To see the other types of publications on this topic, follow the link: Broadcast media.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Broadcast media'
Create a spot-on reference in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, and other styles
Consult the top 50 dissertations / theses for your research on the topic 'Broadcast media.'
Next to every source in the list of references, there is an 'Add to bibliography' button. Press on it, and we will generate automatically the bibliographic reference to the chosen work in the citation style you need: APA, MLA, Harvard, Chicago, Vancouver, etc.
You can also download the full text of the academic publication as pdf and read online its abstract whenever available in the metadata.
Browse dissertations / theses on a wide variety of disciplines and organise your bibliography correctly.
1
Morris, Austin. "YouTube in continuity with broadcast media history." Thesis, Boston University, 2014. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/21223.
Full textAbstract:
Thesis (M.F.A.) PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.Online streaming video portal YouTube began life with the slogan "Broadcast Yourself" as its guiding ethos. Those words invite a critical exploration of YouTube’s relationship to broadcast media history and the current economic, social, and technological landscape of television. Precedent for the discourses of medium-specific ideologies circulating around YouTube is found in the alternative television production cultures of the late 1960s-early 1980s and the processes of radio regulation and spectrum allocation in 1927-1934. In the final analysis, YouTube operates as a simulation of the established television industry, pretending to be disruptive while developing itself as an industry according to the same capitalist logics that structure mainstream television. Thus, YouTube should not be thought of as a viable alternative structure to the television industry. Particular consideration is given to the impacts of YouTube’s technological and industrial structures on queer media producers and consumers.
2031-01-01
2
Lagiovane, Allyson. "#Ad: How YouTube Went From “Broadcast Yourself” to Broadcast Brands and Why It Matters." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1524823331933917.
Full text
3
Pereira, Manuela Alexandra Trigo Miranda de Sousa. "Video coding in a broadcast environment." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/62328.
Full textAbstract:
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1993.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 79-81).
by Manuela Alexandra Trigo Miranda de Sousa Pereira.
M.S.
4
Föllscher, Heiko. "Transmission of media content on IP-based digital broadcast platforms /." Aachen : Shaker, 2007. http://www.gbv.de/dms/bs/toc/543512584.pdf.
Full text
5
Litvack, Samara Rose. "Talking Heads: How Broadcast Media Frame the Public Relations Industry." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1396.
Full textAbstract:
Researchers conducted a content analysis to measure framing of the public relations industry in 354 English language broadcast transcripts from the United States, Canada, and Australia from Sept. 1, 2009 to Aug. 31, 2010.
The overall tone toward public relations was strongly negative. Mentions reflected one-way forms of communication and mentions of the pejorative term "PR" appeared more frequently than mentions of "public relations". The profession was almost always mentioned within the body of the broadcast, as opposed to the headline or the lead paragraph.
Exploratory research showed 15 shows that included negative mentions 100% of the time. Additionally, 27 shows included zero positive mentions of either term. Of 251 speakers recorded during data analysis, 126 spoke of the industry negatively 100% of the time. American shows were most often negative. Stories about the public relations industry were most likely to reflect public relations as a two-way form of communication.
6
Ghasemi, Asemeh. "Iranian women working in broadcast media : motivations, challenges and achievements." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2014. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/27827/.
Full textAbstract:
This research is premised on the investigation of Muslim women working in the Iranian Radio and Television Organisation (IRIB). The study is structured on a number of principal questions: why these women joined IRIB and how they managed the reactions of sceptical family members; how they construct the meaning of womanhood in relation to work, family and motherhood; what challenges these women encounter in the workplace; and how they negotiate and persevere to overcome those challenges, achieve success and make changes in a male-dominated organisation. The main focus is on the post-1979 Islamic revolution, when many practicing Muslim women, who were largely excluded from the film and media industries before the Revolution, began working in radio and television. Modern media that were considered instruments of ‘westernisation’ and ‘decadence’ before the Revolution were re-legitimised by religious authorities and even elevated to the status of ‘public universities’. Many Muslim women, therefore, entered this male dominated ‘forbidden space’ that had a largely secular and liberal work culture before the Revolution. Through 30 semi-structured interviews with these women, this research examines gender relations within the workspace, family domain and in the public arena. The research manifests complex dynamics of gender relations in the context of Iran and in the IRIB organisation. It argues that gender is a relational concept; and an area of constant negotiation and contest. In particular, the study demonstrates that gender relations are defined in negotiation with religious beliefs, traditional norms and political ideologies. They are also reinforced in the family and embedded in the culture of organisation. Overall, it is concluded that after the Islamic revolution, Muslim women found new opportunities to enter spaces in the public domain that were previously considered as being ‘inappropriate’ for women. Despite confronting many challenges in this respect, they have exercised their agency and achieved considerable success in changing traditional and prejudiced attitudes within structures that are underpinned by Islamic gender ideology. In doing so, they have also constructed a new identity of Muslim women that goes beyond simplistic stereotypical dichotomies such as liberated/oppressed, western/eastern, and secular/Muslim.
7
Bell, Andrew Wade. "Strange Bedfellows: Science and Storytelling for Broadcast Television." Thesis, Montana State University, 2006. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2006/bell/BellA0806.pdf.
Full textAbstract:
Filmmakers exploring natural science subject matter that want to sell their work to broadcast television or theatrical outlets face a difficult challenge. They must somehow conflate two contradictory elements: natural science information and compelling storytelling. Looking at the roots of classical narrative, we can better understand why audiences have come to crave it. Broadcast television, in turn, caters to audience desire. This combination forces filmmakers to present natural science information in an exciting way, and has led filmmakers to employ time-honored narrative structures as organizing strategies. While audiences seem to favor material presented this way, it calls the accuracy of the natural science presented into question. This paper will explore how and why the use of narrative became common to natural science filmmaking, illustrate the inherent incompatibilities between the narrative and natural science, and consider the repercussions of this filmmaking model.
8
Guappone, Claire E. "Audience Gratifications and Broadcast Television Networks: A Study of Media Fragmentation." Miami University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1164658360.
Full text
9
Fitzgerald, Richard. "Method in media interaction : an ethnomethodological analysis of a radio phone-in show." Thesis, Bangor University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.369277.
Full text
10
Morton, Benjamin Allen. "Broadcast for one: paging and network communication." Diss., University of Iowa, 2018. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6617.
Full textAbstract:
This dissertation explores the history and culture of a mobile communication device and practice that has been superseded by today’s networked communication devices. The pager—known later in the 1980s and 1990s as a beeper—has a longer history than most assume. In the early 1950s the device was not a distinct technology in its own right, but a haphazard combination of existing communications technologies: telegraphy, telephony, radio broadcasting, answering services, and hearing aids. These technological origins, and the cultures that support them, are important for broadcast and telecommunications historians, as well as media history and theory in general, for three reasons.
