Seriously Entertained: Antecedents and Consequences of Hedonic and Eudaimonic Entertainment Experiences With Political Talk Shows on TV

Roth, Franziska S.; Weinmann, Carina; Schneider, Frank M.; Hopp, Frederic R.; Vorderer, Peter

doi:10.1080/15205436.2014.891135

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“…One reason could be that the clip imparted knowledge in an interesting way. A recent study by Roth, Weinmann, Schneider, Hopp, and Vorderer (2014) also found that informative television programs (in this case, serious political talk shows) can be appreciated. Furthermore, the topic of the excerpt was about the effects of caffeine, a topic that might be relevant for most students.…”

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“…The contribution of media use (including negatively valenced genres) to eudaimonic (entertainment) experiences has become generally accepted (e.g., Roth, Weinmann, Schneider, Hopp, & Vorderer, 2014), but has not yet been analyzed with regard to news consumption. It is unclear how news may affect experiences of personal growth, relatedness or mastery.…”

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News Consumption and Its Unpleasant Side Effect

Boukes

Vliegenthart

2017

Journal of Media Psychology

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News consumption and its unpleasant side effectBoukes, M.; Vliegenthart, R. General rights It is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the author(s) and/or copyright holder(s), other than for strictly personal, individual use, unless the work is under an open content license (like Creative Commons). Disclaimer/Complaints regulationsIf you believe that digital publication of certain material infringes any of your rights or (privacy) interests, please let the Library know, stating your reasons. In case of a legitimate complaint, the Library will make the material inaccessible and/or remove it from the website. Please Ask the Library: http://uba.uva.nl/en/contact, or a letter to: Library of the University of Amsterdam, Secretariat, Singel 425, 1012 WP Amsterdam, The Netherlands. You will be contacted as soon as possible. Abstract Following the news is generally understood as crucial for democracy as it allows citizens to politically participate in an informed manner; yet, one may wonder about the unintended side effects it has for the mental well-being of citizens. With news focusing on the negative and worrisome events in the world, framing that evokes a sense of powerlessness, and lack of entertainment value, this study hypothesizes that news consumption decreases mental well-being via negative hedonic experiences; thereby, we differentiate between hard and soft news. Using a panel survey in combination with latent growth curve modeling (n = 2767), we demonstrate that the consumption of hard news television programs has a negative effect on the overtime development of mental well-being. Soft news consumption, by contrast, has a marginally positive impact on the trend in well-being. This can be explained by the differential topic focus, framing and style of soft news vis-a-vis hard news. Investigating the effects of news consumption on mental well-being provides insight into the impact news exposure has on variables other than the political ones, which definitively are not less societally relevant.Keywords: news consumption; mental well-being; hedonic experiences; negativity; hard versus soft news.1 Please refer to this paper as follows: Boukes, M. & Vliegenthart, R. (2017). News consumption and its unpleasant side effect: Studying the effect of hard and soft news exposure on mental well-being over time. Italy; the Amsterdam police fighting drugs-related crime; an 11 year-old boy who stabbed two other boys in Landgraaf; the war in Ukraine; more children being hospitalized for alcohol abuse; Ebola in Liberia; financial problems of the European Union regarding Greece; the development of artificial skin for people with health problems. Except for the last, a long list of stories that probably not leave the viewer with feelings of joy and hope (i.e., hedonic experiences) but may rather evoke anger and fear.Following the news, nevertheless, is generally understood to be desirable behavior as it would be crucial for the functioning of democracy (Althaus, 2012). ...

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“…Unfortunately, however, the study by Mattheiß and collaborators did not differentiate between hedonic and eudaimonic entertainment experiences. A representative survey by Roth, Weinmann, Schneider, Hopp, and Vorderer (), however, extended this line of research and identified a different connection between the relevant variables: It finds that it is not the hedonic entertainment experiences that contribute to the feeling of being informed but rather eudaimonic entertainment experiences. From the perspective of Roth et al (), it is more likely that eudaimonic experiences lead to a feeling of being informed and likely even to better information processing.…”

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From Mood to Meaning: The Changing Model of the User in Entertainment Research

Vorderer

Reinecke

2015

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In recent years, entertainment theory has undergone a paradigmatic shift: The traditional conceptualization of entertainment as an exclusively pleasurable affective state has been significantly extended by recent two‐factor models. These models have introduced a second dimension of entertainment that incorporates more complex nonhedonic experiences, such as the search for meaning or intrinsic need satisfaction. They have not only crucially altered the way communication scholars conceptualize the audience of media entertainment but also our discipline's view on the effects of entertaining media content. The present article discusses the implications of this changing model of the media user both for entertainment theory and research as well as for the discipline of communication as a whole.

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Seriously Entertained: Antecedents and Consequences of Hedonic and Eudaimonic Entertainment Experiences With Political Talk Shows on TV

Cited by 47 publications

References 35 publications

Appreciation in the Face of Death: Meaningful Films Buffer Against Death-Related Anxiety

Appreciation in the Face of Death: Meaningful Films Buffer Against Death-Related Anxiety

News Consumption and Its Unpleasant Side Effect

From Mood to Meaning: The Changing Model of the User in Entertainment Research

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