Redefining Media Content and Structure in Terms of Available Resources: Toward a Dynamic Human-Centric Theory of Communication.

This study reconceptualizes redundancy, complexity, and emotion in terms of cognitive load (specifically as resources allocated and required), then measures the combined real-time impact of these variables on available resources and encoding over the course of an hour television news program. Operat...

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Publicado en:Communication Research Vol. 42; no. 5; pp. 599 - 626
Autores principales: Lee, Sungkyoung, Lang, Annie
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Sage Publications Inc. Jul2015
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