Zero Circle: An Auto-Ethnographic Documentary about the Becoming of Graduate Student

Author:

• Kwangjun Heo (Univ of Wisconsin, Madison)
• Inkyu Kang (Univ of Wisconsin, Madison)

Abstract:

This experimental study tested the effect of camera distance in news magazine cover pictures on readers' perception of the newsmaker, news story, and the magazine. Participants (N=157) watched a fake news magazine cover and answered questions. The newsmaker in the cover picture was depicted in four different camera distances. Although the camera distance in the cover picture was not converted readily into the participants' psychological distance between themselves and the news figure, respondents used camera distance to predict the tone of news story