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Hamilton, Shaun Ashley, and mikewood@deakin edu au. "A technique for improving the reception of scattering signal behind an obstacle." Deakin University. School of Sciences, 1991. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20060726.151839.
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This thesis presents a solution to the problem of receiving a signal in the shadow and fringe areas. Theoretical and experimental investigation of the field behind an obstacle in a line of sight transmission path for UHF / microwave signals has resulted in a new approach to the analysis of electromagnetic fields in the shadow of an obstacle.
Analysis using this approach showed the field
to consist of varying amplitude and phase distribution. Additional analysis predicted an increase in received signal could be achieved if correlation between the field and antenna
structure could be obtained. This was accomplished with a new antenna design.
The thesis presents experimental and photographic evidence to support the theory. A novel technique involving the matching of the antenna structure to the field distribution, resulted in an increase of received signal in the diffracted field of up to 4 dB.
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Sherratt, Simon. "Reduction of vestigial sideband effects due to multipath transmission in terrestrial broadcast television." Thesis, University of Salford, 1996. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.308288.
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In terrestrial television transmission multiple paths of various lengths can occur between the transmitter and the receiver. Such paths occur because of reflections from objects outside the direct transmission path. The multipath signals arriving at the receiver are all detected along with the intended signal causing time displaced replicas called 'ghosts' to appear on the television picture. With an increasing number of people living within built up areas, ghosting is becoming commonplace and therefore deghosting is becoming increasingly important. This thesis uses a deterministic time domain approach to deghosting, resulting in a simple solution to the problem of removing ghosts. A new video detector is presented which reduces the synchronous detector local oscillator phase error, caused by any practical size of ghost, to a lower level than has ever previously been achieved. From the new detector, dispersion of the video signal is minimised and a known closed-form time domain description of the individual ghost components within the detected video is subsequently obtained. Developed from mathematical descriptions of the detected video, a new specific deghoster filter structure is presented which is capable of removing both inphase (I) and also the phase quadrature (Q) induced ghost signals derived from the VSB operation. The new deghoster filter requires much less hardware than any previous deghoster which is capable of removing both I and Q ghost components. A new channel identification algorithm was also required and written which is based upon simple correlation techniques to find the delay and complex amplitude characteristics of individual ghosts. The result of the channel identification is then passed to the new I and Q deghoster filter for ghost cancellation. Generated from the research work performed for this thesis, five papers have been published.
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Moran, Kristin Clare Engstrand. "Mexican telenovelas and Latina teenagers' understanding of romantic relationships : a reception analysis /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6200.
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Brown, Brian. "Watching the news : towards an understanding of the news reception process." Thesis, University of Leicester, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/34620.
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This thesis is about television news. I conducted a qualitative study of the decoding of television news on an opportunistic sample of 38 participants with whom I watched news programmes and then conducted individual or paired focused discussions about their thoughts and feelings as they watched. While problems of representativity and scale preclude our making demographic statements as to the prevalence of decoding practices, this database enables me to perform a critical interrogation of two seperate strands of scholarship relating to TV news. I am concerned to interpose a series of caveats as to the complexity and subtlety of interpretive practice which intervenes between the news and any ideological effect it might exert. Secondly I wish to indicate some problems in that genre of empirical studies concerned with 'learning from news' and 'information gain', which do not exhaustively capture the decoding process. I look at how we might study reasoning and inference in relation to the news, and what happens when people confess themselves unable to remember or understand, since these are areas which are not fully probed by information gain studies. I focus on the resources of meaning and reasoning strategies employed in understanding news. I also extend attention to some areas not normally considered in news audience studies, namely the expression of emotions in relation to news, particularly news about South Africa; and ludic or playful decoding. Memory is the crucial structuring construct of most mainstream research on the television news audience. I begin to problematise the nature of memory by indicating how memories are mutually produced, rather than originating entirely in internal psychic storage. I am also trying to develop ideas of social cognition and how they might be applicable to the business of decoding and the meanings which are developed between people rather than the conventional focus on decodings which are produced by individual viewers as finished products, I also try to develop a reflexive conception of how the conduct of the discussions might construct the thinking and behaviour of the particpants, particularly by reference to their apologies and the expectations they seemed to entertain about the research situation.
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Narberhaus, Martínez Marta. "Children's news: topics, information quality and audience reception around Newsround, Logo and Info K." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/398982.
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Aquesta tesi doctoral analitza els informatius infantils de televisió a partir de l’estudi de les notícies de tres programes de referència de cadenes públiques: Newsround, de la British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); Logo, de l’alemanya Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) i Info K de la Televisi de Catalunya (TVC). A partir d’una anàlisi de contingut s’identifiquen els temes que aborden aquests programes i la manera com són explicats als seus espectadors, nens i nenes, tenint en compte criteris de qualitat informativa. El treball es completa amb un estudi de la recepció a partir de la realització de grups de discussió amb nens i nenes que parlen sobre el seu consum mediàtic, la seva relació amb la televisió i, de manera més específica, amb la informació i els telenotícies.Esta tesis doctoral analiza los informativos infantiles de televisión a partir del estudio de las noticias de tres programas de referencia de cadenas públicas europeas: Newsround, de la British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); Logo, de la alemana Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) e Info K de Televisió de Catalunya (TVC). A partir de un análisis de contenido se identifican los temas que abordan estos programas y la manera como se explican a sus espectadores, niños y niñas, teniendo en cuenta criterios de calidad informativa. El trabajo se completa con un estudio de recepción a partir de la realización de grupos de discusión con niños y niñas sobre su consumo mediático, su relación con la televisión y, de manera más específica, con la información y los noticiarios.
This doctoral thesis analyses children’s news in television studying three reference programs of public European broadcasters: Newsround, from the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); Logo, from the German Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) and Info K from the Catalan Televisió de Catalunya (TVC). An empiric content analysis identifies the topics shown by these programs and the way in which they are explained to their audience, boys and girls, considering information quality criteria. The research is completed with a reception study with focus groups with children who discuss about their media consumption, their relationship with television and, more specifically, with information and the News.
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Xie, Wenjing. "The reception of global, regional and local TV dramas in Hong Kong : rethinking cultural proximity." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2005. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/669.
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Cheema, Munira. "The production and reception of gender-based content in Pakistani television culture." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2015. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/54446/.
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Das, Shobha. "Multiple realities, multiple meanings : a reception analysis of television and nationhood in India." Thesis, Open University, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.242484.
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SILVA, ANA LUCIA MORAIS DA. "TELEVISION AND RURAL LIFE: A SYMBOLIC MAP OF THE RECEPTION IN VISTA ALEGRE." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2007. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=10610@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROEste trabalho pretende registrar os resultados de uma pesquisa sobre Vista Alegre, localidade rural de Santa Maria Madalena, município de 10.840 habitantes, situado no centro norte fluminense. O estudo busca traçar uma cartografia simbólica da recepção dos discursos televisivos entre algumas famílias de produtores rurais desta comunidade, que passou a ter luz e a receber o sinal da televisão em 2001. A proposta tenta compreender de que maneira as identidades e as relações sociais se modificam e se restabelecem nesse contexto específico, uma comunidade rural distante do município de origem, onde não há comércio e as únicas edificações diferentes das casas de roça são a escola municipal e a sede da Igreja Assembléia de Deus. A pesquisa não toma como referência um programa de televisão em especial, mas as preferências individuais e procura, assim, particularizar, partindo-se do pressuposto de que as resistências podem questionar o postulado da homogeneização, que costuma tratar a todos como iguais. Em um mundo que se pretende cada vez mais conectado, mais globalizado, são as diferenças que movem os processos de inclusão. Trata-se de verificar a possibilidade de se colocar em prática um olhar sobre as leituras diferenciadas dos produtos exibidos pela televisão, um olhar que contribua para que, no processo de comunicação, as complexidades se façam presentes.
This paper intends to record the results of research in Vista Alegre, a place in rural Santa Maria Madalena, a 10,840 inhabitant Municipality located in the mid-northern region of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The study attempts to draw a symbolic map of the reception of television discourse among some rural farmers` families in this community which was served with electricity and received television broadcast in 2001. The idea is to understand how identities and social relations are modified and reestablished within this specific context; i.e., a rural community which is far from the Municipality of origin, where there is no commerce and the only buildings that differ from the rural houses are those of the Municipal School and the headquarters of the Church of the Assembly of God. The research does not consider a specific TV program as reference but rather, individual preferences and thus, tries to individualize, under the assumption that resistance may challenge the homogenization postulate which treats everyone in the same way. In a world which intends to be growingly connected, more globalized, it`s precisely the differences that get inclusion processes moving. It`s about checking the possibility of regarding different interpretations of products aired on television, a glance that may contribute to the inclusion of complexities in the communication process.
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Odirile, Shumie T. "Mareledi: An Audience-Reception Study of an HIV/AIDS Entertainment-Education Serial Television Drama in Botswana." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1461322756.
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Hammond, Michael. "The big show : cinema exhibition and reception in Britain in the Great War." Thesis, Southampton Solent University, 2001. http://ssudl.solent.ac.uk/1226/.
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Ellesmore, Susan. "Teacher representations in popular films : reception and relevance to professional development and change." Thesis, Southampton Solent University, 2002. http://ssudl.solent.ac.uk/620/.
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The research brings together elements from two disciplines, the sociology of education and film studies, to investigate the relevance of 'reel' world teacher representations to the real world lives of teachers, and to explore how the former offer opportunity for reflection on professional development and change. Media texts are utilised as an unconventional resource as either a replacement for and/or enhancement of educational theory, and teachers drawn from different stages of the teaching life cycle provide empirical data via their writing aspects of teacher culture in response to the stimulus of each text. In an age of visual culture, educational research which explores the medium of film is an important resource for professional development and change is an original contribution to knowledge at a time when current concerns are largely related to the repercussions of the ongoing implementation of government reforms. The research identifies the charismatic teacher who inspires loyalty and admiration in his/her students, forming a special relationship with them in a way which no other colleague can. A more complex analysis suggests that there are four varieties of the charismatic teacher: the eccentric, the resilient, the romantic and the enduring. Responses to such characters reveal that real world teachers reflect on the uncinematic bureaucracy of their everyday work compared with energised settings where student problems and cynical colleagues are overcome by 'reel' world teachers unfettered by pre-set agendas. A real/'reel' overlap occurs as real world teachers re-examine the personal and professional relationships which underpin their everyday work. Through watching examples from screen culture, they reflect on what the demands and rewards of teaching are, and how these impinge on a teacher's health and private life; the development of relationships with both students and colleagues; and the influence of those outside classroom and staffroom, both at local and government levels.
