Public Television quality. Descriptive documentary analysis of the most cited publications on the Web of Science

Abstract

 There are multiple lines of research on this subject, such as issues related to social responsibility, regulation, transparency, plurality, effects on citizenship or regulatory framework, among other issues to be taken into account in a new television, which today has digital platforms for broadcasting and reception. This research analysed, from a quantitative and qualitative point of view, the articles with the greatest impact on the Web of Science, focusing on television quality. We have worked with a total of 155 scientific papers cited on 50 occasions. All these papers belong to the category of Social Sciences or Humanities. The impact on technical issues, on the technological process, is the main conclusion of this study, in which the aspects linked to the transmission of healthy habits represent most of what can be considered an analysis of the effects of the television media. This approach represents a very limited vision. Similarly, the innovations allowed by the Internet are investigated from a technical point of view of usability and interactivity, rather than from the assessment of the transformation of the process and its influence on citizenship. Other issues of greater social importance, such as the role of television and its social responsibility, are relegated to a minority presence and its dissemination in academic environments of lower impact. In many cases, these are realities circumscribed to a specific country, as in the case of the regulatory framework. Finally, the general conclusion of the research indicates that television quality is a multifaceted theme that must be analyzed and its impact evaluated from multiple approaches.