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Ida, Rachmah. "Watching Indonesian sinetron: imagining communities around the television." Curtin University of Technology, Dept. of Media and Information, 2006. http://espace.library.curtin.edu.au:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=17833.
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This thesis is about the everyday cultural practices of communal television viewing by urban kampung people. It challenges the institutional frameworks and constructs about the television audience. To achieve this, the thesis looks at the cultural context of the television set and its uses in urban kampung households and the neighbourhood system. Studies on urban kampung community in Indonesia so far have focused on the socio-economic and cultural practices of the people in relation to state ideological matters (e.g. Guinness, 1989; Sullivan, 1994; Brenner, 1998). This thesis is an attempt to extend the investigation about the cultural practices of the kampung community in relation to media use in the era of competitive private television in the early 2000s. As those kampung people have existentially engaged in fashioning their own lives neither as rural subjects nor urban/ity subjects, their narratives in responding to televised images and representations (of women in particular) shape the particularity of the cultural scene of these marginalized subjects. Taking up their social economic background and the particularities of socio-cultural circumstances of the kampung, this present study takes a close look into the day-to-day communal viewing practice of the kampung female viewers of the most-watched local program on Indonesian television, that is sinetron (television drama).Extending the argument of Ien Ang and others into the Indonesian context, the thesis concludes that the national television audience as a unified, atomistic and controllable entity, as is institutionally imagined, does not exist. Rather, watching television, particularly among the urban middle to lower class community, is a discursive practice overwhelmingly showing the diverse, particular, and unpredictable attitudes, which challenge the account of 'the audience' that characterises the industry, the state and, ironically, also the intellectual critical knowledge producers.
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Cavallo, Katherine. "“WATCHING” WHAT WE EAT: WHAT TELEVISION IS MODELING." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/528109.
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A Thesis submitted to The University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Medicine.Background: Obesity has transitioned from an individual health concern to being a national problem with almost two‐thirds of the adult population in the United States now overweight or obese1. Television potentially provides a medium in which to model healthy and unhealthy behaviors to millions of viewers each week. Although there is no quick solution to obesity, promoting and normalizing healthy lifestyles in today’s most viewed shows may be one tool to help combat an obesogenic lifestyle. Research Question: To what degree do today’s most popular sitcoms model healthy and unhealthy behaviors? Methods: A scorecard with 11 behaviors (6 healthy and 5 unhealthy) was created using publically published guidelines from the Center for Disease Control (CDC)1,2,3, World Health Organization (WHO)4, and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)5,6. The top three sitcoms for the 2013‐2014 season, as determined by TV Guide, were viewed and analyzed by one evaluator. These included The Big Bang Theory, The Millers, and Modern Family7. Results: In total, 898 unhealthy behaviors and 532 healthy behaviors were portrayed. The Big Bang Theory demonstrated the most behaviors overall and had the most favorable ratio of healthy to unhealthy behaviors at 1/1.1, compared to 1/3.8 for The Millers and 1/3.2 for Modern Family. The most common unhealthy behavior viewed was beverage choice with 492 occurrences. One of the least portrayed healthy behaviors was moderate physical activity with only 47 instances. In two of the three shows, there were remarkably few examples of fruit and vegetable consumption. Conclusion: Today’s top three sitcoms expose their viewers to many healthy and unhealthy behaviors during the span of a 22‐minute show. Significantly more unhealthy behaviors were portrayed than healthy behaviors. The most common unhealthy behavior centered on beverage choice. This is a behavior that can easily be adjusted to promote a healthier lifestyle. Additionally, food content could reflect more healthy choices. Television shows reach millions of viewers each week and may prove to be a useful tool in helping to reinforce and normalize healthy lifestyle choices.
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Ferguson, Galit. "Watching families : parenting, reality television and popular culture." Thesis, University of East London, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.532891.
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This interdisciplinary thesis provides a contemporary-historical, psychoanalytically inflected study around family-help reality television programmes. The combination of psychoanalytic and discursive perspectives, and the focus on popular cultural texts positions this as a psychocultural study. Focussing on Supernanny, Honey We're Killing the Kids and House of Tiny Tearaways, engagements with theses hows and issues around parenting on the web, and policy representational texts, I argue that such programmes and surrounding texts articulate a set of `affective discourses' that are also present in theoretical writing and representations about family and/or reality television. These discourses are often reactionary, and always paradoxical. The programmes in question can be regarded as an anxious distillation of ideological and emotional contradictions, a remediation of parenting and family which fans the very anxieties it purports to soothe. A study of `web audiencing' alongside a close analysis of both theoretical and televisual texts allows an unravelling of the contradictory elements of this `family-help' phenomenon, and its connections with class, shame, and fantasies of the split good/bad parent and child. The thesis begins by examining the cultural context for such concerns by providing a contemporary-historical psychocultural analysis of the UK family as a social and cultural construction in the late 200' and early 21" centuries. Through a focus on the concept of family as a psychosocial construction and the varied attempts to grapple with it in the media, this thesis also shows that ideology and affect are inextricable, especially when they seem furthest apart. This thesis offers a nuanced picture of familial discourses and related affects in contemporary Britain. It also contributes an original psychocultural analysis of popular media, incorporating a refiguring of the media audience in its work on `web audiencing', a psychoanalytically inflected yet materially contextualised textual analysis of reality television shows which do not often garner close textual attention, and a strong argument for a multiperspectival psychocultural perspective in media and popular cultural analysis.
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Zimdars, Melissa Mae. "Weight watching: television, fatness, and the obesity epidemic." Diss., University of Iowa, 2015. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1818.
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From The Biggest Loser to Mike and Molly, globally televised representations of fatness are multiplying in reflection of heightened governmental and medical concern that the size of our bodies constitutes a problem of epidemic proportions. This project demonstrates how television acts as a forum for not only the politics of fat visibility and world health policies, but also for debating issues of fatness in connection to weight-loss and self-discipline, self-love and size acceptance, and even disability and discrimination. Ultimately, this project traces public health, medical, and fat acceptance discourses throughout culture, from media industry documents and regulatory hearings to newspaper reports and television texts, in order to understand television's role in enabling and constraining the ways in which we understand bodies, fatness, and health.
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Clark, Fiona. "Effects of watching wildlife television on wildlife conservation behavior /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6197.
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Steinkamp, Christen M. "Internet television use : motivations and preferences for watching television online among college students /." Online version of thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/12209.
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Oswell, David. "Watching with mother : a genealogy of the child television audience." Thesis, Open University, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.283225.
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Kelly, Megan Erin. "Finding a Data-Driven Definition of Binge-Watching." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2019. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1609114/.
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Binge-watching, the act of watching large amounts of television at a time, has become a popular phenomenon internationally; however, it has yet to be sufficiently defined. In order to define binge-watching, data was collected on specific watching instances from 216 undergraduate students at a large research university. Hierarchical and k-means cluster analyses were conducted in Phase I to empirically determine how binge-watching should be defined. In Phase II, that definition was tested by correlating the number of instances of binge-watching in a one-week period, collected by seven days of daily diary logs, with several theoretically related measures including body mass index, dissociative tendencies, psychological distress, compulsion to watch, boredom proneness, and escapism through watching. The data-driven definition was found to be that eight hours or more of continuous watching was binge-watching, while anything less than that was not. In Phase II, the frequency of binge-watching through the seven-day period was calculated based on that new definition. The frequency of binge-watching was positively correlated with body mass index and dissociative tendencies with statistical significance at the alpha = .05 level. Compulsion to watch was not statistically significant; however, there was a positive correlation. These findings indicate that the proposed data-driven definition has concurrent validity. Psychological distress, boredom proneness, and escapism through watching were not statistically significantly related to binge-watching frequency, nor did the effect sizes indicate a correlation may exist. Potential reasons for these results are discussed. The definition found in this study will be helpful to other researchers as research into binge-watching continues to grow.
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Spruill, Brent. "Association Among Bullying, Excessive Television Watching, and Physical Activity Among Adolescents." ScholarWorks, 2014. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/482.
