Audience and Processing of the Textual and Subtextual TV messages: the effect of Audience determination and accordance of themes of messages on Anamnesis

Document Type : Original Article

Author

assistant prof. in psychology of IRIB Uni.

Abstract
Development of media technology allows providing simultaneous playback of multiple messages in the forms of text and subtext messages on television. Textual Messages are the same conventional programs that accounted the screen, and sub textual messages viewed below the screen in the form of scrollable bar, and thematically can be coordinated or uncoordinated with each other. Media officials tend to make optimum use of both the text and subtext to their capacity. Regarding proposes of the audience, information processing limitations of active memory and dual process theory considerations, the brain's consideration and processing of the messages effectively at the same time is the question. Current study, investigates the respondent’s target states in two, determined/undetermined conditions with interaction to accordance/ discordance of the messages. In addition, has studied its influences on the anamnesis level. For this purpose, 150 participants in 30 groups of five people with different proposes have exposed to different combinations of text and subtext messages. Results indicate that two determined and consonance factors under some circumstances can be effective to focusing the process and maximize the anamnesis level of messages.

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  • Receive Date 22 September 2015
  • Revise Date 08 November 2015
  • Accept Date 28 November 2015