Cognitive Impact of Television News - Production Attributes and Information Reception

"The Cognitive Impact of Television News examines how much information people get from televised news. While people around the world consistently nominate TV as their most important news source, research has shown that its actual impact does not usually measure up to viewers' own beliefs about it. Televised news can impart important information to people that they value and can use in many ways, but more often much of the content of news bulletins is lost to viewers within moments. Broadcast news professionals pride themselves of producing objective, timely, balanced and comprehensive coverage of events of the day, yet viewers can take away misleading and incomplete impressions of those events. Although viewers do not always pay close attention to bulletins when watching TV, a significant part is played in the loss of news information to news audiences by the way the news is written, packaged and presented. News professionals use production techniques that can distort information or cause confusion in viewers. This book examines research evidence to show how such information losses can occur. "--

List of contents

Preface 1. How Much Do We Value TV News? 2. Do We Remember Much from TV News? 3. How Does TV Compare with Other Media? 4. Are Some TV News Stories Easier to Remember? 5. Does TV News Tell Stories in a Memorable Way? 6. Do Pictures Help or Hinder Our News Memories? 7. Is TV News Presented Too Fast? 8. Is the News on TV Packaged Helpfully? 9. Do We Need to Receive TV News More than Once? 10. Can TV News be Entertaining and Memorable? References Index

Product details

• Authors: B Gunter, B. Gunter, Barrie Gunter
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.02.2015
• EAN: 9781137468819
• ISBN: 978-1-137-46881-9
• No. of pages: 234
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; B, Media Studies, Culture, Sociology, Sociology of Culture, Communication, Film History, Media and Communication, Media Research, Media Sociology, Social groups: religious groups & communities, Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Film and Television Studies, Film and TV History, Screen Studies, Motion pictures—History, Motion pictures and television, Film history, theory & criticism, Film history, theory or criticism