First, research on the pager fills a gap in telecommunications history that typically begins with Bell’s wired telephone and ends with wireless mobile car-phones and, later, cellular telephones. Second, the pager’s history contributes to the limited scholarship that has emphasized radio’s many directions after the major broadcast networks left radio for larger television audiences in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Being in-between telephone and radio technology has given the pager somewhat of an identity crisis for historians. Yet this is a silver lining for communication theorists to think about the connection between a medium’s physical form (e.g., a radio is a receiving device that can’t talk back) and its communication form (e.g., a pager was once known as a radio that you would use with the telephone to talk back).
Lastly, the pager is not just a technological device, but the embodiment of a rarely discussed form of communication: paging. This project investigates the history of paging as a cultural technique and communication practice. While early pagers utilized both broadcast and telecommunications techniques, paging as a form of communication does not fall clearly within either of those categories. Like being paged over a public intercom system, early paging systems broadcast a message (from one to many) in order to grab the attention of a single individual (one out of many). This form of communication, this project argues, is fundamental for understanding the many contemporary discussions over the publicly-private and privately-public nature of today’s social media services.
11
Christie, Christine. "Relevance theory and the analysis of audience response : a pragmatic approach to media studies." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 1993. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21226.
Full textAbstract:
This thesis focusses on variability in audience interpretation of a television programme, and aims to problematise and investigate the reception of broadcast communication by applying the pragmatic theory of relevance (Sperber and Wilson 1966) to an empirical study of audience response. This aim is achieved using the following method: In Chapter Two I consider the scope of pragmatic theories of inferencing and conclude that relevance theory offers the only account which can both accommodate and provide the basis for an explanation of variation in interpretation. I also assert that for relevance theory to be able to show why an audience interprets a text in a specific way the cultural background of that audience has to be considered. In Chapter Three I show how existing studies of audience response which adopt a critical cultural studies approach require a more sophisticated model of communication than they currently assume if they are to realise their aim of relating audience respo nse to socio-political structures. My contention is that the inferential model proposed by Sperber and Wilson can provide such an account. Chapters Four and Five describe, and report the results of, an empirical study I carry out based on a methodology premised on relevance theory. The study consists of two separate interviews with audiences who have distinct cultural backgrounds in each of which I show a video recording of a television programme and then question the interviewees on their understanding of the text of the programme. In Chapters Six and Seven I discuss the results of the study in relation to relevance theory and media studies. The results of my study indicate that a methodology based on relevance theory can make explicit, and show the significance of, processes involved in audience interpretation of a media text which have not previously been open to analysis. Building on Sperber and Wilson's claim (1986: 15) that the context of an utterance is a psychological construct, and is a sub-set of the set of assumptions available to the hearer of a given utterance, the results make explicit (a) relevant aspects of the encyclopaedic knowledge of two distinct audiences; (b) the contexts these audiences produce in response to a television text; (c) how these contexts are related to the audience's encyclopaedic knowledge; (d) how these contexts affect the disambiguation and enrichment of information linguistically encoded in the text (e) 'The contextual implications, or interpretations, -the audience draw from a synthesis of the information encoded in text and the contexts the audiences apply. My findings are particularly pertinent for the critical cultural approach to audience studies as they indicate how it is possible to make explicit the relationship between response and cultural background by showing how the existing knowledge of an audience affects interpretation and indicating moreover how this knowledge can be related to social determinants. The results of my study also contribute to pragmatic theory in that they show how relevance theory can be used to explain why interpretation may vary.
12
Pathania, Geetika. ""When global companies localize" : adaptive strategies of media companies entering India /." Digital version accessible at:, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
Full text
13
Föllscher, Heiko [Verfasser]. "Transmission of Media Content on IP-based Digital Broadcast Platforms / Heiko Föllscher." Aachen : Shaker, 2007. http://d-nb.info/1166512444/34.
Full text
14
Zhang, Yuyan Ernest. "Examining media convergence does it also converge good journalism, economic synergies, and competitive advantages /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/5603.
Full textAbstract:
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008.The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on June 18, 2009) Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
15
Emnett, Keith Jeffrey 1973. "Synthetic News Radio : content filtering and delivery for broadcast audio news." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61108.
Full textAbstract:
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1999.Includes bibliographical references (p. 58-59).
Synthetic News Radio uses automatic speech recognition and clustered text news stories to automatically find story boundaries in an audio news broadcast, and it creates semantic representations that can match stories of similar content through audio-based queries. Current speech recognition technology cannot by itself produce enough information to accurately characterize news audio; therefore, the clustered text stories represent a knowledge base of relevant news topics that the system can use to combine recognition transcripts of short, intonational phrases into larger, complete news stories. Two interface mechanisms, a graphical desktop application and a touch-tone drive phone interface, allow quick and efficient browsing of the new structured news broadcasts. The system creates a personal, synthetic newscast by extracting stories, based on user interests, from multiple hourly newscasts and then reassembling them into a single recording at the end of the day. The system also supports timely delivery of important stories over a LAN or to a wireless audio pager. This thesis describes the design and evaluation of the news segmentation and content matching technology, and evaluates the effectiveness of the interface and delivery mechanisms.
by Keith Jeffrey Emnett.
S.M.
16
Lamas, Sofia Almeida Rocha de Botton. "A formatação de conteúdos noticiosos para as plantaformas broadcast e online." Master's thesis, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/10190.
Full text
17
Savoca, Brianna L. "Leon Bibb: A Pioneer in Ohio Broadcast Journalism." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1275605390.
Full text
18
Johnson, Daniel Bradley. "Asiatic and Alaskan Eskimos : broadcast media development and communication access across the Bering Strait." Thesis, McGill University, 1998. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=34743.
Full textAbstract:
Eskimo peoples residing along the Bering Strait region of western Alaska and Soviet Chukotka were forcibly separated by the closing of the US-USSR border in 1948. As a result, all communications between these peoples ceased for a period of 40 years. Eskimos on each side were divided into separate streams of Soviet and American jurisdiction, and with the further development of both regions following the second world War, these people became the recipients of new broadcast services. These services, conceptualized and developed from completely differing philosophies concerning the nature, function, and operation of the press, brought Eskimos into the information and societal orbit of the respective nations, though with little opportunity to control the systems implemented on their behalf.Broadcasting in Chukotka developed in blue print fashion according to central planning directives of the Communist Party, based on an authoritarian, Marxist/Leninist-based model which held a complete monopoly on the means of mass information, in effect, stifling the free exchange of ideas in its attempt to convince Eskimos to accomplish objectives formulated by the Party. Broadcasting in Alaska developed in an opposite fashion, from a combination of state-supported and private initiative based on libertarian/social responsibility models of the press. Alaskan broadcasting was formulated more from the perspective of providing information and entertainment, while radio in Chukotka was more serious in nature, concentrating primarily on political and socio-economic issues facing the region and nation.
