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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"entertainment media"”.
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Expectations across entertainment media
An audience's satisfaction with an entertainment product is dependent on how well their expectations are fulfilled. This study delves into the implicit contract that is formed between the purveyor of an entertainment property and their audience, as well as the consequences of frustrating audience …
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Exposure to Electronic Entertainment Media and Student Outcomes in Two Demographically Diverse Elementary Schools
… significantly during the decades that electronic entertainment media (EEM) have become a national phenomenon. Exposure to electronic entertainment media has generated much speculation, discussion, and study. Research, however, is lacking on how sensory overload impinges upon the brain and mind of …
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A Deconstruction and Qualitative Analysis of the Consumption of Traditional Entertainment Media by Elementary-Aged Children Diagnosed with Emotional Disorders.
… emotional disorders consumption of traditional entertainment media and their subsequent vegative/anti-social classroom behavior. Research participants included six first-grade children diagnosed with an emotional disorder and their teacher. They were interviewed using a semi-structured approach. …
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Indiana Jones and the temple of media: exploring the interconnection of commercial entertainment media, identity and faith in the American spiritual marketplace
… of the relationship between commercial entertainment media, religion and identity in the American spiritual marketplace. Using ethnographic observations of evangelical prayer groups and church sermons, pastor interviews, focus groups, and email surveys, this research examines the myriad …
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The Influence Of Television And Film On Interest In Space And Science
<p>Entertainment media has the great potential to inspire interest in the topics it presents. The purpose of this study is to better understand how entertainment media contributes to people's interests in space and science. There is a huge variety of science communication topics in previous …
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Serial Killing Myths Versus Reality: A Content Analysis Of Serial Killer Flicks Made Between 1980 and 2001
… through several sources, especially the entertainment media which is a dominant and influential mythmaker. The number of films depicting serial killers and serial killing themes has increased dramatically in recent years. However, the reality of these films is debatable. This research …
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Essays on Product Placement: An Analysis of Key Executional and Individual Level Factors that Influence the Effectiveness of Product Placements.
… through audio and/or visual means, within entertainment media. This dissertation is a collection of three essays that investigate factors affecting the effectiveness of product placements. The first essay focuses on two measures of product placement effectiveness - audience recall and …
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Settler Colonialism in U.S. Popular Media as Influencing Perceptions of Material Culture and Museum Ethics
… look at how action-adventure "treasure-hunting" media introduces people to fields such as archaeology, anthropology, and museum studies through entertainment media. Frameworks of settler colonialism are used to understand the intentionality behind and subsequent impact of these films in a …
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They won't : analyzing queerbaiting and compulsory heterosexuality in popular television.
… has become an increasingly common practice in entertainment media. Television shows contain romantic and sexual subtext between two characters of the same gender without these two characters ever becoming involved in the narrative. This baits queer audiences into believe that such a show will …
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Hierarchy and Responsibility in Media: Cults, Culpability, and Culture
… research project that investigates how popular entertainment media portrays cults. My intention is to see how the selected films and television shows portray issues of hierarchy and culpability within the cult and to explore how the genre and theme of the content was utilized in order to evoke …
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Discursive practices around film and music piracy in selected newspaper articles and radio broadcasts in South Africa
This thesis analyses South African news media discourses on piracy to consider whether corporate interests or those of civil society are served by stories about copyright infringement and piracy awareness campaigns. This thesis employs critical discourse analysis to show that hegemonic interests …
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Fun With Frames: Exploring Metacommunication and Real Media Frames in South Park's Fake News
… its debut in 1997. Much of the show's humor and entertainment value comes from its satirical treatment of public figures, institutions, and timely trends. One of the institutions often lampooned on the show is that of television news broadcasting. This thesis project seeks to shed light on …
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Inducing Emotional Response in Interactive Media
<p>Video games, and entertainment media have been developed for many years, and eliciting emotional experiences is an integral part of that process. Producing and editing game content in order to affect desired emotional experiences can be expensive and cumbersome to developers. This paper presents …
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Entertainment Bias: A Case Study of the Tonight Show and the California Gubernatorial Recall Election in 2003
This thesis looks at entertainment bias, specifically bias on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno towards Arnold Schwarzenegger during the time leading up to the California recall election in 2003. Entertainment media possess a unique ability to communicate messages to an unguarded audience, which gives …
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The politics of enjoyment: the media viewing preferences and practices of young higher-educated Chinese
… Chinese studies: audience reception and foreign entertainment via largely non-regulated downloading and pirate DVDs. The dissertation shows how higher educated Chinese youth use their new semi-illicit media freedom to structure their own social and political attitudes and how in doing this they …
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Marketplace Multiculturalism
… of cross-border commerce, managed by entertainment media turned handheld surveillance, and peppered with enclaves of immigrants from the world over. A contact zone where logistical and legislative apparati warp to serve consumer comfort, Texas today is the world tomorrow: forget the …
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Analisis makna perubahan diri pada pembaca manga
INDONESIA: Manga merupakan suatu bentuk media cerita yang mengusung kisah dengan menampilkan gambar gambar dan karakter tokoh cerita sebagai bentuk simbol untuk menggambarkan keadaan pemikiran tokoh, baik itu secara emosi, keadaan fisik dan mood. Manga merupakan sebutan untuk sebuah komik yang …
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Politics, Feminism, and Popular Television: Madam Secretary as a Politician, Wife, and Mother
… on television has produced an opportunity for media scholars interested in gender, politics, and entertainment media. To date, most research involving the study of fictional politics has revolved around male characters, leaving a gap in the study of female political characters. This study looks …
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The role of the media in shaping young people’s drinking cultures, practices and related identity making: studies of multiple media platforms
… of research that examined the ways in which the media platforms (magazines, television, marketing, Social Network Sites (SNS)) young people (11-21 years) engage with portrayed alcohol, it’s use and related practice. Young people’s own perspectives, interpretations and experiences were also …
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