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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"television viewers"”.
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Making Sense of the News Under an Electoral Authoritarian Regime : Russian TV Viewers and the Russia-Ukraine Conflict
This dissertation focuses on how Russian TV viewers make sense of the news in the context of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. It is based on focus groups with TV viewers and borrows the conceptual apparatus of political communication, psychology, and political science to analyze three separate domains …
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A comparative study of viewers’ attitude towards commercial advertising interruptions in public television programmes
… examines the function and purpose of public television broadcasters across two countries (South Africa and Nigeria) in order to highlight best practices in public broadcasting for the benefit of the public (who ought to be the target audience). The original idea of public broadcasting was …
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The Guilty Pleasure of Watching Like Big Brother: Privacy Attitudes, Voyeurism & Reality Programs
… for the rising popularity of reality television. One frequently cited hypothesis is that the rising popularity of reality programs can be attributed to their ability to accommodate television viewers' voyeuristic needs. It has also been suggested that the voyeuristic appeal of reality …
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College Students' Recall Of And Attitudes Toward Brand Placement In Reality Television Programming
… of, brand placement in the genre of reality television. Surveys were used to discover the level of brand recall for the products and brands displayed in reality television programming and to discover viewers' reported reasons for paying attention to these brands. The study found that viewers …
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IVDS System: Channel Simulation and Repeater Unit Design
… developed. This service provides a mechanism for television viewers to interact with the program they are watching. Possible interactions include purchasing products from home shopping programs and requesting information from advertisers. Within the project, two areas were focused upon: channel …
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Attribute Agenda Setting, Attribtue Priming, and The Public's Evaluation of Genetically Modified (GM) Food in South Korea
… among high media users, especially among high television viewers. With these findings about the attribute agenda setting and attribute priming, Korean news media seem to make certain attributes of an issue more or less salient in people's minds.</p>
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Proměna chování českého televizního diváka v kontextu sílících VOD platforem
Television as a medium has demonstrated dominant status since its establishment. However, the consumption of audiovisual content is shifting towards new possibilities. Digitalization has led not only to the expansion and differentiation of the television market, but also to changes in the …
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When education becomes entertainment : the effects of heavy viewing of content light programming on instructional television comprehension and recall
Do the types of television programs we watch affect our comprehension and recall of events presented in another genre? If so, to what extent? Research evidence confirms that network and specialty channel programs are produced to reflect the audience's learning styles, in order to accommodate the …
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Coyote Ugly Librarian: A Participant Observer Examination of Lnowledge Construction in Reality TV.
Reality TV is the most popular genre of television programming today. The number of reality television shows has grown exponentially over the last fifteen years since the premier of The Real World in 1992. Although reality TV uses styles similar to those used in documentary film, the “reality” of …
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Effects of narration on recall of television news: Remembering the video photo essay
Television viewers were tested on their level of information gain from the visual as well as the auditory channels of a TV news story. A story was presented in two modes: one with narration (narrated mode) and one without narration (video photo essay mode). In each presentation, the story was shown …
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Minority Stress and TV Viewing Behaviors among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Adults
… and viewing frequency) among adult LGB TV viewers. Participants (N = 340) identified predominately as White (52.9%) and female (72.1%), and the largest group identified as bisexual (44.4%). Participants completed self-report measures of prejudice events (Heterosexist Harassment, Rejection, …
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TV Casualties: The Negative Impact Of Political Messages In Non-News Programs
… sciences have demonstrated the importance that television can have in shaping the views and outlooks of viewers. Studies have examined how it is that overtly political broadcasting, such as political commercials or ideological cable news channels, can impact viewers. However, precious little …
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Encountering Globalization: An Ethnographic Study of Women and Television in China
In post-Mao China, television has become an embodiment of struggle and negotiation between diverse forces in society. In the wake of the penetration of global capital and media culture, state discourse and popular culture images have been redefining an ideal Chinese womanhood in the context of …
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Factors influencing professional team sport attendance among Hispanics
… team sporting event or to watch one on television. Another aim was to discover the favorite team sport of Hispanics. Finally, the frequency of watching professional team sporting events on television and the amount of money spent on purchasing a favorite teams logo products among …
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Developments in Television Viewership
<p>In recent years the ways in which we watch television has changed, and so has the television we watch. “Binge watching,” almost the Oxford English Dictionary’s Word of the Year in 2013, has taken a firm hold on the American television audience who now watches television not according to the …
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The role of SABC Television Locally Produced Programmes in transforming society through edutainment: A case study of Ulundi
The study examined the role of SABC television’s locally produced programmes in transforming society through edutainment. The focus was on the possible influence of the role of SABC in converting societal behaviour through entertainment-education (edutainment) in locally produced TV programmes. The …
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Creating public dialogue: bridging the divide between television policymakers and citizens
… which dictate programme standards for broadcast television. The thesis then argues this situation can be resolved and shows how Citizens’ Juries can act as dialogue bridges between media organisations and citizen representatives to enable community opinion to inform and benchmark policy …
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Understanding television demand for National Football League: factors influencing sport demand across gender and age cohorts
As viewership of sports have become an indispensable part of American culture, understanding the demand for spectator sports has become an essential branch of economic study. Gender and age are two vital demographics that have been addressed in many prior sport management studies. Although previous …
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A study of the non-linear TV audience of the Maltese state broadcaster
… From all the content broadcast on linear television and which is made available through the on-demand catch-up service, the most relevant are the news bulletin and the drama episodes. All the other television programmes together constitute only a small percentage. Viewers have a tendency …
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