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Miller, Emma. "British television coverage of the global South : case studies in content and audience reception." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2003. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/6867/.
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The starting point of this thesis is that British television coverage of the developing world is increasingly limited, both in terms of quantity and the lack of background information. There tends to be very little coverage of developing countries, and what there is doesn't explain them very well. This thesis aims to use this starting point as a basis for exploring ways in which television coverage might be improved in order to develop public knowledge and enable audiences to place issues affecting developing countries in a wider context of globalisation. Television is the focus of this research because it remains the key source of news information in Britain. A key aim is to assess how far the neo-liberal ideology that supports globalisation is replicated in television reporting of the South. The other side of this assessment is the availability of alternative views and explanations. The analysis will examine these questions empirically. The empirical work undertaken for this research involved a detailed examination of television coverage of the global South, and of audience responses to it. One of the aims here is to identify the contextual information that helps make sense of such world affairs. To do this, the thesis is divided into three parts. Part One will discuss the context of capitalist globalisation, including economic, political and cultural aspects. The second part of this thesis examines how television covers the majority world and how it explains events and their relation to globalisation. Part Three consists of the audience reception component of this research.
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Xiang, Yu. "Ideological sinicization of China Central Television in Africa : a reception analysis of African audiences." Thesis, University of Westminster, 2018. https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/q4yzw/ideological-sinicization-of-china-central-television-in-africa-a-reception-analysis-of-african-audiences.
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China’s booming investment in and trade with many African countries since the early 2000s marks the beginning of a new wave of industrial escalation on a global scale and at the same time a revived campaign for a new world information and communication order. The launch of CCTV-Africa in Nairobi, Kenya in January 2012 was a significant milestone in the ‘China media going global’ project initiated by the Chinese government in 2009. This research is aimed at conducting a reception analysis of the African audiences of CCTV-Africa from the perspective of critical political and economic media studies. The focus of this research is not limited to the audience reception of the media content produced by CCTV-Africa but also focuses on the wider context of China-Africa political and economic interactions within the global structure of capitalism. The thesis will explore how the Chinese media is paving its way in the African news market and the process of manufacturing ideological consent among its target audience of the elite classthrough the medium of CCTV-Africa news programmes by analyzing how African students in China perceive the ideology of Sinicism delivered by CCTV-Africa. Therefore, this thesis has two main aims: first, to provide a definition of ideological Sinicization through a comprehensive illustration of China’s political-economic reality as a semi-peripheral country and its political and economic interaction with the peripheral countries in Africa, deploying the revised theoretical frame of structural imperialism developed by Johan Galtung. The second goal is to look into the mechanism of the process by which CCTV-Africa news programmes represent ideological Sinicization. The term Sinicization is deployed in this research to summarize the ideological homogenization of the China-African elite class through the establishment of ‘harmony of interests’. One the one hand, as a semi-peripheral country conditioned by the contemporary global system of economy, China attempts to boost its economic interaction with peripheral countries from Africa in order to complete its domestic economic transition from semiperiphery to core. On the other hand, countries from Africa see the economic cooperation with China as an alternative opportunity to transfer their peripheral statues to semi-periphery by developing their labour-intensive industries. Therefore, there exists a consensus amongst transnational elite class underpinned by the “harmony of interest” to pursue economic growth. Such consensus is reinforced by the news of CCTV in Africa which is the state-controlled international media of Chinese government. Target audiences of CCTV in Africa, as the opinion leaders of their local societies, are more or less influenced by either the reality of China-Africa cooperation or the ideological agenda of CCTV in Africa to support such consensus. And the findings of this research achieved through content analysis and individual interviews show that the majority of the African audiences of CCTV-Africa do agree with the ideological agenda of the news channel to promote the economic development in local societies. The audience reception research of the thesis is situated within an analysis of the political and economic context, which conditions the agenda and production of the media. The extensive review of the literature of international communication studies, imperialism studies and ideology studies, contributes to establishing a theoretical framework for the empirical research. Together with the data collected from field research, it is intended that this analysis should contribute to the understanding of the development of China-Africa communication and media studies and also to the enrichment of the research topics in this field.
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Pereira, Allan de Gouvêa. "Entre mitos, silenciamentos e circularidades: a cobertura televisiva do câncer e suas formas de percepção." Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, 2015. https://repositorio.ufjf.br/jspui/handle/ufjf/201.
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Análise do fazer jornalístico e das relações que envolvem o campo da comunicação e saúde, no âmbito da televisão brasileira, na abordagem do câncer pelos noticiários de emissoras públicas e comerciais. A pesquisa empírica tem como parâmetros as fundamentações teóricas do jornalismo e do telejornalismo na contemporaneidade, da comunicação e saúde e das relações sociais mediadas pela televisão brasileira, que se propõe a ser o espaço público da atualidade. Comunicação e saúde é visto aqui, numa perspectiva ideológica, como uma estratégia potencial de promoção e de educação para a qualidade de vida e o desenvolvimento. O estudo contempla matérias veiculadas em um dos produtos televisivos mais consolidados da Rede Globo – o Jornal Nacional, a partir da análise de conteúdo, com critérios quali-quantitativos e, em segunda perspectiva, adota-se um procedimento de análise comparativa com outro produto de tratamento jornalístico oferecido por uma TV pública – donde se espera um comprometimento social maior, com isenção e independência, buscando a predominância do interesse público. Selecionou-se o Repórter Brasil Noite, o telejornal mais representativo da TV Brasil (por ser o mais longevo, veiculado diariamente no horário nobre e com maior alcance), que é a principal emissora pública do sistema de radiodifusão atual do país. São analisados criticamente os elementos de construção da narrativa jornalística e suas estratégias estruturais, estabelecendo um panorama do diálogo interdisciplinar entre os campos comunicação e saúde. Além dos referidos telejornais, foram analisados outros dois programas, que se dedicam, em alguma medida, a uma abordagem especializada de saúde: Bem-estar (Rede Globo) e Ser Saudável (TV Brasil). O debate levou em conta as disputas e os tensionamentos característicos dessa abordagem, sobretudo em função dos saberes mobilizados e do poder de fala dos atores sociais envolvidos, haja vista as relações simbólicas que permeiam o jornalismo de televisão. Tendo em vista a relevância dessa temática, o intuito foi mapear os sentidos e os significados que emergem desse tratamento, além da recepção desses conteúdos pelos públicos envolvidos. As neoplasias são, muitas vezes, representadas na mídia como símbolos de dor, sofrimento e mutilação, e ainda motivo de tabus, preconceitos e desconhecimentos na sociedade. O trabalho pretendeu, assim, analisar o papel do (tele)jornalismo na (des)construção dos estigmas que envolvem a doença, buscando ouvir as impressões de pacientes, médicos e outros profissionais. Para este último, mas não menos importante objetivo, o presente projeto envolveu coleta de dados realizada por meio de pesquisa de campo em uma instituição de combate ao câncer, localizada em Juiz de Fora, que abrange um hospital especializado em oncologia.
Analysis of journalistic production and the relationships health and communication, in the context of Brazilian television, in cancer approach by news of public and commercial broadcasters. The empirical research has as parameters the theoretical foundations of journalism and television journalism nowadays, health communication and social relations mediated by Brazilian television, which intends to be an actual public space. Health communication is analyzed here in an ideological perspective, as a potential strategy for the promotion and education for life’s quality and development. The study includes news transmitted in one of the most consolidated television products of Rede Globo – the Jornal Nacional, through the content analysis, with qualitative and quantitative criteria. In a second perspective, we adopt a benchmarking procedure with another product journalistic offered by a public TV – where you expect a greater social commitment, with impartiality and independence, seeking dominance of the public interest. It was selected the Repórter Brasil Noite, the most representative television news from TV Brasil (because it is the most long-lived TV newscast from TV Brasil, broadcast daily in prime time and with greater reach), which is the main public broadcaster of the country's current broadcasting system. This project analyzes critically the construction of elements of journalistic narrative and its structural strategies, establishing an overview of the interdisciplinary dialogue between communication and health. In addition to these news programs, others were analyzed, engaged in some measure, a specialized health approach: Bem-estar (Globo) and Ser Saudável (TV Brasil). The discussion took into account the disagrees and tensions commons in this approach, especially from the mobilized knowledge and the speeches of the social actors involved, given the symbolic relations that permeate the television journalism. Taking the relevance of this theme into account, the aim was to map the meanings that emerge from this treatment, besides the reception of such content by the public involved. Neoplasms are often represented in the media as symbols of pain, suffering and mutilation, and remains a matter of taboos, prejudices and unknowns in society. The study aims therefore necessary to examine the role of television journalism in the (de)construction of the stigma surrounding the disease, seeking to hear the impressions of patients, doctors and other professionals. For the latter, but not least important purpose, this project involved data collection realized in an oncology institution, located in Juiz de Fora, which includes a specialized hospital.
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Qu, Tian. "Television Viewing Habits of Children in Chongqing (China)." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/650488.
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La brecha económica entre las zonas rurales y las zonas urbanas en China ha generado diferencias importantes desde hace años. Tradicionalmente, se ha considerado que los niños urbanos tienen más dispositivos y acceden a un mayor número de recursos. Sin embargo, la “era digital” ha provocado cambios en el consumo infantil de medios. Además, la urbanización de China provocó un fenómeno relacionado con los niños llamados “Rural Left-behind” (RLB). Se trata de niños cuyos padres se convirtieron en trabajadores migratorios, con niveles socio-culturales bajos y sin residencia registrada (‘Hukou`). Los hijos de estos trabajadores no pueden escolarizarse en las zonas urbanas y viven en los lugares de origen de la familia con otros parientes. Cabe indicar además que China es un país de minorías étnicas, siendo la principal la etnia Han entre otras 55 más.
