Radio

Sweeting, Andrew

doi:10.1016/b978-0-444-62721-6.00008-1

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“…It was not until the 1930s, however, that radio stations were running newscasts every day. Stations agreed to air the news for 5 min and tell stories that were no more than 12 hr old ( Sweeting, 2015 ). During this period, radio access was highly uneven.…”

Section: The Evolution Of Storiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Stories in Action

Walsh,

Vaida,

Coman

et al. 2022

Psychol Sci Public Interest

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Stories have played a central role in human social and political life for thousands of years. Despite their ubiquity in culture and custom, however, they feature only peripherally in formal government policymaking. Government policy has tended to rely on tools with more predictable responses—incentives, transfers, and prohibitions. We argue that stories can and should feature more centrally in government policymaking. We lay out how stories can make policy more effective, specifying how they complement established policy tools. We provide a working definition of stories’ key characteristics, contrasting them with other forms of communication. We trace the evolution of stories from their ancient origins to their role in mediating the impact of modern technologies on society. We then provide an account of the mechanisms underlying stories’ impacts on their audiences. We conclude by describing three functions of stories—learning, persuasion, and collective action.

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Section: The Evolution Of Storiesmentioning

confidence: 99%