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Increasing obesity rates among adolescents in the State of Massachusetts are of concern to public-health professionals. High bullying rates may contribute to obesity. Guided by Maslow's safety component and Bandura's social-cognitive theory, this study investigated a relationship between hours spent television watching, bullying, and meeting physical-activity guidelines among Massachusetts adolescents. The association between the dependent variable--physical inactivity--and the independent variables--hours spent watching television andbullying--was explored using data from the 2009 Massachusetts Youth Risk Behavior Survey. Participants were 2,601 Massachusetts adolescents aged 13 to 18. Statistical analysis included chi-square, the Kruskal-Wallis Test, Mann-Whitney U, and Spearman correlation. Results revealed a significant negative correlation between television watching and physical activity, suggesting that the more hours students spent watching television, the less active they tended to be. The Kruskal-Wallis test showed a significant difference in hours of television watching by level of physical activity. To determine where the statistical differences lay, 3 pairwise Mann-Whitney U tests were conducted; 2 were shown to be statistically significant. Physical activity and bullying were significantly associated. The results of the Mann-Whitney U test were significant, indicating that levels of activity for students who were not bullied were higher than those for students who were bullied. The social-change potential of this study is a better understanding of the relationship between bullying and physical inactivity among public health professionals in an increased effort to remove barriers to physical inactivity, help limit bullying, and increase health and welfare of adolescents.
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O'Shea, Catherine Mary. "Making meaning, making a home: students watching Generations." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002934.
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This thesis is a reception analysis using qualitative interviews to investigate black students' watching of a South African soap opera, Generations, taking into account the context of a largely white South African university campus. The findings of this study are that students find pleasure in talking about Generations and hold seemingly contradictory views on whether it is 'realistic' or not. The analysis concludes that watching Generations does serve to affirm these students' black identity, since there is a particular need to do so on a campus where black students witness and experience racial discrimination.
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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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Rossiter, Laura. "Who Needs Friends When There is FRIENDS? Watching Television as a Form of Social Surrogacy." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/535.
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The current study aims to fill a deficiency in the literature on the effects of watching television, particularly “happy” and “not happy” shows, on social needs. Participants will first take a survey to report their loneliness and need for social interaction. Then, they will be randomly assigned into one of four television-viewing conditions (two involving the participants watching “happy” shows and two involving participants watching “not happy” shows). After viewing three episodes, participants will be re-tested on their loneliness and need for social interaction. It is hypothesized that after watching television, participants will report feeling less lonely and less likely to seek out social interaction with a larger effect for those watching happier shows than those watching less happy shows. If the study shows a reduction in loneliness and desire for social interaction after watching television, it could suggest that television is an outlet to offer those who are lonely or lacking in social support and can ease some of their discomfort and sadness.
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Hetherington, Susan. "Little brother is watching you: Preschool children, television news and responsibility in Australia." Queensland University of Technology, 2004. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/15935/.
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Hundreds of thousands of Australian children under the age of six witnessed at least some of the coverage of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. In the days and weeks that followed September 11, the researcher was confronted with numerous anecdotes from mothers who talked about the impact the coverage had had on their children. Many of the mothers reported that they had not known their children were watching the coverage or had not believed that they were old enough to understand what was going on. This raised the question of responsibility and sparked the research project which asked how could preschool children best be protected from material that was likely to disturb or harm them both in scheduled news broadcasts and extraordinary events such as September 11? Through surveys, focus groups with mothers and interviews with news directors, the research looked at existing protections, how well they worked in the view of both parents and the industry and whether there could or should be a better way. The research recommended that greater protection of preschool children from inappropriate television news content could be achieved through the implementation of six recommendations. 1. Television news should be Rated PG. 2. Digital television technology should be employed to prevent news events 'overtaking' scheduled children's programming and to protect safe harbours placed in the classifications zones to protect children. 3. Broadcasters should regain control of the images that go to air during 'live' feeds from obviously volatile situations by building in short delays in G classification zones. 4. Parents should be educated to understand that even very young children can take in television news and are often scared by it. 5. Television journalists should understand that even very young children are exposed to television news and are often scared by it. 6. News promotions during afternoon children's programming should be dropped.
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Chris, Cynthia. "Watching wildlife : on the nature genre in film and television, its history and meanings /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3044794.
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Colbran, Marianne. "Watching the cops : a case study of production processes on television police drama "The Bill"." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2011. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/408/.
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This thesis examines the process of storytelling on television police drama, The Bill. It explores how factors such as commercial imperatives, working processes and artistic constraints affected representation of the police. The study argues that, in the early days of the show, stories originated with the freelance writers and were based on research and observation of police work. Representation of the police was favourable, partly due to the ideological views of the makers and partly due to the format: stories had to be resolved within a half-hour timeslot, which militated against writers being able to tell stories about issues such as racism, sexism and corruption. However, due to changing market forces in the television industry, the show reinvented itself as a serial in 2001. The exigencies of the new schedule meant less time for research. There was also pressure on the makers to attract a younger audience demographic. Stories were now originated by an in-house team and based on other media sources, setting up “media loops” (Manning 2003) and a recycling of ideas current in media culture about policing and law and order politics. Story-lines became inaccurate and controversial. Findings from focus groups with officers from the Metropolitan Police Service and the Greater Manchester Police also showed that, on occasion, story-lines concerning the handling of witnesses on the show and interview procedures had hampered officers when carrying out investigations. The study concludes that, to echo Silverstone (1985), there is an arbitrariness at the heart of making any television show – that whether the police are depicted favourably or unfavourably is determined as much by the need to attract a certain audience demographic and restrictions in the format as by any ideological intent on the part of the programme-makers.
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Richards, Samantha. "Pacing Your Fears: Narrative Adaptation in the Age of Binge Culture." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1087.
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Entertainment is an ever-changing medium, and television specifically has gone through many technological innovations since its bright beginnings. These innovations have consistently changed the way stories are told. Stylistic shifts in key elements ranging from shot format to the way shows are constructed can be seen especially clearly in horror which does not have the same narrative constraints as many other genres, and therefore more room to experiment. By tracking changes in the narrative formats of serialized and anthology horror shows, I define a new era of television brought about by the prevalence of streaming, and the rise of binge culture.
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Klinger, Lori Jean Brestan Elizabeth V. "What are your children watching? a DPICS-II analysis of parent-child interactions in television cartoons /." Auburn, Ala., 2006. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/2006%20Fall/Dissertations/KLINGER_LORI_42.pdf.
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Hatice, Ergul. "The social organisation of watching television : a conversation analytic investigation of assessments in TV audience interaction." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/2669.
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Watching television has long been a central part of the daily lives of many people, families and groups all around the world. For example, recent statistics indicate that the average time spent on TV watching in the US is 2.8 hours per day. In the national context of this study – Turkey – the figure is as high as 4.1 hours per day. Most TV watching takes place in households where people watch TV together with their family or friends. Even though it occupies a considerable amount of time in people’s lives, how people watch TV together as a social activity still remains under-researched. This study examines the social practices performed by an audience (a group of Turkish females) while they are watching a reality TV show (marriage show) together, by examining (1) how they organize their talk during TV watching, and (2) what social and cultural practices are achieved through this activity. The study employs the methodologies of conversation analysis (CA) and membership categorization analysis (MCA) to the examination of video-recordings of people watching a reality TV show. Analysis of the recordings reveal that one of the most common social actions performed by this specific audience group is making ‘assessments’, relevant to what is being watched. As such, the main focus of analysis is placed on how assessments are produced and sequentially positioned, in addition to explicating the social and cultural functions of doing assessments during social TV watching. A fine-detailed analysis of the production and the organisation of assessments during TV watching contributes to our understanding of the organisation of ‘continuing states of incipient talk’ (CSIT) which has been given little consideration in previous literature. By examining the issues relevant to sequential positioning and response relevance in assessment sequences during TV watching, this study provides insights into the organisation of CSIT while at the same time emphasizing the importance of the activity type that people are engaged in while examining organisation of talk. This study also has significant implications for adopting micro-analytic research in media audience studies. By examining the actual video-recordings of TV watching, this study demonstrates (1) how people constitute themselves as a social group who has a shared understanding of the world, and (2) how cultural norms and expectations are co-constructed and perpetuated through social TV watching.
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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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Tse, Yu-Kei. "Watching foreign TV in an age of online sharing : the cultural implications of cross-border television experience." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2016. http://research.gold.ac.uk/17441/.