As the Cold War between the US and USSR intensified from the 1950s through the early 1980s, communication across the Bering Strait was forceably restricted, yet Eskimos could receive radio services from the other side. While Alaskan stations sought accurate information about the conditions of Eskimos in the USSR, Soviet broadcasting sought to issue a slanted, propagandistic account of the lives of Alaskan Eskimos, despite their lack of accurate reporting resources, in order to convince Soviet Eskimos of the superiority of their lives in contrast to the Alaskans.
This investigation will provide an overview of the development of broadcast media in both regions, as well as a comparative analysis on the role and operation of broadcasting along the Bering Strait, and the participation by Eskimos with such media.
With the development of Soviet glasnost and perestroika in 1985, new opportunities arose for the reunification of the Eskimo people, and broadcasting from both sides played a role in the overall decision-making process between the Soviet and American governments to reopen the border. This study provides a historical synopsis of the border closing and reopening, and the role of broadcast media in these events. Further, developments in the changing nature of mass communications and the reorganization of broadcast media in the Russian Republic will be explored.
The study concludes with an assessment on the possibilities for Eskimo control of broadcasting in the overall effort to strengthen the process of societal reintegration and national development of these people living along the Bering Strait.
19
Johnson, Daniel Bradley. "Asiatic and Alaskan Eskimos, broadcast media development and communication access across the Bering Strait." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ44467.pdf.
Full text
20
Setterquist, Erik. "The effect of quality metrics on the user watching behaviour in media content broadcast." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Avdelningen för systemteknik, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-304514.
Full textAbstract:
Understanding the effects of quality metrics on the user behavior is important for the increasing number of content providers in order to maintain a competitive edge. The two data sets used are gathered from a provider of live streaming and a provider of video on demand streaming. The important quality and non quality features are determined by using both correlation metrics and relative importance determined by machine learning methods. A model that can predict and simulate the user behavior is developed and tested. A time series model, machine learning model and a combination of both are compared. Results indicate that both quality features and non quality features are important in understanding user behavior, and the importance of quality features are reduced over time. For short prediction times the model using quality features is performing slightly better than the model not using quality features.
21
Blackshaw, Matthew (Matthew Andrew). "The broadcast marketplace : Designing a more efficient local marketplace for goods and services." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/76515.
Full textAbstract:
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2012.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 71-74).
Today's online marketplaces for goods and services are imperfect. Participants make an initial post expressing their intention to buy or sell an object, but all offers on this post are private. These offers can be seen as expressions of other participants' intentions to buy or sell the same item. What if these offers were as public as the initial post? Would this decrease market friction and enable participants to close transactions more efficiently? What if every post and offer were tagged with a location enabling a real-time proximal picture of supply and demand? In this thesis, we explore a different kind of marketplace, a broadcast marketplace, where a combination of public post, proximal awareness and mobility decrease the friction of information flow and facilitate efficiency. This thesis explores the design, implementation and deployment of a system which enables users to efficiently view, understand and act upon this proximal picture of supply and demand. To test the viability of the broadcast marketplace we deployed Peddl, an implementation of the idea, in the MIT and Cambridge, MA community. Over the course of the trial we collected data on 5,839 unique visitors and 805 registered users, who made 726 posts totaling $234,913 in value. From this data we show that the additional transparency of supply and demand afforded by our design results in increased marketplace activity.
Matthew Blackshaw.
S.M.
22
Walker, Hannah Smith. "Moving beyond broadcast and traditional pedagogy making a children's documentary for the new media landscape /." Thesis, Montana State University, 2009. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2008/walker/WalkerH1208.pdf.
Full textAbstract:
Thesis (MFA)--Montana State University--Bozeman, 2009.Typescript. Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Cindy Stillwell. Why don't we ride zebras is a DVD accompanying the thesis. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 29-34).
23
Kuban, Adam Jeremy. "The U.S. broadcast news media as a social arena in the global climate change debate." [Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University], 2007.
Find full text
24
Peters, L. H. "Media practice and new approaches to mise-en-scène and 'auteur' theory in broadcast radio." Thesis, University of Salford, 2014. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/31963/.
Full textAbstract:
This PhD by Published Work aims to present a coherent programme of original radio research practice produced by the author and placed in an appropriate academic context that explores new approaches to mise-en-scène and auteur theory. The research methodology employs an interrogation of traditional definitions of mise-en-scène and auteur and then reframes and adopts redefinitions of these theories when used to contextualise broadcast radio. The portfolio consists of the scripts and broadcast recordings of a set of five original BBC Radio 4 plays, and includes reference to a set of related academic publications and conference papers in which critical reflection about the media and creative practice of writing the plays took place. The work draws on approaching four decades of experience as a professional freelance writer and performer. The practice-based research focuses on explorations of the inter-relationships between the form, content and production of the five original radio dramas he was commissioned to write. All of the plays were broadcast by BBC Radio 4, the major public service arena available for radio drama in the United Kingdom, from 2000 to 2012. These years constituted a period of significant change in creative and administrative protocols at the BBC, and form the context for exploration of auteur innovations. The dramas achieved considerable critical attention attracting favourable reviews and provoking public debate. For example, Bell in the Ball (2010) prompted a discussion concerning writing about disability on the BBC’s In Touch programme (2010). It is a significant marker of their quality that a number of the plays have been repeated on various BBC Radio channels, as well as broadcast overseas. As part of the critical interrogation of the author’s media and creative practice, excerpts of the plays have also been included in academic papers presented at national and international conferences.
25
Johnson, Chloe. "Presenting the Pre-Raphaelites: Pre-Raphaelite Art in the Broadcast and Print Media 1942-1997." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.486995.
Full textAbstract:
Through the twentieth century the print and broadcast media have become major means of communication and the Pre-Raphaelites have received a significant amount of coverage, both positive and negative. In the early years of the twentie~h century the Pre-Raphaelites were largely forgotten. The publication of William Gaunt's The Pre-Raphaelite Tragedy in 1942 and the centenary of the formation of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1947-8 led to a resurgence of interest in the group. A series of exhibitions were reviewed in the major newspapers and journals and the artists were the subject of a number of talks· on the Third Programme and featured in the channel's ambitious series The Ideas and Beliefs ofthe Victorians (1948). Coverage of a group of monographic exhibitions through the 1960s and 70s brought . new academic research to public attention, while Ken Russell's Omnibus film 'Dante's Inferno' (BBC 2, 1967) and The Love School, a six-part costume drama (BBC 2, 1975), made the Pre-Raphaelites popular with a broad audience. In 1984 a major Tate exhibition established the group as a significant British avantgarde movement and through the 1990s it became seen as a precursor to developments in European art. The media has reflected these advances and been a platform for the creative reconstruction of the Pre-Raphaelite image. Pre-Raphaelitism has featured in series such as Christopher Wood's Painters to the People (Channel 4, 1990 and Andrew GraJ1am-Dixon's survey A History ofBritish Art (BBC 1, 1995). It has also been the subject ofradio plays such as John Purser's drama Parrots and Owls (Radio 3, 1994) As we move into the digital age and the internet becomes a powerful tool, it is an important moment to assess the impact the media has had on perceptions of the PreRaphaelites and consider the implications this has for future research.
