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bite: a standalone construct

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bite1 CONSTRUCTSound biteHALLIN · SOUND BITE

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Media studies

A short quotable fragment of recorded speech

In media and political communication, a bite (or sound bite) is a short block of a source's own recorded words aired uninterrupted within a news story. Hallin's 1992 Sound Bite News measured the average length of candidates' uninterrupted on-air speech in United States election coverage and documented its steep decline from the late 1960s to the late 1980s, making the sound bite a unit of analysis for how much unmediated voice a speaker actually gets. The referent is a measured span of broadcast speech, counted in seconds, and it has nothing to do with acid cutting a copper plate or the mechanics of chewing beyond the shared word.[1]

Unit
The duration, in seconds, of a source's uninterrupted recorded speech within a report
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Measured by timing on-air blocks of a source's own words across a sample of broadcasts

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References

  1. Hallin, D. C. (1992). Sound bite news: Television coverage of elections, 1968–1988. Journal of Communication, 42(2), 5–24. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1992.tb00775.x

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