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In recent years, unofficial and/or illegal forms of online file sharing have been increasingly used by audiences worldwide to consume foreign TV programmes which would not previously have been available to them at the time when such shows were first broadcast in their original regions. This form of consumption shortens the time-and-space gap between foreign broadcast and local consumption, highlighting audiences’ desires for borderless, transnational viewing. Taking Taiwanese audiences as an example, this research studies the implications which transnational foreign television consumption via online sharing may bring. Based on in-depth interviews with thirty-six audience members conducted from 2010 to 2011, I focus on two issues: 1. The meaning of television for its audiences: This research examines how and why audiences employ online sharing to bypass temporal, spatial and legal constraints on consuming foreign programmes, and elaborates the ways in which such consumption is becoming an emerging norm of television experience. It sheds light on how our existing understandings have changed, regarding what is meant by “watching TV”, and what television’s role is in providing a sense of liveness, shaping audiences’ sense of social togetherness and their cultural identity. 2. Transnational media flows and cultural power relationships: This research looks at the implications of this cross-border Taiwanese consumption of television for transnational media flows in the post-colonial East Asian contexts. It examines cultural power relationships between East Asian countries, as well as those between the East and the West. Furthermore, by elaborating how audiences’ sense of co-temporality with (and understanding of) other cultures develop via their consumption, this research analyses how such consumption shapes the direction of media flows and cultural power relationships of Taiwan with other countries and thus offers a contemporary understanding of what television means as a cultural form, and what features television audiences have, in the post-network era today.
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Ribeiro, Sohyun. "Comparing Binge-Watching Motivations in South Korea and the United States: Westernization of South Korean Entertainment." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2020. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/9057.
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Asian cultures have been heavily influenced by Western culture due to globalization. Video on demand (VOD) services provide a means to quantify the westernization of Asian cultures, especially those within South Korea. As the majority of current binge-watching studies have been conducted utilizing U.S. samples, there is a need for comparative research between the two cultures, to see if westernization can be quantified via these means. The current study examined the relative levels of five Korean binge-watching motivations (enjoyment, efficiency, recommendation of others, perceived control, fandom) and eight American binge-watching motivations (escape, information, engagement, relaxation, passing time, hedonism, social, habit) sourced from prior research, among a Korean (n =113) and American (n = 193) sample. Results indicated that both Americans and Koreans scored highly on enjoyment and engagement. Americans scored higher on nine out of the 13 motivations: efficiency, recommendation of others, fandom, escape, relaxation, passing time, hedonism, social, and habit. Koreans scored higher on two out of the 13 motivations: information and perceived control. Also, Americans binge-watched more frequently than Koreans. In conclusion, the outcome of the study suggests where society is going with VOD services and binge-watching as a deeper understanding of binge-watching in a cross-cultural setting. Future researchers should consider a qualitative study to overcome the limited range of TV viewing motivational scales and a random sampling, assuring diversity in sample groups.
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Steiner, Emil. "BINGE-WATCHING KILLED THE IDIOT BOX: THE CHANGING IDENTITIES OF VIEWERS AND TELEVISION IN THE EXPERIENTIAL, STREAMING VIDEO AGE." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2018. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/521643.
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In this dissertation I explore what binge-watching is, how it is practiced, and its relationship with contemporary identities of television and viewers. Building on the theoretical frameworks of ambivalent cultural studies, post-structural feminism, and collective memory, I examine binge-watching and binge-viewers through their mediated articulations and ritualized actions. In Chapter 2, I chronicle the history of the terms’ usages in journalism from 1948-2016 and use that data to construct a functional definition of binge-watching. In Chapter 3, I analyze advertised constructions of binge-viewers in the commercial rhetoric of media companies from 2013-2015. In Chapter 4, I explore the rituals of contemporary television viewers through semi-structured interviews to understand how and why people binge-watch. In Chapter 5, I synthesize my findings on the articulations and actions of binge-watching and provided a reflexive narrative of my subject position as a binge-viewer studying binge-watching. I conclude that binge-watching is a techno-cultural phenomenon, which, through its action and articulation, is reshaping the identities of and relationships between television and viewers.
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Byard, Victoria Roisin. "Watching the box of delights : production, site and style in British school-age children's television fantasy drama, 1950-1994." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/42535.
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This thesis examines the uses and purpose of the fantastic in British children’s television between 1950 and 1994. While telefantasy for primetime schedules has been mapped out by Catherine Johnson, no such study has been attempted for children’s television drama, primarily due to the academic and institutional marginalisation which has traditionally afflicted children’s television. This thesis attempts to address this gap in research by recovering a history of children’s television fantasy across the regulated duopoly within the twentieth century. Using archival research drawn from the BBC Written Archive Centre and the ITA/IBA Archive at the University of Bournemouth together with institutional histories and textual analysis, it argues that fantasy has throughout the history of British children’s television been a consistent and potent presence within the schedules. It suggests that the use of fantasy within production cultures of children’s television responds reflexively to the conception of the child audience as constructed though historical ideas of child development, public service requirements and the individual’s role within a democratic society. ‘Television drama matters,’ states George Brandt, but as a matter of course children’s drama has been overlooked in favour of ‘serious’ drama intended for adult schedules. Where genre in television has been addressed, it has tended towards the study of cult television. Using case studies of children’s fantasy drama from the BBC and ITV companies, both Majors and Regionals, this research works towards reassessing fantasy drama for children not as exceptional productions but as part of a dialectic of drama. Operating in parallel with mimetic drama, the mode and aesthetic of fantasy drama was deployed as part of an ongoing but historically positioned discourse that negotiated changing theorisations of the child audience, industrial and institutional imperatives, and social and cultural paradigms.
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Lovejoy, Tanya Lee. ""Was Anyone Out There Watching Last Night?": The Creation and Early History of New England Sport Network, 1980-1989." OpenSIUC, 2012. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/546.
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In the United States, regional sports networks broadcast games of home teams to audiences in specific communities, or geographical areas. Ownership of regional sports network by sports teams presents a unique type of vertical integration. Regional sports networks use distinctive programming to connect to local sports culture. This dissertation explores the historical significance of New England Sports Network (NESN), a team created, owned and operated regional sports network, which broadcasts Boston Red Sox baseball games and Boston Bruins hockey games throughout the New England region. Using elements of cultural studies, specifically political economy and textual analysis, this dissertation examines the impact of the ownership structure of NESN on NESN programming and how NESN uses programming to connect to local sports culture. This dissertation employs the theoretical frameworks of the sports/media complex and the base and superstructure model to support the argument that regional sports networks function not only on an economic level, but on a political economic and cultural level as well. Historically, NESN is the first successful team created, owned and operated regional sports network. NESN's creation established a new form of sports media ownership where sports team owners could essentially form private media corporations to increase earnings and extend operations across industries. NESN utilizes specific visual and aural techniques to differentiate NESN programming from other national and regional sports broadcasters. NESN also uses the same techniques to connect to local sports culture and to the everyday lives of sports consumers. The televised sports text offers NESN a space where the network can function on both a political economic and cultural level. Additionally, NESN presents a real world example of how the sports/media complex has become a more intricate theoretical framework.
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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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Schultz, Eric R. "Watching baywatch in Burundi an investigation into the relationship between global television viewing and people's feelings of economic deprivation and unhappiness /." Connect to Electronic Thesis (CONTENTdm), 2009. http://worldcat.org/oclc/449705367/viewonline.
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Malici, Luca. "Watching queer television : a case study of the representation, circulation and reception of sexual dissidence on Italian mainstream TV from 1990 to 2012." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2015. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/5725/.
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This thesis explores the increasing representation of sexual dissidence on contemporary Italian mainstream television from 1990 to 2012. It argues that TV programming and regulations have been historically influenced by notions of an ideal family audience assumed to be traditionally nuclear, patriarchal, heterosexual and normative. The visual representation of sexuality in the media has been the subject of considerable international debate which has problematised the historical invisibilisation and misrepresentation of sexual dissidents, particularly in film and with an almost exclusive methodological emphasis on Anglophone texts. Less attention has been given to more integrated and empirical approaches to the representation, circulation and reception of dissident sexualities on TV. This study combines historical examinations of sexual portrayals on Italian television with two online ethnographies targeting non-heterosexual and heterosexually-identified respondents, discursively analysing whether and how these samples of viewers have engaged with this increasing TV visibility. The majority of participants seem interested in these portrayals and disagree with restrictive decision-making by networks. Nonetheless, a considerable portion of respondents appears to be problematically influenced not so much by the content of programmes as by perceptions of the views of others. The thesis demonstrates that audience research is an under-explored, yet very productive, field of enquiry in Sexuality Studies. Further research in this direction could have implications for network recommendations, transnational policy-making and new theoretical approaches.
