infotainment

infotainment
   Infotainment is a mixture of instructional and entertainment material. Multimedia encyclopedias or interactive CD-ROMs are sold as educational material for children. Adults question the intellectual rigour in material deliberately aimed at catching the eye of the MTV generation, but many teachers defend it as ‘appropriate packaging’. The term has also been applied disparagingly to material which purports to be authentic but is not. Stephen Spielberg’s Amistad (1997) was accused of masquerading as ‘the truth’ when it was in reality both a sanitized and politicized version of history. Accompanying ‘study packs’ distributed free to schools were treated with scepticism because of their potential commercial agenda. However, many welcome infotainment as a means of rescuing a generation ‘lost’ to television.
   See also: product placement; teletext
   MIKE STORRY

Encyclopedia of contemporary British culture . . 2014.

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  • infotainment — in‧fo‧tain‧ment [ˌɪnfəʊˈteɪnmənt ǁ foʊ ] noun [uncountable] information which is given on television, a computer etc in an entertaining way: • Television infotainment programs have won huge audiences. * * * infotainment UK US /ˌɪnfəʊˈteɪnmənt/… …   Financial and business terms

  • infotainment — 1983, from INFO (Cf. info ) + ENTERTAINMENT (Cf. entertainment) …   Etymology dictionary

  • infotainment — first recorded in the US in the 1980s, means ‘broadcast material that seeks to inform and entertain’. It belongs to a group of media related portmanteau words of the late 20c: see also docudrama …   Modern English usage

  • infotainment — [in΄fō tān′mənt] n. [< INFO(RMATION) + (ENTER)TAINMENT] television programming of news and information, as about celebrities, presented in a dramatic or sensational style …   English World dictionary

  • Infotainment — For the Pitchshifter album, see Infotainment?. Infotainment is information based media content or programming that also includes entertainment content in an effort to enhance popularity with audiences and consumers. [1] It is a neologistic… …   Wikipedia

  • Infotainment — Unter Infotainment (aus dem Englischen: information und entertainment) versteht man den Teil eines Medienangebotes, bei dem die Rezipienten gezielt sowohl informiert als auch unterhalten werden sollen. Der Begriff bezieht sich vor allem auf… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Infotainment? — Infobox Album Name = Infotainment? Type = studio Artist = Pitch shifter Released = May 7, 1996 Recorded = Sep 26, 1995 Nov 21, 1995 Genre = Industrial metal Length = 39:07 Label = Earache Records Producer = Reviews = Last album = Remix War (1995) …   Wikipedia

  • Infotainment — In|fo|tain|ment 〈[ tɛın ] n. 15; Rundfunk, TV〉 Mischung aus informativen u. unterhaltenden Beiträgen [verkürzt <Information + Entertainment] * * * In|fo|tain|ment [… teɪnmənt , …mɛnt], das; s [aus ↑ Information u. ↑ Entertainment] ( …   Universal-Lexikon

  • infotainment — noun A form of programming (cinematic, television, live action, etc.) that provides both information and entertainment; also known as soft news, the information in infotainment programming consists of mostly celebrity news and human drama …   Wiktionary

  • infotainment — [[t]ɪ̱nfoʊte͟ɪnmənt[/t]] N UNCOUNT Infotainment is used to refer to radio or television programmes that are intended both to entertain people and to give information. The word is formed from information and entertainment …   English dictionary

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