Media Effect

This article revisits the concept of the third place, critically evaluating its theoretical foundations and continued relevance to social analysis and hospitality, arguing that it can contribute to scholarly understanding of human sociability and community, as well as inspiring service providers. The article explores actual and potential hospitality applications from researcher and practitioner perspectives, also considering a possible hospitable symbiosis from a third place perspective. Its original definition, though providing an important foundation, is driven, in part, by subjective value judgments. The article concludes that the conceptualization of third place requires broadening to include more places where people can socialize, away from first (home) and second (work) places, without delimiting this definition ideologically. This reconceptualization implies, rather than prescribes, informality, neutrality, and inclusiveness within this convivial environment with community ma...

Resumen Este artículo estudia la relación existente entre los medios de comunicación y la vida cotidiana, enfocando especial-mente las formas en que la realidad se infiltra en la televisión y en el cine, lo cual puede verificarse en las telenovelas, los reality show y el cine realista. La metodología semiótica (An-un acercamiento a cada uno de los formatos analizados, situándolos en el plano de la repre-sentación artística en el marco de la cultura. En la telenovela y el reality show, el intento de poner a la audiencia en con-tacto directo con la realidad es atravesado por la necesidad de seducir al público, mientras el cine realista se ha aden-trado en los recovecos de la vida a riesgo de una pérdida de contacto con el espectador lo cual, en cierta medida, ha ocurrido en el caso del cine venezolano. Abstract This paper studies the relationship between media and everyday life, focusing especially on the ways that reality infiltrates the television and movies, verified in soap operas...

This study examines two routes for media effects on the standards by which people evaluate foreign countries. The first is indirect: a news story about an issue in a domestic context may heighten the cognitive accessibility of thoughts about the issue, thereby priming audience members to base their evaluations of foreign nations on those thoughts. The second is direct: a news story that presents a frame linking an issue to a foreign nation in a way that suggests a particular evaluative implication may shape how audience members judge that nation. An experiment revolving around media coverage of two issues and attitudes toward four nations found evidence for media influence along the second route but not the first.

PurposeThe present study aims to examine girls' perception of gender roles and gender identities in Hong Kong.Design/methodology/approachA total of 16 girls aged 10 to 12 were asked to take pictures from the media that could illustrate “what girls or women should or should not be; and what girls or women should or should not do”. Qualitative interviews were conducted.FindingsAnalysis of interviews and images captured found that tween girls' perceived gender roles for females were based on a mixture of traditional and contemporary role models. Girls in Hong Kong demonstrated conservatism in sexuality. Sexy outlook and pre‐marital sexual relations were considered inappropriate. Tween girls showed concern about global as well as domestic social agendas. They used a variety of media and showed interest in contents primarily for adults.Research limitations/implicationsThe study was based on a convenience sample. The interviewees came from middle to lower income families, limiting...

Abstract. Over the past eight years, we have worked collaboratively with elementary and middle school students to help them design their own educational computer games. Although the benefits of " learning by designing " are becoming well documented in the literature, another question has emerged: Do children, other than those who designed the educational computer games, find these games motivating? This question was the focus of this study and was investigated by giving another classroom of middle school students ...

Based on agenda-setting, priming and issue ownership theory, we know that issue ownership and party visibility in the news can be used as strategies to affect electoral support. Thus far, it is, however, unclear whether these effects are independent or work interactively. This study aims to fill this gap. We focus on the Partij voor de Vrijheid, the prominent Dutch right-wing populist party, and draw upon an experimental design in which we exposed a sample of Dutch voters ( N = 600) to media coverage on one of four issues – an owned issue, an unowned issue, an issue owned by another party and a contested issue – featuring either a party cue or not. The results indicate that the impact of issue coverage is moderated by party cues: attention to owned issues and unowned issues increases support only when party cues are present. Attention to contested and trespassing issues does not increase support.

This research addresses the association between attention to science fiction and public opinion of human genome editing (HGE). Using a nationally representative survey, our results show that attention to science fiction is associated with both risk and benefit perception of the technology. In addition, results show that, at higher levels of attention to science fiction, the levels of concern from conservatives (ordinarily predisposed to negative views toward science) and from liberals (ordinarily predisposed to positive views toward science) come closer to being the same. This research contributes to our understanding of debates about controversial science.

This article addresses a critical gap in the literature on winner–loser effects that consists of the lack of attention for highly contentious constitutional referenda. It uses unique multi-wave panel data of over 13,000 people that is unrivalled in size and richness. We estimate causal effects of the referendum on rarely studied but crucial public perceptions of the fairness of the way a referendum is conducted. These perceptions pertain to the highly contentious 2016 European Union (Brexit) referendum in the United Kingdom, which is an ideal-type example of a wider class of referenda for which similar outcomes can be expected. We use difference-in-differences methods and find winner–loser effects of a magnitude far greater than ever observed for general elections. Moreover, we find that these effects not only persist, but even grow over time. The findings have profound implications for the use of such referenda.

In this study, we analyze two decades of US newspaper coverage of climate change-related health threats, tracking the relative amount of coverage and the apparent drivers of attention at two national and four regional newspapers. Health impacts such as extreme heat, disease, and respiratory problems, and more vivid threats such as hurricanes, are mentioned in fewer than 5% and 10% of the climate change-related articles in national and regional papers, respectively. Most stories that mentioned health threats were in ...

Introduction. Given that people rely heavily on their party affiliation to make their political decisions, an interesting dilemma occurs when people are exposed to counter-attitudinal information from the party they identify with. This paper examines how exposure to counter-attitudinal messages from the party an individual identifies with influence further online information seeking and attitude change. Method. Using an adult sample (N=289), the study adopts an experimental design, measuring actual information seeking behaviour in time units through unobtrusive observation. Analysis. Quantitative analysis was carried out on the data using SPSS. Results. In terms of information seeking, neither attitude-party message consistency, nor partisanship strength, led to confirmation bias-seeking. In terms of attitude change, there was significant difference in attitude change between strong and weak partisans when they were exposed to the pro-attitudinal message. Conclusions. Despite popula...

Abstract: Recently, the renewal of interest in video- telephones has been matched by a renewal of research in media effects in video and multimedia communications. Do people want to see the face behind the voice? Does it help if they do? Studies by psychologistsand,human,factors researchers reveal that information exchange,tasks do not show a performance advantage for adding a visual channel, but interpersonal tasks often do. In both types of tasks, however, people show a strong preference for having a video channel. THE LURE OF VIDEO COMMUNICATIONS On May 24th, 1844 Samuel Morse sent the first telegraph