Satirical narrative processing: Examining the roles of character liking and media enjoyment on narrative-consistent attitudes


LaMarre, Heather L. ; Grill, Christiane


DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ijpor/edx025
URL: https://academic.oup.com/ijpor/article/31/1/142/49...
Additional URL: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331072056...
Document Type: Article
Year of publication: 2019
The title of a journal, publication series: International Journal of Public Opinion Research
Volume: 31
Issue number: 1
Page range: 142-160
Place of publication: Oxford
Publishing house: Oxford Univ. Press
ISSN: 0954-2892 , 1471-6909
Publication language: English
Institution: Außerfakultäre Einrichtungen > Mannheim Centre for European Social Research - Research Department B
Subject: 320 Political science
Abstract: This study uses online survey data (n=127) with an embedded media manipulation to examine relationships between character liking, media enjoyment, and narrative consistent attitudes with late-night political comedian, Stephen Colbert’s satirical campaign finance narrative. The data offer empirical support for the notion that narratively structured political satire processing models should consider relevant entertainment psychology and narrative persuasion concepts such as how audiences respond to the main characters and the role enjoyment plays in the process. Using structural equation modeling, media enjoyment significantly mediated the relationship between character liking and narrative consistent attitude formation (about the antagonist), but appears to have functioned as a suppressor variable. Competing models are offered in an Online Appendix.

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