En relación a los canales de televisión, destacar que en China hay 38 canales de televisión para niños, pero sólo la señal de CCTV-14 puede cubrir todo el país. La tesis se centra en el estudio del consumo televisivo en la ciudad de Chongqing, que tiene su propio canal infantil de televisión, junto a otros cuatro canales infantiles.
La singularidad de esta ciudad se encuentra en que en ella viven muchos niños RLB y los grupos étnicos principales son Tujia y Miao. La autora de la tesis explora las diferencias en los hábitos de consumo televisivo entre los niños urbanos y rurales, los niños de áreas rurales (OR) y RLB, y los niños de tres grupos étnicos (Han & Tujia, Tujia & Miao, y Miao & Han). Esta investigación se desarrolló en dos fases. La primera responde a una perspectiva cuantitativa utilizando la encuesta como técnica para recopilar datos, y segunda se realizó a través entrevista semiestructurada desde una aproximación cualitativa. El procesamiento de los datos se llevó a cabo mediante el programa SPSS, en la primera fase, y NVIVO en la segunda. Los hallazgos de la investigación muestran diferencias importantes en la recepción y hábitos de los contenidos televisivos en función de diversos factores como son, entre otros, la propiedad de la tecnología y dispositivos de visionado, los patrones de observación individual y conjunta y las multitarea realizadas durante la recepción.The economic gap between urban and rural group has long existed in China. Traditionally, it is believed that urban children have more media devices and can access more media resources. But the phenomenon has changed since the “new” media era. Besides, with China’s urbanization, a special group of workers emerged, the migrate workers. This group of people are usually less well educated, and do not hold a city ‘Hukou’ (registered residence). Therefore, their children cannot enter school in urban areas, and so have to leave them in hometowns and these children are taken care of by their parents and relatives. These special children are called Rural Left-behind (RLB) Children. Moreover, China is a country of diverse ethnic minorities, Han nationality (Han people/Han) is the majority, and it has other fifty-five ethnic groups. There are 38 children’s television channels in China, but only the signal of CCTV-14 can cover the whole country. Chongqing has its own ground children’s television channel. In Chongqing area, people can watch another four children’s television channels on live TV. In this study, the author chose Chongqing city as a research location, since Chongqing city had 6.7% of the ethnic minority population in 2015, Tujia and Miao are the two main ethnic groups; the other reason was that Chongqing has abundant of RLB Children. The author explored the differences in television viewing habits among urban and rural children, ordinary rural (OR) and RLB children, and different ethnic groups children (Han & Tujia, Tujia &Miao, and Miao & Han). This research included two phases, Phase 1 was quantitative which used a questionnaire to collect data, and Phase 2 was qualitative which adopted a semi-structured interview to obtain information. In Phase 1, SPSS has been adopted to analysis data. Phase 2 adopted NVIVO for processing data. The finding indicates that urban and rural, OR and RLB children, Han, Tujia and Miao children have differences in various aspects, such as media ownership, television viewing devices, co-viewing pattern, TV multitasking, etc.
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Aron, Danielle Belinda. "Production and reception in British television documentary : a genre-based analysis of mass-mediated communication." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1999. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2866/.
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This thesis explores the nature of communication in television documentary, based on an investigation of production, reception and their interrelationship. It assumes that social context is fundamental to an understanding of mass communication. Doise's (1986) levels of analysis (intrapersonal; interpersonal/situational; positional; cultural/ideological) provide the framework for conceptualizing social context. Audience reception research, which appreciates viewers' active role in reception and influence on production, inspires the qualitative approach. Whilst these premises challenge a traditional transmission approach to mass communication, the thesis argues against simultaneously rejecting the concept of information transmission. The thesis is located within a ritual approach to communication (Carey, 1989), exploring the potential for information transmission by extending this approach to situational and positional levels. As a distinctive information genre, the television documentary is perfect for investigating transmission. In this endeavour, the thesis explores the assumptions of both broadcasters and audiences concerning the function, structure and content of documentary communication. The methodological structure comprises three qualitative studies - production context, reception context and a case study. The production study involves twenty one interviews with television documentary broadcasters and establishes two intersecting dimensions embracing their perspectives. The reception study includes eight focus group discussions, and finds documentary expectations differing by socio-economic status and gender. These studies provide the context for analysing the nature of communication in one documentary programme, "Parental Choice", comparing a producer interview with four audience focus group discussions. The results highlight a lack of awareness amongst broadcasters of the varying genre-specific criteria used by documentary audiences in programme interpretation. Information transmission is possible if viewers accept a documentary's credibility. However, perceptions of credibility vary at the situational and positional levels, thus transmission is limited and ritually-based. The emerging nature of documentary communication contributes to academic debate on mass communication, audience research and the television documentary genre.
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Afshari, Sarjaz Masoumhe Sara. "The reception of Christian television in contemporary Iran : an analysis of audience interactions and negotiations." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/25987.
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This research explores Iranian audiences of Farsi Christian satellite channels. It considers what the narratives and interviews of participants of this research reveal about the way audiences interact and negotiate with both religious broadcasts and their socio-political or religious contexts. What are the motivating factors that led the audiences first to watch Christian channels and secondly, where relevant, to change or add to their religious belief system? For those whose faith was transformed, how did this process happen according to their self-declared stories? Expressions of belief are analysed in order to consider their different understandings of religion, faith and their own belief system. The research also studies the triangular relationships between the audience, Farsi Christian media, and the audience’s culture(s). It is therefore a study of Farsi Christian channel audiences, their motivations in viewing the Christian message, their methods of interpretation and negotiations with different media texts, and their process of changing or altering their religion, using the concept of conversion as a tool of analysis. More specifically, I investigate the motivations of those in the audience of the four Farsi Christian satellite channels who stated that they had become Christians through that medium. I will examine factors that influenced both their interpretations of and negotiations with the religious media message, and their process of changing, adding to or modifying their belief system, including their understanding of religious conversion. My research investigates the interactions and negotiations between meaning making and mediation, and the process of faith transformation within Reception Theory against the background of the sociology of religion and culture in contemporary Iran. This research contributes to three areas of study: media reception (largely religious television) and sociology of religion and culture, mostly from the point of view of selfidentified conversion; Media, Religion and Culture, mainly using audiences’ interactions and negotiations methods with the channels, and the religion of Islam and Christianity in the Iranian political-cultural context. This involved analysing three hundred narratives drawn from audiences of four Farsi Christian satellite television channels, during the period between 2010 and 2015, as well as fifteen semi-structured interviews, two focus group discussions and a telephone survey. The argument develops over nine chapters. Chapter one provides the socio-political and religious context of the Iranian audience as well as presenting literature reviews and methodology, while Chapter two gives the Iranian (state and society) understanding of religion (din and mazhab) and of globalisation, as well as discussing the satellite channel usage. Chapter three introduces the four Farsi Christian satellite channels using data from interviews channel directors. Chapter four analyses the two focus groups’ discussion of the central question: how do audiences interact and negotiate with the Christian message presented on the channels? Chapters five, six and seven examine the participants’ narratives and interviews using respectively experimenting, negotiating and resisting attitudes of participants. Chapter eight discusses and analyses the findings, the conclusion sets out the implications, contributions and limitations of the research.
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Guo, Dawei. "Beyond totalitarian nostalgia : a critical urban reception study of historical drama on contemporary Chinese television." Thesis, University of Westminster, 2012. https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/8z4z8/beyond-totalitarian-nostalgia-a-critical-urban-reception-study-of-historical-drama-on-contemporary-chinese-television.
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From the mid-1990s a wave of dramatic serials featuring the legendary figures of China’s bygone dynasties has emerged in dramatic programming on Chinese primetime television. The commercialization of mass media and the rise of media consumerism in China since the early 1990s have fostered the emergence of these historical dramas on television. Set during the dynasty era, these television historical dramas have been at the forefront in articulating political and legal principles based on the Confucian-influenced traditional Chinese culture. Although media scholars have interpreted the popularity of the television historical dramas as a revival of Confucianism, virtually no empirical research has been done to explore how Chinese audiences relate their viewing experiences to the revival of Confucianism according to their own social and cultural conditions. This thesis presents a qualitative audience study of how the historical dramas are understood and socially and culturally valued in contemporary China, taking into account personal, social, historical and cultural issues that relate to viewers’ engagement with this television genre. Between late September 2007 and early April 2008, the author carried out his fieldwork audience research in two urban settings in China, the city of Beijing and that of Changsha. 10 focus groups and 11 in-depth interviews were conducted involving more than 60 respondents from young adult and middle-aged audience groups. According to the author’s fieldwork data analysis, the ways that the Chinese audience engages with the historical drama are far more complex than generally thought; rather than insist on a literal interpretation of the drama text, the audience engages with the historical television drama in quite a divergent way due to his or her age, gender, life stage and socio-cultural status. Meanwhile, informed by the Grounded Theory, the author identified two text-based interpretive frameworks that are adopted by the respondents across all the focus groups and in-depth interviews in their understanding and evaluation of the historical drama text. These two interpretive frameworks include the framework of fact/fiction and that of ‘classic-ness’. To conclude, the author argues that the Chinese audience’s response to the historical drama goes beyond a literal, political sense of totalitarian nostalgia; it is characterised by an increasingly more liberal, diverse and indeed open-ended engagement with the historical drama text. Nevertheless, a critical re-evaluation of Maoist revolutionary classic literary works is manifested within that engagement process.
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Moreno-Esparza, Gabriel A. "Transnational audiences and the reception of television news : a study of Mexicans in Los Angeles." Thesis, University of Westminster, 2009. https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/90yq1/transnational-audiences-and-the-reception-of-television-news-a-study-of-mexicans-in-los-angeles.
