Working Through Political Entertainment: How Negative Emotion and Narrative Engagement Encourage Political Discussion Intent in Young Americans

Landreville, Kristen D.; LaMarre, Heather L.

doi:10.1080/01463373.2011.563441

Cited by 18 publications

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“…Our data cannot support either notion. From our results we would argue (like others before us; e.g., Baum, 2005; Holbert, 2014; Moy, Xenos, & Hess, 2005; Prior, 2003; Young, 2008; for an overview see Landreville & LaMarre, 2011) that some fun in political content is not necessarily a bad thing, the mixture between fun and seriousness is the important factor. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart , which has been argued to contain as much political humor as serious journalism (Baym, 2005; Brewer & Marquardt, 2007; Fox, Koloen, & Sahin, 2007), might be a prototype for such a combination.…”

Section: Theoretical and Practical Implicationssupporting

confidence: 79%

Curving entertainment: The curvilinear relationship between hedonic and eudaimonic entertainment experiences while watching a political talk show and its implications for information processing.

Roth

Weinmann

Schneider

et al. 2018

Psychology of Popular Media Culture

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Two studies were conducted to test the relation between hedonic and eudaimonic entertainment experiences as well as their respective influence on information processing while watching a political talk show on TV. Assumptions from entertainment theory and positive psychology served as theoretical basis. A curvilinear relationship between hedonic and eudaimonic entertainment experiences was found through an online survey (N = 675). The second study (N = 132) was an experiment in which hedonic entertainment experiences were manipulated. Again, a curvilinear relationship between both entertainment experiences was detected. Furthermore, entertainment experiences were associated with information processing in a meaningful pattern. These results point to the distinct relationships and effects of different forms of entertainment experiences. Implications for political media and entertainment education are discussed.

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Section: Theoretical and Practical Implicationssupporting

confidence: 79%

Curving entertainment: The curvilinear relationship between hedonic and eudaimonic entertainment experiences while watching a political talk show and its implications for information processing.

Roth

Weinmann

Schneider

et al. 2018

Psychology of Popular Media Culture

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“…Oliver et al (2012) found that cognitive engagement in news was a precursor to audience effects, and that narrative news stories produced changes in emotion, attitudes, intentions, and behavior. Other research has found that audience involvement predicts story-consistent outcomes, including increased empathy, positive attitudes toward marginalized groups, intention to seek out more information, and intent to engage in political discussions (Bilandzic et al, 2010;Landreville and LaMarre, 2011;Oliver et al, 2012).…”

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A narrative solution: The relationship between solutions journalism, narrative transportation, and news trust

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Lack of trust is a paramount problem facing journalism. Solutions reporting, which focuses on credible responses to societal problems, could help improve news trust. In addition, narrative journalism has been associated with several positive outcomes. This study tested the novel idea that solutions stories and narrative transportation can positively impact news trust and story-specific beliefs. A 2 (story frame) × 3 (story topic) between-subjects factorial design experiment with a representative sample of US adults ( N = 608) was used to test these relationships. Participants who read solutions stories and who were more transported had greater faith that the articles they read were fair and truthful and also indicated greater agreement with story-specific beliefs. However, analyses indicated that transportation did not act as a mediator between solutions stories and the outcome variables. Findings suggest that crafting engaging journalism stories including solutions could be good for the industry and for democracy.

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“…For viewers of pure fiction, instead, the connection with the real world may be more remote. And heightened narrative engagement, we know, makes discussion more likely (Landreville & LaMarre, 2011). At the same time, docudramas may lend themselves for more fact-checking activities than, say, documentaries, precisely because they represent a confusing mix of reality and fiction.…”

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Historical Dramas, Current Political Choices: Analyzing Partisan Selective Exposure With a Docudrama

Valenzuela

Brandão

2015

Mass Communication and Society

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This study investigates the docudrama hypothesis-the idea that fiction based on real stories can influence audience members' perception of political reality-in the context of current debates on partisan selective exposure and reinforcement effects. It does so by analyzing the influence of an Oscarnominated docudrama on viewers' attitudes and behavioral intention using propensity score matching. By means of a representative survey, we find strong evidence of partisan selective exposure and avoidance. Furthermore, among respondents with a similar likelihood of film attendance, actual attendance has a strong association with positive retrospective evaluations of the political coalition glorified in the movie, and an indirect relationship-via retrospective evaluations-with voting intentions. Discussion of the findings shed light into potential real-world political effects of partisan selective exposure using content other than news.

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Working Through Political Entertainment: How Negative Emotion and Narrative Engagement Encourage Political Discussion Intent in Young Americans

Cited by 18 publications

References 57 publications

Curving entertainment: The curvilinear relationship between hedonic and eudaimonic entertainment experiences while watching a political talk show and its implications for information processing.

Curving entertainment: The curvilinear relationship between hedonic and eudaimonic entertainment experiences while watching a political talk show and its implications for information processing.

A narrative solution: The relationship between solutions journalism, narrative transportation, and news trust

Historical Dramas, Current Political Choices: Analyzing Partisan Selective Exposure With a Docudrama

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