6533b839fe1ef96bd12a6e7d

RESEARCH PRODUCT

Today's news — tomorrow's context: A dynamic model of news processing

Gregor DaschmannHans Mathias Kepplinger

subject

Reflection (computer programming)Content analysisComputer scienceCommunicationMedia coverageContext (language use)AdvertisingMedia relationsInformationSystems_MISCELLANEOUSNews mediaMeaning (linguistics)

description

We are proposing a feedback model of news processing, assuming that news reception is guided by media input as well as by existing cognitive structures. However, these structures are in turn shaped by former media coverage. In our study we examine viewers’ processing of TV news, comparing objective news content (content analysis) to subjective meaning of news stories (viewer interviews). Results show that viewers interpret information about new events in the context of past events, themselves mainly a reflection of former media coverage.

https://doi.org/10.1080/08838159709364426