26
Stiegler, Zachary Joseph. "The policy and practice of community radio: localism versus nationalism in U.S. broadcasting." Diss., University of Iowa, 2009. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1086.
Full textAbstract:
While localism is a particularly important aspect of Congress' mandate that broadcasters serve "the public interest, convenience or necessity," the history of US radio broadcasting exhibits persistent tensions between nationalism and localism, which have intensified in recent decades. Current concerns about the loss of localism in US radio broadcasting invite us to reinterpret US radio history from a local perspective. This dissertation traces the tensions between localism and nationalism in US radio broadcasting through four forms of radio broadcasting constructed specifically to serve localism and the public interest: the 10-watt Class D license, full power public radio as typified by National Public Radio, the Low Power FM (LPFM) license established in 2000, and the controversial use of low power radio by religious broadcasters.
The Class D license, US public radio, and LPFM all originated with the stated objective of serving the public in meaningful ways which commercial broadcasting cannot. Yet to date, each of these has failed to meet this goal, whether due to legislative action, organizational failure or conflict amongst broadcast entities. Further, each of these case studies illustrates the conflict between nationalism and localism ever-present in efforts to establish radio broadcasting services that adequately and meaningfully serve local publics. Through a critical-historical analysis of the tensions between nationalism and localism in US radio broadcasting, this dissertation offers an understanding for the reasons and implications of the continued failure of radio's ability to serve local communities in the United States. In doing so, I look to the failures of the past to suggest how we may revise the current LPFM license to effectively serve local publics.
27
Walker, Hannah Smith. "Moving beyond broadcast and traditional pedagogy: making a children\'s documentary for the new media landscape." Thesis, Montana State University, 2008. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2008/walker/WalkerH1208.pdf.
Full textAbstract:
This thesis is a synthesis between the use of new media in the children\'s documentary, Why don\'t we ride zebras?, the use of technology in both formal and informal education, and the convergence of user-malleable media ideal for education-based documentaries.
28
McCann, Kim. "Communication Policy and Public Interests: Media Diversity in Public and Commercial Broadcast Television in the U.S." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1189542869.
Full text
29
Stenvall, Carl Oskar. "Live sports coverage delivery overLTE Broadcast to off-site audiences: : Media Company & End User perspective." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för datavetenskap och kommunikation (CSC), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-150783.
Full textAbstract:
Mobile data traffic volumes are growing in an increasingly rapid pace. LTE Broadcast technology can reduce pressure on mobile networks during times when many users want to access the same content. This thesis explores how media companies and end users can benefit from using LTE Broadcast for sports content delivery. Interviews were held with Scandinavian commercial and public service media companies in order to obtain information on end user trends, data analysis strategies, second screen experiences, advertising and more. Findings are applied to a scenario where media companies deliver sports content to off-site viewers from the FIS Nordic World Ski Championship 2015 in Falun. Main findings show that end users’ top priorities are convenience and quality, that second screenexperiences can be relevant in a sports context, that media companies should make use of data analysis and that the advertising landscape can be changed with new technology.Media companies should take all these factors into consideration when creating live sports coverage offerings. That way, they are the most likely to attract end users, and will therefore find financial benefits. Calculations show that, at its peak, 415 to 2 683 people can be expected towatch the live coverage simultaneously over cellular networks in the area of Stockholm Municipality. Viewership is however likely to increase if elaborative ways of marketing are utilized.Mängden mobil datatrafik ökar i en snabbt växande takt. Tekniken LTE Broadcast kan minska trycket på mobilnäten vid tillfällen då många användare önskar samma innehåll. Detta examensarbete undersöker hur medieföretag och slutanvändare kan dra nytta av användandet avLTE Broadcast som leveransteknik av sportinnehåll. Intervjuer hölls med skandinaviska kommersiella- och public service-medieföretag för att få information om användartrender, strategier för dataanalys, second screen-upplevelser, reklam med mera. Upptäckterna har tillämpats på ett scenario där medieföretag levererar sportinnehåll från Skid-VM 2015 i Falun till åskådare som inte närvarar vid sportanläggningen.Resultaten visade att användarnas främsta prioriteringar är bekvämlighet och kvalitet, att second screen-upplevelser kan vara relevanta i sportsammanhang, att medieföretag bör använda sig av dataanalys och att reklamlandskapet kan förändras med ny teknik.Medieföretag bör ta dessa faktorer i beaktande när de skapar lösningar för liverapporterande av sportevenemang. På så vis är det mest sannolikt att användarna lockas medieföretagets erbjudande, och företaget kommer därför att dra ekonomiska fördelar. Beräkningar visar att, som mest kan 415-2 683 personer förväntas titta samtidigt på direktsändning av Skid-VM 2015 över mobilnäten inom Stockholms kommun. Tittarantalet är dock sannolikt att öka om genomarbetade sätt att marknadsföra evenemanget tillämpas.
30
Aggarwal, Kiran Kumari. "Process study of a complex technology transfer and integration : the case of digital interactive broadcast media." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/11353.
Full text
31
Choi, Yun Jung. "Effects of order and proportion of positive scenes in broadcast news on memory, candidate evaluation, and voting intention." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available full text, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTU0NWQmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=3739.
Full text
32
Murwira, Vincent. "The Open Newsroom: the broadcast news ecosystem in an era of online media migration and audience participation." AUT University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10292/940.
