Television news information gain from interesting video vs. talking heads

Edwardson, Mickie; Grooms, Donald; Proudlove, Susanne

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“…These have consistently pointed to a superiority of items with pictorial material over 'talking head' items, both in the free recall of news spots (Katz, Adoni & Pamess, 1977;Gunter, 1979) and in the cued recall of longer stories (Findahl, 1971;Renckstorf, 1977, Edwardson, Grooms & Proudlove, 1981). …”

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A Dual Effect of Pictorial Enrichment in Learning from Television News: Gunter's data revisited

Berry

1983

Journal of Educational Television

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A Dual Effect of Pictorial Enrichment in Learning from Television News: Gunter's data revisited

Berry

1983

Journal of Educational Television

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“…This contrasts with the situation in the early 1980s, when Berry, Gunter, and Clifford (1982) noted that although earlier studies on visual format had been inconclusive, more consistent evidence was emerging that pictures generally aid learning. These authors cited a number of laboratory findings with simulated or actual bulletins which showed better probed recall of detailed verbal information with still or film pictures than with none (Findahl, 1971;Stauffer, Frost and Rybolt, 1981) or with a 'talking head' (Findahl, 1981;Renckstorf, 1980;Edwardson, Grooms, and Proudlove, 1981). Although Edwardson, Grooms, and Pringle (1976), Sanders (1977), and Gunter (1980) had reported no visual format effects, no studies had shown worse learning with 'enriched' picture forms than with sound-only or 'talking head'.…”

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Multiple effects of visual format on TV news learning

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Brosius

1991

Applied Cognitive Psychology

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Two experiments were conducted on edited TV newscast sequences to clarify effects of film accompaniment on learning from heard news text. In Experiment 1,150 British subjects viewed a sequence with either film format throughout or alternating film and 'talking head' format between items. Those items that were presented by 'talking heads' in the mixed sequence were learned better with film format, in which the heard text was accompanied by appropriate moving pictures. However, no effect of uniform context was found on the remaining items. In Experiment 2, 91 German subjects viewed one of four versions of a bulletin, one with 'talking head', one with film throughout, the other two having complementary mixed-format patterns. Besides confirming a beneficial effect of film presentation over 'talking head' which accords with the findings of all studies of learning from material in the form of national network newscasts, the results showed an impairing effect of uniform visual format. This can explain 'contradictory' findings, notably with atypical test material.Despite progress in identifying presentation and viewer factors in learning from television newscasts (Wooddall, Davis, and Sahin

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“…In fact, experimental reception studies have suggested that viewers not only appreciate edited news reports compared to live formats (Snoeijer et al 2002), but moreover that they recall (ibid. ), comprehend and retain the report better (Edwardson et al 1981, Graber 1990, Brosius 1991, Snoeijer et al 2002, Machill et al 2007). On the other hand, television journalism must adapt to ondemand viewership.…”

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“…The narrativization has thus been problematized, as it cuts up the sources' discourses into sound and image bites (Griffin 1992: 124-125, Hallin 1992Barnhurst and Steele 1997, Sand and Helland 1998: 231, Baym 2004: 295, Eriksson 2006. Concurrently, however, it has been acknowledged because edited news reports are apparently easier to comprehend, retain and recall compared to live talk formats (Edwardson et al 1981, Graber 1990, Brosius 1991, Snoeijer et al 2002, Machill et al 2007.…”

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Return of the Talking Heads

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The present article suggests that the brief history of Western television news dramaturgy can be expounded as three major waves: from the early days of the talking heads in the studio, over the narrativization of the field report to a (re-)current studio-and field-based talking heads format. In order to analyze the latest development entering the third wave, we propose a theoretically based dramaturgical model for the television news item. The analysis concludes that, with the current 'return' of the talking heads format, the pre-produced and pre-packaged bulletin program about past events is dissolving and transforming into an evaluative present-and future-oriented update format that resembles the 24-hour newsonly channels. Production time merges with broadcast time so that the uncertainty of live spreads to the dramaturgy.

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Television news information gain from interesting video vs. talking heads

Cited by 37 publications

References 7 publications

A Dual Effect of Pictorial Enrichment in Learning from Television News: Gunter's data revisited

A Dual Effect of Pictorial Enrichment in Learning from Television News: Gunter's data revisited

Multiple effects of visual format on TV news learning

Return of the Talking Heads

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