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This doctoral contribution borrows from the discursive practices of transnationalism and diaspora in order to articulate the concept of "transnational audiences" in the United States. The project identifies transnational audiences as formed by individuals and families whose lives straddle two national territories. It draws on the traditions of cultural studies and reception analysis as a strategy to explore the relation between media use and novel experiences of migration in a context of contemporary globalization. This conceptual background is the result of empirical research conducted in Los Angeles which investigated the television news reception of 67 informants of Mexican origin during three months in 2006. Relying on a range of qualitative research methods based in the domestic settings of the participants, the project found high levels of interests across a variety of news occurring in Los Angeles, the US, Mexico and further afield. During interviews, television news-viewing sessions and in daily written accounts, respondents constantly conveyed the idea of being directly impacted by a wide variety of events and developments in the news, regardless of geographic proximity. Heightened sensitivity to realities unfolding in nearby and distant places, it will be argued, would be a result of transnational communities’ connections with different social, cultural, economic and political contexts. These links emerged in a variety of ways throughout the research activities. Notably, the interactions in which members of families engaged when discussing the news, revealed the re-articulation – and possible subversion – of patriarchal structures regulating relationships between males and females. At the same time, the research provides hints of a possible intertwining between the mediated and unmediated experiences of contributors to the study, who constantly informed their understanding of the news on the basis of interpersonal and mediated communication, knowledge of places and locations, and circumstances attached to opportunities and constraints related to aspects such as migration and citizen status. While in need of further systematization, this thesis’ findings are relevant for they highlight the need to operationalize the transnational audience in ways which differentiate it from those media publics who are based in their countries of origin. At the same time, this intervention highlights the need to question or move forward from established forms of thinking about the media use of non-native peoples in the developed world. The project as a whole opens a window to explore an alternative academic vocabulary to the notions of "ethnic" and "minority" audiences, privileged in US scholarly endeavour.
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Green, David Robert. "M-Net decoder production : a technical analysis." Thesis, Cape Technikon, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/1130.
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Thesis (Masters Diploma (Technology))--Cape Technikon, Cape Town, 1989The document initially describes the operation of the decoder and the production system. Thereafter actual engineering problems are stated and their solutions discussed. The project involves the accurate identification of problem areas on the production line and the systematic solving for each case. Subjects include static electricity pretesting and automatic insertion machine defects. Analysis of these problems provides one with a better perspective towards the production line and its inherent problems. Results and solutions are presented photographically as well as tabulated in the annexure. In some cases, such as defect classification, deductions were concluded that were very different from those initially expected.
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Vendrame, Sonia Ines. "Comunicação, recepção e consumo entre o Guarani: o ínido na mídia e a mídia na vida do índio." Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing, 2009. http://tede2.espm.br/handle/tede/223.
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This thesis discuss the media scene in the village located Tekoha Añetete in Diamante do Oeste, Paraná, and their interactions with the traditional culture, Checking, thus the reception of cultural products through daily practices. The objective is to check how is the reception of media products through the media-event of the meeting tradition in social and cultural practices of families. To understand the communication processes with emphasis on the reception, we adopted multimetodos, namely: ethnographic observation, map of cultural consumption, focus group interviews and in depth. This set of data is analyzed based on the theoretical axis communication, consumption and reception. The magic performed on television by the residents was evident. It is the screen that spring guidelines for the livelihood of the village. The Opy (houses of prayer) is no longer in the place of the renewal of the spirit; lost space for recreation rooms and the brightness of displays. The chamoy (olds) of the village no longer exercise leadership, authority is young and with eyes off the reservation. The clothes follow the latest fashion dictated by TV, the soap; foods are those that advertising conveys. The resistance of a few mixed up the drive time. You can see in the cultural practices of families, the presence of the media, especially TV.
Esta dissertação discute o cenário midiático implantado na aldeia Tekoha Añetete em Diamante do Oeste, Paraná, e suas interações com a cultura tradicional, aferindo, desse modo, a recepção de produtos culturais, por meio das práticas cotidianas. O objetivo é verificar de que modo deu-se a recepção dos produtos midiáticos através da manifestação do encontro mídia-tradição nas práticas sociais e culturais das famílias. Para conhecer os processos comunicacionais com destaque para a recepção, adotamos multimétodos, a saber: observação etnográfica, mapa de consumo cultural, focus group e entrevistas em profundidade. Este conjunto de informações foi analisado tendo como base teórica o eixo Comunicação, Consumo e Recepção. A magia exercida pela televisão sobre os moradores ficou evidente. É da tela que brotam orientações para o modo de vida da aldeia. As Opy (casas de reza) deixaram de ser o lugar da renovação do espírito; perderam espaço para as salas de estar e para o brilho dos monitores. Os chamoy (velhos) da aldeia já não exercem liderança, a autoridade é jovem e com olhos para fora da reserva. As roupas seguem a última moda ditada, pela telenovela, os alimentos são aqueles que a publicidade veicula. A resistência de uns poucos se mistura à movimentação do momento. Pode-se perceber, nas práticas culturais de todos os membros das famílias, uns mais, outros menos, a presença da mídia, sobretudo a TV.
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Gillett, Jonathan. "Television and Transculturation: An Examination of Japanese Anime in Post-Dictatorial Argentina." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1555429612160638.
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Ahmed, Rana [Verfasser], and Joachim [Akademischer Betreuer] Speidel. "Equalization and blind signal combining algorithms for mobile television broadcast reception / Rana Ahmed ; Betreuer: Joachim Speidel." Stuttgart : Universitätsbibliothek der Universität Stuttgart, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1118507460/34.
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Sebastian, Gina Ann. "“Do you see what I see?” – The critical reception of television advertising among Western Australian homemakers." Thesis, Curtin University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/170.
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This thesis investigates the relationship between Western Australian (WA) homemakers, media literacy and television advertising. Employing both qualitative and quantitative research methodologies; it focuses on how their educational background, especially with regards to media education, predisposes their understanding and critical reception of television advertising. WA homemakers were chosen as the subjects of this research because they represent a group of people who potentially make purchasing decisions for the household as well as for three different groups of consumers; female adults, male adults and children. Thirty-five participants took part in this study, recruited by snowball sampling. The findings are indicative that they have developed their own media education, supported in part from their media education in school and their life experiences, and are ‘media literate’ by these standards. They use this education in their relationships with television advertising. On the whole, the findings indicated that the WA homemaker is quite different to and more media literate than the popular stereotype of traditional housewives and modern homemakers would suggest.
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Ponono, Mvuzo. "The influence of viewing context on meaning making : a reception study of the popular drama series Intersexions in Ginsberg township." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013093.
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This study examines the home as a context of viewing for the television programme Intersexions in the township of Ginsberg in the Eastern Cape. The central question asked is whether the household influences the interpretation of the programme. The research was mainly conducted through ethnographical methods of participant observation and focus group interviews. Six families were observed and six gender-based focus groups convened. Drawing from the work of Morley (1986) and Lull (1990) that argues that the home be taken more seriously as a context of viewing; this study posits that the home is a rule-bound micro-society that influences the interpretation of media messages. As a starting point, this study contends with the arguments that the South African government has been slow to acknowledge the extent of the problem presented by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Much has been written about the inefficiency of state efforts to educate the public, with some pundits suggesting that government communications strategies have largely been outdated and thus resisted by audiences (Treffry-Goatley, Mahlinza & Imrie, 2013). To counter the pandemic, a large number of independent educational television serials have been launched in South Africa, and met with popular appeal since 1994. Furthermore, this development is in line with global trends of high audience ratings for Entertainment- Education (EE) programmes (Singhal et al., 1993). To investigate complex issue of EE reception by audiences in this burgeoning area of study, the programme at the centre of this study, Intersexions, is a good example. The serial, which concluded its second season in August 2013, is second to only the established soap opera, Generations, in television ratings in South Africa. Therefore, the impressive ratings garnered by educational serials in South Africa are a chance for audience studies to study audiences in context. This research investigates Intersexions using the understanding that television audiences must be analysed in "cultural and historic specific" sites because the struggle to make meanings of texts takes place at the moment when the text and subject meet (Fiske, 1987). This research investigates the assumption that the meanings made by audiences depend not just on the text, but also on environment. This means that the research delves into the situational context in which media are used and interpreted. Therefore, the central aim of this study is to analyse television viewing of the entertainment education programme, Intersexions, in the natural setting of the home, which is in line with analysing television viewers in cultural and historically specific sites.
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Tondato, Marcia Perencin. "Negociação de sentido: recepção da programação de TV Aberta." Universidade de São Paulo, 2004. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/27/27134/tde-05042009-193724/.
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Este trabalho tem como objetivo estudar a recepção da programação da TV aberta. A hipótese principal trata da aceitação de conteúdos que apelam para a exploração da violência, não mais pelo pressuposto básico do paradigma das gratificações, mas pela aquisição de um hábito, condicionado social e circunstancialmente, construído pelo simbolismo. Para tanto, a leitura da programação foi observada pela abordagem qualitativa, por meio de grupos focais e entrevistas focalizadas; realizado um levantamento quantitativo dos hábitos de consumo dos meios de comunicação e opinião sobre a programação, em especial programas com características sensacionalistas. Além disso, foi realizada análise do discurso de programas com as características do foco de estudo. O resultado da análise dos discursos dos emissores e receptores mostra-nos um cenário de uma sociedade mediática, dependente da televisão como fonte de informação; porém uma informação que é elaborada conforme o entorno social e cultural dessa sociedade. Para o receptor, o consumo é imediatista, não há espaço para reflexão. As notícias devem ser breves e objetivas. Os programas jornalísticos apenas retratam os acontecimentos da cidade, não são violentos em si. A violência fica mais caracterizada nos programas relacionados ao entretenimento, na medida em que desrespeitam o ser humano. Falta diversão na televisão.Aiming to study reception of television programs, the main hypothesis of this work deals with the acceptance of TV contents that exploit violence not from the basic assumption of gratification, but because it becomes a habit, socially conditioned, based on symbolism. We verified that by qualitative approach, employing focus groups and focus interviews techniques. Besides, consumption TV habits and opinions about TV contents characterized by sensationalism were surveyed. To conclude the study, the findings using both approaches were cross-analyzed with the discourse of three programs selected as the worst on Brazilian TV. To study all the discourses, of receptors and programs, we employed the technique of Discourse Analysis. The result of the analysis shows us a society centered in the media, that depends on television for information, although such information is elaborated according to social and cultural environment. Consumption has to be quick, there is no time for reflection. News have to be short and objective. News programs only show city facts, not being violent themselves. Violence is best characterized in programs related to entertainment, as long as they do not respect the human being. There is a lack of entertainment on television.