Full textAbstract:
The media has always gone through changes, starting from the era of the Gutenberg printing press several centuries ago, to the introduction of radio and television in the last 100 years. In the last two decades, Internet and digital technologies have rapidly transformed the media and reshaped how news is gathered and disseminated, and re-defined audiences and their role in the media. Before the Internet, news dissemination was scheduled and periodic, for example the 6pm television bulletin or weekly newspaper. Today news is now global and published in 24/7 round the clock news cycles. At this time, there were clear demarcations between radio, television and newspapers, which were all separate entities. These demarcations have largely fallen away as all media have migrated online to publish on the same platform, using the same elements such as text, audio and video. Increasingly, television is migrating online to the degree that forecasts predict that online television will eclipse traditional TV as we now know it, just as much as online newspapers have eclipsed traditional newspapers. This debate is widely contested In pre-Internet days, the media had distinct demarcations between the media owners, news gatherers (and production people), like journalists, and the audience. These demarcations are blurring as audiences increasingly participate in the media resulting in the emergence of a new breed of journalists; the citizen journalist. This is the most popular term used to describe these new journalists. The dynamic nature of the online platform and functionalities like Web 2.0 made it possible for anyone to publish themselves online, on a blog, on social networking sites or to set up their own website, at very little or no cost. This has spurred a lot of creativity, and the wider public has created vast amounts of content such as video, audio and text and submitted or published them online. Consequently, content creation is no longer the preserve and domain of the media and journalists; the ubiquitous nature of the Internet and the availability of other enabling technologies: inexpensive digital technologies like video cameras, digital cameras and recorders means that anyone with access can now create content and disseminate it. Debates in many parts of the world have suggested that these abilities are catalysts that could spur the public into contributing news and video content of breaking news to the media and help keep the 24/7 round the clock news cycle current. After all, some online social networking sites have already demonstrated that citizens possess the skills to produce and publish video content. At a time when the media is facing financial pressure due to reduced advertising revenues, caused in part by the economic crisis and by the shift to the online platform, there are suggestions that citizens could help newsroom budgets by contributing material. It is against this background of rapid online migration by the media, and the emergence of this new breed of news gatherers, that this research on the Open Newsroom is set. The research topic is not new; a body of research about online migration of the media and the new news ecosystem exists in many other countries. In New Zealand however, this is still an emerging area of for research. This research monitored news bulletins on New Zealand’s two main television news channels, 3 News on TV3 and One News on Television New Zealand for 12 months from early 2008 to late 2009. The idea was to gauge and analyse the amount of content submitted by citizen journalists. The research also looked at a case study which illustrated the potential dangers of using news content submitted by citizen journalists. The research sought the professional opinions of a wide range of decision makers and influential people from the New Zealand media such as editors, journalists and publishers and those involved in the training of journalists in New Zealand. Using a Mini-DV video camera and a digital audio recorder, the researcher filmed and recorded interviewees and edited video clips of the interviews which were then published in the media gallery on the website www.theopennewsroom.com. The interviews sought to find out and discuss the online migration by the media, the new news ecosystem, the public’s participation in the media and the benefits and disadvantages of citizen journalism. To put the research into perspective, the website also carries some research articles and literature reviews on the media. The research findings from the interviews with New Zealand media professionals who participated in the study match trends happening in many countries. While most value the potential benefits of citizen journalists in the news process, some strongly expressed a great deal of skepticism and suspicion regarding news contribution from nontraditional journalism sources. In general, the research offered a series of insights into modern media rather than clear-cut answers
33
Ibrahim, Firas. "Interpreter modification of discourse features in the media : a study of the broadcast trial of Saddam Hussein." Thesis, Heriot-Watt University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10399/2470.
Full textAbstract:
This thesis aims to make an empirically-based contribution to existing research on interpreting in the media. It explores how a media context contributes to interpreters’ implementation of reporting techniques and features and does this through an exploration of the interpreting from the broadcast of Saddam Hussein’s trial in Iraq during the period 2005 to 2006. The study draws on previous research into Translation and Interpreting Studies, Conversational Analysis, and reporting techniques in the media, and employs a descriptive approach to the performance of the interpreters in the trial. A predominantly descriptive methodology is adopted in order to analyse the performance and decision-making process of the interpreters in transcribed sessions of the trial. This analysis is principally guided by Wadensjö’s model of renditions (1998), Chesterman’s translation strategies (1997) and Dimitriu’s omission strategies (2004). Two styles of interpreting in the media are identified with regard to the interpreting techniques adopted by the interpreters. These are verbatim and the reporting styles, and they demonstrate the influence of the media context on the interpreters’ decision-making process and prioritisation of information in their output. The verbatim style is closer to the source utterance than the reporting style. The latter implements reporting techniques such as summarisation, and addition of information among other techniques. Both styles also highlight the role which the purpose of using interpreters in an interaction can have on their performance and role in the interaction. Both styles of interpreting illustrate to what extent the media interpreter can assume authorship of her output depending on the context and purpose of the output. Implications of these influences for the theory and pedagogy of translation and interpreting are made, and a number of avenues for future research are suggested.
34
Ignatiew, Nicolas. "Music radio stations from the “On Air” to the Online : Identifying media logics in the content and formats of Radio FIP on its digital platforms." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för informatik och media, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-325169.
Full textAbstract:
Internet and digital media have profoundly reorganised the radio landscape by giving birth to new formats and patterns of radio listening. Today, traditional radio actors systematically use online platforms to diffuse their programs and communicate with their audience. This master thesis offers a case study and examines how Radio FIP, a French music station of public service, uses its digital devices to diffuse its program and produce content online. On the basis of existing researches on radio and radio diffusion online, and with the help of the concepts of format, media logics and hybrid media system, the author of this paper defines two logics of traditional radio and radio online used as reference in order to analysis the influence of media logics on the station’s material and formats online. Observation of Radio FIP’s website and social media pages on Facebook and Twitter showed a clear influence of radio online logics in the visual and informative extra content, the additional audio offers through online webradio streams, the promotion of non linear and asynchronous formats of radio listening’s and the incorporation of networked media frames. At the same time, logics of traditional radio prove to be also very significant with the pre-eminence and promotion of the station’s on air broadcast on digital devices and the reproduction of traditional radio patterns of temporality, music prescription and vertical communication on social media platforms. The coexistence of the two logics in Radio FIP online platforms characterises the station’s digital apparatus as a hybrid media space, and opens up new research trails for better understanding what influence the content formats of radio stations diffusing online.
35
Oyedeji, Tayo A. "The credible brand model the effects of ideological congruency and customer-based brand equity on media and message credibility /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/5574.
Full textAbstract:
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008.The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on June 11, 2009) Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
36
Olsson, Vesga Victor. "A MARKET-CENTRIC APPROACH TO NEW MEDIA BUSINESS : LTE-BROADCAST AS A BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY WITHIN THE DIGITAL SIGNAGE MARKET." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för datavetenskap och kommunikation (CSC), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-170575.
