Telenovela, recepción y debate social

Abstract

This paper synthesizes an ensemble of qualitative empir ical research on Chilean television fiction carr ied out between 2007 and 2014. Specifically, the article focuses on mechanisms of interaction configured between television and viewers through the television genre of telenovela. It concludes that the dynamic of social debate can influence the symbolic conditions for the production of the television discourse, argument that opposes the classic thesis of the television's direct effects on society.