How the imagined audience is involved and represented in TV news broadcasts

Audience Reactions to Local TV News

A survey measuring audience reactions to local television news was administered to middle school/high school students, college students, and senior citizens. The majority in each population reported watching the news to learn about the world. They agreed that news is mostly about violent events and that such news causes them to worry and to feel that the world is not a safe place. Significant s...

How is time represented in the brain?

Behaviorally relevant sensory signals are not constant in time but vary on many scales. A sudden or gradual change in the patterns of a visual scene or the precise time course of an acoustic communication signal contain information that is of most importance for an organism, not the mean illumination level or mean sound intensity. To process and interpret time-varying signals in a meaningful wa...

News, Nationalism, and the Imagined Community

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Story Tracking in Video News Broadcasts

Constructing the Audience Constructing the News

Each new medium (from print to television) has introduced a series of ratings technologies which, predominantly, quantifies the audience as passive commodity, i.e., as a number which is “delivered” by the broadcasters and “bought” by the advertisers. New electronic media demand a representation of audience that breaks with the traditional audience-as-commodity representation. Contemporary telev...