1st Edition

Nonverbal Neutrality of Broadcasters Covering Crisis Not Just What You Say But How You Say It

By Danielle Deavours Copyright 2024
138 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

138 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

138 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Offering a critical and sensitive reflection on journalists’ nonverbal behaviors during their coverage of school shootings in the U.S., this book shows how individual- and social-level factors predict broadcasters’ nonverbal neutrality. Nonverbal behaviors have the ability to transmit bias, influence audiences, and impact perceptions of journalists. Yet journalists report receiving little to... Read more

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Nonverbal theories: BET/BECV

Chapter 3. Nonverbal neutrality norm

Chapter 4. Nonverbal neutrality influence factors

Chapter 5. Measuring nonverbal neutrality

Chapter 6. Predictive influences on nonverbal neutrality: Findings

Chapter 7. The Nonverbal Neutrality Theory

Chapter 8. Understanding nonverbal neutrality variability

Chapter 9. Applications to research, industry and beyond

Appendix

Index

 

Biography

Danielle Deavours is Assistant Professor of Broadcast Journalism at Samford University, USA. She currently serves as the 2023–2024 chair of the AEJMC Broadcast and Mobile Journalism Division. She is also 2023–2024 chair of the BEA Interactive Media and Emerging Technology Division, as well as a co-chair for the IMET student category in the BEA Festival of Media Arts.

In 2022, Deavours received the Emerging Scholar Award from the Nonverbal Communication Division of the National Communication Association. She is a former Emmy- and Murrow-award winning broadcast journalist with over a decade of experience in local television news.