Effects of actualities in radio newscasts

Wulfemeyer, K. Tim; McFadden, Lori L.

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“…The questionnaires themselves incorporated several different methods, including five-point semantically enhanced scales, and seven-point 'Inclusion of the Other in the Self' diagrams -both of which are used in social psychology research into altruism (Batson et al, 1997;Cialdini et al, 1997). The method of using multiple-choice questions to test factual retention was drawn from a related study (Wulfemeyer and McFadden, 1985) and tailored to 'proper distance' by testing listeners' retention of contextual information (i.e. details about the causes and contexts of the civil war, and its impact on Congolese people) and agency-orientated information (i.e.…”

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“…The method of using multiple-choice questions to test factual retention was drawn from a related study (Wulfemeyer and McFadden, 1985) and tailored to 'proper distance' by testing listeners' retention of contextual information (i.e. details about the causes and contexts of the civil war, and its impact on Congolese people) and agency-orientated information (i.e.…”

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“…3 Today (2007) BBC Radio 4, 8 May 2007 to 11 May 2007, 6-9am. Available at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/reports/international/congo2_20070504.shtml 4 This is important because of previous work on the impact of actuality on factual retention of radio bulletins(Wulfemeyer and McFadden, 1985).…”

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Listening to suffering: What might ‘proper distance’ have to do with radio news?

Wright

2011

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This article investigates whether Roger Silverstone's notion of 'proper distance' provides the conceptual tools which are needed to assess the qualitative nature of radio listeners' responses to mediated representations of suffering -a vital issue in radio research, given the dependence of most critical theory about journalistic depictions of suffering on ideas of the visual.Specifically, it seeks to address practitioners' and theorists' concerns about the impact of framing on audience reactions, by using an audience study to examine whether beginning a series of packages of the civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo with a 'human interest' interview generated different kinds of responses to those generated when other kinds of framing methods were used. The series, which was broadcast on BBC Radio Four's Today programme, produced one of the greatest volumes of audience response in the programme's history.But rather than recommending 'proper distance' as the best theoretical tool with which to explore this phenomenon, this article advocates caution: questioning the 'workability' of Silverstone's ideas, their cross-cultural applicability, and their sensitivity to empirical evidence about radio listening.

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Section: Trying To Map 'Proper Distance' Empiricallymentioning

confidence: 99%