Examining the digital renewal of news communication: A categorization of presentation modes in digital journalism

Our daily dealings with media products are shaped by the use of generic designations such as journalistic presentation modes, for example, news, commentary, and Instagram-story. Yet, scholarship has examined presentation modes only selectively and lacks empirical investigations in this domain. Based on literature and a quantitative content analysis of jury protocols of the German online journalism award “Grimme Online Award,” this article explores how presentation modes are constructed and further develops a framework for a categorization of presentation modes with eight dimensions: Content and Function, Author, Sources, Periodicity, Material Substrate, Structure, Media, and Interactive-Engagement Elements. This study is the first to empirically assess journalistic presentation mode dimensions and manifestations.

Fireworks Ocular Injury in Saudi Children; Profile and Management Outcomes

Background: To explore the demographic profiling, causes, types, complications, management outcomes, and severity of fireworks- inflicted ocular injuries and traumas in children in KSA.Methods: This is a retrospective study of 115 cases with eye injuries managed at the Emergency Department, of our institution between 2003 and 2019. Demography, clinical features at presentation, mode of management and the Best Corrected Visual Acuity (BCVA) were evaluated at the last follow up. Results: The study included 117 eyes of 115 children [median age: 9 years; 96 (83.5%) boys; 19(16.5%) girls]. Fifty-six (48.7%) participants were bystanders. The injuries were caused mainly due to bangers (n=47; 40.9%), rockets in bottle (n=28; 24.3%), firecrackers (n=27; 23.5%), and nonspecific reasons (n=13; 11.3%). The children had presented with various severity levels: corneal abrasion (n=52; 44.4%); cataract (n=47;40.2%); penetrating injury (n=40; 34.2%); secondary glaucoma (n=22;18.8%); subluxated lens (n=19;16.2%); limbal stem cell deficiency (n=14;12.0%); Iridodialysis (n=12;10.3%), and vitreous hemorrhage (n=11;9.4%). Management interventions of the eyes under study included: penetrating injury repair (n=40; 34.2%), lens removal plus intraocular lens implantation (n=26; 22.2%), removal of foreign body (n=9; 7.7%). The BCVA after six months was 20/20- 20/60 in 49(41%) cases; 20/70 - 20/200 in 27 (23.1%) cases; <20/200-20/400 in 7 (6%) cases, and <20/400 in 34(29.1%) of the cases. Out of 51.3% eyes with <20/200 before management, only 35% recorded severe visual impairment.Conclusion: Fireworks-related eye injuries were mainly observed in boys primarily due to the use of bangers . Visual disability remained in one-third of the managed cases.

The effects of subliminal or supraliminal sadness induction on the sense of body ownership and the role of dissociative symptoms

Previous research has shown that emotions can alter our sense of ownership. Whether this relationship is modulated by differences in emotion experience and awareness, however, remains unclear. We investigated this by comparing the susceptibility to the rubber hand illusion (RHI) between participants who were either exposed to a low-arousing emotion induction (sadness) or placed in a neutral control group. Several factors that might influence this relationship were considered: dissociative symptoms were included to observe if a sadness induction led to a higher RHI score in participants scoring high in dissociation, as a result of detached emotion experience. Whether the level of awareness of the emotion mattered was also tested, as subliminal processing was shown to require less focal attention. Therefore, our sample (N = 122) was divided into three experimental groups: Sad pictures were presented to two of the three groups differing in presentation mode (subliminal: n = 40, supraliminal: n = 41), neutral pictures were presented supraliminally to the control group (n = 41). Additionally, the effects of slow (3 cm/s) and fast (30 cm/s) stroking, applied either synchronously or asynchronously, were examined as the comforting effects of stroking might interfere with the emotion induction. Results showed that the supraliminal sadness induction was associated with a stronger subjective illusion, but not with a higher proprioceptive drift compared to the subliminal induction. In addition, a stronger subjective illusion after fast and synchronous stroking was found compared to slow and asynchronous stroking. A significant proprioceptive drift was detected independent of group and stroking style. Both slow and synchronous stroking were perceived as more comforting than their respective counterparts. Participants with higher dissociative symptoms were more susceptible to the subjective illusion, especially in the supraliminal group in the synchronous condition. We concluded that individual differences in emotion experience are likely to play a role in body ownership. However, we cannot clarify at this stage whether differences in proprioception and the subjective illusion depend on the type of emotion experienced (e.g. different levels of arousal) and on concomitant changes in multisensory integration processes.

The Influence of Commodity Presentation Mode on Online Shopping Decision Preference Induced by the Serial Position Effect

The information cluster that supports the final decision in a decision task is usually presented as a series of information. According to the serial position effect, the decision result is easily affected by the presentation order of the information. In this study, we seek to investigate how the presentation mode of commodities and the informativeness on a shopping website will influence online shopping decisions. To this end, we constructed two experiments via a virtual online shopping environment. The first experiment suggests that the serial position effect can induce human computer interaction decision-making bias, and user decision-making results in separate evaluation mode are more prone to the recency effect, whereas user decision-making results in joint evaluation mode are more prone to the primacy effect. The second experiment confirms the influence of explicit and implicit details of information on the decision bias of the human computer interaction caused by the serial position effect. The results of the research will be better applied to the design and development of shopping websites or further applied to the interactive design of complex information systems to alleviate user decision-making biases and induce users to make more rational decisions.

