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Publication details [#44743]

Yaros, Ronald A. 2006. Is It the Medium or the Message? Structuring Complex News to Enhance Engagement and Situational Understanding by Nonexperts. Communication Research 33 (4) : 285–309.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

content1 | engagement | message1 | news reporting | understanding

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This study, drawing on cognitive models of text comprehension, explores how complex news structures affect readers with little or no expertise with regard to the science and technology content (of, for example, New York Time stories).