TY - JOUR
T1 - Platform and Proximity
T2 - Audience Responses to Crime News on Desktop Computers and Smartphones
AU - Zhu, Di
AU - Johnson, Erika K.
AU - Bolls, Paul
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Broadcast Education Association.
PY - 2020/7/2
Y1 - 2020/7/2
N2 - This study explored how geographical proximity of news stories (local or international news stories) and bodily proximity of news platforms (reading news on a smartphone or desktop computer) affects people’s cognitive and emotional processing of news messages. The results suggested that geographical and bodily proximity interact to affect individuals’ attentional engagement with the news messages. Reading crime news that happens in a distant location on smartphones resulted in greater heart rate deceleration and self-perceived engagement, as compared to reading those stories on desktop computers.
AB - This study explored how geographical proximity of news stories (local or international news stories) and bodily proximity of news platforms (reading news on a smartphone or desktop computer) affects people’s cognitive and emotional processing of news messages. The results suggested that geographical and bodily proximity interact to affect individuals’ attentional engagement with the news messages. Reading crime news that happens in a distant location on smartphones resulted in greater heart rate deceleration and self-perceived engagement, as compared to reading those stories on desktop computers.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85089175200&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/08838151.2020.1796388
DO - 10.1080/08838151.2020.1796388
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85089175200
VL - 64
SP - 438
EP - 458
JO - Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media
JF - Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media
SN - 0883-8151
IS - 3
ER -