This experiment investigated the influence of news frame types on the emotional response of news viewers. The study examined whether a new way of producing news that uses ordinary informers in the production of online news can have a meaningful impact...
This experiment investigated the influence of news frame types on the emotional response of news viewers. The study examined whether a new way of producing news that uses ordinary informers in the production of online news can have a meaningful impact on the emotional response of news viewers. This experiment employs 2×2 factorial design to measure such as news frame (thematic frame,episodic frame)×the informant type (normal people, experts) the emotional response of news viewers which under some different experimental setting conditions.
The main results are as follows. According to different news frames, the vividness of news content felt by news viewers is also different. News viewers who convey the episodic framework of news events by watching the specific behavior, motivation, psychology and other internal elements of the people related to the event will feel that the news content is more vivid and more humanized. Citing ordinary informant in the news also made the news viewers more engaged in reading the news and have more emotional feelings after reading it. The results of this study indicate that appropriate use of different types of news frames and reference agents in online news reports may have different effects on the feelings generated by news viewers. In particular, the emotional response of news viewers were most affected by the use of episodic frames and references to ordinary informants. Based on the results of this study, in order to increase the emotional response of news viewers and get positive news evaluation, it may be helpful to use episodic frames that can arouse interest and ordinary informer who can give the news content a vivid sense during the news production.