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Panigas, Tiago Facchini. "Influência do sedentarismo e obesidade no diabetes mellitus gestacional." Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, 2012. http://tede.udesc.br/handle/handle/254.
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The gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) has been presented as an important problem of public health, it has been the disease with highest incidence during pregnancy. The treatment includes changes in eating habits and increment of physical activity. The aim of this study was to analyze the influence of obesity and physical activity in pregnant women suffered from gestational diabetes mellitus. In epidemiological case-control study, were evaluated 23 pregnant women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDMG) and 23 normoglycemic pregnant women (CG), and 17.4% were black (GDMG 21.7% and 13% CG), 13% smokers (GDMG 13% and 13% CG) and 39.1% nulliparous (GDMG 26.1% and 52.2% CG). The average age of the sample was 30.3 ± 5.4 years (GDMG 31.3 ± 4.7 and CG 29.2 ± 5.9 years) and body mass index was 30.6 ± 7.5 kg/m2 (GDMG 34.29 ± 7.70 and CG 27.02 ± 5.27 kg/m2). The women were selected from public maternities and public clinics in the city of Florianópolis, Santa Catarina. The level of physical activity in sport / exercise, transportation / mobility, housework, occupational, leisure and care for others, referring to the 20 first weeks of pregnancy, was quantified through the application of physical activity questionnaire for pregnant women (PAQPW) coming from the Pregnancy Physical Activity Questionnaire (PPAQ). The fields related to housework (OR = 1.06, 95% CI: 1.02 to 1.11, p = 0.01) and the time devoted to watching television (OR = 1.07, 95% CI: 1 0.02 to 1, 14, p = 0.01), albeit with a significant statistical difference, in practice was deemed irrelevant by the negligible difference, as those related to physical activity, sport / exercise, occupational activities, caring for others, leisure, transportation and movement did not present significant association with risk of GDM. Only BMI above 30 kg/m2 increased substantially the risk of pregnant women to acquire GDM (OR = 6.86, 95% CI: 2.69 to 25.17, p = 0.01). The women in both groups had low physical activity level of sport / exercise (GDMG 21.7% and 30.4% active GC), and the level of inactivity in both groups was also high.
O diabetes mellitus gestacional apresenta-se como importante problema de saúde pública, sendo a doença de maior incidência durante a gestação. O tratamento inclui a mudança de hábitos alimentares e incremento da atividade física. O objetivo desse estudo foi analisar a influência da obesidade e da atividade física em gestantes acometidas de diabetes mellitus gestacional. Em estudo epidemiológico do tipo caso-controle, foram avaliadas 23 gestantes com diabetes mellitus gestacional (GDMG) e 23 gestantes normoglicêmicas (GC), sendo que 17,4% eram negras (GDMG 21,7% e GC 13%), 13% tabagistas (GDMG 13% e GC 13%) e 39,1% nulíparas (GDMG 26,1% e GC 52,2%). A média de idade da amostra foi de 30,3 ± 5,4 anos (GDMG 31,3 ± 4,7 e GC 29,2 ± 5,9 anos) e o índice de massa corporal foi de 30,6 ± 7,5 Kg/m2 (GDMG 34,29 ± 7,70 e GC 27,02 ± 5,27 Kg/m2). As gestantes foram selecionadas em maternidades públicas e postos de saúde da cidade de Florianópolis, Santa Catarina. O nível de atividade física de esporte/exercício, transporte/locomoção, tarefas domésticas, ocupacionais, lazer e cuidar de outras pessoas, referente às 20 primeiras semanas gestacionais, foi quantificado por meio da aplicação do Questionário de atividade física para gestantes (QAFG), oriundo do Pregnancy Physical Activity Questionnaire (PPAQ). Os domínios relacionados às tarefas domésticas (OR=1,06; 95% IC; 1,02-1,11; p=0,01) e ao tempo destinado a assistir televisão (OR=1,07; 95% IC:1,02-1,14; p=0,01), embora com diferença estatisticamente significante, na prática foi considerada irrelevante pela desprezível diferença, assim como os relacionados à atividade física esporte/exercício, atividades ocupacionais, cuidar de outras pessoas, lazer e transporte e locomoção que não apresentaram associação estatisticamente significativa com o risco de DMG. Somente o IMC superior a 30 Kg/m2 aumentou consideravelmente o risco das gestantes de adquirir DMG (OR=6,86; 95% IC: 2,69-25,17; p=0,01). As gestantes de ambos os grupos apresentaram baixos nível a atividade física de esporte/exercício (GDMG 21,7% e GC 30,4% ativas), sendo que o nível de sedentarismo em ambos os grupos foi igualmente elevado.
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Erthal, Claudia. "Um domingo qualquer - estratégias de grade de programação de televisão aberta no Brasil." Universidade de São Paulo, 2013. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/27/27161/tde-27022014-164638/.
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Pesquisa em Comunicação na área de Meios de Processos Audiovisuais que estuda as estratégias de grade de programação de domingo na TV aberta brasileira. Ênfase no domingo em virtude de ser o dia com maior número de telespectadores ligados e por ser um dos dias com maior visibilidade dos produtos veiculados. As principais linhas teóricas utilizadas na interpretação da pesquisa tratam da formação do hábito de ver televisão, do contrato afetivo entre o fluxo da grade de programação e o telespectador e do Princípio da Razão Durante através da teoria do Metáporo. Texto multidisciplinar que reúne teóricos de Comunicação, Estudo de TV, Estudos Culturais, Sociologia, Filosofia para construir um corpo teórico que trata de entender estratégias utilizadas pelas emissoras para montar a grade de programação e de como a grade se torna um específico da TV, um produto audiovisual único e fluído e uma forma discursiva estratégica das empresas de comunicação.Research in Communication within the Audiovisual Media Process area focused on the broadcast Sunday Brazilian TV programming strategies. It emphasizes the Sunday programming due to be the day with the largest number of viewers watching TV and due to one of the days that gets more visibility to the media products and production. The main theoretical lines used in the research are about the habit of watching TV, the emotional contract established between the programming flow and the TV viewer and also the Princípio da Razão Durante (Ongoing Principle) through the Metaporo´s theory. Multidisciplinary text gathering theories from Communication, TV Studies, Cultural Studies, Sociology and Philosophy to build a theoretic body of work to understand the strategies used by the TV stations and networks to form the programming grid and how the grid becomes TV´s specific language, one fluid and exclusive audiovisual product and also an strategic discursive form belonging to the communication enterprises.
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Suksai, Ousa, and n/a. "Media and Thai civil society: case studies of television production companies, Watchdog and iTV." University of Canberra. Communication, 2002. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20050602.143439.
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The study concerns the inter-relationship between media reform and civil
society in Thailand between 1995-2000. It examines case studies of two selected
television organisations - the production company Watchdog and the broadcast
channel Independent Television (iTV) - and analyses their internal production
decision-making processes, their public affairs programs and their urban and rural
audiences.
Debates about civil society and media reform between 1995-2000 influenced
the government's media regulation policies to the extent that more attention was paid
to media freedom as intended by Articles 39, 40 and 41 in the 1997 Constitution.
Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs) took an important role in monitoring
government policies on media reform under the Constitution and issues about media
re-regulation and ownership were canvassed, although the drawn out National
Broadcasting Commission (NBC) selecting process delayed media reform. The
transparency of the selection process of the NBC has been widely debated among
NGOs, media scholars and media professionals. Most Thai public affairs programs in
the period were shown on iTV, Channel 9 and Channel 11 and were in the minority
compared with entertainment. Thai television stations normally screened
entertainment programs to make profits, while they usually would not allow producers
to air open debates critical of the government. Also, public affairs programs that were
screened often were given inappropriate airtimes.
Watchdog and iTV treated public affairs programs in different ways.
Watchdog, originating from an NCO, the Creative Media Foundation, emphasized
public participation in local community-oriented programs - such as Chirmsak
Pinthong's Lan Ban Lan Muang - which exemplified civic journalism on television.
