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Graphical Representations of a Television Series: A Study with Deaf and Hearing Adolescents

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2013

Cristina Cambra ,
Aurora Leal  and
Núria Silvestre
Cristina Cambra*
Affiliation:
Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona (Spain)
Aurora Leal
Affiliation:
Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona (Spain)
Núria Silvestre
Affiliation:
Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona (Spain)
*
Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Cristina Cambra. Edificio B. Facultad de Psicología. Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. 08193 Bellaterra. Barcelona. (Spain). E-mail: cristina.cambra@uab.cat
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Abstract

The understanding of a television story can be very different depending on the age of the viewer, their background knowledge, the content of the programme and the way in which they combine the information gathered from linguistic, audio and visual elements. This study explores the different ways of interpreting an audiovisual document considering that, due to a hearing impaired, visual, audio and linguistic information could be perceived very differently to the way it is by hearing people. The study involved the participation of 20 deaf and 20 hearing adolescents, aged 12 to 19 years who, after watching a fragment of a television series, were asked to draw a picture of what had happened in the story. The results show that the graphical representation of the film is similar for both groups in terms of the number of scenes, but there is greater profusion, in the deaf group, of details about the context and characters, and there are differences in their interpretations of some of the sequences in the story.

La comprensión de una historia de la televisión puede ser muy diversa según la edad del espectador, sus conocimientos previos, el contenido del programa, y la manera como combina los elementos informativos lingüísticos, sonoros y la imagen visual. Este estudio explora las distintas maneras de interpretar un documento audiovisual considerando que, debido a un déficit auditivo, las informaciones visuales, sonoras y lingüísticas pueden ser percibidas de forma distinta a como lo hacemos los oyentes. En el estudio han participado 20 adolescentes sordos y 20 oyentes, de 12 a 19 años, a los que, tras visionar un fragmento de una seria televisiva, se les solicita que hagan un dibujo de lo que sucede en la historia. Los resultados indican que la representación gráfica del film es similar en ambos grupos en cuanto al número de escenas, pero difieren en la mayor profusión, en el grupo de adolescentes sordos, de detalles contextuales y de personajes, así como en la interpretación de alguna de las secuencias de la historia.

Keywords

deafnessadolescentstelevisiondrawingsorderaadolescentestelevisióndibujo
Type
Research Article
Information
The Spanish Journal of Psychology , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , November 2010 , pp. 765 - 776
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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