been given by the authors‘
own principles and value judgements. There has not arose any actual discussion about
values.
Though there has not arose any discussion, the authors‘ concerns are about the same
as the concerns of the media scholars and journalists around the world – the deviation
of morality, the ethics of producers and the question about private and public sphere.
The only and also the biggest difference was that in the analysed representations the
focus was on people and the important discussion was very shallow and too
emotional.
While examining this thesis a series of additional themes and topics arose, for
example, why was the analysis in Estonian media that shallow. This proves that this
branch of study – the ethical conflicts arising from reality television – should be furter
investigated.
Keywords
H Social Sciences (General), bakalaureusetööd