Mechanism Linking AR-Based Presentation Mode and Consumers’ Responses: A Moderated Serial Mediation Model

The technological development of online product presentation modes (e.g., augmented reality, virtual reality) will greatly impact the future of e-retailing. The potential benefits of applying these new technologies for e-retailers need further investigation. Based upon the stimulus-organism-response (S–O-R) model, this study examines the effect of AR-based presentation modes on consumer patronage intention, with the mediating role of immersion, enjoyment, perceived product risk and attractiveness of the online store. Furthermore, it explores the moderating effect of technophilia that reflects consumers’ positive attitude towards technology. A single factor between-subject experiment study was conducted with a sample of 420 university students. Results suggest that the serial indirect effects of AR presentation on patronage intention through immersion/enjoyment/perceived product risk and attractiveness of online store are conditional upon the level of technophilia. Technophilia is a critical factor that explains consumers’ psychological and behavioral responses when they are using new technologies. The study provides new knowledge for e-marketing practitioners, as well as AR literature by indicating how and when new technology-based presentation works in evoking consumers’ patronage intention.

126 BRUE and evaluation of higher-risk infants with overnight oximetry

Primary Subject area Hospital Paediatrics Background BRUE (Brief resolved unexplained event) is a worrisome event for parents. Investigation guidelines for infants 2 months and older have been published, but an evaluation framework for higher-risk infants is still evolving. Objectives The goal of this study is to determine if an overnight oximetry for patients presenting with BRUE under the age of the 2 months would help to target patients at higher risk of recurrent BRUE. The secondary goals are to evaluate the characteristics of those infants, the rate of recurrence of BRUE and to evaluate the effectiveness of other investigations. Design/Methods This was an observational retrospective study of infants presenting with BRUE between the age of 7 days and 60 days between January 1 2010 and October 1 of 2018. Patients were selected if they matched the definition of BRUE defined by the American Academy of Pediatrics in 2016. Patient demographics and antecedents, characteristics of the events, investigations results, recurrence of BRUE, and hospitalizations until the age of 1 year were recorded. Results 103 patients presented with BRUE under the age of 2 months. Of those, 63 (61.2%) were boys. Only four (3.9%) had a recurrence of BRUE. The mean corrected age at the presentation was 20.7 days. Thirty-three (32%) infants had an overnight oximetry; of those 19 (18.4%) had an abnormal result. An abnormal overnight oximetry result was associated with a lower risk of recurrent BRUE (0%) compared to infants without an oximetry (4.3%) or with a negative result (7.1%) (p=0.6195). 68.4% of patients with an abnormal overnight oximetry had received medical treatment (caffeine, oxygen or anti-acid), which was significantly higher than those with normal overnight oximetry (14.3%) or no oximetry (9.4%) (p &lt; 0.0001). There was an association between male sex and abnormal overnight oximetry (p=0.0137). No other investigation was able to predict a higher risk of recurrent BRUE among those evaluated. Conclusion In our cohort, boys were more frequently affected and had a higher rate of abnormal overnight oximetry. One hypothesis is that BRUE under 2 months of age might be a presentation mode for immature respiratory control and boys might be at higher risk for such events. Even though an abnormal result was present in 18.4% of the overnight oximetry, this investigation was not able to identify infants at higher risk of recurrent BRUE. This could be partly explained by the fact that a recurrent BRUE is a rare event and that a majority of patients with abnormal overnight oximetry were treated medically, which might have prevented recurrence.

Word learning in the field: Adapting a laboratory-based task for testing in remote Papua New Guinea

Adapting laboratory psycholinguistic methods to fieldwork contexts can be fraught with difficulties. However, successful implementation of such methods in the field enhances our ability to learn the true extent and limitations of human behavior. This paper reports two attempts to run word learning experiments with the small community of Nungon speakers in Towet village in the Saruwaged Mountains, Papua New Guinea. A first attempt involved running a cross-situational task in which word-object pairings were presented ambiguously in each trial, and an explicit word learning task in which pairings were presented explicitly, or unambiguously, in each trial. While this quickly garnered a respectable 34 participants over the course of a week, it yielded null results, with many participants appearing to show simple patterned responses at test. We interpreted the null result as possibly reflecting the unfamiliarity of both the task and the laptop-based presentation mode. In Experiment 2, we made several adjustments to the explicit word learning task in an attempt to provide clearer instructions, reduce cognitive load, and frame the study within a real-world context. During a second 11-day stay in the village, 34 participants completed this modified task and demonstrated clear evidence of word learning. With this success serving as a future guide for researchers, our experiences show that it may require multiple attempts, even by experienced fieldworkers familiar with the target community, to successfully adapt experiments to a field setting.