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Lehmann, Sophie. "Performing emotions : A case study on audience reception of the German docusoap Bauer sucht Frau." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för mediestudier, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-77301.
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The purpose of this study is to approach the understanding of viewing of reality television with the intention to explore emotional responses in the reception since emotions are crucial part in the emotionalized television genre of reality television. The German adaption of the format The Farmer Wants a Wife was chosen for this case study to examine tendencies of portraying contestants in unpleasant situations. Humiliation, embarrassment or discrediting the contestants creates a balancing act between fun and ridicule. The protagonists are located between the status of (temporary) cult figures and/or figures of fun. The thesis’ main aim is to find out which emotions are perceived and addressed in the watching experience of the format being named in the context of ‘fremdschämen’. The winged German word for vicarious or empathic embarrassment was thereby addressed beyond its descriptive metaphor for current programs. Emotional responses in connection with shame and embarrassment were previously predominantly neglected in research on reality television. Its relevance and occurrence in media is insofar important, as the concept of ‘fremdschämen’ found the way into German mainstream language use. The thesis delivers qualitative approaches to capture the mediation of emotions in reality TV: In a narrative analysis, the question on how emotions actually are staged was approached. Subsequently, four focus group discussions with overall 18 German-speaking discussants were conducted to understand individual and social watching preferences, emotional involvement, attachment styles and positioning in the reception. The study’s findings suggest that the contestants’ ordinariness is challenged by mainly focusing on extraordinarity in the docusoap. Thereby, new opportunities of audience positioning, identification and anti-identification and constructions of appealing figures are encouraged. Gentle mockery in the style of presentation contains furthermore self-criticism of the genre and expresses a critical stance of viewing. Emotions are performed on different levels to increase entertaining values in the program. Especially embarrassment can be connected to its function of ridicule and the maintenance of social order.
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Butcher, Erica. "An Audience Reception Analysis Field Study: Exploring Second and Later Generation Latino Viewers’ Perceived Realism Appraisals of Latino Fictional Television Characters in English Language Television Programs." Ohio : Ohio University, 2009. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1249586967.
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Bhebhe-Mpofu, Adilaid. "An investigation into the popularity of Zimbabwe's first health communication soap opera, Studio 263 : a qualitative reception study of Bulawayo students aged between 15 and 20 years." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013310.
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Within the context of debates concerning the reception and interpretation of media texts by television audiences, this qualitative reception study explores how a sample of Bulawayo students negotiate meanings from Zimbabwe's first health communication soap opera, Studio 263. The study thus examines the reasons behind the popularity of this programme with this target audience. The findings of the study reveal that meaning making is a complex process that is dependent on a variety of factors which include, among others, the socio-cultural context of media consumption, gender, economic disposition and age. It particularly maintains that gender and lived realities influence the interpretation and negotiation of meanings in this particular study.Adobe Acrobat Pro 11.0.0 Paper Capture Plug-in
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Mbatha, Loisa. "Investigating the popularity of the main news bulletin on Muvi TV, a Zambian television station: a reception study of Lusaka viewers." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002918.
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The "tabloid TV" genre, like tabloid newspapers has been chastised for depoliticising the public by causing cynicism, and lowering the standards of rational public discourse. Such criticisms are not always based on a close interrogation of the reasons for the popularity of such a genre amongst its consumers. The "tabloid TV" news genre is a relatively new phenomenon in Zambia and in the African context in general. This study is an investigation of the rise in popularity of the Zambian television station, Muvi TV. It is a reception study of Lusaka (capital city) viewers, particularly the working class community, who make up the majority of the TV stations' audience. Members of this social group who have hitherto been marginalised from mainstream media discourses were interviewed. In particular, the study explores the meanings obtained from the content of Muvi TVs' tabloidised main evening news and its relevance to their everyday lived experiences. The TV station gives prominence to "micro-politics of everyday life", alongside "serious" stories albeit in a more lurid, sensationalised and personalised manner. In undertaking this investigation, the study draws primarily on qualitative in-depth interviews - focus group and individual. These techniques unearth the manner in which the viewers decode the messages and appropriate the meanings into their lived experiences. The study establishes that the popularity of Muvi TV is due to the emphasis on human-interest stories epitomised by tabloid journalism values. The working class majority is able to relate and identify with these stories, and attaches greater believability to the station's news as compared to the public broadcaster, the Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC). As such, Muvi TV can be seen to fulfil a political function despite its sensationalised approach.
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Armbruster, Stefanie. "Screening and Watching Nostalgia An analysis of nostalgic television fiction and its reception in Germany and Spain." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/113487.
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Alsaied, Najat. "Development initiatives in programming on privately-owned Arab satellite television and their reception among disadvantaged Saudi women." Thesis, University of Westminster, 2013. https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/8yy52/development-initiatives-in-programming-on-privately-owned-arab-satellite-television-and-their-reception-among-disadvantaged-saudi-women.
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This study analyses how media initiatives have sought to improve the coverage on private pan-Arab television channels, of poverty, illiteracy, and violence against disadvantaged Arab women. This was achieved by studying how women‘s status has been critiqued on MBC1, an entertainment channel, and on Al Arabiya, a news channel. Programmes on MBC1 that related to poverty, illiteracy and violence were examined through the eyes of young disadvantaged women in a Saudi Arabian village. How Al Arabiya and MBC1 applied media initiatives in their programming to improve women‘s status was also examined through interviews with key players in Queen Rania‘s Media Office and in the Middle East Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) Group. A textual analysis of programmes on MBC1 and Al Arabiya was also undertaken. The study not only contributed to knowledge by covering areas not generally explored in existing research, such as development related programmes about women‘s status on privately-owned pan-Arab satellite television, but it also explores the tug of war between two opposing powers in Saudi society: the reformists and the conservatives. The study used different methods, including ethnographic research, focus groups, and interviews with disadvantaged Saudi women, interviews with key players and decision makers involved in media output and, finally, a textual analysis of programmes dealing with the issues of poverty, illiteracy and violence. It discovers that the ontradictory forces in Saudi society are reflected in the way women‘s status and female empowerment are handled in television programmes. This study underlines the dominant ideology that forms the essence of initiatives aimed at developing women‘s status through media, especially those launched by 'first ladies‘, and the policies made by MBC Group officials in broadcasting development programmes for women. This dominant ideology was also examined in the light of the preconceptions and responses of disadvantaged women.
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Kern, Rebecca Lynne. "Negotiating Queer Female Identities: Reading and Reception of Showtime's "The L-Word"." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2009. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/36783.
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The past decade has witnessed an increase in queer-themed television. Cable networks, including Bravo, HBO, Showtime, and most recently LOGO, have also begun writing and airing programming with queer characters in the primary roles as well as focusing on themes relating to the gay community. Shows, such as Queer as Folk and The L-Word, while primarily written for a queer viewing audience, have been mass marketed and have had strong viewership outside of the queer community. The L-Word is unique in that it is the first show to focus on the lives and relationships of non-heterosexual women, thus making it the first show to subvert gendered and sexual norms relating to the female sex/gender. Using ethnography, this study builds upon previous textual analyses by examining how audiences of Showtime's The L-Word construct and interpret queer female identities. The problem is not of accurate representations in media, but rather, the necessity of understanding constructions of gender and sexual expression and representation. In addition, it is necessary to examine how audiences negotiate media texts about oppressed identities and if these negotiations help to perpetuate dominant ideals regarding gender, gender roles, and heterosexuality. This study analyzes how viewers' individual experiences and ideologies help to construct their own identities and their negotiation of television images and texts, and how new modes of understanding influence social relations concerning gender and sexuality difference. Inspired by the works of discourse, feminist, and queer theory, this study examines audience interpretations constructed about the queer female community after viewing The L-Word.
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Cakar, Mehmet. "A Critical Appraisal On The Societal Effects Of Television Magazine Programs In Turkey." Master's thesis, METU, 2003. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/2/12605339/index.pdf.
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This thesis analyzes the contents of the Turkish magazine programs to explore as if the contents feed anti- establishment feelings or reinforce the existing hegemony in the society. The theses also traces the audience attitudes and beliefs towards the magazine programs in Turkey. The results suggested that programs do not represent any threat to the existing hegemony. On the contrary, it is more plausible to suggest that they represent a serious support to the existing order. The audience reactions revealed an oppositional attitude towards such programs in general which shows differences in terms of gender, education, political views, father's education level and hours of TV watching.
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Hetherington, John Francis. "From an Analogue Past to a Digital Present." Thesis, Griffith University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365686.
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From an analogue past to a digital present describes and analyses how a rural community in South East Queensland has adapted to having improved television reception and other digital enhancements introduced into their lives. This exegesis presents and reflects on the progress of a Doctor of Visual Arts which drew on an action research methodology where the researcher was an active participant in the community’s endeavours to gain broadcast and digital reception. It also provides a detailed case study which contextualises and supports the studio project, the produced online documentary A Satellite Solution. A Satellite Solution is an experiment with the nonlinear documentary form and is designed to assist communities connected to the internet by providing an exemplar that demonstrates how they may similarly upgrade and practically install their own communications systems.Thesis (Professional Doctorate)
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Perrott, Lisa. "The New Zealand Wars Documentary Series: Discursive Struggle and Cultural Memory." The University of Waikato, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10289/2579.