Full textAbstract:
With a growing number of connected devices and an increased market penetration for wireless and cellular technologies, it has become more and more important to understand how new technologies can be leveraged in existing markets to further understand their overall impact on society as a whole. This master thesis aims to investigate potential business opportunities for a new communications technology within an existing market. This new technology, known as LTE-Broadcast, is an evolution of cellular 4G technologies, which allows content to be broadcasted throughout a cellular network. The thesis focuses on the digital signage market and uses it as context in which to investigate potential business opportunities. Digital signage, in short, refers to the use of digital screens as a medium for communication. This thesis therefore intends to understand how LTE-Broadcast can be leveraged as a viable business option within the digital signage market by perusing both a global and national perspective of the market. By investigating and analyzing a global perspective and a national perspective, in the form of the Swedish digital signage market, a clear picture of the value LTE-Broadcast can generate within digital signage is achieved. This, consequently, allows for the identification and conceptualizing of a viable business model for Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) while leveraging LTE-Broadcast in the digital signage market. The research, conclusively, allows for a clear understanding of the model’s scalability. Ultimately, the understanding of the technology’s viability within a given market will influence its successful adoption in society and its potential utilization by MNOs to create a sustainable competitive advantage within the digital signage market.
37
McLeod, Aileen J. "An analysis of the impact of the United Kingdom print and broadcast media upon the legitimacy of the European Parliament in Britain." Thesis, University of Central Lancashire, 2003. http://clok.uclan.ac.uk/19005/.
Full textAbstract:
This thesis examines whether and to what degree the UK media undermine the legitimacy of the European Parliament in Britain. It begins by arguing that in respect of the EP, the concept of legitimacy needs reappraisal. It then offers a definition of "meaningful legitimacy" for the EP and identifies those indicators, which will allow the presence or absence of meaningful legitimacy among the British public to be examined. On the basis of the definition offered and using the indicators identified the empirical evidence for the absence of legitimacy is reviewed. It is found that meaningful legitimacy for the EP is absent among the British public. Media discourse theory is then outlined and a particular application of media discourse theory is used to examine the British media. An empirical examination of the perception of the legitimacy of the European Parliament in the British Euro-sceptic and the British pro-European press respectively is offered. Problems related to bias in its various forms, how to identify it and its impact, are then outlined. The impact on legitimacy of the British broadcast media, especially the BBC, is evaluated through a detailed data analysis. Finally, the thesis concludes that meaningful legitimacy is absent and that the media, although not solely responsible for this, have played a major deliberative role in preventing meaningful legitimacy for the European Parliament being established. At the same time their coverage reflects this absence of legitimacy. Since the EP's meaningful legitimacy in its own right has not been subject to any substantial examination, this has left a growing gap in the literature. By offering a definition of legitimacy which can be operationalised and used in an empirical assessment of the impact of the UK media on the EP's legitimacy, this thesis makes a distinctive contribution to future research in this area.
38
Appel, Gerald I. "A Q methodology study of broadcast news professors' attitudes toward local television news." Virtual Press, 2003. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1265083.
Full textAbstract:
The purpose of this Q study was to learn broadcast news professors' attitudes on the current state of local television news. The researcher also wished to uncover if professors with primarily teaching experience have different attitudes on local television news than professors with primarily professional broadcast experience.Nineteen professors in Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan sorted Q statements regarding the quality of local television news. An analysis of their Q sorts found the participants fell into three categories: the Ultra-Critics, the Moderate-Critics, and the Minimal-Critics.The Ultra-Critics were very critical of local television news and had virtually nothing positive to say about the topic. The Moderate-Critics had some positive thoughts about local television news, but were still very critical. The Minimal-Critics were critical of local television news, but still had many positive thoughts on the industry.The researcher also found that professors with primarily professional broadcast experience were much more critical of the industry than professors with primarily teaching experience.Department of Journalism
39
Engstrand, Hilda. "2008 - ett år för mobil-tv-marknadens utbredning? Drivkrafter hinder och aktörer." Thesis, Uppsala University, Media and Communication, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-8391.
Full textAbstract:
Abstract
Title: 2008- the year of the mobile-TV-markets expansion? (2008- ett år för mobil-tv-marknadens utbredning? Drivkrafter hinder och aktörer).
Number of pages: 50
Author: Hilda Engstrand
Tutor: Lowe Hedman
Course: Media and Communication Studies C
Period: Fall Semester 2007
University: Division of Media and Communication, Department of Information Science, Uppsala University.
Purpose/Aim: The aim of this research paper is to identify the main operators on the mobile-tv-market and to map out the main forces behind its growth. What are the driving forces that creates a new disribution-market? Also to study how political media-regulation effect and urge the mobile-tv- market.
Material/Method: Interviews with people from the mobile-tv-market. To read public-documents, press releases and reports from the government, media-companies and organisations has also been a method used to gain information.
Main results: That the mobile-tv-markets growth is a result of several driving forces. Political regulation is an important force that can make a difference in how and when the mobile-tv-market will expand. My research has also showed that it is beneficial if operators on the market co-operate in different ways.
Keywords: Mobile TV, Communication Techniques, Political Regulation, Broadcast Standards, New Media
40
Bergendahl, Olle. "A market-centric approach to new media business: : LTE-Broadcast and the needs of the digital signage market." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för datavetenskap och kommunikation (CSC), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-150378.
