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Showing 1 to 20 of 526 for “"viewers"”.
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Using Sports Videos to Showcase Exciting Content to Viewers
In this thesis, we explore the task of generating highlight videos from sports games through the means of assessing the level of excitement of such videos to extract interesting moments from a game as well as utilize NLP techniques to generate captions for such videos. We create pipelines for the …
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Distant places and television news: A phenomenology of viewers' understandings
Empirical studies of place perceptions have until now been limited. Projects have focussed on places which are immediately present to the perceiver, such as urban landscapes, and have used methods such as sketch maps or distance estimates. These projects place unnecessary limits on the study of …
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How a Museum Exhibit Functions as a Literacy Event for Viewers
… museum exhibit function as a literacy event for viewers? The responses to interview questions described what viewing was like for two subjects. The paradigm for this research is New Literacy Studies (NLS). NLS considers the cultural issues surrounding literacy experiences. NLS assumes that …
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Translating gastronomy in animation: comprehension of culture-specific culinary items by young viewers /
… reception method was used to examine how young viewers react to and comprehend culture-specific culinary items in dubbed animation by employing a Pro Spectrum eye-tracking device; a questionnaire was utilised to validate the eye-tracking data; and multimodal analysis was conducted to examine how …
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Associations Between Primetime Television Shows and Viewers' Mathematics Knowledge, Science Knowledge and Confidence
… To investigate this possibility, avid viewers of programs involving science and math were instructed to complete a questionnaire rating their chemistry and mathematics self-efficacy. In addition, the questionnaire examined viewers' understanding of specific science and mathematics …
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A comparative study of viewers’ attitude towards commercial advertising interruptions in public television programmes
… at investigating and comparing the attitude of viewers towards commercial advertising interruptions during public television viewing time. Literature review within this study also focused on factors which influence viewer rating of public television in Nigeria and South African which ought to be …
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Cable access television and the Las Vegas community: A study of Clark County viewers
… to 500 respondents and assessed awareness and viewership of the local cable access channel; viewer sources of information leading to access viewership satisfaction with local cable access; and demographics. The study incorporated variables assessing the degree of local community involvement and …
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Viewers' Attitudes Towards Analytical and Traditional Commentary Styles in baseball Broadcasts: A Quasi-Experimental Study
<p>This study investigates the attitudes of college and non-college athletes on analytical and traditional commentary styles during baseball broadcasts. The attitudes tested were satisfaction and likelihood to watch again (retention). The experiment had two data collection sessions for the athletes …
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Effects of Television Clips with Hedonic and Eudaimonic Tone on Viewers\' Affective States and Subsequent Program Selection
… generally elicted the strongest responses from viewers in other study measures. Implications for our understanding of television consumption motivations are discussed.
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AN EXPLORATORY THEMATIC ANALYSIS ON VIEWERS’ INVOLVEMENT WITH HAUL VIDEO PERSONAES - TAKING BETHANY MOTA AS A CASE STUDY
… amount of spontaneous comments generated by the viewers as a natural dataset, I pulled the data using coding skills and used the qualitative method of thematic analysis to analyze the themes generated from the comments. It has been found that viewers who have watched Bethany Mota’s haul video …
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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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Effects of non-verbal reactions on viewers' perceptions of candidates in a televised election debate : implications for ETV
… angles and display of non-verbal behaviour on viewers' reactions to candidates in Canadian election debates. A twenty-two minute videotape of extracts from the English TV Debate of October 25, 1988, consisting of the over-the-shoulder two-shots in the ninety-minute debate, was presented to 25 …
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Can buzz on Twitter predict TV ratings and viewers? : a study of US TV shows premiering in fall 2013
… applications brought in yet another platform for viewers to express their opinions. Twitter, founded in 2006, and one of the poster childs of social media wave, provided a real-time platform for users to express their opinions and follow what other people are discussing or any other trending …
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Adapting Television Cultivation Theory Variables to determine the effects of P.E.TV on Middle School Viewers' attitudes toward Physical Activity
Physical Education Television (P.E.TV) is a curriculum supplement package, consisting of a series of 10-12 minute long videos and a teachers' support manual, for use in physical education and health classes in middle and high school. The program has been distributed to over 13,000 schools across …
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A rhetorical analysis of SABC3's flagship Bulletin : In what ways does the SABC succeed and/or fail in persuading viewers that its version of the news is credible?
… The SABC has lost a significant number of viewers from the days when it was the sole television news broadcaster in South Africa, and there were no other alternatives. This dissertation shows that one of the main reasons for this is that the public broadcaster is failing to produce its news …
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Coyote Ugly Librarian: A Participant Observer Examination of Lnowledge Construction in Reality TV.
… of the shows is questioned by critics and viewers alike. The current study focuses on the “reality” that is presented to viewers and how that “reality” is created and may differ from what the participants of the shows experience. I appeared on two reality shows, Faking It and That's Clever, …
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Perceptions of nonconforming sexualities and genders on television talk shows
… 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, indicating that heavy viewers of television talk shows perceived television talk …
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You Are Not Alone: Understanding Representation in Popular Media and Viewer Meaning Through Degrassi and its Fan Communities
… of authentic representation and to make its viewers feel less alone. The program pushed cultural boundaries to create meaning for its audience that connects with viewers many years after the program has finished airing. Representations matter for both the represented and the viewer, and this …
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College Students' Recall Of And Attitudes Toward Brand Placement In Reality Television Programming
… reality television programming and to discover viewers' reported reasons for paying attention to these brands. The study found that viewers tended to have positive attitudes toward brand placement in reality television and that focus on a brand was a major reason for recall. Furthermore, the …
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