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The 1998 television broadcast of The New Zealand Wars documentary series was a significant public event, which had a major impact on a broad range of communities and individuals in Aotearoa New Zealand. This popular television history engaged with issues of historical veracity, race, culture and nationhood and challenged previously dominant discourses associated with these concepts. In doing so, it provoked heated debate, and a re-imagining of 'nation', and also opened up spaces for alternative ways of engaging with historical narrative. Informed by post-colonialism, cultural studies and cultural memory, this thesis explores the discursive and affective role of The New Zealand Wars, as it has operated within the turbulent climate of 1990s New Zealand cultural relations. This catalytic function is described in this thesis as a phenomenon of a television series shaped by, whilst also intervening in, processes of cultural colonisation and decolonisation. While both of these processes involve the transmission of discourse via cultural forms, the act of cultural decolonisation requires, in addition, the convergence of a number of agents (people and communities, discursive and memory resources) and circumstances, within particular contextual conditions. Such a convergence provided the conditions for the discursive synthesis, which shaped the production, construction and reception of this series. The role of audio-visual media (and specifically television documentary) in transmitting cultural memory is significant as it enables the flow of memory through channels or forms (such as visual, oral and aural traditions) that can bring about new perspectives and critical reflections upon colonial discourse and dominant concepts of nation and culture. In addition to these social and intellectual processes of audience engagement, this thesis argues that experiential and affective dimensions of cultural memory can (in these specific circumstances) open up radical spaces, offering the potential for generating awareness and sparking political action. These issues are explored through a tripartite analysis of the production context, construction and reception of The New Zealand Wars series. The integration of these three phases of analysis has generated a number of insights into the potential of audio-visual forms, including their producers and audiences, to participate in the negotiation of, and resistance to, colonial discourse. Such insights serve to challenge taken-for-granted constructions of nation and history, and suggest the increasing relevance of alternative concepts such as community-building and cultural memory. Ultimately, this thesis argues that television documentary can serve as a prime site for the articulation of these concepts. The New Zealand Wars serves as a case study, which demonstrates both the potential of this site, and the significance of the social-historical and cultural context in framing this series.
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Silva, Soraya Madeira da. "Is nerd the new sexy? A study on the reception of the television series The Big Bang Theory." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2016. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=17127.
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nÃo hÃEsta pesquisa tem como objetivo investigar a relaÃÃo das pessoas com a sÃrie televisiva The Big Bang Theory e sua percepÃÃo a respeito de se considerarem ou serem consideradas nerds. Este grupo, durante muito tempo visto e retratado como pÃria da sociedade, vem ganhando fama nos Ãltimos anos e tem sua imagem reformulada nos meios midiÃticos. Este trabalho, em um primeiro momento, procura traÃar o perfil do nerd, analisando seu histÃrico, caracterÃsticas e representaÃÃes midiÃticas, em produtos como sÃries e filmes, para fazer uma reflexÃo sobre o que à ser nerd atualmente. Para esta avaliaÃÃo, os autores Nugent (2008), Goffman (1988), Fernando e Rios (2001) e Bourdieu (1983) sÃo usados para identificar as caracterÃsticas distintivas do grupo, sua estigmatizaÃÃo perante a sociedade e sua relaÃÃo com o consumo e a mÃdia. Em seguida, levanta-se uma discussÃo a respeito da conexÃo entre comunicaÃÃo e cultura, utilizando autores como Caune (2004), Thompson (2001), Schulman (2004) e Morley (1996), dentre outros, para ressaltar a importÃncia dos Estudos Culturais dentro do Ãmbito desta pesquisa. ProduÃÃo e consumo estÃo interligados quando analisamos produtos culturais veiculados em meios de comunicaÃÃo de massa, por isso sÃo analisados as sÃries televisivas, sua classificaÃÃo, relaÃÃo com o pÃblico e a importÃncia dos personagens que as compÃem como elementos de conexÃo entre produto e audiÃncia. Jost (2012), Esquenazi (2010), Seger (2006), Davis (2001) e Field (2001) sÃo utilizados para explanar os processos de produÃÃo de sÃries e de criaÃÃo de personagens, fundamentais para entender o sucesso da sÃrie televisiva americana The Big Bang Theory, exibida pela CBS (EUA) e pela Warner Channel (Brasil). ApÃs uma anÃlise detalha dos personagens destas sitcom, apresenta-se os resultados da pesquisa realizada para este trabalho. Como metodologia, um questionÃrio estruturado, com abordagem quantitativa e qualitativa, foi aplicado em uma amostra aleatÃria de 600 pessoas, com o objetivo de investigar seus hÃbitos de consumo, sÃries favoritas, conexÃo com os personagens, percepÃÃes acerca da sÃrie The Big Bang Theory e sua visÃo sobre considerarem-se ou serem considerados nerds por outras pessoas. Na conclusÃo desta pesquisa, relata-se que a relaÃÃo das pessoas com os produtos culturais que consomem à baseada por afetos e identificaÃÃo com o enredo e personagens da histÃria. Em relaÃÃo à sÃrie The Big Bang Theory, opiniÃes diversas sÃo apresentadas sobre a estereotipificaÃÃo dos personagens e evoluÃÃo da narrativa. Por fim, conclui-se que ser nerd, ou ser considerado assim, hoje em dia ainda à algo que carrega bastante negatividade para quem nÃo se insere no grupo, mas se torna um fator de empoderamento para quem se inclui. Esta identidade à construÃda atravÃs do alto consumo de produtos culturais que visam estabelecer uma conexÃo afetiva com essas pessoas e oferecer uma projeÃÃo da narrativa de suas vidas.
This research aims to investigate the relationship of people with the TV show The Big Bang Theory and their perception as to whether they consider themselves or are considered nerds. This group, which has long been seen and treated as a pariah of society, has gained fame in recent years and had his image reformulated in the media. This work, in a first moment, seeks to address the nerd profile, analyzing their history, characteristics and media representations in products as TV series and movies, to make a reflection about what means to be nerd currently. For this analysis, the authors Nugent (2008), Goffman (1988), Fernando and Rios (2001) and Bourdieu (1983) are used to identify the group's distinguishing characteristics, their stigmatization in society and its relationship with consumption and the media. Then, a discussion about the connection between communication and culture is aroused, using authors like Caune (2004), Thompson (2001), Schulman (2004) and Morley (1996), among others, to highlight the importance of cultural studies within the scope of this research. Production and consumption are intertwined when we look conveyed cultural products in mass media, so TV series, their classification, public relationship and the importance of the characters that make them up are analyzed as elements connecting product and audience. Jost (2012), Esquenazi (2010), Seger (2006), Davis (2001) and Field (2001) are used to explain the production processes of TV series and character creation, fundamentals to understand the success of an American TV show The Big Bang Theory, displayed on CBS (EUA) and Warner Channel (Brazil). After a detailed analyze of this sitcom's characters, the results of the research carried out for this job are presented. As methodology, a structured survey, with a quantitative and a qualitative approach was applied in a random sample of 600 person, with the purpose of investigate their consuming habits, favorite TV series, connection with characters, perceptions about The Big Bang Theory and their vision about consider themselves or be considered nerd by others. At the conclusion of this research, it is reported that the relationship between people and cultural products they consume is based on affect and identification with the plot and characters in the story. Regarding The Big Bang Theory series, different opinions are presented on the character stereotyping and narrative evolution. Finally, it's concluded that being a nerd, or be considered as well, nowadays it is still something that carries a lot of negativity for those who do not fall within the group, but becomes a empowering factor for who is included. This identity is constructed through the high consumption of cultural products aimed at establishing an emotional connection with these people and offering a projection of the narrative of their lives.
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Losasso, Joseph Charles. "That is Bad! This is Good: Morality as Constructed by Viewers of Television Reality Programs." Scholar Commons, 2011. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3210.
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Reality shows that feature people going about their presumed daily lives are not base entertainment. Internet message boards about reality programs are sites where moral work happens. Viewers write about the appearance and actions of show characters and construct moral lessons. Through naturally occurring data produced by fans of these shows, I find that viewers generally express a traditional heteronormative morality around class and gender through stating moral lessons, explaining what is wrong with the characters, or through ridicule and praise.
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Akamine, Cristiano. "Contribuições para distribuição, modulação e demodulação do sistema de TV digital ISDB-TB." [s.n.], 2011. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/261229.
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Orientador : Yuzo IanoTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Eletrica e de Computação
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Resumo: Este trabalho apresenta contribuições para o sistema brasileiro de TV digital. Considera-se a incompatibilidade do BTS (Broadcast Transport Stream) com os sistemas de distribuição de TV digital existentes e a dificuldade de implementação do modulador e demodulador ISDB-TB. Em primeiro lugar um algoritmo inovador capaz de realizar a compressão e adaptação do BTS tomando-o compatível com a maioria dos equipamentos comerciais do sistema DVB, é proposto. Em seguida, um detalhamento do funcionamento do modulador e demodulador é realizado utilizando-se expressões matemáticas e resultados obtidos em simulações computacionais. A partir do BTS, foi desenvolvido um simulador do modulador capaz de monitorar a entrada e saída de todos os blocos de processamento. No último estágio, vetores de RF são criados e podem ser utilizados em simulações computacionais e geradores de forma de onda arbitrária. Utilizando vetores de RF de emissoras de TV, foi desenvolvido um simulador do demodulador ISDB-TB. Esse simulador realiza as operações de sincronismo, estimação de canal, demodulação e decodificação de canal. Além disso, monitores da relação sinal ruído, constelação, resposta em frequência, perfil de atraso e taxa de erro de bits são utilizados para monitorar a reconstrução do BTS
Abstract: This paper presents contributions to the Brazilian digital TV system. It considers the incompatibility of (BTS) Broadcast Transport Stream with the existing digital TV distribution systems. The difficulty of implementation of the ISDB-TB modulator and demodulator are also taken into account. Firstly, an innovative algorithm able to compress and adapt the BTS in order to make it compatible with most DVB commercial equipment is implemented. Then, the detailed operation of the modulator and emodulator are obtained sing mathematical expressions and results from computer simulations. Using the BTS, it has been developed a simulator capable of monitoring the modulation input and output of all processing blocks. In the last stage, the RF vectors are created and can be used on computer simulations and arbitrary waveform generators. Using RF vectors of TV stations, an ISDB-Ts demodulator simulator was developed. This simulator performs the operations of synchronization, channel estimation, demodulation and channel decoding. In addition, monitors of signal to noise ratio, constellation, frequency response, delay profile and bit error rate are used to monitor the reconstruction of the BTS
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GRIJÓ, Wesley Pereira. "Mídia e cultura: um estudo da televisão e da identidade cultural no quilombo de Itamatatiua." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2010. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tde/1395.
