Byron Reeves
Biographic Data
| ID | 83814 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Byron Reeves |
| GIVEN NAMES | Byron |
| FAMILY NAME | Reeves |
| SIGNATURE | REEVES B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 540 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Beyond apps: A method to model full distributions of screen content over time to study media effects
Research on smartphone media use has progressed from aggregate screen-time measures to app-level logs, yet these approaches still obscure the diversity and structure of the content users encounter. We introduce smartphone screen content patterns (content patterns) as a new construct and propose an analytical framework that represents smartphone use as distributions of experienced screen content rather than summaries of time spent on devices or in…
Longitudinal associations between adolescents’ smartphone distraction management during family time and their relationships with parents
Although smartphone distractions are common and impactful in adolescents’ lives, how adolescents manage these distractions remains understudied, particularly with respect to family relationships. This study examined the concurrent and time-lagged associations between adolescents’ frequency of smartphone distraction management (SDM) during family time and their relationship quality with their mother and father. The sample included 152 adolescents …
Binding the Person-Specific Approach to Modern AI in the Human Screenome Project: Moving past Generalizability to Transferability
Advances in ability to comprehensively record individuals’ digital lives and in AI modeling of those data facilitate new possibilities for describing, predicting, and generating a wide variety of behavioral processes. In this paper, we consider these advances from a person-specific perspective, including whether the pervasive concerns about generalizability of results might be productively reframed with respect to transferability of models, and h…
Media Production on Smartphones: Analysis of the Timing, Content, and Context of Message Production Using Real-World Smartphone Use Data
Although media production is a critical concept in communication theory, we know surprisingly little about the timing, content, and context of individuals' production behavior. Intensive observation and analysis of 94 American adults' smartphone use over 1 week showed that although time spent in producing content was on average only about 6 percent of the amount of time spent on smartphones, the production content was more purposeful, expressive,…
Screenertia: Understanding “Stickiness” of Media Through Temporal Changes in Screen Use
Descriptions of moment-by-moment changes in attention contribute critical elements to theory and practice about how people process media. We introduce a new concept called screenertia and use new screen-capture methodology to empirically evaluate its occurrence. We unobtrusively obtained 400,000+ screenshots of 30 participants’ laptop screens every 5 seconds for 4 days to examine individuals’ attention to their screens and how the distribution of…
The psychology of poverty and life online: Natural experiments on the effects of smartphone payday loan ads on psychological stress
This study examines how individuals across income classes encountered payday lenders’ appeals online and what their smartphone use reveals about their psychological reactions to these messages. We utilized novel Screenomics data, comprehensive sequences of screenshots (N = 13,498,584) collected every 5 seconds from the smartphones of lower-income and higher-income adults (N = 65) in U.S. metropolitan areas for 2 months. While examining a person’s…
Digital Trace Data Collection for Social Media Effects Research: APIs, Data Donation, and (Screen) Tracking
In social media effects research, the role of specific social media content is understudied, in part attributable to the fact that communication science previously lacked methods to access social media content directly. Digital trace data (DTD) can shed light on textual and audio-visual content of social media use and enable the analysis of content usage on a granular individual level that has been previously unavailable. However, because digital…
Connectedness and independence of young adults and parents in the digital world: Observing smartphone interactions at multiple timescales using Screenomics
Background: Young adults' connectedness with and independence from parents have important implications for both their development and family relationships. Although technology plays an increasingly important role in these dynamics, there are few direct observations of how connectedness and independence unfold in the digital world. Little is known of between- and within-person differences in these dynamics. Purpose: This study uses Screenomics to …
Selectively localized: Temporal and visual structure of smartphone screen activity across media environments
