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In: | Communications, 43, 2018, 2, S. 235-257 |
veröffentlicht: |
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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Medientyp: | Artikel, E-Artikel |
Umfang: | 235-257 |
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ISSN: |
1613-4087
0341-2059 |
DOI: | 10.1515/commun-2017-0054 |
veröffentlicht in: | Communications |
Sprache: | Unbestimmt |
Schlagwörter: | |
Kollektion: | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (CrossRef) |
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>In their depictions of scandalized politicians, journalists frequently use news images that highlight the (alleged) isolation of politicians. To test how this way of portraying political actors affects a recipient’s attitudes and his/her guilt perception toward such a scandalized politician an experiment was conducted. All participants were exposed to the identical textual information. However, the visual information (degree of isolation) was systematically altered. A multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA) showed that participants – exposed to a visual highlighting the isolation of the politician – evaluated the politician in a significantly more negative way and rated other recipients’ perceptions of the politician’s level of guilt to be higher.</jats:p> |