Full textAbstract:
The number of connected devices is rapidly growing. MNOs (Mobile Network Operators) work hard to offer their customers the latest technologies, and due to this it has become increasingly important to understand how new technologies can be leveraged and positioned in existing markets. This master thesis, made on behalf of the Swedish company Ericsson AB, is an evaluation of a new cellular technology called LTE-Broadcast. Since LTE-Broadcast is a very new technology, it is not certain how it should be positioned towards competing technologies such as 3G, Wi-Fi or fiber connections. The general aim of this thesis was to assess whether or not there are needs in the digital signage market that could be satisfied by the benefits of the LTE-Broadcast technology. The global digital signage market was used to collect quantitative data and the Swedish market was used to collect qualitative data to gain a deeper understanding of the digital signage actors and their needs. In total there wereeleven interviews conducted with selected actors from the value constellation. The most important results were found in the Swedish market, showing that almost every actor has experienced some issues with current media delivery systems. Their main issues include low bandwidth, bad cellular reception or unstable connections, high maintenance costs, high costs of data and time consuming cable installations. The analysis and discussion suggests that several of the issues could be solved by LTE-Broadcast. The increased QoS and guaranteed media delivery should be appreciated by a majority of the actors, while the ability to live stream content are sought after by some of the actors. The Porter’s five forces analysis has shown that the main threat to market adoption is the threat of substitute products such as fiber or Wi-Fi. This threat could however be averted by marketing LTE-Broadcast on verticals where the substitutes are unavailable, such as in the transportation and public transport vertical. To conclude, LTE-Broadcast has been shown to be a good fit for certain parts of the digital signage value constellation. Keywords: LTE-Broadcast, digital signage, Ericsson, media delivery, cellular technology, Porter’s five forces, DOOH, 4G.Antalet uppkopplade enheter växer kraftigt. Täckningen på mobilnät med hög bandbredd utökas ochmobiloperatörer jobbar ständigt för att erbjuda sina kunder den senaste tekniken. På grund av detta har det blivit viktigare och viktigare att förstå hur nya teknologier kan positioneras på nuvarande marknader. Detta examensarbete, gjort på uppdrag av Ericsson AB, är en utvärdering av en ny mobilteknik kallad LTE-Broadcast. Eftersom LTE-Broadcast är en väldigt ny teknologi är det oklart hur tekniken ska positioneras i förhållande till konkurrerande teknologier såsom 3G, Wi-Fi och fiberuppkopplingar. Den övergripande målsättningen med denna uppsats har varit att undersöka huruvida det finns behov i digital signage-marknaden som skulle kunna tillgodoses av LTE-Broadcast-teknologin. Den globala digital signage-marknaden har använts för att samla in kvantitativ data och den svenska marknadenhar använts för att samla in kvalitativ data och för att få en djupare förståelse för digital signage-aktörerna och deras behov. Totalt genomfördes elva intervjuer med utvalda aktörer på marknaden. De viktigaste resultaten upptäcktes på den svenska marknaden, där det visade sig att nästan varje aktör har upplevt problem med nuvarande teknik. Deras huvudsakliga problem inkluderar otillräcklig bandbredd, dålig mottagning eller instabila uppkopplingar, höga kostnader för underhåll och tidskrävande kabelinstallationer. Analysen och diskussionen pekar på att flertalet av digital signage-aktörerernas upplevda problem skulle kunna lösas med LTE-Broadcast. Ökad QoS och garanterad leverans av innehåll borde uppskattas av en majoritet av aktörerna, medan möjligheten att live-sända innehåll borde uppskattas av några aktörer. Porters femkraftsmodell har visat att det största hotet mot ett införande av LTE-Broadcast är konkurrerande tekniker såsom fiber och Wi-Fi. Detta hot kan dock undvikas genom att marknadsföra LTE-Broadcast mot marknader där konkurrerande teknologier inte finns tillgängliga, såsom t.ex. transport- och kolletivtrafikindistrin. Sammanfattningsvis har LTE-Broadcast visat sig passa bra in i enskilda delar av digital signage-värdekedjan.
41
Flannery, John M. "From Math Men to Mad Men: Digital Media & the New Ad Strategy." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/807.
Full textAbstract:
Developments in advertising are necessarily tied to shifts in media technology – by this very fact, the industry has changed significantly since the 1960s. In the 21st century, ad men have to contend with an increasingly complex and fractured digital landscape. Big, traditional ad agencies – like those depicted in the popular television series Mad Men – no longer dominate; instead, they are forced to compete with a growing class of digital marketing start-ups for a stake in tomorrow’s adscape. Innovative ad serving technologies, instead of creative-driven campaigns, rule the day. Internet technologies have created an environment in which identifying and engaging consumers on an individual level is entirely possible; in effect, the software engineers and data scientists capable of executing these types of campaigns – the “Math Men” – have become the new industry luminaries.
And yet, there is still something to be said about the importance of a sentimental bond between the consumer and product. The type of advertising practiced by Don Draper and his real-life counterparts is based in a fundamental truth about human decision-making: emotions are an integral aspect of information-processing. While there is truth to the Math Men’s core principle that, “Advertising should deliver the right information to the right person at the right time,” There is a good reason that brands such as Coca-Cola, McDonald’s and GE – all vestiges of the Mad Men era – remain some of the most valuable and celebrated in the world. The paper will argue that the future of powerful ad content is dependent upon an appreciation of the Mad Men's creative philosophy, emboldened by an understanding of the ways in which media – and by extension ad serving technology – has advanced since the 1960s.
42
Hoare, Lottie. "Secondary education in BBC broadcast, 1944-1965 : drawing out networks of conversation and visions of reform." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2017. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/273980.
Full textAbstract:
This study examines the representation of Local Education Authority (LEA) secondary schooling in England and Wales as it was portrayed in non-fiction British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) programmes in the twenty-one years that followed the 1944 Education Act. The primary sources drawn on for this study include the surviving microfilmed radio scripts, dating from 1944–1965 and held at the BBC Written Archives (BBC WAC). The correspondence files from contributors to programmes also provide a key source from BBC WAC. The majority of the programmes considered are radio broadcast, however some documentary films on the topic of secondary education, made by the BBC and transmitted on television, are also analysed. Where audio-visual copies have survived, the programmes were viewed at the BFI Viewing Services. The study draws on 235 BBC programmes in total, made in the years 1944–1965. The details of these broadcasts can be seen in the three Appendices accompanying this study. The study also employs the use of drawing to present key ideas. This study explores how broadcasts are formed as cultural products. The research questions address: what was the content of these programmes? Who collaborated to create and edit these programmes and how were the programmes devised to inform the public about the provision of secondary education? What was the role of the All Souls Group (ASG) in this collaboration? The public included a domestic audience in England and Wales and an overseas audience for whom distinct broadcasts were usually created. A further element of the research is a scrutiny of the BBC as an organization that positions itself as neutral. The considered programmes enabled a group of eloquent educationalists to use their rehearsed and edited ‘conversation’ on a public stage. As the study unfolds it becomes apparent that the members of the informal education discussion group, the ASG, were lobbying to encourage the topic of secondary education to resurface sufficiently often on air. The study concludes with recognition that the reinforcing of loyalties between overlapping networks, such as the BBC and the ASG, should no longer be approached with reticence in academic research.
43
Woo, Yuen Ying Grace. "Oral and written media coverage of mundane news in Hong Kong : a case study of a fire incident." HKBU Institutional Repository, 1995. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/95.
Full text
44
Johnson, Matthew L. "STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES FOR THE TRAFFIC INVENTORY DEPARTMENT OF THE DISNEY ABC TELEVISION GROUP." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/262.
Full textAbstract:
The Mack truck principle is the reason a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) document is a good idea – so I was told by my boss in my early days working for Disney ABC Television Group. This principle is quite simple: if the one person who knows how to do the job walks out the door and is hit by a Mack truck, we have a problem; no one else knows how to do what that person did. And when it comes to television operations, that is a huge dilemma!
Standard Operating Procedures is a document that lists the step-by-step process for completing tasks in order to, in this case, keep a network on the air. This document would be beneficial in cases of disaster recovery, but it might be just as useful for training new employees or for covering for someone who is out sick. There may be various reasons to go to the SOP, but they all have the same goal: to keep operations working to fulfill the business objective.
An SOP for the operations of an entire network would likely fill at least one if not multiple books, so in order to keep this project manageable, I limited the development of the SOP to one department, Traffic Inventory, which is responsible for the commercial and promotional assets which are sold and scheduled to air on any of the Disney cable networks (Disney Channel, DisneyXD, and Disney Junior.)