In contrast, iTV was created in 1996 to meet the promise made in 1992 after Black
May that a non-state commercial channel would be introduced. It was organised by
journalists from the Nation Multimedia Company and focused on current national
news issues which seldom allowed public participation. Both organisations attempted
to maintain their professionalism despite political and business pressures. Chirmsak
and Watchdog were accused of bias favoring the Democrat Party and often
encountered program censorship. ITV staff, especially in the news department led by
Suthichai Yoon and Thepchai Yong, unsuccessful fought. Shin Corps 2000-2001
takeover of the station that had been brought on by the financial problems of iTV and
the Siam Commercial Bank after the economic crisis of 1997.
There were three main concepts of civil society in the period 1997-2000 -
Communitarianism, Self-sufficiency and Good Governance. These ideas were
advanced by reformers such as Dr. Prawase Wasi and Thirayut Boonme, and were
reinforced by His Majesty King Bhumibol's December 1997 Birthday Speech that
endorsed the ideal of national self-sufficiency. Thai civil society debates often were
involved with rural people, while the 8th National Development Plan and the Chuan
government's policy on decentralisation aimed to strengthen the rural sector as an
antidote to the 1997 crisis. However, the aims of civil society reformers were at times
too idealistic and were viewed with skepticism by some middle class urban critics.
The continuing influence of electoral corruption in rural areas also obstructed civil
society ideals, while decentralisation and community development still maintained a
top-down way of development and depended on government support.
These difficulties in implementing pro-civil society reforms in the political
process were paralleled by difficulties in developing public interest programs on Thai
television. Current affairs and investigative journalism programs, such as iTV Talk,
Tod Rahad and Krong Satanakarn, did not often open public discussion on the
programs. Rather, the regular format of panel discussions, consisting of elites and
some celebrities, tended to focus on national topics rather than local issues. The hosts
of many of these public affairs programs depended on their own celebrities status and
tended to invite well-known guests, whereas community-oriented programs such as
Lan Ban Lan Muang and Tid Ban Tang Muang promoted civic journalism and
deliberative democracy more effectively. The latter programs allowed the public to
participate in the programs as the main actors and even proposed their own agendas.
However, a limited study of three audience focus groups - an expert urban
group, a young middle class urban group, and a rural group - found considerable
scepticism about the possibility of developing public interest awareness via television
programs. The expert and young middle class groups criticised both the hosts and the
style of a selection of current affairs programs, which they thought were too serious
and also biased. Some also considered that current affairs programs were a platform
for the people in power rather than providing a space for the public. Therefore, they
rarely watched them. In contrast, the rural group who participated in Lan Ban Lan
Muang, believed that the program was useful for development communication. The
audience gained information about other communities and used the media as the
means to publicise their own community. However, they rarely watched it because
the airtime of the program was the same as a popular entertainment program on
Channel 3.
The researcher used qualitative research methods to collect data, including indepth
interviews, focus groups, participant observation, program recording and
document analysis. Theoretically, the study has attempted to combine the approaches
of western and Thai scholars. The main approach used to explain the relationship
between the media and civil society is media and public sphere theory, as introduced
by Habermas, and combined with the perspectives on media re-regulation of the Thai
scholar Ubonrat Siriyusak. In terms of analysing Watchdog and iTV, the researcher
used political economy perspectives to understand decision-making in both
organisations. In addition, an organisational culture approach was used to explore
conflicts of interest that arose in both organisations due to their different sub-cultures.
Civic journalism, framing theory and development communication theory were
further employed to examine the television programs and their roles in promoting the
public interest and development projects, while the audience groups were considered
in the context of participatory communication theory and reception theory.
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Saccomori, Camila. "Práticas de binge-watching na era digital: novas experiências de consumo de seriados em maratonas no Netflix." Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10923/8331.
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Previous issue date: 2016This dissertation aims the analysis of the changes observed in people‘s behavior practice known as binge-watching TV shows at Netflix, company that offers titles for streaming. To understand this, before conducting a survey with eight consumers, property stunted technologies were discussed, as well as online recovering possibilities and the properties of the service itself of the company. After researching on the technical, this research discusses how the shift from traditional reception for digital content reflected in social practices. Authors such as Henry Jenkins (1992), Amanda Lotz (2007; 2014), Roberta Pearson (2009), Chuck Tryon (2009; 2013) and Lisa Perks (2014) are the basis of the theoretical framework. The observation of the public was performed with a combination of methodological tools, of which we highlight the interviews with ethnographic bias and participant observation, to observe the behavior of a group of people identified with the object of study. Finally, we argue that the practice of binge-watching in these new platforms results in greater and more intensive use of the contents, characterized by immersion in the fictional universe, with impacts on individual behavior and consumption habits, generating an asynchronous social interaction.
Este trabalho analisa as transformações observadas no comportamento do público que pratica o binge-watching de seriados a partir do uso do Netflix, empresa que oferece títulos por streaming. Para compreender isto, antes de realizar uma pesquisa com oito consumidores, foram resgatadas propriedades de tecnologias pregressas, as possibilidades de transmissão online e as propriedades do serviço desta empresa. Após o olhar sobre a técnica, a pesquisa discute como a passagem da recepção tradicional para o conteúdo digital reflete nas práticas sociais. Autores como Henry Jenkins (1992), Amanda Lotz (2007; 2014), Roberta Pearson (2009), Chuck Tyron (2009; 2013) e Lisa Perks (2014) são utilizados como referencial teórico. A observação do público foi realizada com o auxílio de uma combinação de ferramentas metodológicas, das quais destacamos as entrevistas com viés etnográfico e observação participante, para observar os comportamentos de um grupo de participantes identificado com o objeto de estudo. Por fim, é possível constatar que a prática do binge-watching nestas novas plataformas resulta no consumo maior e mais intenso dos conteúdos, caracterizado pela imersão no universo ficcional, com impactos nos comportamentos individuais e nos hábitos de consumo, gerando uma interação social assíncrona.
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Icochea, Espinoza Indira Fralisa. "La relación entre el binge watching, las motivaciones para ver series y el estrés percibido en estudiantes universitarios." Bachelor's thesis, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12404/18908.
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El propósito de la presente tesis fue describir el comportamiento del binge watching y explorar
la relación entre este, las motivaciones para ver series televisivas y el estrés percibido en
estudiantes de una universidad privada de Lima Metropolitana. Si bien aún no hay un consenso,
el binge watching se suele definir como el ver dos a más episodios de una misma serie de
manera continua. Con el fin de profundizar en las características de este comportamiento
durante la pandemia del COVID-19, se realizó un estudio cuantitativo no experimental con un
diseño transeccional correlacional en una muestra de 141 estudiantes, 28 hombres (19.9%) y
113 mujeres (80.1%) entre los 18 a 25 años (M = 20.37, DE = 1.93) que se encontraran
matriculados y llevando cursos en la universidad de interés. Los instrumentos utilizados fueron
el Watching TV Series Motives Questionnaire (WTSMQ) y la Escala de Estrés Percibido (EEP 14). Además, se incluyeron 6 preguntas que buscaban describir el comportamiento del binge
watching en la muestra que fueron elaboradas en base a los cuestionarios de Winland (2015) y
Flayelle, Maurage y Billieux (2017) y adaptadas al objetivo de la presente tesis. Los resultados
señalan que el 96.5% de los participantes solían ver de dos a más capítulos seguidos en una
sola sesión. No se encontró una correlación significativa tanto entre el número de episodios
vistos en una misma sesión y el estrés percibido como entre el número de episodios vistos en
una misma sesión y la motivación de interacción social. Sin embargo, se encontró una
correlación significativa mediana entre el estrés percibido y la motivación de afrontamiento-escape para ver series televisivas lo cual indica que los estudiantes universitarios consumen
series televisivas como un mecanismo de afrontamiento-escape ante el estrés percibido.The purpose of this research was to describe the binge watching behaviour and explore the relationship between it, the motivations to watch tv series and perceived stress in students of a private university in Lima, Perú. Although there is no common agreement for the definition of binge watching, it is commonly defined as a person watching two or more episodes in one sitting. In order to characterize this behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic, a quantitative study with a cross-sectional descriptive design was conducted in a sample of 141 students, 28 men (19.9%) and 113 women (80.1%) between 18 and 25 years old (M = 20.37, DE = 1.93) that were currently enrolled and taking courses in the chosen university. The instruments used were the Watching TV Series Motives Questionnaire (WTSMQ) and the Perceived Stress Scale (EEP-14). Furthermore, six questions were included to help describe the binge watching behaviour in the sample. These questions were elaborated on the basis of the questionnaires made by Winland (2015) and Flayelle, Maurage y Billieux (2017) and were adapted to the purpose of this thesis. The results of this study indicated that 96, 5% of the participants watched two or more episodes in one sitting. No significant correlation was found between the number of episodes watched in one sitting and perceived stress as well as between the number of episodes watched in one sitting and the motive of social interaction. A significant association was found between perceived stress and the motive of coping-escapism for watching tv series which indicates that university students use tv series as a coping-escapism mechanism in light of perceived stress.
