Title: Interpreting television news /
Authors: Schaap, Gabi, 1972-
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Television broadcasting of news.; Television viewers Research.
Abstract: "Television news range among the most extensively investigated topics in communication studies. The book contributes to television news research by focusing on whether and how news viewers who watch the same news program form similar or different interpretations. The author develops a novel concept of interpretation based on cognitive complexity research. He strongly argues that qualitative and quantitative research methods work best if they complement one another."--Jacket.
Contents: Introduction / Gabi Schaap Schaap -- Three decades of television news research : an action theoretical inventory of issues and problems / Gabi Schaap, Karsten Renckstorf, Fred Wester -- Conceptualizing television news interpretation by its viewers : the concept of interpretive complexity / Gabi Schaap, Ruben Konig, Karsten Renckstorf, Fred Wester -- Using protocol analysis in television news research : proposal and first tests / Gabi Schaap -- Measuring the complexity of viewers' television news interpretation : differentiation / Gabi Schaap, Ruben Konig, Karsten Renckstorf, Fred Wester -- Measuring the complexity of viewers' television news interpretation : integration / Gabi Schaap, Ruben Konig, Karsten Renckstorf, Fred Wester -- The complexity of television news interpretation : main study / Gabi Schaap -- Interpreting television news : summary, discussion and look to the future / Gabi Schaap.