scholarly journals Humour and ex-Yugoslav nations: is there any truth in the stereotypes?

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 112
Author(s):  
Željko Pavić ◽  
Nataša Krivokapić
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
University Students ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Sense Of Humor ◽  
Research Questions

This study explores the issue of humour stereotyping between ex-Yugoslav nations, their veridicality and possible explanations. Three research questions were put forward relating to humour stereotyping, as well as the differences in humour production, use and appreciation between the countries. The survey data were collected on a sample of university students from four ex-Yugoslav countries (N = 611). The results revealed strong negative humour stereotyping toward Croats and Slovenians and positive stereotyping toward Bosnians. However, only about 0–4 % of the variance in humour production, use and appreciation, depending on the sub-scales of the Multidimensional Sense of Humor Scale, could be attributed to the group (country) membership, thus indicating low correspondence between the stereotypes and reality. The results concerning the stereotypes were interpreted by evoking the discourse of Balkanism, as well as humour-style differences in popular culture between the countries

Italian Undergraduates Join Facebook, but Keep a Critical Distance

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 13-24
Author(s):  
Paolo Ferri ◽  
Nicola Cavalli ◽  
Andrea Mangiatordi ◽  
Marina Micheli ◽  
Andrea Pozzali ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
University Students ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Critical Distance ◽  
Educational Tool ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Critical Attitude ◽  
Privacy Issues

Facebook is the most popular social network site in Italy, and its usage is particularly spread among younger generations. This paper explores how undergraduate students use Facebook, and what meanings they attach to it. Research was performed in 2008 and in 2009 at a Italian university, with a triangulation of quantitative and qualitative methodology. The authors’ survey data show the quick adoption of Facebook. In 2008 half of the students were completely unfamiliar with Facebook, while in 2009 59% of them were using it on a regular basis. Evidence coming from semi-structured interviews with randomly selected university students show that the massive adoption of Facebook goes hand in hand with a general critical attitude. Concerns about privacy issues were common, and they can also lead to a kind of detachment from this site. Implications on the perspective use of Facebook as an educational tool are discussed in the paper.

scholarly journals Survey data on students’ online shopping behaviour: A focus on selected university students in Indonesia

Data in Brief ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 105073 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heri Kuswanto ◽  
Widyan Bima Hadi Pratama ◽  
Imam Safawi Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Online Shopping ◽  
Shopping Behaviour

scholarly journals Knowledge of HIV/AIDS, its Sources and Behaviour Change of Undergraduate Students of Ekiti State University South West Nigeria: Implications for Counselling

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Anna Onoyase
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Behaviour Change ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
State University ◽  
South West ◽  
Undergraduate University Students ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Level Of Significance ◽  
Research Assistants ◽  
Hiv Aids

This research was embarked upon to find out about knowledge of HIV/AIDS, its sources and behaviour change of undergraduate university students of Ekiti State University, South west Nigeria: Implications for counselling. In order to carry out the investigation, the researcher formulated three research questions and one hypothesis to guide the investigation. The instrument used in the collection of data is “Knowledge of HIV/AIDS, its Sources and Behaviour Change Questionnaire” (KHASBCQ). The instrument that was made up of 26 items was subjected to a reliability test. The instrument was administered on 30 respondents who were not part of the main investigation. The test- retest was used to analyse the data collected from the 30 respondents. The reliability coefficient obtained was 0.87. The instrument, have language appropriateness and content validity. The investigator used 2 research assistants to administer 251 copies of the questionnaire on the respondents in the university. The research assistants retrieved 210 copies of the questionnaire from the respondents. The mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions and the t- test was used to test the hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance. The findings showed that the undergraduate university students have knowledge of HIV/AIDs. The sources of knowledge of HIV/AIDS by the students include: television, newspaper, friends and internet. The knowledge of HIV/AIDs by the students have led to behaviour change in them. There is behaviour change in the students because they no longer indulge in anal sex, they now have sex with only one partner, they make use of condom when having sexual intercourse. One of the recommendations is that both government and private radio networks are advised to educate the students and entire members of the society about the existence of HIV/AIDS so that they can have behaviour change such as having only one sexual partner.

scholarly journals Survey data on teaching strategies and product innovation: A focus on selected university students in Nigeria

Data in Brief ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 248-254
Author(s):  
Maxwell Olokundun ◽  
Stephen ibidunni ◽  
Mercy Ogbari ◽  
Fred Peter ◽  
Taiye Borishade ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Teaching Strategies ◽  
Product Innovation

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Alonso
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
The United States ◽  
Academic Context ◽  
Media Spectacle ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Tv Shows ◽  
Structural Research ◽  
Primary Form

Chapter 1 introduces contemporary satiric TV shows as new forms of negotiated dissent that respond, at the national and global level, to the relation between power and media, the evolution of media spectacle and infotainment as a primary form of political communication, and the connection between national traumas, social tensions, and popular culture. After formulating the structural research questions, this chapter presents the theoretical and academic context of satire in Latin America and the United States, and describes the satiric cases to be analyzed throughout the book. It places the phenomenon of satiric TV as sociopolitical communication within the following intellectual debates and lines of work in media studies and popular culture: 1) media spectacle and global infotainment; 2) celebrity culture and identity; 3) tabloidization, hybridity, and discursive integration in the post-network era; and 4) satire, carnival, and critical metatainment. It finally presents the structure of the book.

