The Blur Level of Crime Images in Newspaper for Understanding the Content and Reducing the Violence: Case Study of Dailynews Newspaper
Newspaper is one of media that plays an important role to spread the information to the people in particular we do not have broadcasting. In Thailand, crime news is frequently presented as the headline news in the popular newspapers. It said to be that Thai people preferred to read crime news to other news. Sriluck (1995) reported that the circulation of the newspaper depend on a number of crime news. Because crime news is required to appear on the newspaper, the journalisms are required to concern about journalism ethics, morality and human right. One of the techniques to protect the human right and reduce the violent feeling is a blurring technique. Regularly, newspaper editors use this technique to make an image unclear. The critical point is how to make an image cloudy but it is still to give reader clear information. This study, hence, focused to investigate the effect of a level of burring in the crime image on the understanding of the content. Three crime images were selected from the Dailynews newspaper as three categories consisting of accident, murder, and suicide images. We call those images the original picture. Each picture was blurred for eleven levels using the Gaussian and Tiles burring techniques. One hundred samples were asked to compare the blurred image to the original ones in the term of the degree of violent and content understanding. From the result, we found that no significant difference between blurred images and original images in all categories. From our result, we concluded that there are no effect of blurring level on the content understanding and violence in the crime images. Moreover, the more blurring level is required to apply in the future research.
Crime Images
Pitchaya SRICHANKEN Patsorn SUNGSRI
Mass Communication Technology, Rajamangala University of Technology Thunyaburi,Thailand
国际会议
The 3rd Conference of Asia Color Association(ACA2016 China)第三届亚洲颜色学术会议
江苏 常熟
英文
201-204
2016-05-21（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）