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Previous issue date: 2010-03-19This research addresses how communication and culture are related in the black community of Itamatatiua. It examines the mediation from the process of reception of television. The aim of this study is to explore the relationship between cultural identity Itamatatiua, manifested in certain practices and cultural values, and the process of receiving the TV, increasing knowledge about the mediation of culture in the reception of media content. The research was guided by theoretical and methodological thinking of cultural studies, with contributions follow the same path in relation to identity and communication. For this, the research was conducted in a qualitative way, using a variety of technical tools such as individual interviews and family groups, with themes focusing on the mediation of TV reception and the constitution of cultural identity. Data collection occurred through field work, conducted with eight families and their relationship with telev ision, so the study focused on the mediation of cultural identity and family life. Field work combine some techniques such as consumption questionnaire, ethnographic observation, semi -structured interviews, group interviews with families. They were supplemented by visits in the community of Itamatatiua since 2007 and complemented with visits during the year 2009/2010. The second step was the processing of data, developed through the following steps: transcription of data contained in all instruments of data collection, tabulation and analysis of such data, which resulted in a descriptive and interpretive. In research conducted for the analysis of ancient communication context, the oral tradition, he was explicit that there is a specific system of communication between that traditional community. Oral tradition has fulfilled the role of informing and print opinions of those people. What helped to establish over the years, their cultural identity. Finally, research on the reception of TV, found that the cultural identity that maroons operate mediations significant telev ision reception, which acts as reference systems, from which the television message is consumed and interpreted. Thus, the content of this medium can be interpreted by the audience as their cultural competence.
Esta pesquisa aborda como a comunicação e a cultura estão relacionadas na comunidade negra de Itamatatiua. Analisam-se as mediações oriundas do processo de recepção da televisiva. O objetivo geral deste estudo é explorar a relação existente entre a identidade cultural de Itamatatiua, manifestada em certas práticas e valores culturais, e o processo de recepção da TV, ampliando o conhecimento sobre mediação da cultura na recepção dos conteúdos midiáticos. A pesquisa foi orientada teórica e metodologicamente pelo pensamento dos estudos culturais, cujas contribuições seguem o mesmo caminho em relação às identidades e a comunicação. Para isso, a pesquisa foi realizada de forma qualitativa, utilizando uma pluralidade de instrumentos técnicos como: entrevistas individuais e com grupos familiares, com temáticas focalizando as mediações da recepção da TV e a constituição da identidade cultural. A coleta dos dados ocorreu através dos trabalhos de campo, realizados com oito famílias e sua relação com a televisão, focando assim o estudo nas mediações da identidade cultural e do cotidiano familiar. Os trabalhos de campo combinam algumas técnicas como: questionário do consumo, observação etnográfica, entrevistas semi-estruturadas, entrevistas coletivas com as famílias. Eles foram complementados com visitas realizadas na comunidade de Itamatatiua desde 2007 e complementadas com visitas durante o ano de 2009/2010. O segundo passo foi o tratamento dos dados, desenvolv ido através das seguintes etapas: transcrição de dados constantes em todos os instrumentos de coleta, tabulação desses dados e análise, o que resultou num estudo descritivo e interpretativo. Na pesquisa realizada para a análise do antigo contexto comunicacional, ou seja, da tradição oral, ficou explícita a existência de um sistema específico de comunicação entre aquela comunidade tradicional. A tradição oral cumpriu o papel de informar e imprimir opiniões daquelas pessoas. O que ajudou a constituir, ao longo dos anos, sua identidade cultural. Por fim, a pesquisa sobre a recepção da TV, revelou que a identidade cultural desse quilombo opera mediações significativas na recepção televisiva, funcionando como sistemas de referência, a partir dos quais a mensagem televisiva é consumida e interpretada. Dessa forma, o conteúdo deste media pode ser interpretado pela audiência conforme sua competência cultural.
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Perra, Emiliano. "Conflicts of memories : the reception of Holocaust films and television miniseries in the Italian press, 1945 to the present." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.440039.
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Denzler, Sofia, Linnea Åslund, and Suzette Öström. "”Det är så himla onödigt allt det där” : – en studie om hur barn uppfattar våld på tv-nyheter." Thesis, University of Kalmar, School of Communication and Design, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hik:diva-2510.
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The purpose of our thesis was to examine how children think about violence on TV news. We also wanted to find out what children think about violence, both in other TV programmes and in reality. Adults often speak for children, we wanted to hear the children’s own opinions. This study was based on theories of socialization and reception research. We showed violent news clips for 12 eleven and twelve year olds. In the meantime, we recorded the children’s reactions on film. Afterward, we interviewed them about their thoughts and feelings related to the clips. Our study is based on interviews and observations. We came to the conclusion that the children in our study think violence are very unnecessary. Most of the children did not find the clips particularly scary, but many mentioned that they think blood is disgusting to watch.
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Skibbe, Linda Isabelle. "#SharingIsCaring : An Exploratory Study of Content of Tweets, Situation of Tweeting and Motivations to Use Twitter while Watching Television Series." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för mediestudier, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-90972.
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The internet and social media have had a significant impact on recipients’ media consumption. As the converging media environment recipients face today offers not only more media products but also new practices of using certain media products, this study focuses on how the social micro-blogging service Twitter impacts the watching of television series. The presented study aims at explaining a new form of media reception by employing a multi-method approach. A content analysis case study of tweets about the US-American series “Homeland” and the German series “Tatort” will give insight into the Twitter content on two different series. Further, qualitative semi-standardized interviews and a survey will shed light on the situational aspects and motivational factors to use Twitter while watching television series. The uses and gratification theory is used as a backdrop to study the motivations to use Twitter while watching television series. The results of the content analysis on the two series indicate that there is a strong focus on the series itself within the tweets. Nevertheless, both series provide somewhat differing Twitter content. While tweets on “Tatort” are more critical and realistic towards the series, tweets about “Homeland” are more likely to be referential. The situation of tweeting while watching television series seems to be characterized by the usage of a second screen. The major motivational factors identified in this study are socializing at a distance and exchanging social information. All in all this study presents a fascinating new form of media reception and furthermore offers description and explanation of its application. Additionally it provides suggestions as to how to approach such a fast-changing, new media environment.
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Donahue, Katherine Anne. "Fact Through Fiction: A Case Study of Televised Historical Drama's Influence on Audiences' Perceptions of the Past." Thesis, Boston College, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/3857.
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Thesis advisor: William StanwoodThesis advisor: Lindsay Hogan
Never before has it been so important to investigate the way in which televised historical drama recreates and represents the past, for, as Robert Rosenstone (2003) acknowledges, “the increasing presence of the visual media in modern culture and the vast increase in TV channels seems to ensure that most people now get their knowledge of the past, once school is over, from the visual media” (p. 10). Therefore, this research uses the popular PBS Masterpiece Theatre program Downton Abbey as a case study to examine the accuracy of depictions of historical periods in contemporary television programs with the intent of discovering the impact of historical fiction on audiences’ perceptions of the past and, subsequently, on the collective memory of the public domain. Using a reception analysis approach, this research considers both producer-encoded and audience-decoded content within the four categories of (I) Setting, Details, and Design; (II) History; (III) Behavior; and (IV) Agenda, Values, and Effects outlined by Paul B. Weinstein (2001) to form conclusions concerning the relationship between the encoding and decoding of Downton Abbey, in particular, as well as the larger implications these findings have for televised historical drama and society’s collective memory, in general. Ultimately, this essay argues that through its precision of post-Edwardian detail, Downton Abbey attempts to construct a veil of accuracy behind which the series’ narrative is theoretically able to operate freely and without rigid constraint by history’s “hard and fast rules” (Fellowes, 2012a, p. 60). The findings also reveal an incongruity between this philosophy of encoding and the subsequent decoding process of Downton Abbey’s audience members. Finally, this study offers two potential functions historical drama may serve in contemporary society: as either a catalyst for historical inquiry or as a purveyor of distinctly modern, as opposed to historical, lessons
Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2014
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: College Honors Program
Discipline: Communication Honors Program
Discipline: Communication
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Pignatari, Rosa Malena [UNESP]. "Show da fé e de sentido(s): o universo eclesial como mediação sociocultural." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/89407.
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Às vésperas de completar 100 anos em 2010, o pentecostalismo no Brasil se mostra como um fenômeno complexo, multifacetado, desafiando comunicadores, empresários da mídia, sociólogos, pastores, crentes, ateus e também pesquisadores da comunicação social, já que na contemporaneidade as experiências religiosas são impulsionadas pela adoção da cultura mediática. Essas experiências fermentam em programas como o Show da Fé comandado pelo líder da Igreja Internacional da Graça de Deus (IIGD), R. R. Soares, instituição religiosa objeto deste estudo. Visto acreditar que fenômenos sociais não são uniformes e tampouco que os produtos religiosos sejam livres de contradições, a pesquisa busca compreender a visibilidade mediática religiosa no tecido das relações sociais dos adeptos que assistem o Show da Fé. Ou seja, a pesquisa analisa a comunicação religiosa sob um outro ângulo, distinto da visão linear da transmisssão da mensagem, entendendo aquela comunicação como processo mediado pelas práticas sociais e culturais que se constroem no cotidiano, onde a constituição da subjetividade é resultado das maneiras pelas quais os sujeitos interagem entre si perante a mensagem. Assim, a pesquisa - um estudo de recepção na linha das mediações socioculturais - permitiu, entre outros aspectos, observar nos usos e hábitos de consumo televisivo a dialética denomiada por Martín-Barbero consumo objetivação de desejos/lugar de diferenciação social e processo ritual, evidenciando que o grupo de pertença exerce influência para a ressignificação do desejo do adepto. Foi possível identificar que a chave do gênero do programa Show da Fè é o poder de acionar ou despertar no imaginário dos adeptos um outro mundo, cujo senso de ordem interna, integração e direção faz com que o homem se sinta mais forte para suportar as dificuldades da existência.