scholarly journals Teacher’s and Students’ Beliefs on English for General Academic Purposes: The Case of Iranian University Students

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Masoud Kermani Kojour ◽  
Javad Kia Heirati
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Reading Strategies ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Educational Environments ◽  
L2 Learners ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Awareness Raising ◽  
Research Questions

<p>This study was framed in the sociocultural theory to look into the evolution of L2 learners’ beliefs about the general English course during a term. One hundred ninety-eight male and female university students and their general English course teacher were randomly selected as the participants of the study. Data were gathered through the administration of Horwitz’s (1988) BALLI questionnaire. Among the participants, 38 students were invited to take part in semi-structured interview sessions and fill in an open-ended questionnaire at the beginning and end of the term. Descriptive statics were applied to precisely analyze the quantitative data based on the questionnaire. In order to qualitatively analyze the data, the grounded theory methodology was utilized to code the data and find the main categories in line with the research questions of the study. Findings concluded that all the learners changed their simplistic beliefs about the general English course highlighting the attention to grammar and vocabulary. In fact, the teacher believed in teaching strategies to pave the way for the learners to comprehend the text better and apply the strategies while reading. The teacher’s meditational activity assisted the learners to evolve their simplistic beliefs and be able to benefit from reading strategies for better comprehension. Awareness-raising activities should be done in terms of teachers’ and students’ beliefs about EGAP (English for general academic purposes) to equip L2 learners with better educational environments resulting in their enjoyment of the learning process.</p>

Are the New Mass Media Subverting Cultural Transmission?

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerome H. Barkow ◽  
Rick O'Gorman ◽  
Luke Rendell
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
New Media ◽  
Evolutionary Psychology ◽  
Information Acquisition ◽  
Physical Attractiveness ◽  
Cultural Transmission ◽  
High Status ◽  
Evolutionary Perspective ◽  
Attentional Processes ◽  
Research Questions

Popular culture is a subcategory of culture. Today, mass and new media appear to be interfering with the evolved mechanisms that permit the acquisition and editing of culture. We know surprisingly little about these cognitive attentional processes that enable the information acquisition and editing packed into the term “cultural transmission.” It was Michael Chance who first concluded that we attend to and learn preferentially from those high in status. For Chance, high status based on fear leads to agonistic attention and a constricted type of learning, while hedonic attention based on respect permits much broader learning possibilities. If Chance's theories are supported, then it would follow that much of the current unpredictability of popular culture and culture change in general reflects the replacement of family and community high-status figures by influential media celebrities, thereby damaging the transmission of local culture. Chance's approach would also explain why we seem to find it difficult to pay attention to those low in status and power. There may be attractors of attention involved in cultural transmission in addition to status, including physical attractiveness. We consider, from an evolutionary perspective, various researchable hypotheses that stem from Chance's and related work and from ethnography, we discuss this work's implications for how we understand culture and “popular culture,” and we argue that the kind of research in cognitive and evolutionary psychology we espouse is also needed for the next generation of mathematical models of gene–culture coevolution. We conclude with a list of research questions.

Succeeding against the odds

2015 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 232-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cecilia C Lo ◽  
Mantak Yuen
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Learning Difficulties ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
University Graduates ◽  
Open Discussion ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Inquiry Method ◽  
Specific Learning ◽  
Structured Questionnaire ◽  
Analyze Data

This small-scale exploratory study identified strategies used by three intellectually very able university students with specific learning difficulties for maintaining motivation on their path to achievement. All three participants were located in Hong Kong. The research questions were: (a) What coping strategies are used by intellectually very able university students with specific learning difficulties? (b) What are the critical influences driving and supporting their motivation to achieve? A narrative inquiry method was used to obtain and analyze data. Two gifted university graduates and one undergraduate, all with specific learning difficulties, were interviewed using a semi-structured questionnaire and open discussion. Data indicated that they developed strategies to cope largely in response to adverse learning environments. The support of significant persons, such as parents and teachers, were also seen to be essential for sustaining their motivation to achieve. Implications for supporting university students with specific learning difficulties are briefly discussed.

scholarly journals Printed Versus Electronic Books: Uses and Preference of Mass Media Students in Lahore

2021 ◽  
Vol VI (I) ◽  
pp. 70-78
Author(s):  
Shazia Ismail Toor ◽  
Ayesha Ashfaq ◽  
Muqaddas Ilyas
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Survey Methodology ◽  
Learning Outcome ◽  
Electronic Version ◽  
Electronic Books ◽  
Online Mode ◽  
Printed Books ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Displacement Theory

This study is an exertion to determine the preference of university students regarding the usage of electronic books. Postulates of displacement theory were applied to find out the reasons behind students’ adoption of online mode of reading and its effects on learning outcome. The study has examined that if the printed books will be totally replaced by the electronic version or not. A sample of 150 university students studying in the Mass Communication department was selected. Survey methodology was employed to find answers to the research questions. The findings of the study revealed that students preferred using electronic books to printed books. The e-books are considered cost-friendly, easy to access and portable. With the help of findings, it was concluded that e-books had become part and parcel of the life of students, but at the same time, there would be a preference for reading printed books.

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