Television's portrayal of the 1976 presidential debates: An analysis of visual content

Television coverage of Jesse Jackson's speech to the 1984 democratic national convention

“…Differences in judgment were rare and the reliability of the coded data is not regarded as a major concern. Coding of these kinds of data requires relatively little subjective judgment, and one can safely assume reliability of .90 or higher if independent judgments were made (see e.g., Tiemens, 1978 The detailed written description added insight into the coded visual content. Attention was given to style of clothing, facial expressions, flags, posters, unusual wearing apparel, and visual action.…”

The Reflection of Cultural Parameters on Videostyles of Televised Political Spots in the US and Korea

“…As Tiemens (1970) pointed out, it is a commonly accepted principle in motion picture and television production that vertical camera angle influences the perceived dominance or superiority of the person being photographed. For example, low-angle shots (making it appear as if the viewer is looking up at the camera's subject) will make subjects appear stronger, more authoritative, more dominant, and more imposing, whereas high-angle shots (where the viewer is looking down on the camera's subject) make the subject look less dominant and give the viewer a sense of strength and superiority to the subjects (Kaid & Johnston, 2001;Tiemens, 1978). When the object appeared to be at eye level, viewers' judgments are between the two extremes (Meyers-Levy & Peracchio, 1992).…”

Glance

“…We leverage the first hour of video from the presidential town hall debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. Presidential debates have long been subject to scientific analysis, examining as pects such as visual camera treatment [31], gesture anal ysis [10], and social media reactions to debate dynamics [30,15]. The video shows the two candidates interacting with each other, audience members, and the moderator.…”