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Ecca, Riccardo. "Il valore dell'attesa. Il rapporto tra serie televisive e modalità di distribuzione. I casi di The Boys e The Mandalorian." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2021. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/23493/.
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Questo lavoro si pone l’intento di capire quanto il modello
di distribuzione applicato a una determinata serie TV possa influire sulla serie stessa a livello sia testuale che contestuale. Per quanto riguarda il primo punto, in esso sono compresi aspetti
quali lo stile narrativo, il ritmo del racconto e il formato di episodi e stagioni; nel secondo caso invece, si fa riferimento allo stretto rapporto che intercorre tra la scansione nel tempo degli
episodi e il modo in cui la serie viene presentata al pubblico di riferimento e conseguentemente da esso percepita. Per fare ciò, i concetti esposti nell’ambito di un necessario approccio teorico a questi temi sono stati applicati a due specifici casi di studio ("The Boys e "The Mandalorian") che, pur provenendo da contesti simili, sono caratterizzati da due diversi percorsi distributivi che
presentano non poche differenze tra loro.
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Wyatt, Lisa Marcel Muller Chandra. "Racial differences in television watching, family context and reading achievement." 2005. http://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/bitstream/handle/2152/1808/wyattl41357.pdf.
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Wyatt, Lisa Marcel. "Racial differences in television watching, family context and reading achievement." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/1808.
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Chi-min, Chang, and 張琦敏. "The Process of Children's Watching the Television Program "Reading Bu Bu"." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/03542676045495608329.
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碩士國立臺北教育大學
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Television can provide children with enormous opportunities, serving as a window to new experiences. However, television is often considered a competitor of reading. Reading Bu Bu premised on July 2, 2005 on the Public Television Service(PBS). Designed primarily for 6- to 9-year old viewers, the series presents children's literature and related experiences in a half-hour magazine-like format. Can children's educational television programs like Reading Bu Bu motivate children to read? Reading Bu Bu , hosted by Hsyu Chieh-hwei(A-hwei), can be divided into six units: prelude, theme introduction, featured-book introduction, my favorite book,animation of practice activity, and preview. The theme introduction can be further divided into host and Reading Bu Bu, host's monologue, host and featured-figures,and special makeup. The purpose of the study was to understand the process of children's watching the television program Reading Bu Bu. Data were collected through observation of children’s viewing behavior (under the revised Palmer’s distractor technique condition) and semi-structured interviews. The participants of the study were 17 students in a kindergarten in Hualien City, aged 3 to 5, and 11 first graders in an elementary school in a remote mountain in Hualien County. The main findings were reported below: The average concentration rate of kindergarten children on the 13 episodes of the first season was 86.30%. The units that attracted their attention most included the prelude and the animation of practice activity. The average concentration rate of first graders on the 13 episodes of the first season was 64.68%. The units that attracted their attention most were the prelude and the theme introduction. In general, the former part of the program attracted students more than the latter one. When students watched Reading Bu Bu, they imitated the content of the theme,host behaviors, and the words they heard. They responded to the program by describing the pictures, making comments, answering questions, asking questions,predicting the development, identifying words, behaving as they had been in the program, and associating the content with their life experiences. From their imitation and response, they showed they liked the program, especially the prelude,Reading Bu Bu, the host, and the special makeup according to the content of each episode. Lively pictures, brief narrative, life-related themes, and books adaptable for television were the factors that attracted children, while monotonous pictures, lengthy talks, and complicated messages distracted children. Besides, the copyright mark on the pictures also affected viewing. In summary, Reading Bu Bu quite attracted most children. However, four suggestions were made based upon the findings. 1. The content of the program and the language used should consider the conditions of the children in remote districts. 2.The unit “My Favorite Book” should be redesigned. 3. The copyright mark on the VCD delivered to the focused schools should be adjusted. 4. PTS should let more audience know the showing time and the channel of this program, and provide more related resources.
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Su, Kuan-ju, and 蘇冠如. "The Correlation Research of the Television Watching Behavior and Television Literacy on Senior-level Elementary School Students." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/02891527936710956038.
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出版與文化事業管理研究所
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The purpose of this study was to explore the current condition of TV-watching behavior and TV literacy, so as to understand the relationships between TV- watching behavior and TV literacy. The conclusions and recommendations were provided at the end for reference of parents, educational institutions and media productions. The students was selected by stratified sampling from the fifth and sixth graders of 18 elementary schools in Yunlin County as the main study object. A total of 672 usable sets were collected through survey questionnaires. The valid receiving questionnaire rate is 83.8%. The questionnaire survey was conducted in this study with the “questionnaire of children’s TV literacy” as a tool for data collection and analysis. The t-test, one-way ANOVA were applied to analyze and describe the results. The following are the results of statistical analysis： 1. The questionnaires of children’s TV literacy of fifth and sixth graders were classified middle level. It presents the object of this study can denote meanings of TV programs more than connote them. 2. Over seventy percentage of the study object watch TV everyday, the duration of two to fours hours is most of them spending on it, the viewing motivation for most of them is interesting, the cartoon/children programs are their favorites, and all family gather to watch TV is the most common thing in their daily life. 3. There is statistically significant differences of TV literacy which includes the fifth and sixth grade girls are superior to those who are boys, the highly-educated parents are superior to those who are the lowly-educated, and the higher occupation prestige parents are superior to those who are lower occupation prestige. There is no statistically significance difference in the residing area. 4. There is statistically significant difference of TV literacy in the TV-viewing duration. The results show that long period of TV-watching doesn’t improve the literacy but even get worse. There is no statistically significant difference in TV-viewing frequency, motivation, types, and watching with their family.
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Pan, Heng-ti, and 潘恆惕. "Investigation on the Elementary Children Watching Various Types of Television Programs and Television literacy in Tainan City and County." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/55093925645413963627.
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科技發展與傳播研究所
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The purpose of this study was to investigate elementary children with different background watching various types of television programs and their television literacy. This research was based on 861 students from 4th and 6th grade in 20 elementary schools in Tainan city and county. According to the literature review, the “Questionnaire of elementary children watching various types of television programs and television literacy” were developed. The findings of this study were as followings： 1. The frequency from top degree down of elementary children watching various types of television programs were as followings：Cartoon, Synthesis entertainment program, Drama, Movie, News, Syndicated program, Sports program, Financial and Economic programs. 2. The effects of children’s gender, age, study location, parents’ educational degree, on watching various types of television programs were significant to the result of the investigation. 3. The results showed that children had better performance on television technologies, television categories, and television language, but weren’t so familiar with television audience, television representation and television agencies. 4. The effects of children’s gender and teleview hours on television literacy were not significant. The effects of children’s age, study location, and parents’ educational degree on television literacy were significant. 6th graders were better than 4th graders, city students were better than county students, and higher parents’ educational degree were better than lower parents’ educational degree. 5. There appeared positive, yet low relation between the News and Drama programs with television literacy. Based on the results, this study concluded three suggestions for educational administration institutions, schools, elementary teachers, parents, and future study.
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Wieland, Kellyn Jane. "Social TV and the second screen." 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/22391.
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This paper seeks to understand the landscape of social TV, which takes place when an audience member engages with social media while watching television programming, and second screen experiences, and more specifically how these technologies can be employed by advertisers. By reviewing existing literature, examining field studies and data, and analyzing case studies, the report identifies how marketers can best tie their television advertising to social media to increase engagement and keep brands top of mind, even during breaks from traditional programming. The paper will conclude by discussing the current limitations of the emerging technologies surrounding the phenomenon of social TV, as well as providing recommendations that can be applied to brands and marketers alike.text
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Wu, Woan-Ling, and 吳宛陵. "An Investigation of Overtime Watching Television among Students from 6th Grade to 7th Grade." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/72911035808256623827.
