Sex,Presentation Mode and Memory for Violent and Non‐violent News

A sample of 68 university undergraduates were presented with a sequence of violent and nonviolent news stories either audiovisually (via television), in audio only or in print. Subjects were tested for cued recall of story content immediately after presentation. There was a significant main effect of presentation mode: recall of news was best from print and worst in the audiovisual condition. Significant interaction occurred between sex, mode and news type: males recalled violent news better than non‐violent news, while for females the reverse was true. Males also recalled violent news much better than females in the audiovisual mode, but no such difference occurred in any other mode. Results indicate that reading the news can produce better retention than listening to or watching it. Furthermore, the presentation of violent news stories audiovisually (on videotape) can produce especially impaired memory performance among female viewers.     

A Dual Effect of Pictorial Enrichment in Learning from Television News: Gunter's data revisited

An impairing effect of TV visuals reported by Gunter in this journal in 1980 appears to be inconsistent with other recent findings, which have suggested beneficial effects of still and film visualisations on news learning. Re‐examination of Gunter's data reveals that visual enrichment of news stories influenced learning in two distinct ways. Pictures reduced the recall of concurrently presented spoken information, but at the same time enhanced the recall of information presented in ‘talking head’ lead‐ins which preceded them.     

RECALL OF BRIEF TELEVISION NEWS ITEMS: EFFECTS OF PRESENTATION MODE,PICTURE CONTENT AND SERIAL POSITION

An experiment was conducted to examine the effects of presentation mode, picture content and serial position upon the recall of brief television news items. Fifteen items were presented in either video or audio‐only mode to 40 subjects. Within the video mode, five items contained film footage, five contained still pictures and five consisted of the newscaster only.

Recall of the items was significantly better following video presentation than after audio‐only presentation; and in the video mode, film items were recalled significantly more often than still picture items, which were in turn recalled significantly more often than no‐picture items. Significant serial position effects occurred across all items in the audio mode, and over still picture and no‐picture items, but not film items in the video mode.

The results are discussed in terms of various imagery hypotheses.     

Children's Recall of Televised and Printed News as a Function of Test Expectation

An exploratory study was carried out to investigate the relative effectiveness of news stories watched on television and news stories read by children. Children aged 10 to 12 (n = 123) either watched five news stories or read print versions of the same news stories. In each condition, half of the children expected a retention test, whereas the other children did not. Results indicated that children who did not expect a retention test learned more from television news than from printed news. Among children who expected a retention test, televised and printed news were recalled about equally well.     

电视民生新闻的故事化表达

"电视民生新闻"是电视实践层面出现的较新的节目类型,从萌芽到兴起,它不仅获得较高的收视率,还受到学界的普遍关注。论文以理论和实践相结合的方式对这一特定节目讲故事的方式进行解读,解析它独特新闻构架下的编播技巧、和其他新闻节目之间的关联及区别以及它在新闻传媒话语格局中不可替代的话语空间作用。     

Effectiveness of multimedia reading materials when used with children who are deaf

The purpose of the study was to assess the relative effectiveness of print, sign, and pictures in the transfer of reading-related information to children who are deaf. By means of personal computers, deaf children were presented CD-ROM-generated stories in four different formats: print only, print plus pictures, print plus sign language, and print plus pictures plus sign. A repeated-measure design was used to analyze participants' reading comprehension performance. Significant differences were found among the four presentation options. One observed phenomenon was that participants would switch from American Sign Language to Signed English when analyzing text. The study findings suggest that presenting stories on CD-ROM with multiple modes of reading cues, such as print, pictures, and sign language, may be an enjoyable and interesting supplement to standard reading practices.     

When the child gets in the news? A case study on the national written media in Turkey

The main purpose of this study is to analyze news stories regarding children in the national print media in the last five years using top eight newspapers in terms of circulation and evaluate these news stories based on the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which was issued by the UN and signed by Turkey. The research was undertaken as a case study. The study data were collected from top eight newspapers in terms of circulation between 2010 and 2014 in order to reveal when and how newspapers at national level represent children and the scientific content of impressions in the national media. Results show that children appear in the national media in mostly negative cases. In conclusion, it was observed in this study, children’s rights to life, development, protection, and participation were violated at both national and international levels. In this sense, news reflects the truth about “children’s rights violations”. However, the way that children appear in news and reflection in media constitute a secondary children’s rights violation.     

US news media portrayal of Islam and Muslims: a corpus-assisted Critical Discourse Analysis

This article exploits the synergy of critical discourse studies and Corpus Linguistics to study the pervasive representation of Islam and Muslims in an approximate 670,000-word corpus of US news media stories published between 2001 and 2015. Following collocation and concordance analysis of the most frequent topics or categories which revolve around the representation of Islam and Muslims in US news stories, the Discourse-Historical Approach to critical discourse analysis was adopted to investigate how the discursive strategies of nomination (construction of in-groups and out-groups) and predication (labeling social actors more or less positively or negatively) are used in US news media stories. The findings indicated that, in general, Islam and Muslims are associated with violence, religious radicalism, and Islamic extremist militants. Finally, the article discusses the discursive themes resulting from the analysis of personal pronouns as well as the educational implications of the findings for social studies and multicultural education.     

Higher education coverage in Boston newspapers: A content analysis

The following content analysis examined for one month the quantity and type of higher education articles in the two Boston metropolitan daily newspapers. Articles were measured and assigned to eight major categories: sports, features, news, editorial pages, columns, news analysis, reviews, and photos with cutline only. Results of the study indicated that both newspapers had more spot news stories only a few inches in length rather than in-depth feature articles concerning the major issues and trends facing higher education today. Editorials, columns, news analysis articles, and reviews received little coverage. Data also showed that the most prestigious, well-known universities received the greatest amount of coverage.     