This study demonstrates how localization and homogenization can co-occur in different aspects of smartphone usage. Smartphones afford individualization of media behavior: users can begin, end, or switch between countless tasks anytime, but this individualization is shaped by shared environments such that smartphone usage may be similar among those who share such environments but contain differences, or localization, across environments or regions…
The idiosyncrasies of everyday digital lives: Using the Human Screenome Project to study user behavior on smartphones
Screenomics: A Framework to Capture and Analyze Personal Life Experiences and the Ways that Technology Shapes Them
Digital experiences capture an increasingly large part of life, making them a preferred, if not required, method to describe and theorize about human behavior. Digital media also shape behavior by enabling people to switch between different content easily, and create unique threads of experiences that pass quickly through numerous information categories. Current methods of recording digital experiences provide only partial reconstructions of digi…
Screenomics: A New Approach for Observing and Studying Individuals’ Digital Lives
We propose that the screenome provides the fine granularity of data needed to study individuals' digital lives, for testing existing theories about media use, and for generation of new theory about the interplay between digital media and development
Communicating Dominance in a Nonanthropomorphic Robot Using Locomotion
Dominance is a key aspect of interpersonal relationships. To what extent do nonverbal indicators related to dominance status translate to a nonanthropomorphic robot? An experiment ( N = 25) addressed whether a mobile robot's motion style can influence people's perceptions of its status. Using concepts from improv theater literature, we developed two motion styles across three scenarios (robot makes lateral motions, approaches, and departs) to com…
The Use of Media in Media Psychology
Media psychologists have theoretical interests in both people and media, yet research investments considerably favor subjects over stimuli. An analysis of 306 studies, taken from the journal Media Psychology over the last 10 years, and from the most cited media experiments in other journals, shows that studies invested in tens of thousands of human subjects but the studies used small samples of media material that were often narrow and unrepresen…
Multitasking on a Single Device: Arousal and the Frequency, Anticipation, and Prediction of Switching Between Media Content on a Computer
This study measured arousal responses to multitasking by recording switches between content on personal computers over a day. Results showed that switches occurred every 19 seconds, more often than has been reported in previous research. Arousal was highest at the point of a switch with declines in skin conductance afterward. Switches were also preceded by a 12-second period of increasing skin conductance. 2 new methods were used, one an original…
A marketplace for attention: Responses to a synthetic currency used to signal information importance in e-mail
The productivity of information workers is jeopardized by too much e-mail. A proposed solution to e-mail overload is the creation of an economy that uses a scarce synthetic currency that senders can use to signal the importance of information and receivers can use to prioritize messages. A test of the virtual economy with corporate information workers showed that people in a large company used different amounts of the currency when sending e-mail…
The New Videomalaise: Effects of Televised Incivility on Political Trust
Does incivility in political discourse have adverse effects on public regard for politics? If so, why? In this study we present a theory suggesting that when viewers are exposed to televised political disagreement, it often violates well-established face-to-face social norms for the polite expression of opposing views. As a result, incivility in public discourse adversely affects trust in government. Drawing on three laboratory experiments, we fi…
Negative video as structure: Emotion, attention, capacity, and memory
This paper uses a limited capacity information processing theory of television viewing to investigate the effects of graphic negative video at four levels of processing (attention, capacity, encoding, and retrieval) and on two dimensions of emotional experience (arousal and valence). Results indicate that the presence of negative video in news stories increases attention, increases the amount of capacity required to process the message, increases…
A Bio-Informational Theory of Emotion: Motion and Image Size Effects on Viewers
Benjamin H. Detenber, Byron Reeves; A Bio-Informational Theory of Emotion: Motion and Image Size Effects on Viewers, Journal of Communication, Volume 46, I
Technology and Roles: A Tale of Two TVs
Journal Article Technology and Roles: A Tale of Two TVs Get access Clifford Nass, Clifford Nass 1Clifford Nass is an associate professor of Communication of the Institute for Communication Research, at Stanford University. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Byron Reeves, Byron Reeves 2Byron Reeves is the Paul C. Edwards professor of Communication and director of the Institute for Communication Research, at St…
Can computer personalities be human personalities?
