Visual perception of war images in Spanish TV news: an eye-tracking study using still frames.

ABSTRACT: Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, screens across the world have been flooded with images of death and destruction in this territory in the West, as televisions globally have broadcast the war, bearing witness to the collapse of a community consumed by terror. This study aimed to investigate the visual perception of still frames of war images taken from Spanish TV news broadcasts. We showed participants (N = 49) a series of war images while tracking their gaze using an eye tracker and administered questionnaires related to the images. We analyzed how viewers allocated their gaze across three sections within the images-journalists, war imagery, and informative text-finding significant differences, with the longest gaze duration and highest number of fixations on war

SUBMITTER: Martin-Pascual MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12283630 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature