Informing Citizens: How People with Different Levels of Education Process Television, Newspaper, and Web News

Interest in News and Politics—or Situational Determinants? Why People Watch the News

“…As noted, political content on TV is assumed to be more accessible than political information in other media, because of the former's audio-visual and entertaining forms of presentation (Grabe, Kamhawi, & Yegiyan, 2009;Graber, 1990). The interrelation between viewer interests and situational factors might explain why news programs reach both the interested and the uninterested viewers, albeit for different purposes.…”

The Impact of Melodramatic News Coverage on Information Recall and Comprehension

“…In the last two decades, several scholars have explored the effects on viewers' recall and comprehension of information of news stories presented in a melodramatic fashion (e.g., Grabe, Bas, and van Driel 2015;Grabe, Kamhawi, and Yegiyan 2009;Grabe, Zhou, and Barnett 2001;Grabe et al 2000;Graber 1996;Lang et al 1999;Zhou 2005). Lang et al (1999) consider the limited capacity model to argue that how many cognitive resources are actually allocated by a viewer in a particular news report depends, on the one hand, on story processing and the incorporation of rhetorical procedures that suggest the viewer must pay attention (orienting responses), and, on the other hand, on content characteristics such as relevance, difficulty, and presence of emotion.…”

Connecting blog, Twitter and Facebook use with gaps in knowledge and participation

“…Communication media may not increase political knowledge directly, but widen the gap of knowledge between people with different level of SES (Grabe, Kamhawi, & Yegiyan , 2009;Tichenor, Donohue, & Olien, 1970). When Tichenor and colleagues (1970) first proposed the knowledge gap hypothesis, they thought the gap increased because elites adapt to new technology faster.…”