Exploring the Determinants of Broadway Show Success

1998 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 370-383 ◽  
Author(s):  
Srinivas K. Reddy ◽  
Vanitha Swaminathan ◽  
Carol M. Motley
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Differential Impact ◽  
Daily News ◽  
Types Of Information ◽  
Ticket Prices ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Better Than

This study investigates the determinants of success of an experiential good: Broadway shows. The authors focus on the sources and types of information used in the selection of an artistic event and discuss the impact of critics’ reviews on the length of a show's run and attendance. In addition, the authors empirically determine the influence of other variables, such as previews, newspaper advertising, ticket prices, show type, talent characteristics, and timing of opening. The results indicate that New York newspaper theater critics have a significant impact on the success of Broadway shows. It is also found that the newspaper critics have a differential impact, with the critic from the New York Times yielding nearly twice as much influence as critics from the Daily News or the New York Post. Theater critics, it appears, are not only predictors but influencers as well. Among the various show types, musicals appear to fare better than other categories of shows. Previews have a significant impact on the attendance, but not on the longevity, of Broadway shows. Advertising also has a significant impact on both longevity and attendance. However, the characteristics of the key talent do not have a consistently significant influence on show success. In addition, ticket prices do not have a significant relationship with either longevity or attendance. The results indicate that there is an overwhelming impact of information sources, particularly the influence of critics’ reviews, on the success of Broadway shows. The authors discuss the implications of these results for the theater industry.

Ethno-Semantic Texture of News Headlines: A Case Study of a Syrian Drowned Toddler

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Baseel A. AlBzour
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
New York Times ◽  
News Daily ◽  
Daily Mail ◽  
Authentic Texts ◽  
Daily News ◽  
News Agencies ◽  
Class 1 ◽  
The Impact

<p class="1"><span lang="X-NONE">The present study does processually explore the ethnosymanticity of some journalistic texts that supposedly report and narrate the same appallingly saddening incident <em>vis-à-vis</em> a traumatizing tragedy of a three year toddler who passed away as an inflatable boat capsized in the Mediterranean Sea on September, 2<sup>nd</sup> 2015. The researcher closely examines the textual semantics of these texts and tries to relate how such texture can affect the meaning network conveyed or perceived by virtue of incorporating the impact of such texts strictly within their ethnographic dimensions and <em>vice versa</em>. Therefore, this paper exclusively endeavors to unveil and stress how socio-cultural and socio-political aspects of the Syrian crisis, in general and the Toddler’s Kurdish ethnicity, in particular, have been ethnosemantically presented as this incident unbelievably resonated across news agencies both nationally and internationally, thus exhibiting how such authentic texts may contextually serve to intentionally mobilize and steer the public opinion not only of the general public but also ones that the political elites may adopt as well once the tragedy gets manipulated to maneuver socioculturally and sociopolitically. The news agencies the researcher has referred to as a source of data are alphabetically the <em>ABC News, Daily Mail,</em></span><em><span lang="X-NONE"> Daily News</span><span lang="X-NONE">, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, New York Times</span></em><span lang="X-NONE"> and<em> The Washington Post</em>.</span></p>

scholarly journals Separated by a common language: How Breitbart and The New York Times produce different meanings from common words

Politics ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 026339572110129
Author(s):  
Federico Mor ◽  
Erin J Nash ◽  
Fergus Green
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Public Deliberation ◽  
Linguistic Relativity ◽  
Metalinguistic Awareness ◽  
Common Language ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
Multilingual Societies ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Political Negotiation

We build on the work by Peled and Bonotti to illuminate the impact of linguistic relativity on democratic debate. Peled and Bonotti’s focus is on multilingual societies, and their worry is that ‘unconscious epistemic effects’ can undermine political reasoning between interlocutors who do not share the same native tongue. Our article makes two contributions. First, we argue that Peled and Bonotti’s concerns about linguistic relativity are just as relevant to monolingual discourse. We use machine learning to provide novel evidence of the linguistic discrepancies between two ideologically distant groups that speak the same language: readers of Breitbart and of The New York Times. We suggest that intralinguistic relativity can be at least as harmful to successful public deliberation and political negotiation as interlinguistic relativity. Second, we endorse the building of metalinguistic awareness to address problematic kinds of linguistic relativity and argue that the method of discourse analysis we use in this article is a good way to build that awareness.

