Effects of customized ratings on user evaluations of streaming television shows

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Jeremy Saks
Keyword(s):  
Television Shows ◽  
User Evaluations

Dying to Watch

2013 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laramie D. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Terror Management Theory ◽  
Terror Management ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Sexual Content ◽  
Entertainment Media ◽  
Sexual Values ◽  
Television Shows ◽  
Sexual Cognitions ◽  
Sexual Media

Research has shown that thoughts about death influence sexual cognitions and some media choices. The present study tested the hypothesis that thoughts about death may affect individuals’ tendency to select or avoid entertainment media programming containing sexual material. In two experiments, thoughts about death (mortality salience [MS]) were manipulated before college undergraduates expressed interest in viewing television shows and movies with varying amounts of sexual content. In both studies, MS was associated with greater overall interest in sexual media content. Although terror management theory would indicate that sexual worldview should moderate this effect, this was not observed to be the case. In addition, MS was not found to affect interest in other types of highly engaging media content including violent and dramatic content. Limitations regarding generalizability are discussed. Results suggest that MS increases a preference for sexual media content, and that this occurs for individuals with diverse sexual values systems. This is discussed in terms of implications for terror management theory and cognitive models of media influence.

Formative Research for STEM Educational Games

2013 ◽  
Vol 221 (2) ◽  
pp. 90-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
John L. Sherry
Keyword(s):  
Video Game ◽  
Serious Games ◽  
Educational Games ◽  
Sesame Street ◽  
Children's Television ◽  
Educational Video ◽  
Educational Media ◽  
Television Shows ◽  
Educational Video Game ◽  
Games For Health

Millions in taxpayer and foundation euros and dollars have been spent building and testing educational video games, games for health, and serious games. What have been the fruits of this frenzy of activity? What educational video game has had the reach and impact of Sesame Street or Blues Clues television shows? By comparison, the Children’s Television Workshop (CTW) managed to get Sesame Street off the ground within a couple of years, writing the basic scientific literature on educational media design in the process. Not only is Sesame Street well known and proven, it laid the basis for every effective educational show to follow. This article explores the differences between the CTW scientific approach to educational media production and the mostly nonscientific approach consuming so many resources in the educational games, games for health, and serious games movements. Fundamental scientific questions that remain unanswered are outlined.

Aggression in television shows viewed by school-aged girls: A content analysis

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelsey Lyle ◽  
Holly Dyson ◽  
Kendall Moriarty ◽  
Jennifer Ruh Linder
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Television Shows

Fugitive Rhetorics in Media Representations of Sanctuary

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-115
Author(s):  
Oscar A. Mejía ◽  
Kent A. Ono
Keyword(s):  
Media Representations ◽  
Television Shows ◽  
Immigration And Customs Enforcement ◽  
Laws And Policies ◽  
Critical Intervention ◽  
Us Immigration

Representations of undocumented people on television shows such as The Fosters can impact how audiences understand contemporary issues concerning sanctuary and migrants. In this Critical Intervention forum essay, we examine the intricate representation of Ximena, a Latinx woman, and her struggle as an undocumented person who takes up sanctuary in a church to avoid being arrested by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. This televisual representation of Ximena highlights the need to incorporate the complexity of undocumented people's experiences into mainstream narratives. As activist scholars, in this brief essay we support, critique, and contextualize representations of undocumented people and sanctuary as part of the work that needs to be done to help challenge dehumanizing representations, laws and policies, and actions.

The Affective Politics of Citizenship in Reality Television Programs Featuring North Korean Resettlers

Cultura ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-163
Author(s):  
Soochul KIM ◽  
Kyung Han YOU
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
Reality Television ◽  
Civic Identity ◽  
Media Representation ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Television Programs ◽  
Global Media ◽  
Television Shows

This study examines the dynamics of cultural politics in reality television shows featuring North Korean resettlers (NKR2) in South Korea. As existing studies focus on the role of media representation reproducing a dominant ideology for the resettlers, this paper focuses on the specific media rituals of NKR2 programs, which can be seen as a product of the neoliberalist localization process of the global media industry. In doing so, this paper demonstrates how NKR2 programs interrupt the current dynamics of emotions in regard to North Korean resettlers in South Korea. We argue that in shaping civic identity as an effect of the NKR2 show, cultural politics of citizenship in South Korea on North Korean resettlers serve the formation of relatively conservative and sexist civic identity.

Psychological Predictors for Watching Television: The Role of Racial Representation

2021 ◽  
pp. 003329412110252
Author(s):  
Jennifer Archer ◽  
Kadie R. Rackley ◽  
Susan Broyles Sookram ◽  
Hien Nguyen ◽  
Germine H. Awad
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Social Dominance Orientation ◽  
Racial Ideology ◽  
Psychological Predictors ◽  
Ethnic Representation ◽  
Racial Representation ◽  
Television Shows ◽  
Making Choices ◽  
Race Ethnicity

This study explored psychological predictors that may impact viewers’ decision to watch television shows on the basis of perceived racial or ethnic representation. 1998 undergraduate students selected from a list of motivations for watching television that included race-specific motivations such as “a character is of my race/ethnicity.” Participants also completed attitudinal measures of colorblind racial ideology, social dominance orientation, ethnic identity, and ethnic stigma consciousness. Analysis revealed that prejudicial beliefs predicted less salience for racial representation when making choices about television watching, while deeper connection to one’s ethnic group predicted greater salience for representation when making these choices.

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