We Interrupt This Program. Attention for Television Sequences: Attention for Television Sequences
Journal Article We Interrupt This Program ...: Attention for Television Sequences Get access Seth Geiger, Seth Geiger 1Seth Geiger is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Byron Reeves Byron Reeves 2Byron Reeves is a Professor in the Institute for Communication Research at Stanford University Search for other…
The Evening's Bad News: Effects of Compelling Negative Television News Images on Memory
This study examined the relationship between compelling negative images in television news and memory for information in the stories. Memory differences were found before, during, and after the presence of negative compelling images. Memory was worse for material that preceded the negative scenes. During negative scenes, memory was worse for semantically intact audio information such as speech than for nonsemantic aural information such as scream…
Theories About News and Theories About Cognition: Arguments for a More Radical Separation
Emotional Television Scenes and Hemispheric Specialization
Journal Article Emotional Television Scenes and Hemispheric Specialization Get access Byron Reeves, Byron Reeves 1Byron Reeves (Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1976) is a Professor in the Department of Communication, Stanford University. Annie Lang (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1987) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communications, Washington State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goo…
The New Videomalaise: Effects of Televised Incivility on Political Trust
Does incivility in political discourse have adverse effects on public regard for politics? If so, why? In this study we present a theory suggesting that when viewers are exposed to televised political disagreement, it often violates well-established face-to-face social norms for the polite expression of opposing views. As a result, incivility in public discourse adversely affects trust in government. Drawing on three laboratory experiments, we fi…
A Bibliometric Evaluation of Core Journals in Communication Research
Journal Article A Bibliometric Evaluation of Core Journals in Communication Research Get access Byron Reeves, Byron Reeves 1Byron Reeves (Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1976) is an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Christine L. Borgman Christine L. Borgman 2Christine L. Borgman (Ph.D., …
Citation Networks of Communication Journals, 1977?1985 Cliques and Positions, Citations Made and Citations Received
Journal Article Citation Networks of Communication Journals, 1977–1985: Cliques and Positions, Citations Made and Citations Received Get access Ronald E. Rice, Ronald E. Rice 1Ronald E. Rice (Ph.D., Stanford University, 1982), is at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Christine L. Borgman, Christine L. Borgman 2Christine L. Borgman (Ph.D., Stanford U…
Digital Trace Data Collection for Social Media Effects Research: APIs, Data Donation, and (Screen) Tracking
In social media effects research, the role of specific social media content is understudied, in part attributable to the fact that communication science previously lacked methods to access social media content directly. Digital trace data (DTD) can shed light on textual and audio-visual content of social media use and enable the analysis of content usage on a granular individual level that has been previously unavailable. However, because digital…
Children's Perceptions of Television Characters
This study explores the cognitive dimensions used by children in differentiating among television characters. By linking content-free judgments of the differences among television characters with content attributes suggested by prior research, a four-dimensional mapping is identified. This cognitive mapping is virtually identical for children at three different ages. Further, dimensions identified are strong predictors of the children's desires t…
Technology and Roles: A Tale of Two TVs
Journal Article Technology and Roles: A Tale of Two TVs Get access Clifford Nass, Clifford Nass 1Clifford Nass is an associate professor of Communication of the Institute for Communication Research, at Stanford University. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Byron Reeves, Byron Reeves 2Byron Reeves is the Paul C. Edwards professor of Communication and director of the Institute for Communication Research, at St…
Children and the Perceived Reality of Television
Children's perceptions of reality in television are examined as an intervening variable between exposure to the medium and the effect of TV messages. Findings from previous work and data from schoolchildren in grades 3–6 indicate that: (a) perceptions of the reality of TV increase as the specificity of content increases, (b) interpersonal communication about television is a significant predictor of children's reality perceptions, and (c) TV usage…
The Dimensional Structure of Children's Perceptions of Television Characters: A Replication