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Nisa, Marta Penedo Pereira Mendes. "Watching tv during a pandemic: Covid-19´s asymmetric demand shocks." Master's thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/121840.
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This paper studies the demand shocks on television consumption caused by Covid-19, the consequent lockdown, and the introduction of television broadcasted classes in Portugal (#EstudoEmCasa). We use a comprehensive dataset provided by GfK, the official company responsible for the measurement of television audiences in Portugal, with daily information on 3244 Portuguese individuals, from January 2018 until July 2020. We employ a difference-in-differences framework to measure the causal impact of the lockdown on television demand. We find a massive positive shock on television demand, a general increase of 33%,generated by lockdown and a substitution shock created by #EstudoEmCasa, which caused a demand redistribution within individuals from the same household and between channels. We show differences by social-economic status and by gender.
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FENG, CHEN LI, and 陳麗鳳. "A Study of Audience viewing different kinds of TV programs Television viewing type and watching behavior." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/99719056909619394040.
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碩士中國文化大學
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The purposes of this study were to compare the differences of television viewing type, television viewing system, and regimes of watching program selection behavior when audience watches various types of television programs, and to explore the reasons of program selection and turning channels. Four hundreds and eighty-one audiences (over 15 year) were used as the subjects. The research instrument was “audience watching television program type, watching system, and; watching behavior questionnaire”. The collected data were analyzed by c2 and used in-depth interview to collect and analyze the reasons of program selection and turning channels. The results were as the following: 1. Audience watched various systems of television programs mostly by the instrumental television viewing, breaking news broadcasting and the news talk show primarily by instrumental television viewing while watching plays, synthesis entertainment programs, or movies were on the basis of ritualized television viewing type. Watching movies for the masculine was mainly by instrumental television viewing type; watching synthesis shows for young people was an instrumental television viewing type. The education level below the senior high watching the television program was primarily by the instrumental television viewing type while those above the college level were rather different because of the different program systems. 2. The program audience watched on the broadcasting news, the news talk shows and the synthesis entertainment shows is a sort of “hopping mode” while plays and movies on the basis of literary mode. Both sexes took the sequence of events in plays or movies instead, all by literary mode. The male comparatively concentrated the movie, the female on the drama. Along with the different type of television watching styles, the male and female controlling remote behaviors were respectively different; “hopping mode” watching style might be seen for the young people and literary mode for the adults. 3. As to the revaluation, for female audience, their loyalty and adherence or devotion was higher than that of male’s. Comparing to the female audience when watching news broadcasting, the male audience watched according to a fixed plan. In addition, their frequency of channels turning also was lower than the female audience. The young people was lacking of advanced plan while watching television and their frequency of channels turning was much higher comparing to the adults. Audience with different educational levels had the same ---“Revaluation” type, the drama taking the highest proportion in the planning viewing type while the movie the highest in the orienting search type . 4. The reason for audience selecting the television programs and turning channels depends on the contents of the programs and the commercial advertisements as well. And contents of the programs had been the main points pulling or pushing the audience away. The drama programs would hold the audience because of the story lines and lost them because the improper plot development or arrangement. The news broadcasting kept or lost the audience as well because of the fairness and the neutrality of report. Commercial advertisements broadcasting was the critical moment, if the program attraction was strong enough, the audience might return, otherwise, staying in different channels became possible.
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LIN, JUNG-FEI, and 林容妃. "Research and creation of the influence of special effects of film and television on watching emotionse." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/8jddcm.
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碩士東方設計大學
文化創意設計研究所
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With the improvement on technology, providing convenience and practical use, technology is widely displayed in software and interface of entertainment, which indirectly escalates the relaxation and comfort in having fun. With the importance on recreation, seeing movies becomes the major option to fulfill mental need. Among types of movies, scary movie and thrillers are popularly chosen by audience. The makeup to feature characters is among one of the critical factors to impress audience. The study focuses on the special effect, featuring trauma. Through audience’s reaction to deliver emotions, this research is set to analyze the methods to conduct makeup and the use of material. Besides, the application of EGM as well as IPA questionnaire method is designed to understand how viewers reflect emotions after seeing different kinds of artificial trauma. The comprehension over the result can concretely be used as basis and source for creation and direction. In organizing the information and data mentioned above, five kinds of artificial trauma in special effects are selected for display, including knife cut, tearing wound, burned wound, penetrated wound, fester wound. The performed range is on hands and legs of human body. In conclusion, it is found that audience’s reaction influenced by artificial trauma makeup can’t be attributed to single factors. To combine with various special effects all together, it becomes the critical issue to make fear real in upper description. Thus artificial makeup is regarded as the necessary momentum, driving the movie industry. The expectation of the research is to provide designers or those who engage in relevant fields the reference information so that their creation meets audience’s desire. At last, the whole makeup industry is upgraded in profession and expertise. Keywords: Special effect, practical creation, stimulant on sense, charm engineering, evaluation structure method
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Meera and Meera. "A STUDY TO ANALYSIS THE PREFERENCE IN CONSUMER CHOICE FOR WATCHING TELEVISION CHANNEL IN TAMILNADU, INDIA." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/3q222j.
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碩士國立臺灣科技大學
管理學院MBA
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The innovation in the television industry has led to various kind of viewers having access to different kind of television channels through various sources (internet, pay TV, DTH, cable TV, Apps). There is a rise of on-demand content which challenges the traditional advertising model to push the advertisers to explore others sectors for promoting their product. Viewers decision making process in television industry is purely influenced by internal and external factors such as ratings, unique visitors, and time spent rather than drilling into the functional, emotional, and social behaviors that translate the brand for their channels. So, by analyzing the factors that influence the viewers preferences, television channel and advertisers can develop their own marketing strategies according to the customer’s need and thus attaining a competitive advantage in the industry. The purpose of the study is to find out the most desired television channel, and the factors that has an impact to choose the television channel by the people of Tamilnadu. This study will be a cross sectional survey among the people in Tamilnadu, India. A structured Questionnaire was collect for data analysis. A sample size of 122 respondents across Tamilnadu was collected. Qualitative analysis such as factor analysis, linear Regression was analyzed using statistical software. The study found out that the people in Tamilnadu preferred to watch VIJAY TV. The study further analyzed the factors influencing the viewers to watch the channel. The study also revealed the relationship between the channel and the component (Product, Service, Innovation) influencing the viewer to watch the channel. It further adds that the moderator used in the study ‘Social Media’ does not influence consumer behavior.
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Ribarsky, Elizabeth N. ""I don't kiss on the first date" symbolic convergence through women's ritualistic watching of reality-dating television /." 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1686180831&sid=16&Fmt=2&clientId=14215&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2009.Title from title screen (site viewed May 5, 2009). PDF text: iv, 194 p. ; 459 K. UMI publication number: AAT 3344727. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in microfilm and microfiche formats.
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Hohepa, Maea. "Prevalence, perceptions, and correlates of physical activity among youth in New Zealand." 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10292/434.
