MEDIA students at Canterbury Christ Church University were used to help BBC Radio Kent conduct a political experiment. The experiment was to see whether Visual performances by the candidates in the first live television debates in the UK, made more of an impact on the audience rather then what they said.
Second years Caroline Elvin, 20, Jamie Harris, 20 and Samuel Francis, 19 studying Multimedia Journalism were asked to watch the live debate whilst first years Dan, and Katie also Journalism students were asked to listen to the debate.
The trial was based on the first ever television political debate in 1960 between Richard Nixon and John F Kennedy where the outcome saw those who watched the debate support Kennedy, whilst those who listened on the radio backed Nixon.
Jamie Harris explained his involvement in the visual trial;
"It was a lot of fun actually. It was interesting to see all the changes but its important to state that we have the internet now".
To hear the outcome of BBC's experiement play the following video.
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