Exemplification in Communication: the influence of Case Reports on the Perception of Issues

by Hans-Bernd Brosius and Dolf Zillmann

Book Overview

This volume offers a new conceptual framework for exemplification, a coherent theoretical approach based on contemporary psychological models of information processing, and an exhaustive integration of the pertinent research demonstrations. Focus is on the news media, but the influence of fiction and quasi-fiction is also considered. The informational competition between concrete, verbal, or pictorial exemplification and abstract, mostly quantitative...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805828109
• ISBN13: 9780805828108
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"