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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"reception analysis"”.
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Ideological Sinicization of China Central Television in Africa A Reception Analysis of African Audiences
… in 2009. This research is aimed at conducting a reception analysis of the African audiences of CCTV-Africa from the perspective of critical political and economic media studies. The focus of this research is not limited to the audience reception of the media content produced by CCTV-Africa but …
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The Monstrous Side of Humanity: A Generic, Narrative, and Audience Reception Analysis of True Blood
… lenses of genre, narrative, and audience reception. Specifically, this study examined the series' adherence to the gothic vampire subgenre, the way the series functions as an allegorical narrative, and the audience reception principles demonstrated by viewers of the series. Through my …
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Sustaining Threat Narratives about Muslims and Arabs in Germany in The Post 9/11 Era: An Analysis of Showtime?s Homeland
… the state's use of violence and surveillance. Reception analysis requires insight into the televisual text, the sociocultural characteristics of the viewer, and the socio-political context of the time. Consequently, my research balances theoretical reflections on Homeland's ability to sustain …
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The interpretation of music videos : an interactive relationship between medium and viewer
… differently than others. Jensen's concept of reception analysis describes the relationship between the medium and the audience, and thus remains a strong focus within this study. Differences in the interpretation of music videos were investigated as a function of Absorption, gender role, …
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Music and the Modern Maya: A Reception Study of Rock-Maya Music in Guatemala
… musical genre called "Rock-Maya." I use reception analysis methods to document the encoding and decoding of this new indigenous medium of communication. Through qualitative interviews I attempt to show how K'iche'-Maya youth appropriate, what Motti Regev (1997) calls, the rock aesthetic …
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Introducing a new medium : newspaper reviews of the first film screenings in Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto and New York in 1896
… reviews/articles are also useful for audience reception analysis, as well as discourse analysis. Through examination of the advertising for these first shows, one can follow the movements of the various film systems around the four cities. One can also track the interest threshold of the …
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Distributed multimedia quality: The user perspective
… of the role that the human element plays in the reception, analysis and synthesis of multimedia data. Results showed that video content adaptation, results in disparity in user video eye-paths when: i) no single / obvious point of focus exists; or ii) when the point of attention changes …
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"Motherhood", "the family" and Murphy Brown : New Zealanders' receptions of an American sitcom text
… from poststructuralist theory and audience reception studies, the first aspect of this tri-partite investigation examines the macro context of this episode's production in the United States in 1992, and identifies competing constructions of 'motherhood' and 'the family' circulating within …
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Representing science in the UK news media: ‘Life on Mars?’, cell nucleus replacement and Gulf War syndrome
… the Glasgow Media Group, providing a comparative analysis of the production, content and reception of news media coverage of the case studies. The methods included interviews with scientists, journalists, media professionals and interest groups, a two-year content analysis of press and television …
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Skinner stories : a community's perspective on the representation of coloured people today
… identity. Since this research focuses on both an analysis of television content and reception analysis amongst the women of the Cape Flats community of Hanover Park, a working class coloured community, it cannot be removed from questions about the existence of coloured identitity. It argues that …
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Transnational audiences and the reception of television news: a study of Mexicans in Los Angeles
… draws on the traditions of cultural studies and reception analysis as a strategy to explore the relation between media use and novel experiences of migration in a context of contemporary globalization. This conceptual background is the result of empirical research conducted in Los Angeles which …
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A Re-examination Of The 20th Century Intercultural Theatre: Peter Brook's The Mahabharata (1985) And Ong Keng Sen's Lear (1997)
… Lear (1997). The first chapter is a historical analysis of intercultural theatre's emergence in the late 20th century, which explores the early experimentations, the pioneering works of intercultural theatre, and how Ong's work makes a shift away from these pioneering works at the end of the …