Packaging Television News: The Effects of Tabloid on Information Processing and Evaluative Responses

Grabe, Maria Elizabeth; Zhou, Shuhua; Lang, Annie; Bolls, Paul D.

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“…The architecture and formal features of media systems are typically treated as an afterthought and have not received widespread attention in communication research. However, how information is packaged explains a certain amount of variance in media effects (Bucy, Lang, Potter, & Grabe, 1999;Grabe, Zhou, Lang, & Bolls, 2000).…”

Section: Where Interactivity Resides: Locating the Concept For Researchmentioning

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The Mediated Moderation Model of Interactivity

2007

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This paper argues for enhanced consideration of third variables in interactivity research and proposes a "mediated moderation" model to bring increased sophistication to bear on the study of information technology effects. Interactivity, a central phenomenon in new media research, is an elusive concept that has enduringly intrigued and confused scholars. Extant conceptualizations have produced incomplete causal models and have generally ignored the effect of third variables. We conceptualize interactivity as technological attributes of mediated environments that enable reciprocal communication or information exchange, which afford interaction between communication technology and users, or between users through technology. Specifying roles for mediator and moderator variables, this paper proposes a model that incorporates interactive attributes, user perceptions (mediators such as perceived interactivity), individual differences (moderators such as Internet self-efficacy), and media effects measures to systematically examine the definition, process, and consequences of interactivity on users. Lastly, statistical procedures for testing mediated moderation are described.An enduring question and major inconsistency in interactivity research is how to best isolate the concept for systematic investigation. Various definitions and multi-dimensional models have been proposed but current approaches attempt to either mix structural characteristics of media systems, message exchanges, and user perceptions into a single multidimensional construct, or identify one of these factors as the central locus of interactivity (Sundar, 2004). Not surprisingly, the empirical research on interactivity has yielded scattered findings and has been unable to ascertain consistent patterns of effects on users. After three decades of analysis and investigation, we scarcely know what interactivity really is, let alone what MEDIA PSYCHOLOGY, 9,

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Section: Where Interactivity Resides: Locating the Concept For Researchmentioning

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The Mediated Moderation Model of Interactivity

2007

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“…Grabe et al [13] compare the information editing in the tabloid and standard TV news programs. For this purpose, 8 TV news stories are used in two versions that differ in use/non-use of 5 special television effects -music, background, sound effects, slow motion and flash frames -to draw attention and haunting tone of journalist.…”

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Objectification of Subjectivity: International Experience in Selection of TV Stimuli in Mass Media Effect Research

Havrylets

Rizun

Тукаєв

et al. 2016

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The objective of the study was to classify the existing methods of the TV news content selection, and to assess the advantages and shortcomings of each approach. To achieve this goal, the following tasks have been performed: 1) considering the existing approaches to the selection of the TV news content, applied in the media effects studies; 2) summarizing and classifying the approaches used for the selection of the TV news stories for experiments in the media effects studies; 3) analysing the advantages and disadvantages of each technique of the experimental selection of the TV news content. The research was conducted through the use of scientific methods of analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, transition from the abstract to the concrete, and document review. Several criteria were applied to the selection of the studies to be included in the review of methods of the TV news materials selection: 1) only those experimental articles and thesis were selected, in which the TV news was the independent variable, and the reaction of surveyed people was the dependent variable; 2) the articles and theses should include a clear description of the methods of the TV news selection.Results and Conclusions. The TV news content was examined as a basic material for experiments in social communications. Based on the academic publications of the American and European scientists, we elaborated the classification of methods for the media content selection in the media effects studies. Different approaches to the selection of news material were proposed. According to the proposed classification, all methods of the media content selection were divided into the primary methods (pool method) and secondary methods (Self-Assessment Mannequin test; semantic differential method; R. Likert emotion assessment scale; J.B. Haskins scale for the good-bad news assessment). The validity and reliability of these techniques was proved by the studies in the TV news effects.KEYWORDS: media effects; media stimuli; news story; selection method; experiment. Резюме У дослідженні розглянуто новинний контент телебачення як базовий матеріал для експе-риментів у соціальних комунікаціях. За науковими працями американських та європейсь-ких учених запропоновано класифікацію методів відбору контенту засобів масової кому-нікації у контексті дослідницької парадигми медіаефектів. Пропонуються різні підходи до відбору новинного матеріалу. Згідно з наведеною класифікацією, всі методики відбору новинного контенту розділені на первинні (метод пулу) та вторинні (тест Self-Assessment Mannequin, метод семантичного диференціалу, шкала Р. Лікерта для позначення емоцій, шкала Дж. Хаскінса для оцінки позитивності / негативності новин). Валідність і надійність цих методик доведена їх успішним застосуванням у дослідженнях медіавпливів, зокрема у працях із ефектів телевізійних новин. Ключові слова: медіаефект, медіастимул, новинний сюжет, методика відбору, експеримент.Гаврилец Ю.Д., Ризун В.В., Тукаев С.В., Хилько М.Н. Объективизация субъективно-сти: мировой ...

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“…Television news coverage regularly includes two key melodramatic traits: personalization and emotionalization. The former refers to news focusing on the private/personal/concrete over the public/social/abstract (Mujica & Bachmann, 2012, 2013MacDonald, 2000;Schultz & Zeh, 2005); the latter, to information about emotions and their exacerbation through audiovisual resources that appeal to the senses and emotional empathy over reason (Gómez-Giraldo et al, 2010;Grabe, Zhou & Barnett, 2001;Grabe, Zhou, Lang, & Bolls, 2000). While personalization of news events allows audiences to feel close to people and their stories (Puente, 1997), it has been criticized for relying on simplified archetypes (Alatorre, 1986;Martín Barbero, 1987;Real, 2001).…”

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“…While personalization of news events allows audiences to feel close to people and their stories (Puente, 1997), it has been criticized for relying on simplified archetypes (Alatorre, 1986;Martín Barbero, 1987;Real, 2001). Emotionalization, in turn, has been perceived as both the delivery of information about emotions (Van Zoonen, 2005) and the elicitation of emotional reactions from the audience through the use of techniques such as close-ups, camera movements, dramatic music, and color changes (Grabe et al, 2000;Grabe et al 2001;Russo, 2003). Even though these rhetorical devices also characterize sensationalism, what makes their use melodramatic is their combined use with personalization and information about emotions.…”

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How Chilean Editors perceive and define the role of melodrama in television News

Mujica¹,

Bachmann²

2015

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Several studies have addressed the role of drama and emotion in television news, oftentimes regarding them as opposed to quality journalism. Such approaches ignore the cultural resonance of melodramatic features in television newscasts in regions like Latin America, and pay little attention to how newsworkers perceive dramatic news and melodramatic treatment of news events. Based on in-depth interviews with 14 news editors from four major Chilean broadcasters, this study taps into their insights on audiovisual language and melodrama in television news. The findings suggest a common perception among Chilean editors of audiovisual language as inherently dramatic-emotional and close. Emotionalization and personalization are described as a communicative potential of television journalism, and melodrama is framed negatively as an excess of emotion that damages information.

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Packaging Television News: The Effects of Tabloid on Information Processing and Evaluative Responses

Cited by 122 publications

References 12 publications

The Mediated Moderation Model of Interactivity

The Mediated Moderation Model of Interactivity

Objectification of Subjectivity: International Experience in Selection of TV Stimuli in Mass Media Effect Research

How Chilean Editors perceive and define the role of melodrama in television News

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