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Measurement of Audience Response to Persuasive Speeches With an Audience Response Recorder
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Framing Environmental Messages: Examining Audience Response to Humor, Shock, and Emotional Treatments
The purpose of this study was to examine individual reactions to environmental messages based on three message frames. The frames include shock or fear, humor, and emotional frames. The intent of the study was to document, through the use of pre- and post-questionnaires, individuals' reactions to …
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Stages of Belief: The Nature of Audience Response in Medieval and Early Modern Drama
Medieval theatrical audiences expected that dramatic performances would have some element of truth: they believed that what they saw performed was in some sense factual, and this belief was due in large part to their participation in the dramatic spectacle. By the end of the sixteenth century, …
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Traditional and interactive documentaries : an exploration of audience response to September 11 documentaries in different formats.
… road to recovery, prevention and retaliation. In response, screenwriters have produced several documentaries on the tragedy. Likewise, scholars have studied extensively the content of documentaries focusing on 9/11. Literature lacks articles that analyze audience response to interactive …
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Enhancing colour-coded poll sheets using computer vision as a viable Audience Response System (ARS) in Africa
Audience Response Systems (ARS) give a facilitator accurate feedback on a question posed to the listeners. The most common form of ARS are clickers; Clickers are handheld response gadgets that act as a medium of communication between the students and facilitator. Clickers are prohibitively …
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A Reassessment of the Aesthetics of Audience Response and Audience-Performer Interaction in the Theatrical Event: The Transpersonal Paradigm
… a lack of serious critical thought regarding the audience and audience-performer interaction in the theatrical performance. There also is an impasse in research into these matters today. No empirical study of audience-actor interaction during the performance has been able to demonstrate …
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The feasibility study of applied neuroscience for advertising and marketing research
… research to understand consumer behavior and responses. At the same time, most advertisers have become more sensitive to marketing ROI, so they need to know real audience response to their advertising. I compare several different biosensors, including Pupillometer, Eye tracking system, EEG, …
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Applause, Laughter, Chants, and Cheers: An Analysis of the Rhetorical Skill of the “Great Communicator”
… the type, strength, synchrony, and duration of audience responses during the 1976, 1980, 1984, and 1992 RNCs, this study finds that Reagan had the ability to control speech factors to his advantage to promote positive audience response. This study finds that Reagan was adept at utilizing humor, …
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Models of Reception in the Divine Audience of the Iliad
… construes the Olympian gods as an internal epic audience offering and exploring multiple configurations of audience response to the poem. Chapter 1 explores the special features of the divine audience in general terms and considers previous scholarship. Chapter 2 reads Zeus' provocation of Hera …
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Sentimentality and digital storytelling: towards a post-conflict pedagogy in pre-service teacher education in South Africa
… engagement between a storyteller and the audience, and digital stories' exaggerated pull on these emotions. This is seen, for example, in the difficulty that we have when telling stories in stepping out of normative, sentimental discourses to trouble the way we perform gender, race, class …
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Stage action as metaphor in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus
… of Doctor Faustus. Since the study argues that audience reaction is important to Marlowe's intent, attention is paid to how audience response governs the play's interpretation.Chapter two is a critical review of the historical staging practices which must be considered when studying the dramatic …
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The performance of place and comedy explored through postdramatic and popular forms with reference to the staging of 'A Good Neet Aht'
… of A Good Neet Aht which is also supported by audience response surveys. The results show a strong sense of place can be engendered through performance. Moreover, this particular sense of place is imbued with class identity and its cultural associations, specifically, comedy. What emerges is a …
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The rise of female testimony on the early modern stage
… – particularly through complex engagement with audience response. I focus especially on the emergence of domestic tragedy as a mode uniquely equipped to facilitate the expression of female confessional voices, and to challenge popular beliefs about what such voices should be and do. I begin with …
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Giving shape to time: An investigation into mixed-media installation
… between theoretical discourses, my practice, and audience response. The theoretical discourse includes a survey of the notions of time from different fields of knowledge from science, literature, anthropology, and memory studies. Additionally, an analysis of two contemporary installations, Normal …
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Making America Operatic: Six Composers' Attempts at an American Opera, 1910-1918
… the narrative of chapter two by highlighting the audience response to the premiere performances and the subsequent production history of these operas following their premieres. Throughout this study, it is apparent that the Americanist motivation more strongly associated with composers of a …
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Playing Dead: Staging Corpses, Ghosts, and Statues in Early Modern Drama
<p>Semi-animate corpses, physically powerful ghosts, and natural looking statues serve a powerful metatheatrical purpose in early modern drama. Such liminal bodies, which I define as figures caught between the fictional body and the living actor, model the relation between playgoer, actor, and …
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Producing a First Feature: Exploring the lived experiences of emerging UK film producers
… the sense of validation they received from the audience response to their films. Finally, participants were focused on the value of their relationships: reflecting on networks as a source of opportunity, the need for a ‘good’ team and on exploitation of cast and crew in low budget …
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Identifying the benefits and disbenefits of clinical genetics services: a framework for economic evaluation
… Phase Three comprised a pilot study of using Audience Response Systems (ARSs) for exploring stakeholder preferences and tackled issues of respondent validation and transferability. Both process-related attributes and psychosocial outcomes emerged as utility-bearing for service users. Patient …
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Essays on Product Placement: An Analysis of Key Executional and Individual Level Factors that Influence the Effectiveness of Product Placements.
… measures of product placement effectiveness - audience recall and attitudes toward the placement. Extant empirical studies that address the antecedents of these constructs were integrated through a meta-analysis. Some key findings are as follows. The prominence of placements is a controllable …
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