The War Beat, Pacific

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Casey
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Chicago Tribune ◽  
Pacific War ◽  
Daily News ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Military

From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a group of highly courageous correspondents covered America’s war against Japan. Based on a wealth of previously untapped primary sources, War Beat, Pacific provides the first comprehensive account of what these reporters witnessed, what they were allowed to publish, and how their reports shaped the home front’s perception of some of the most pivotal battles in American history. In a dramatic and fast-paced narrative, the book takes us from MacArthur’s doomed defense on the Philippines and the navy’s overly strict censorship policy at the time of Midway through the bloody battles on Guadalcanal, New Guinea, Tarawa, Saipan, Leyte and Luzon, Iwo Jima and Okinawa, detailing the cooperation, as well as conflict, between the media and the military as they grappled with the enduring problem of limiting a free press during a period of extreme crisis. At the heart of this book are the brave, sometimes tragic stories of reporters like Clark Lee and Vern Haugland of the Associated Press, Byron Darnton and Tillman Durdin of the New York Times, Stanley Johnston and Al Noderer of the Chicago Tribune, George Weller of the Chicago Daily News, Keith Wheeler of the Chicago Times, and Robert Sherrod of Time magazine. Twenty-three correspondents died while reporting on the Pacific War. Many more sustained serious wounds. War Beat, Pacific shows how both the casualties and the survivors deserve to be remembered as America’s golden generation of journalists.

scholarly journals Farm Health and Safety Issues

AAOHN Journal ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 44 (8) ◽  
pp. 391-401 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane M. Dewar
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Economic Incentives ◽  
Safety Issues ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Types Of Information ◽  
Health And Safety Issues

This study identifies gender specific farm health and safety issues. Based on a sample from the 1988 New York Farm Family Survey, descriptive statistics and exploratory factor analysis were used to establish unique gender based profiles in terms of labor force participation, and prioritization of farm health and safety issues, concerns, and information sources. Based on the factor analysis, women's main farm health and safety issues included physical problems and occupational hazard screening needs, provider integrity, and economic incentives. Men's main issues consisted of accident related counseling needs, skin related hazards, and the farm related convenience of the services. Men and women had statistically significant differences in the types of information sources and reasons for using farm health and safety services. These differences imply that farm health and safety providers must consider both gender related information gathering and farm health and safety prioritizations to more efficiently allocate intervention resources, more effectively promote safety, and reduce the incidence of occupationally related morbidity and mortality in agriculture.

Epilogue

2021 ◽  
pp. 228-232
Author(s):  
Laurie McManus
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Music Criticism ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Selection Of

This brief epilogue addresses the relationship—historical and present—between the exclusivity of the priestly performing persona and the development and perpetuation of canonical compositions. The author suggests that the two reinforce each other; Clara Schumann’s status as a priestess was informed by her selection of certain repertoire, but at the same time her “restrained” performance of the pieces helped mark them as serious works worthy of preservation. Jumping to today’s world of performance, the author analyzes the rhetoric in a New York Times article by Anthony Tommasini comparing two young pianists. The juxtaposition of these sources suggests that some nineteenth-century values of priestly performance, such as “seriousness” and “modesty,” still inform music criticism today.

To Eat or Not to Eat: Framing of GMOs in American Media and Its Effects on Attitudes and Behaviors

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (6) ◽  
pp. 747-775
Author(s):  
Ivanka Pjesivac ◽  
Marlit A. Hayslett ◽  
Matthew T. Binford
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Genetically Modified Organisms ◽  
Genetically Modified ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Actual Behavior ◽  
Washington Post ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
American Media ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
The Impact

This study examined the framing of genetically modified organisms in two American newspapers, The New York Times and the Washington Post (2000-2016) and tested the impact of risk and opportunity framing on attitudes and behaviors regarding genetically modified organisms. The content analysis ( N = 165) showed that the two newspapers did not have a dominant frame type in their coverage. A randomized three-condition experiment ( N = 182) showed that the type of framing significantly affected individuals’ attitudes and was able to change them. The type of framing affected individuals’ behavioral intentions through postexposure attitudes but was not able to significantly affect actual behavior.

scholarly journals On-the-Fly Prediction of Orbit Corrections for RTK Positioning