In order to develop an SOP, it was necessary to review the different software programs in use, and understand their purpose and application to the overall operations of the cable networks. This will be a “living” document, meaning updates and changes will be anticipated, requiring constant maintenance of the SOP in order to keep it up to the latest development. In an effort to make it truly useful, multiple screen captures are used, as this provides a more user-friendly tutorial and makes for a more effective “blueprint” to comprehend and follow.
By having Standard Operating Procedures on hand, anyone in the department will be able to effectively follow the process for handling the commercial and promotional assets in an efficient manner, with minimal impact on the daily operation of the networks. This will then be a valuable document, helping the business to keep its commitment to both advertisers and viewers, without the fear of Mack trucks.
45
Olsson, Tom. "Adding Information to Complement a Football Broadcast : Exploring the possibilities of improving the viewer experience of a broadcasted football game with the use of additional information through motion tracking." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för datavetenskap och medieteknik (DM), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-76166.
Full textAbstract:
This thesis aims to explore the possibilities of improving the viewer experience of a broadcasted football game with the use of additional information, applied to the footage with the use of motion tracking. This work was conducted in collaboration with SVT Design. which is the inhouse department of the Swedish television network (SVT) tasked with designing, developing and creating graphical solutions. One of the systems developed by SVT Design is the character generator Caspar CG. Which is an open source CG system used worldwide for broadcasting productions. In the spring of 2018, SVT Design presented the idea of incorporating a motion tracking feature within Caspar CG. This would be a feature which could be used during broadcasted sporting events to provide the viewers with additional information regarding the ongoing event. With the use of motion tracking, the additional information could be presented in a dynamic manner in the sense that the information would follow the motion of the tracked object. This thesis aimed to answer the following three research questions; What type of information could be displayed? When and how could this information be displayed? and lastly, how could the addition of information change the viewer’s experience of the football game? The conclusions aimed to provide SVT Design with a set of guidelines and requirements regarding the design and implementation of the additional information in a manner that would promote a positive viewer experience. The methodology applied for this thesis was a qualitative methodology utilizing research activities such as semi-structured interviews featuring three staff members of SVTs department of sport productions. The observation of two broadcasted football games. Along with two focus groups in which the participants were presented with a prototype developed in Adobe After Effects. Consisting of footage from the 2010 FIFA world cup along with additional information that was applied with the use of motion tracking. Through the analysis of the collected data, several recurring keywords and notions were identified and translated into requirements. The requirements, which was structured around the three research questions. Is for example that the information needs to be player specific and to provide an insight of the potential outcome of the game. Another example of a requirement being that the information is to be displayed when there is a break in action during the game. The result from this thesis indicated that if the specified requirements were met. The additional information applied during the broadcast could provide an improvement of the viewer’s experience of watching the broadcasted football game.
46
Mashburn, Noelle. "A study of the changing television newsrooms with the diffusion of internet technologies." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/6034.
Full textAbstract:
Thesis (M,A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007.The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on November 12, 2007) Includes bibliographical references.
47
Jadick, Christopher. "To Tell the Truth: The Credibility of Cable News Networks In an Era of Increasingly Partisan Political News Coverage." Scholar Commons, 2017. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6867.
Full textAbstract:
The credibility of the American news media is increasingly under fire. Despite an exponential expansion of information available in the digital media era, increased political news coverage and commentary has brought growing apprehension over how much of today’s news can be trusted and believed. 24-hour cable news channels are among the media most often subject to this criticism. At the same time, the media operates under First Amendment freedom of press protection, a constitutional guarantee granted with the understanding that democracy can only succeed when its citizens are well informed. In the great experiment of our republic, a freely functioning news media fills this critical role, but only to the extent that it can be trusted to portray the truth.
This research questioned the media’s ability to inform the public due to the proliferation of political news and commentary. Utilizing social judgment theory, this study offered two hypotheses: that news consumers will find more credibility in political news when presented by media outlets they favor due to political preferences, and that they will also find more credibility in non-political news when presented by media they favor due to political preferences. The study examined if there is a bleed over effect on the credibility of non-political news due to political news coverage. An experiment was conducted in which two politically diverse populations, Republicans and Democrats, where asked to rate the credibility of six stories. Three of the stories were political, three non-political. While the content of those stories remained constant for all study participants, the media brands associated with the stories alternated between Fox News and CNN to determine if the media source alone influences perceptions of credibility. Results from members of both political parties provided support for each hypothesis. Republicans assigned greater credibility to both political and non-political news stories when presented by their network of preference, Fox News. By comparison, Democrats demonstrated greater trust when those same stories where branded by their preferred network, CNN.
48
Fabricius, Kristina. "Broadcast news production in the classroom as a student mediation for bilingual and cross-cultural education." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2007. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3134.
Full textAbstract:
"Broadcast News Production in the Classroom as a Student Mediation for Bilingual Education" describes a curricular design to meet interactive literacy projects for the K-12 Bilingual Education classroom. The author has designed or adapted mediation structures for use to implement "Broadcast News Production" in the classroom specifically for Bilingual and Cross-cultural Education. The study is theoretical and based on research.
49
Mulonya, Rodrick K. A. R. "The political economy of development aid: an investigation of three donor-funded HIV/AIDS programmes broadcast by Malawi television from 2004 to 2007." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002926.
Full textAbstract:
Development aid in most of the developing countries can sometimes compromise the principles of public service broadcasting (PSB). This may be true when reflected against the tension between donor financed programmes in Malawi and the mandate of Television Malawi (TVM). Although the donor intentions are noble, the strings attached to the funding are sometimes retrogressive to the role of PSBs. A case in point is how donors dictate terms on the HIV/Aids communication strategies at TVM. Producers receive money from donors with strings attached on how the money should be used and accounted for. If producers deviate they are sanctioned through withholding funding, shifting schedules and reducing the funding frequency. The donors also dictate who to interview on what subject, how to conduct capacity building. Some scholars have researched much on the impact of commercialisation of the media. This study is a departure from these traditional interferences; it interrogates the interest of philanthropy tendencies by international donors in the three chosen HIV/Aids programmes broadcast by TVM. The study investigates the extent of pressure exerted by donors on the producers of HIV/Aids programmes in Malawi. Thus, the study seeks to illicit specifics in the power relationship between the donor and the producer hence the study employs the political economy of development aid as applied to the public service broadcasting and communication for development. The study employed qualitative research methods and techniques (in-depth interviews, case study and document analysis). The study reveals how donor ideologies dominate the Aids messages-content output of the texts constructed. The study argues that cultural alienation of the Malawian audiences retards efforts of donors in combating HIV infection rate.
50
Magee, Sara C. "That's Television Entertainment: The History, Development, and Impact of the First Five Seasons of "Entertainment Tonight," 1981-86." Ohio : Ohio University, 2008. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1217427973.
Full text