{"title":"Funny You Mention It: A Synthesis of Published Research on Learning from Comedic Versus Serious News","authors":"Julia R. Fox","doi":"10.1080/08838151.2022.2144316","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Studies comparing comedic and serious news have found conflicting results as to whether the inclusion of humor benefits learning information from those shows. Other studies examining learning from comedic news without a serious news comparison, based on whether the humor was presented as funny or informational, have also found conflicting results. This review offers some explanations for those conflicting findings, focusing on the methods and theoretical approaches used in those studies, and suggests a dynamic theoretical approach researchers in this area can take to get a better understanding of the impact of humor on acquiring information from comedic news messages.","PeriodicalId":48051,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media","volume":"66 1","pages":"674 - 697"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08838151.2022.2144316","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"COMMUNICATION","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT Studies comparing comedic and serious news have found conflicting results as to whether the inclusion of humor benefits learning information from those shows. Other studies examining learning from comedic news without a serious news comparison, based on whether the humor was presented as funny or informational, have also found conflicting results. This review offers some explanations for those conflicting findings, focusing on the methods and theoretical approaches used in those studies, and suggests a dynamic theoretical approach researchers in this area can take to get a better understanding of the impact of humor on acquiring information from comedic news messages.
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Published quarterly for the Broadcast Education Association, the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media contains timely articles about new developments, trends, and research in electronic media written by academicians, researchers, and other electronic media professionals. The Journal invites submissions of original research that examine a broad range of issues concerning the electronic media, including the historical, technological, economic, legal, policy, cultural, social, and psychological dimensions. Scholarship that extends a historiography, tests theory, or that fosters innovative perspectives on topics of importance to the field, is particularly encouraged. The Journal is open to a diversity of theoretic paradigms and methodologies.
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