2006 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 321-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed El-Mowafy
Keyword(s):  
Equations Of Motion ◽  
Estimation Accuracy ◽  
Double Exponential ◽  
Double Exponential Smoothing ◽  
Orbital Correction ◽  
Exponential Smoothing Method ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Multiple Reference ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Better Than

In this study, a method is presented to maintain real-time positioning at the decimetre-level accuracy during breaks in reception of the measurement corrections from multiple reference stations. The method is implemented at the rover by estimating prediction coefficients of the corrections during normal RTK positioning, and uses these coefficients to predict the corrections when reception of the corrections is temporarily lost. The paper focuses on one segment of this method, the on-the-fly prediction of orbital corrections. Frequently, only a few minutes of data representing short orbit ‘arcs’ are available to the user before losing radio transmission. Thus, it would be hard for the rover to predict the satellite positions using equations of motion. An alternative method is proposed. In this method, GPS orbital corrections are predicted as a time series and are added to the initial positions computed from the broadcast ephemeris to compute relatively accurate satellite positions. Different prediction approaches were investigated. Results show that the double exponential smoothing method and Winters' method can be successfully applied. The latter, however, has a better performance. The impact of the data length used for estimation of the prediction coefficients and the selection of seasonal lengths in Winters' method were investigated and some values were recommended. In general, the method can give orbital correction estimation accuracy of less than 5 cm after 15 minutes of prediction. This will result in a positioning accuracy better than 5 cm.

From Afghanistan to Chechnya: News Coverage by Izvestia and the New York Times

2000 ◽  
Vol 77 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga V. Malinkina ◽  
Douglas M. McLeod
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
New York Times ◽  
The United States ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
Media System ◽  
Russian Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
The Impact

This study analyzed newspaper coverage of conflicts in Afghanistan and Chechnya by the New York Times and the Russian newspaper Izvestia to examine the impact of political change on news coverage. The Soviet Union's dissolution included dramatic changes to the Russian media system. In addition, the dissipation of the Cold War changed the foreign policy of the United States. A content analysis revealed that the changes to the media system in Russia had a profound impact on Izvestia's coverage, but political changes had little impact on the New York Times' coverage.

scholarly journals Quotation as a Key to the Investigation of Ideological Manipulation in News Trans-Editing in the Taiwanese Press1

2010 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ya-mei Chen
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Contextual Factors ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Daily News ◽  
News Sources ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
Suitable Target ◽  
Ideological Manipulation

News trans-editing, which has gate-keeping and adaptation as distinctive features, is widely adopted by news organizations to produce suitable target texts. Since news organizations are socially, politically and economically situated, news trans-editing is always mediated in one way or another. Using the trans-editing of quotation as a key, this paper conducts an empirical case study and investigates how the target newspapers’ ideologies systematically manipulate the seemingly “objective” trans-edited news texts. The case study data covers some news texts concerning China’s anti-secession law from the New York Times and the Washington Post, and their trans-edited Chinese versions from the China Times, the United Daily News and the Liberty Times in Taiwan. After introducing the relevant contextual factors, a comparative study of the source and target texts is made in terms of the following four aspects of quotation to identify recurrent shifts: quotation modes, news sources, quotation contents and reporting verbs. By analyzing ideological reasons behind the recurrent shifts against the contextual factors, this paper elaborates on the target newspapers’ ideological manipulation with practical examples.

scholarly journals (Sub)titles in cinematic virtual reality: a descriptive study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Belén Agulló ◽  
◽  
Anna Matamala ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Virtual Reality ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
The State ◽  
Corpus Analysis ◽  
Content Creation ◽  
Standard Practices ◽  
The Impact

Virtual reality has attracted the attention of industry and researchers. Its applications for entertainment and audiovisual content creation are endless. Filmmakers are experimenting with different techniques to create immersive stories. Also, subtitle creators and researchers are finding new ways to implement (sub)titles in this new medium. In this article, the state-of-the-art of cinematic virtual reality content is presented and the current challenges faced by filmmakers when dealing with this medium and the impact of immersive content on subtitling practices are discussed. Moreover, the different studies on subtitles in 360º videos carried out so far and the obtained results are reviewed. Finally, the results of a corpus analysis are presented in order to illustrate the current subtitle practices by The New York Times and the BBC. The results have shed some light on issues such as position, innovative graphic strategies or the different functions, challenging current subtitling standard practices in 2D content.

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