Television News and the Informed Public: An Information-Processing Approach

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What men and women think while watching the news: An exploration

“…Notwithstanding these progressive insights, this line of research has been criticized for founding their research solely on the researcher's or journalist's assessment of what is important to remember or correct to understand (Robinson and Davis, 1990). Critical communication research (cf.…”

“…Much television news research is rooted in cognitive psychology, applying concepts from information processing theory to study recall and comprehension of television news items (cf. Findahl and Höijer, 1985;Giegler and Ruhrmann, 1990;Robinson and Davis, 1990;Woodall, Davis, and Sahin, 1983). Theory and research within this tradition have resulted in a better understanding of how people remember and understand the news (Berry, 1983;Woodall, Davis, and Sahin, 1983).…”

“…When?) (Robinson and Davis, 1990), that could be of interest to primarily the male news viewers, thus explaining the relatively poor performance of women on recall tests. Hendriks Vettehen and Schaap suggest a more 'audience centered' measure of recall; this could provide a more complete picture of news processing than traditional recall measures do, at least as far as gender related differences in recall are conBrought to you by | Radboud University Nijmegen (Radboud University Nijm Authenticated | 172.16.1.226 Download Date | 7/11/12 10:51 AM cerned.…”

Bridging the spheres: political and personal conversation in public and private spaces

“…Talk about issues in the news has also been shown to increase markedly respondents' understanding of the news itself (Robinson & Levy, 1986;Robinson & Davis, 1990). Further, controversial issues that prompt wide discussion have been shown to decrease the size of knowledge gaps among populations (Tichenor, Donohue, & alien, 1980).…”

Behavioral Consequences of Conflict-Oriented Health News Coverage: The 2009 Mammography Guideline Controversy and Online Information Seeking

“…Scholars suggest this occurs because (1) television has less space to work with, which results in less coverage and less information presented to the consumer, and (2) newspapers allow readers to consume the information at their own pace, which encourages deeper processing and ultimately better learning. Television, on the other hand, determines the pace of consumption for the viewer (Robinson & Davis, 1990;Robinson & Levy, 1986). In the case of the current study, it is possible that newspaper coverage facilitated learning about the guidelines in a way that satisfied the readers' needs, while television left them uncertain about aspects of the recommendations, thus driving them online for more information.…”