On the verge of completing 100 years in 2010, Pentecostalism in Brazil turns out to be a complex, multifaceted, phenomenon, which challenges communication, media entrepreneurs, sociologists, preachers, believers, atheists and social communication reserachers, once nowadays new religious experiences are moved by the adoption of the mediatic culture. There are now widely shown experiences on broadcasts such as Show da Fé (The show of faith) hosted by R. R. Soares, the leader of Igreja Internacional da Graça de Deus (International Church of the Grace of God), which is the religious institution being this study's main topic. Having in mind the belief that social phenomenons are not uniform and also being aware that it is not possible to believe that the religious products are free from contradiction, the research opted to look for understanding the religious mediatic visibility through the thread of social relationships of those who adopt The show of faith. It means the research analyses the religious communication form a different angle, distinct from the linear view of message transmission, understanding that sort of communication as the process mediated by cultural and social practices which are built everyday, where the constitution of subjectivity is a way of analyzing the ways through which the individuals interact with the message. Thus, the research- a study on reception following the research line of the socio-cultural meditiation - allowed, among other aspects, to notice in the uses and habits of television consumerism the dialect named by Martin-Barbero as wish/place of social differentiation and ritual process objectification consumerism, evidencing that the group of belonging exerts influence for the re-seignification of the follower's wish. It was possible to identify that the key for the broadcast genre of Show da Fé (The show of faith) is the power... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)
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Gavin, Emma. "Dreadful Women: An Exploration of Gender-Based Social Values and Expectations Through Viewer and Critical Reception of Female Antagonists on Television." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/448.
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By examining viewer reception of female antagonists in traditionally feminine roles on television—particularly the role of wives and mothers who have husbands to answer to and children to look after and are thus expected, in some form, to act as a caretaker or guide for others—we can explore modern societal attitudes towards female agency and gender-based expectations of behavior.
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Lopes, Daniel Barsi. "Violência e cidadania na sociedade midiatizada: o programa Linha Direta sob a ótica da recepção." Universidade do Vale do Rio do Sinos, 2008. http://www.repositorio.jesuita.org.br/handle/UNISINOS/2629.
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A presente investigação analisa as relações entre violência e cidadania na sociedade contemporânea profundamente atravessada pelo fenômeno da midiatização tendo como objeto de referência o programa Linha Direta, exibido todas às quintas-feiras pela Rede Globo de Televisão desde maio de 1999. Apresenta uma teorização e uma reflexão sobre as temáticas pesquisadas especialmente mídia, violência e cidadania, analisadas em um processo de inter-relações e disserta detalhadamente acerca do programa televisivo, conjeturando sobre diversos elementos conformadores do Linha Direta. A pesquisa é desenvolvida sob a ótica da recepção, enfocando, portanto, os telespectadores do programa e as produções de sentidos que fazem a partir de seus contextos e de suas vivências a respeito das mensagens veiculadas pela atração televisiva, especialmente no que dizem respeito à configuração de uma cidadania midiatizada, operando no combate à violência urbana, e às relações do Linha Direta com o Estado. Os telespectadores atuantes como
The current investigation analyzes the relation between violence and citizenship in the contemporary society deeply trespassed by the phenom of mediatization taking as reference the TV show Linha Direta, aired every Thursday by Rede Globo de Televisão, since May, 1999. It presents theory and reflection about the research themes specially media, violence and citizenship, analyzed in an interrelated process and discusses the show detailedly, conjecturing about several elements of Linha Direta. The research is developed according to reception viewpoints, therefore focusing on the viewers and their interpretations from their contexts and experiences of the messages broadcasted, specially the ones concerning the configuration of a mediatized citizenship, acting in the struggle against the urban violence, and the relationship between Linha Direta and the State. The viewers that acted as informers for the research come from different scenarios and form three groups of investigation: Porto Alegre’s (RS) middle clas
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Pignatari, Rosa Malena. "Show da fé e de sentido(s) : o universo eclesial como mediação sociocultural /." Bauru : [s.n.], 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/89407.
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Orientador: Murilo César SoaresBanca: Magali do Nascimento Cunha
Banca: Maximiliano Martin Vicente
Resumo: Às vésperas de completar 100 anos em 2010, o pentecostalismo no Brasil se mostra como um fenômeno complexo, multifacetado, desafiando comunicadores, empresários da mídia, sociólogos, pastores, crentes, ateus e também pesquisadores da comunicação social, já que na contemporaneidade as experiências religiosas são impulsionadas pela adoção da cultura mediática. Essas experiências fermentam em programas como o Show da Fé comandado pelo líder da Igreja Internacional da Graça de Deus (IIGD), R. R. Soares, instituição religiosa objeto deste estudo. Visto acreditar que fenômenos sociais não são uniformes e tampouco que os produtos religiosos sejam livres de contradições, a pesquisa busca compreender a visibilidade mediática religiosa no tecido das relações sociais dos adeptos que assistem o Show da Fé. Ou seja, a pesquisa analisa a comunicação religiosa sob um outro ângulo, distinto da visão linear da transmisssão da mensagem, entendendo aquela comunicação como processo mediado pelas práticas sociais e culturais que se constroem no cotidiano, onde a constituição da subjetividade é resultado das maneiras pelas quais os sujeitos interagem entre si perante a mensagem. Assim, a pesquisa - um estudo de recepção na linha das mediações socioculturais - permitiu, entre outros aspectos, observar nos usos e hábitos de consumo televisivo a dialética denomiada por Martín-Barbero consumo objetivação de desejos/lugar de diferenciação social e processo ritual, evidenciando que o grupo de pertença exerce influência para a ressignificação do desejo do adepto. Foi possível identificar que a chave do gênero do programa Show da Fè é o poder de acionar ou despertar no imaginário dos adeptos um outro mundo, cujo senso de ordem interna, integração e direção faz com que o homem se sinta mais forte para suportar as dificuldades da existência.
Abstract: On the verge of completing 100 years in 2010, Pentecostalism in Brazil turns out to be a complex, multifaceted, phenomenon, which challenges communication, media entrepreneurs, sociologists, preachers, believers, atheists and social communication reserachers, once nowadays new religious experiences are moved by the adoption of the mediatic culture. There are now widely shown experiences on broadcasts such as "Show da Fé" (The show of faith) hosted by R. R. Soares, the leader of "Igreja Internacional da Graça de Deus" (International Church of the Grace of God), which is the religious institution being this study's main topic. Having in mind the belief that social phenomenons are not uniform and also being aware that it is not possible to believe that the religious products are free from contradiction, the research opted to look for understanding the religious mediatic visibility through the thread of social relationships of those who adopt "The show of faith". It means the research analyses the religious communication form a different angle, distinct from the linear view of message transmission, understanding that sort of communication as the process mediated by cultural and social practices which are built everyday, where the constitution of subjectivity is a way of analyzing the ways through which the individuals interact with the message. Thus, the research- a study on reception following the research line of the socio-cultural meditiation - allowed, among other aspects, to notice in the uses and habits of television consumerism the dialect named by Martin-Barbero as wish/place of social differentiation and ritual process objectification consumerism, evidencing that the group of belonging exerts influence for the re-seignification of the follower's wish. It was possible to identify that the key for the broadcast genre of Show da Fé (The show of faith) is the power... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)
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Azambuja, Patrícia Kely. "Cognição e Mediação Técnica: passagem analógico-digital da recepção de TV sob a ótica da Teoria Ator-rede." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2012. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=5535.
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Algumas situações relativas às práticas de comunicacão chamam a atenção, seja pelas possibilidades técnicas que surgem a cada nova ferramenta criada, seja pela influência inconteste para as relações humanas e sociais. Em um momento em que a comunidade acadêmica é convocada a pensar uma nova televisão, este trabalho se propõe a entrar em campo para observar o que há disponível: usos, formatos e linguagens em fase de transição. Propomos, portanto, uma análise empírica ambientada em espaço de recepção midiática, e utilizamos como ferramenta metodológica o Princípio da Simetria com base na Teoria Ator-rede. Seguindo a ideia de rastrear conexões a partir de uma escrita etnográfica, o método propõe pensar o social menos como categoria de base analítica - posto antecipadamente e desvinculado do campo das ações - e mais como algo focado em processo contínuo. As práticas so-ciais e midiáticas são pensadas aqui para além dos limites humanos - ou exclusivamente técnicos. O ator-rede se estabelece não como uma entidade fixa, mas através de fluxos a partir dos quais o método ajudará a descrever a propagação das associações. A discussão sobre possibilidades técnicas e produção de conteúdo mal começou. Talvez por isso se encontre vivendo o momento de transcender o campo dos conceitos normativos e das especulações, para assim acompanhar as instâncias midiáticas como redes de actantes inventadas e re-inventadas a cada dia, nas condições de possibilidades dos momentos práticos de uso. Coube à pesquisa em questão a observação mais detida desses procedimentos e da relação entre tecnologias em transformação, audiências, materialidades, espaços, corpos, sensações e emoções, para que assim seja possível identificar algum entendimento sobre o que poderá caracterizar a televisão, pelo menos provisoriamenteSome situations relating to communication practices draw attention, either by the technical possibilities that arise with each new tool created by the unchallenged influence for the human and social relations. In a time when the academic community is asked to consider a "new" television, this work proposes to enter into the field to see what's available: uses, formats and languages in transition. Therefore proposes an empirical analysis set in the space of media reception, and use as a methodological tool of the Symmetry Principle based on Actor-Network Theory. Following the idea of tracing connections from an ethnographic writing, the method proposes to discuss the social category least as analytical basis - set in advance and unrelated to the field of action - and as something more focused on continuous process. The social practices and media here are thought beyond human limits - or purely technical. The actor-network is established not as a fixed entity, but through flows from which the method will help to describe the propagation of associations. The discussion on the technical and content production has barely begun. Maybe so if you find living in the moment to transcend the field of normative concepts and speculations, in order to monitor instances as networks of actants media invented and re-invented every day, in the moments conditions of possibilities for practical use. It fell to the research in question closer look at these procedures and the relationship between changing technology, audiences, materiality, space, bodies, feelings and emotions, so that some understanding may be identified about what will characterize the television, at least temporarily.