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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"talk shows"”.
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Perceptions of nonconforming sexualities and genders on television talk shows
… often appear as guests on daytime television talk shows. Using cultivation analysis, the author explored television talk show viewers' perceived realism of television talk shows and GLBTQ people. This quantitative study tested seven hypotheses. Support was found for the first two hypotheses, …
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Broadcasting Change: Radio Talk Shows, Education and Women’s Empowerment in Senegal
This study examined radio talk shows as a platform for Senegalese women to debate social issues and identifies new directions and alternative avenues for their lives. Radio talk show in Senegal is a dynamic, flexible, and interactive tool for communication while highlighting the way women relate to …
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Taiwanese political call-in talk shows : control and "credible participation" hidden behind the spectacle
… I demonstrate that Taiwanese political call-in shows have been a successful form of credible and "controlled participation" for over a decade. With the inception of multi-party elections, these talk shows have served a purpose beyond getting good ratings and bringing in profits for the networks; …
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Der Wandel von Berufsbild und Arbeitsweise des Journalismus und seine Folgen für das politische Bewusstsein der Gesellschaft am Beispiel der zunehmenden Verbreitung des Genres Talkshow im Fernsehen der 90er Jahre
… advertising. It seems that exactly the field of talk shows meets these requirements. Within ten years, the number of talk shows on German television increased by 30 times as much as before. Due to the increasing spread of this branch, the work of journalists has changed as well as their image in …
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Talk Show Viewing Motives: an Exploratory Perspective
… the relaltionship between gender, age, and talk show viewing motives. Talk show viewing motives were operationalized using Rubin's motive instrument. Students from six randomly selected introductory communication classes, members of a nontraditional student organization (OASIS), and …
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The production and mediatisation of political talk television in the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom
… cross-national study that investigates political talk television. The first and main part looks at political talk show production. By talking to senior political talk producers working in different countries, newsrooms and political talk shows, this study constructs a general framework – involving …
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Participatory effects of political satire revisited in the age of digital media : the role of hard news, political expression and social media
… of political satire, specifically late-night talk shows, in the age of digital media. Based on the O-S-R-O-R (background Orientation-Stimulus-Reasoning-outcome Orientation-Response) model of communication effects, this study theorizes and tests structural relationships in which audience …
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A downward spiral: Young people, the media, and political disengagement
… whereas frequent viewers of late-night talk shows feel greater trust toward politics and politicians. Further, there is a relationship between the types of programs which students watch and their level of political involvement. Frequent viewers of local news, network news, and political …
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Power, Arab media Moguldum & gender rights as entertainment in the Middle East
… Using case studies, CDA of social and religious talk shows, narrative analysis of Arabic cinemas, this research adapted triangulation to show the complexity of conversing and narrating gender related content at the micro and macro levels within an institution of power. Using semi-structured …
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A public relations approach to recruiting studio audiences for start-up shows
… to audience coordinators for current daytime talk shows in New York City. Interviews were also conducted with production executives and a director to determine the purpose and significance of audience as well as audience-related costs.</p> <p>Second, the thesis sought to answer what audiences …
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"Youth, murder, spectacle: The cultural politics of ""youth in crisis"""
… coverage, the confession, daytime television talk shows, and youth films. The dissertation finds that these intersections of youth and crime correspond to an anxiety about the reproduction of the social order, having simultaneously ideological and affective dimensions."
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Grassy Knoll-Edges: Conspiracy Theories and Political Rationality in the 1990s
… popular cultural media (television dramas and talk shows, Hollywood films, and best-selling books) are investigated for their similarities and differences with regards to representing conspiracy theories. Second, I analyze the conspiracy theories on their own terms. In doing so, I concentrate …
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French taste: food and national identity in post-colonial France
… and newspapers, TV cooking demonstrations and talk shows, state policies and political debates—and how these helped to redefine French national identity in the last third of the twentieth century. Focusing on how the global context shapes national identities, it tracks France’s transformation …
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Campaigning for authenticity
… of soft news, human interest, and television talk shows required candidates to become personally available in order to connect with voters intimately.</p><p>This dissertation examines the role of candidate image in recent American presidential elections, focusing on the dominant cultural …
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Style over Substance? A Content Analysis of the Gendered Style of Political Pundits on the "Big Five"
It is well known that males dominate politics, both in elected positions and in the media as political pundits (Melber, 2011). Is it the masculine style that is appealing to society? Do popular political pundits (male and female) emulate this masculine style in order to appeal to and persuade their …
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American Monsters: Tabloid Media and the Satanic Panic, 1970-2000
… unfolded through infotainment sub-genres like talk shows and local news programs (first introduced in the late 1940s), its appeal guaranteed the continued presence of the tabloid genre, and reinforced conservative views on gender, race, class, and religion. Although the panic subsided in the …
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Tretas e textões em áudio: historicidades, tecnicidades e sensibilidades de podcasts brasileiros
… também a programas audiovisuais como debates e talk shows, e articulam, ao mesmo tempo, tecnicidades características da internet e da cultura da conectividade.
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A pragma-dialectical approach in television talk show argumentation: A case study of the Namibia Broadcasting Corporation’s one-on-one discourse
… Namibian Broadcast Corporation (NBC) One-on-One talk show interviews between the host and a guest. Although the interviews present different guests per sitting, the host is an NBC employee assigned to the interview segment and is couched within the theoretical explications of pragma-dialectical …
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Sickness experience and language : aspects of Tongan and Western accounting
… of members of Tongan society. The ‘sickness talk’ of these members provides a record of some aspects of contemporary Tongan healing practices. The ‘sickness talk’ is also analyzed using Wittgenstein’s concept of ‘rule-usage’ in the ‘language game’ of sickness. This form of analysis indicated …
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Voilà, an orientation shift marker in modern French discourse: a conversation analytic perspective
… sequential position of the discourse marker in talk-in-interaction in order to identify the multiple functions that it performs. My data come from two different speech exchange systems: four hours of ordinary phone and Skype conversations among native speakers of French, and over twenty hours of …
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