This study was an attempt to replicate and extend the findings of previous research which explored the cognitive dimensions used by children to differentiate television characters. Results indicate that humor remains the primary attribute that children use to differentiate television characters, although this characteristic does not seem to be important in children's modeling decisions. Attractiveness and activity remain secondary attributes but …
Emotional Television Scenes and Hemispheric Specialization
Journal Article Emotional Television Scenes and Hemispheric Specialization Get access Byron Reeves, Byron Reeves 1Byron Reeves (Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1976) is a Professor in the Department of Communication, Stanford University. Annie Lang (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1987) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communications, Washington State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goo…
Children's Person Perception: The Generalization From Television People to Real People
This study investigated children's perceptions of television people and the extent to which these perceptions are generalized to impressions of peers. Elementary school children (W=172) completed questionnaires measuring viewing, knowledge of, identification with, and the perceived reality of television characters, and ratings of peers on 11 traits (e.g., funny, attractive, kind, nice). Two criterion variables were studied: children's mean rating…
We Interrupt This Program. Attention for Television Sequences: Attention for Television Sequences
Journal Article We Interrupt This Program ...: Attention for Television Sequences Get access Seth Geiger, Seth Geiger 1Seth Geiger is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Byron Reeves Byron Reeves 2Byron Reeves is a Professor in the Institute for Communication Research at Stanford University Search for other…
Screenomics: A New Approach for Observing and Studying Individuals’ Digital Lives
We propose that the screenome provides the fine granularity of data needed to study individuals' digital lives, for testing existing theories about media use, and for generation of new theory about the interplay between digital media and development
Connectedness and independence of young adults and parents in the digital world: Observing smartphone interactions at multiple timescales using Screenomics
Background: Young adults' connectedness with and independence from parents have important implications for both their development and family relationships. Although technology plays an increasingly important role in these dynamics, there are few direct observations of how connectedness and independence unfold in the digital world. Little is known of between- and within-person differences in these dynamics. Purpose: This study uses Screenomics to …
Communicating Dominance in a Nonanthropomorphic Robot Using Locomotion
Dominance is a key aspect of interpersonal relationships. To what extent do nonverbal indicators related to dominance status translate to a nonanthropomorphic robot? An experiment ( N = 25) addressed whether a mobile robot's motion style can influence people's perceptions of its status. Using concepts from improv theater literature, we developed two motion styles across three scenarios (robot makes lateral motions, approaches, and departs) to com…
Attention to Local and Global Complexity in Television Messages
(1987). Attention to Local and Global Complexity in Television Messages. Annals of the International Communication Association: Vol. 10, Communication Yearbook 10, pp. 366-383
Television's Influence on Children's Encoding of Person Information
A recent model of person memory suggests that people will use the most accessible or most recently thought about traits in describing other people. An experiment was conducted to test the notion that once a trait is activated or “primed” by television, that trait will be more accessible and, therefore, more likely to influence encoding of new information. A group of 64 children in second, fourth, and sixth grades watched a 10-minute videotape des…
Selectively localized: Temporal and visual structure of smartphone screen activity across media environments
This study demonstrates how localization and homogenization can co-occur in different aspects of smartphone usage. Smartphones afford individualization of media behavior: users can begin, end, or switch between countless tasks anytime, but this individualization is shaped by shared environments such that smartphone usage may be similar among those who share such environments but contain differences, or localization, across environments or regions…
Theories About News and Theories About Cognition: Arguments for a More Radical Separation
Children and the Perceived Reality of Television
Children's perceptions of reality in television are examined as an intervening variable between exposure to the medium and the effect of TV messages. Findings from previous work and data from schoolchildren in grades 3–6 indicate that: (a) perceptions of the reality of TV increase as the specificity of content increases, (b) interpersonal communication about television is a significant predictor of children's reality perceptions, and (c) TV usage…