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Sufficient physical activity, a key prerequisite for health, is lacking in many teenagers. Limited knowledge, however, exists about who, when, why, and if New Zealand teenagers are getting their daily dose of health-related physical activity. At conception of this thesis, available information was predominantly survey-derived with no New Zealand data and few international studies that had assessed adolescent physical activity levels objectively. Data were collected from three projects. Convenience sampling was used across all projects to recruit students from low-decile high schools located in the Auckland region. For Project 1, 236 Year 9 to Year 13 students each wore a pedometer for five days (three weekdays and two weekend days) and reported their mode of transportation to and from school. To explore ethnic and sex-specific perceptions of physical activity among youth (i.e., barriers, benefits, potential physical activity enhancing strategies), Project 2 involved nine focus group discussions with 44 Year 9 and Year 10 students who identified as Māori or European. Project 3 was a large cross-sectional study of 3,451 high school students (Years 9 - 13) from seven low-decile schools. Through this project the following self-reported data were collected: demographics, physical activity levels during four school-day physical activity opportunities (i.e., active travel, lunchtime physical activity, recess physical activity, after-school physical activity), sedentary behaviour (i.e., school-day television (TV) watching), level of perceived encouragement to be active, and the presence of home policies regarding TV use. Analyses revealed low physical activity participation and high TV use behaviours. Pedometer data showed that only 14.5% of participants achieved a conservative criterion of 10,000 steps daily. Also, daily steps varied by age group (junior students: 11,079 ± 330; senior students: 9,422 ± 334), sex (males: 10,849 ± 381; females: 9,652 ± 289), time of week (weekday: 12,259 ± 287; weekend day: 8,241 ± 329), and transportation mode to/from school (walkers: 13,308 ± 483; car transit users: 10,986 ± 435). Low school-day physical activity levels emerged, especially during school hours (i.e., during recess and lunchtime). Based on dichotomised grouping (less active versus more active), the proportion of students in the ‘more active’ group during morning recess and lunchtime, after school, and as part of active travel to/from school were 26%, 32.4%, 56.3%, 58.1% respectively. Only 11.1% of participants were in the ‘more active’ group across all four physical activity opportunities. The focus group data revealed primarily social benefits of physical activity (e.g., meeting new people, fun). Barriers were mainly environment-related and included lack of peer support, low accessibility to and availability of physical activity opportunities, alternative sedentary activities, structure of physical education classes (females only), and distance between home and school (in terms of active transportation). Potential strategies to increase physical activity reflected the articulated barriers and benefits (e.g., increase peer support, parents to turn off the TV, organised activities at school, restructure physical education classes to allow student involvement in the decision-making process of class content). No ethnic and few sex differences in perceptions were found. Focusing on the verbalised importance of social support from the focus groups, Project 3 data showed that the strength of association between perceived encouragement from different support sources (i.e., parents, older siblings/cousins, peers, school) and physical activity participation varied by the physical activity opportunity examined. In particular, multivariate logistical regression showed reduced odds of being in the ‘more active’ group was associated with low parental encouragement (Juniors, OR: 0.47, 95% CI: 0.38-0.58; Seniors, OR: 0.41, 95% CI: 0.29-0.60) and low peer encouragement (Juniors, OR: 0.61, 95% CI: 0.51-0.74; Seniors, OR: 0.49, 95% CI: 0.35-0.69) for after-school physical activity, low peer encouragement (Juniors, OR: 0.39, 95% CI: 0.32-0.48; Seniors, OR: 0.41, 95% CI: 0.29-0.57) for lunchtime activity, and low peer encouragement (Juniors, OR: 0.78, 95% CI: 0.66-0.92) for active transportation (junior students only). No significant difference in physical activity was found between students who received high encouragement from two parents than students who reported high encouragement from their sole parent in a single parent family. Concentrating on the after-school period, Project 3 data were analysed to examined the relevance of the displacement hypothesis during this school-day period. The association between parental strategies (i.e., encouragement to be active and having TV limits) and youth after-school activity behaviours (i.e., hours spent viewing TV, physical activity participation) was also examined. Support for the displacement hypothesis emerged. In particular, compared to students who watched less than one hour of TV, those who watched greater than four hours of TV were half as likely to be in the more active group for after-school physical activity participation (adjusted OR: 0.51; 95% CI: 0.40-0.65). Comparing activity profile groups (i.e., based on combined TV use and after-school activity levels), compared to the participants in the ‘low TV/active’ group, participants in the other three activity groups (e.g., ‘high TV/low active’) were at least 1.28 times more likely to have parents that executed only one parental strategy and up to 4.77 times more likely to have parents that did not carry out either strategy. Substantive opportunities exist for youth to be active every day, and in different contexts and environments, yet a large proportion of young people are not maximising these opportunities to be active. If the health issue of inactivity is to be tackled in a comprehensive and efficient manner, a multi-strategy, multi-environment, coordinated approach among local authorities, government agencies, schools, families, and neighbourhoods is required to address the noted policy, physical, and social-related associates of an active lifestyle for youth. Future effort, whether in the form of strategy development, intervention work, or research, needs to be founded upon ecological theory, where both individual and a range of familial, social, and physical environmental factors (and there potential interactions) are considered. Lastly, equal research attention should be directed at improved physical activity levels, and just as importantly, reducing time youth spend in a sedentary state.
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White, Anne M., and D. Morena. "Shifting Frames of Reference, or What Maurizio Nichetti's Ladri di saponette [The Icicle Thief] Can Tell us about Watching Films on Television." 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/4123.
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NoMaurizio Nichetti¿s comedy, Ladri di saponette/The Icicle Thief (1989) has been read as a mordant satire on commercial television and the world of consumerism it represents in late-1980s Italy. The context in which Nichetti¿s cinema was originally created and consumed is examined here in some detail. This is followed by an analysis of how a new frame of reference (the television screening of the film on commercial UK television in the 1990s) impacted on this work and what this can tell us about spectatorship and the problematic intermedial relationship between film, television and advertising.
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Hsiao, Chiu Kuei, and 蕭秋貴. "The Relationship bewteen Watching Television and Behaviourism and Its Impacts to Students' Aggression:The Age Group between 11 and 12 Years Old in Changhua County." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/07860053480660575875.
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碩士大葉大學
休閒事業管理學系碩士在職專班
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The aim of this research is to investigate the relationship between viewing different pro-grammes and what impacts will be generated in terms of children’s aggressive behavior. The participants and sample of the survey are from 175 elementary schools in Chang-Hua Country in Taiwan. In total, the sample number is 891 and the actually recipient number is 759 which accounts for 85%. The consequence of the research is indicated as follows; 1. The behavior of the children will be affected by different programmes, the location of the television and the preferred programmes by the viewers who watch pro-grammes with the children. 2. Some negative impacts have been generated by adult’s viewing behavior. 3. How aggressive children’s behavior will be, is affected by different gender, the edu-cation style from parents, the status of the family in the society, the average viewing hours, the location of the television and the accompaniers’ preferred programmes. 4. The level of the interference from the adults will give some impacts to the children’s behavior. 5. Television has made an impact on viewing behavior, peer behaviour, Violence gen-erated by electronic games, personality and self-recognisation. 6. The generator of children’s aggressive behavior can be attributed to the change of emotion, peer behavior, blaming culture, hatred, low motivation, self-centred men-tality and videogame violence. At the end of the research, the conclusion and recommendations will be given in order to provide further investigation and research for other researchers in the related fields.
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Slavíčková, Veronika. "Sociologický výzkum televizního chování. Faktory ovlivňující dobu strávenou sledováním televize." Master's thesis, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-298161.
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Sociological Research of TV Audience Behaviour Factors Determining The Time Spent Watching TV ABSTRACT The thesis deals with the phenomenon of TV viewing and with TV audience behaviour research. The theoretical part demarcates watching TV within leisure activities and deals with the question of motivation for watching TV as well. It also mentions the approach of people who intentionally try to exclude TV from their life. The text does not omit even the important contemporary determinants of watching TV - Internet and digitization of TV broadcasting. Subsequently, the main methods of TV audience behaviour research in the Czech Republic are introduced. In the empirical part, the main factors that most affect the time spent watching TV are being identified - first through separate elementary analyses and afterwards through searching for a regression model that would best predict the time spent watching TV for individuals and groups based on their socio-demographic and other characteristics. Keywords: television, time spent watching TV, watching TV, ATS, Peoplemeter, TVmeter, TV viewer, TV audience behaviour research
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TOPINKOVÁ, Lenka. "Vztahy mezi vývojovými úrovněmi žáků věku ZŠ a jejich." Master's thesis, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-80509.
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The present master?s thesis focuses on researching the influence TV commercials have on pupils of all age groups in elementary and middle schools and concerns itself with the pupils? TV watching habits. In the area of media it explores the question of media awareness education, in the area of developmental psychology it focuses on the cognitive development theory of Jean Piaget. Besides its theoretical part the thesis includes original qualitative and quantitative research. The applied part describes the results from focus groups (first and second grade pupils) and from a questionnaire study (from fourth grade in elementary school to the last grade in middle school) that was conducted in one of the public schools in České Budějovice. The questionnaire study included also group of the pupils? parents. The results of the qualitative research were evaluated in terms of gender, grade, and domicile of the respondents. The responses of the adult respondents were evaluated in terms of gender and age of their children, their educational level and their net monthly income. The results are discussed in wider context. The discussion attempts to offer an overview of advertising comprehension development among pupils of elementary and middle schools. The results indicate that the pupils are influenced by TV commercials and that their understanding of the commercials? purpose increases with their age. An important influence on the pupils and on their TV watching habits ? watching that includes exposure to TV commercials ? have especially their parents and to a lesser degree their teachers.