The cognitive impact of television news
Subtitle: production attributes and information reception
By: Barrie Gunter
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781137468819
Subjects: Television broadcasting of  news; Television; Production and direction; Mass media; Psychological aspects; Television viewers; PERFORMING ARTS / Television / General; PERFORMING ARTS / Television / History & Criticism; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
Description: "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.  "--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Preface; title: How Much Do We Value TV News; title: Do We Remember Much from TV News?; title: How Does TV Compare with Other Media; title: Are Some TV News Stories Easier to Remember?; title: Does TV News Tell Stories in a Memorable Way?; title: Do Pictures Help or Hinder Our News Memories?; title: Is TV News Presented Too Fast?; title: Is the News on TV Packaged Helpfully?; title: Do We Need to Receive TV News More than Once?; title: Can TV News be Entertaining and Memorable?