Environmental learning in online social networks: adopting environmentally responsible behaviors

Online social networks are increasingly important information and communication tools for young people and for the environmental movement. Networks may provide the motivation for young adults to increase environmental behaviors by increasing their knowledge of environmental issues and of the specific actions they can take to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This study examined an application within Facebook.com – the largest online social network in the world – that allowed users to post climate change news stories from other websites and comment on those stories. A survey revealed that users of the social networking application reported above average knowledge of climate change science and that self‐reported environmental behaviors increased during young people's involvement with the Facebook application. Focus groups indicated that peer role modeling through interaction on the site motivated pro‐environmental behaviors, that is, behavior that seeks to minimize the negative impact of one's actions on the natural and built world. Participation in a community of like‐minded users spurred many participants to learn more about climate change and do more to limit its impact.     

从娱乐新闻到新闻的娱乐化浅谈

娱乐新闻是不是新闻,从学术角度看,娱乐新闻肯定不同于过去我们习以为常的严肃新闻,它甚至与我们通常理解的社会新闻也有很大的差别。传播学者刘宏认为,娱乐新闻是根据现代人的某种需要而生产出来供一部分人消费的信息产品。在娱乐新闻大行其道的今天,娱乐新闻的具备了越来越广阔的市场。那么,新闻的娱乐化是否就是所谓的"娱乐新闻"呢?首先我们必须看到,新闻娱乐化已经成为一种世界性的趋势,事实上,新闻的娱乐化,是现代新闻的一种表现方式,一种表达手段,它在内容上偏重于软新闻,消减了新闻当中严肃的比例,从严肃的政治、经济变动中去挖掘新闻的娱乐价值。在表现形式上,新闻的娱乐化强调故事性、情节性,并适度加入了人情味因素,强化了事件的戏剧悬念、冲突或煽情、刺激的方面,走新闻故事化、新闻文学化道路。如何正确看待新闻娱乐化,我们应当遵循新闻发展的客观规律。     

电视新闻栏目剧的特色与内涵

以新闻故事为主要形式的电视新闻栏目剧是民生新闻板块的一个重要组成部分,它用电视栏目剧的方式演绎新闻,兼有新闻和电视剧的双重特点,既有新闻的即时性、新闻性,又有文学的情节化情感性特点。电视新闻栏目剧继承了中国古代说书艺术的传统,是当下电视文化中最为中国化大众化,最为大众喜闻乐见的节目形式。     

评《广州日报》新闻报道的平民性

《广州日报》树立符合时代进步的新理念 ,改变了新闻报道居高临下的形象。内容上贴近受众的需要 ,报道受众欲知应知而未知的重要事实 ,评述受众关注的热点、难点问题 ,反映平民的生活与情感。形式上贴近受众的喜好 ,吸引受众参与 ,强化传受互动 ,采用受众喜爱的表达方式。增强了新闻报道的平民情结。     

Newsworthiness and Islam: An Analysis of Values in the Muslim Online Press

This study examined how the values of the Islamic faith may have an impact on news reporting in several Middle Eastern nations. An analysis of 1,773 stories from 10 online Middle Eastern newspapers indicated that Islam as a way of life has an effect on how domestic news was structured in the presentation of news topic, the actors in the news, the positive or negative orientation of the news, and the use of sources. Previous explanations of newsworthiness in Middle Eastern societies that do not consider the impact of Islamic values may be incomplete in their evaluation of the press.     

大学英语研究生听力教学初探

非英语专业的研究生听力教学应注意合理安排课堂内容 ,将其内容设计为听故事、听托福、听新闻 ,会收到很好的教学效果     

Media reviews

Summary The Discovery of Dawn left us feeling that the subject of eating disorders was well presented. The video did not hold back in portraying the possible result of eating disorders — death. Clips of Karen Carpenter and a newscaster emphasized the fact that eating disorders are a dangerous problem     

Tackling multimodal news: Some implications of critical analytical research on the ‘children overboard’ affair

Abstract

Accounting for front‐page news puts pressure on analytical resources, especially when news‐making is characterised by features such as overt political intervention in visual (photographic) and verbal (attribution) news data; explicit references to and investment in visual news to support political claims about news‐makers; and significant changes over time to a story, moving it from public scandal, through media disclosure to political defence. This article offers an account of how I tackled these analytical challenges in my research into the ‘children overboard’ affair in Australian newspapers.

The affair was generated from a false claim by Liberal Party ministers that asylum seekers threw their children overboard to coerce the Australian Navy into rescuing them. The story became front‐page news in October, 2001, helped to provide the Coalition with another term in office and greatly influenced public discourse about refugees and border protection. The article shows how I analysed semiotic resources such as voicing (in verbal news) and framing (in visual news) to track changes in this affair. It argues that political interventions in these semiotic resources (what I call ‘first‐order discourse') were pivotal in the management of news about asylum seekers. The article concludes by highlighting some implications of the methodology for critical analysis of multimodal news discourse.     

电视新闻表达探析

随着社会进步和时代变迁,观众对电视新闻的消费观念也发生了很大变化,电视新闻的服务功能和娱乐功能更加凸显。从讲故事、抓细节等方面,在电视新闻与古今中外其他艺术样式的同质构建和比较研究中,对电视新闻的表达进行探析。