Television Dramas and Support for Controversial Public Policies: Effects and Mechanisms

By Michael D. Slater, D. Rouner, M. Long. 2006

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Subfields: Communication, Gender Studies, Literature and Literary Theory

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Measuring Narrative Engagement (2009, background): “In order to understand a story's ability to influence audiences, scholars have focused on the narrative experience itself (eg, Escalas, 2007 ; Green, Garst, & Brock, 2004 ; Slater, Rouner, & Long, 2006 ).”
Identification with characters and narrative persuasion through fictional feature films (2010, methodology): “Research has found that exposure to fictional contents such as written narratives (Green and Brock, 2000), feature films (Butler, Koopman and Zimbardo, 1995; Igartua and Páez, 1997; Schofield and Pavelchak, 1989), television series (Slater et al., 2006) or audiovisual productions developed in the fi”
The role of dimensions of narrative engagement in narrative persuasion (2009, methodology): “Slater, Rouner, and Long (2006) used an adapted version of Green and Brock’s (2000) Transportation Scale in a study examining the effects of two dramas on public policy support.”
Experimental Manipulation of Psychological Involvement with Media (2014, methodology): “This experience is assessed using media consumers’ agreement with statements such as “While viewing the show I could feel the emotions the character portrayed” (Cohen); “When I watch the character on the program, I imagine myself in his/her place” (Eyal & Rubin); and “I could feel the pain [the char”
Changing Real‐World Beliefs With Controversial Movies: Processes and Mechanisms of Narrative Persuasion (2012, methodology): “Slater et al. (2006) performed an experimental study in order to test E-ELM empirically.”
The Extended Transportation-Imagery Model: A Meta-Analysis of the Antecedents and Consequences of Consumers' Narrative Transportation (2014, unknown): “The more cultural knowledge they possess, the greater narrative transportation they may experience within the topic or genre, whether because of their intrinsic interest or because they find it easier to imagine the story plot (Slater, Rouner, and Long 2006).”
More than a Media Moment: The Influence of Televised Storylines on Viewers’ Attitudes toward Transgender People and Policies (2017, background): “In other cases, they have been ineffective in influencing attitudes toward public policies affecting such groups (Slater et al. 2006).”