Children's Perceptions of Television Characters
This study explores the cognitive dimensions used by children in differentiating among television characters. By linking content-free judgments of the differences among television characters with content attributes suggested by prior research, a four-dimensional mapping is identified. This cognitive mapping is virtually identical for children at three different ages. Further, dimensions identified are strong predictors of the children's desires t…
The Dimensional Structure of Children's Perceptions of Television Characters: A Replication
This study was an attempt to replicate and extend the findings of previous research which explored the cognitive dimensions used by children to differentiate television characters. Results indicate that humor remains the primary attribute that children use to differentiate television characters, although this characteristic does not seem to be important in children's modeling decisions. Attractiveness and activity remain secondary attributes but …
Children's Person Perception: The Generalization From Television People to Real People
This study investigated children's perceptions of television people and the extent to which these perceptions are generalized to impressions of peers. Elementary school children (W=172) completed questionnaires measuring viewing, knowledge of, identification with, and the perceived reality of television characters, and ratings of peers on 11 traits (e.g., funny, attractive, kind, nice). Two criterion variables were studied: children's mean rating…
Television's Influence on Children's Encoding of Person Information
A recent model of person memory suggests that people will use the most accessible or most recently thought about traits in describing other people. An experiment was conducted to test the notion that once a trait is activated or “primed” by television, that trait will be more accessible and, therefore, more likely to influence encoding of new information. A group of 64 children in second, fourth, and sixth grades watched a 10-minute videotape des…
A Bibliometric Evaluation of Core Journals in Communication Research
Journal Article A Bibliometric Evaluation of Core Journals in Communication Research Get access Byron Reeves, Byron Reeves 1Byron Reeves (Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1976) is an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Christine L. Borgman Christine L. Borgman 2Christine L. Borgman (Ph.D., …
Historical Trends in Research on Children and the Media: 1900–1960
Ellen Wartella, Byron Reeves; Historical Trends in Research on Children and the Media: 1900–1960, Journal of Communication, Volume 35, Issue 2, 1 June 1985
Attention to Local and Global Complexity in Television Messages
(1987). Attention to Local and Global Complexity in Television Messages. Annals of the International Communication Association: Vol. 10, Communication Yearbook 10, pp. 366-383
Citation Networks of Communication Journals, 1977?1985 Cliques and Positions, Citations Made and Citations Received
Journal Article Citation Networks of Communication Journals, 1977–1985: Cliques and Positions, Citations Made and Citations Received Get access Ronald E. Rice, Ronald E. Rice 1Ronald E. Rice (Ph.D., Stanford University, 1982), is at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Christine L. Borgman, Christine L. Borgman 2Christine L. Borgman (Ph.D., Stanford U…
Theories About News and Theories About Cognition: Arguments for a More Radical Separation
Emotional Television Scenes and Hemispheric Specialization
Journal Article Emotional Television Scenes and Hemispheric Specialization Get access Byron Reeves, Byron Reeves 1Byron Reeves (Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1976) is a Professor in the Department of Communication, Stanford University. Annie Lang (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1987) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communications, Washington State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goo…
The Evening's Bad News: Effects of Compelling Negative Television News Images on Memory
This study examined the relationship between compelling negative images in television news and memory for information in the stories. Memory differences were found before, during, and after the presence of negative compelling images. Memory was worse for material that preceded the negative scenes. During negative scenes, memory was worse for semantically intact audio information such as speech than for nonsemantic aural information such as scream…
We Interrupt This Program. Attention for Television Sequences: Attention for Television Sequences
Journal Article We Interrupt This Program ...: Attention for Television Sequences Get access Seth Geiger, Seth Geiger 1Seth Geiger is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Byron Reeves Byron Reeves 2Byron Reeves is a Professor in the Institute for Communication Research at Stanford University Search for other…
Can computer personalities be human personalities?
