Our Brain and the News The Psychophysiological Impact of Journalism / [electronic resource] :
by Isabel Nery.
- 1st ed. 2024.
- XXIII, 122 p. 2 illus. online resource.
Chapter 1-Neurosciences of communication: a multidisciplinary approach -- Chapter 2- Methodology and procedures -- Chapter 3- What our data tells -- Chapter 4- Discussion: the psychophysiological impact of journalism -- Chapter 5- Conclusion.
This book explores the impact of news and literary journalism on human cognition and emotion. Providing an innovative analysis of psycho-physiological measures, including emotional response, perception of pain, and changes in heartbeat, Nery seeks to understand how readers react to journalistic texts. There is a growing enthusiasm in the search for understanding the processing of information, with some already arguing for the establishment of the neuroscience of communication as a new discipline. By combing neuroscience methods with communication research studies, specifically journalistic research and theory, Nery offers us a unique way of exploring and thinking about news, literary journalism, and the brain. Isabel Nery is an award-winning journalist and researcher, with a PhD in Communication Studies. Her previous works include: ‘Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen’, biography, ‘The 5 Men Who Changed Portugal Forever’, crossed biographies, ‘The Prisoners’, reportage, and ‘Assault to Parliament', about the Portuguese political transition to democracy.