Negative video as structure: Emotion, attention, capacity, and memory
This paper uses a limited capacity information processing theory of television viewing to investigate the effects of graphic negative video at four levels of processing (attention, capacity, encoding, and retrieval) and on two dimensions of emotional experience (arousal and valence). Results indicate that the presence of negative video in news stories increases attention, increases the amount of capacity required to process the message, increases…
A Bio-Informational Theory of Emotion: Motion and Image Size Effects on Viewers
Benjamin H. Detenber, Byron Reeves; A Bio-Informational Theory of Emotion: Motion and Image Size Effects on Viewers, Journal of Communication, Volume 46, I
Technology and Roles: A Tale of Two TVs
Journal Article Technology and Roles: A Tale of Two TVs Get access Clifford Nass, Clifford Nass 1Clifford Nass is an associate professor of Communication of the Institute for Communication Research, at Stanford University. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Byron Reeves, Byron Reeves 2Byron Reeves is the Paul C. Edwards professor of Communication and director of the Institute for Communication Research, at St…
The New Videomalaise: Effects of Televised Incivility on Political Trust
Does incivility in political discourse have adverse effects on public regard for politics? If so, why? In this study we present a theory suggesting that when viewers are exposed to televised political disagreement, it often violates well-established face-to-face social norms for the polite expression of opposing views. As a result, incivility in public discourse adversely affects trust in government. Drawing on three laboratory experiments, we fi…
A marketplace for attention: Responses to a synthetic currency used to signal information importance in e-mail
The productivity of information workers is jeopardized by too much e-mail. A proposed solution to e-mail overload is the creation of an economy that uses a scarce synthetic currency that senders can use to signal the importance of information and receivers can use to prioritize messages. A test of the virtual economy with corporate information workers showed that people in a large company used different amounts of the currency when sending e-mail…
Multitasking on a Single Device: Arousal and the Frequency, Anticipation, and Prediction of Switching Between Media Content on a Computer
This study measured arousal responses to multitasking by recording switches between content on personal computers over a day. Results showed that switches occurred every 19 seconds, more often than has been reported in previous research. Arousal was highest at the point of a switch with declines in skin conductance afterward. Switches were also preceded by a 12-second period of increasing skin conductance. 2 new methods were used, one an original…
The Use of Media in Media Psychology
Media psychologists have theoretical interests in both people and media, yet research investments considerably favor subjects over stimuli. An analysis of 306 studies, taken from the journal Media Psychology over the last 10 years, and from the most cited media experiments in other journals, shows that studies invested in tens of thousands of human subjects but the studies used small samples of media material that were often narrow and unrepresen…
Screenomics: A Framework to Capture and Analyze Personal Life Experiences and the Ways that Technology Shapes Them
Digital experiences capture an increasingly large part of life, making them a preferred, if not required, method to describe and theorize about human behavior. Digital media also shape behavior by enabling people to switch between different content easily, and create unique threads of experiences that pass quickly through numerous information categories. Current methods of recording digital experiences provide only partial reconstructions of digi…
Screenomics: A New Approach for Observing and Studying Individuals’ Digital Lives
We propose that the screenome provides the fine granularity of data needed to study individuals' digital lives, for testing existing theories about media use, and for generation of new theory about the interplay between digital media and development
Communicating Dominance in a Nonanthropomorphic Robot Using Locomotion
Dominance is a key aspect of interpersonal relationships. To what extent do nonverbal indicators related to dominance status translate to a nonanthropomorphic robot? An experiment ( N = 25) addressed whether a mobile robot's motion style can influence people's perceptions of its status. Using concepts from improv theater literature, we developed two motion styles across three scenarios (robot makes lateral motions, approaches, and departs) to com…
The idiosyncrasies of everyday digital lives: Using the Human Screenome Project to study user behavior on smartphones
Computer Science (22 works) · Psychology (20 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Media Influence and Health (14 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Media studies (11 works) · Impact of Technology on Adolescents (10 works) · Child Development and Digital Technology (8 works) · Library science (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works)