In this paper a specialised search engine for TV news editors as part of a system for analysis and presentation of MPEG compressed newsfeeds is discussed. The editor is supplied with additional material relating to particular news items, which he can, for example, use to prepare the accompanying text of newscasts. The key words for the search engine are extracted automatically from the compress...

The purpose of this study has been to develop a user centered program format for a future mobile TV service. The work has focused on user centered research methods to gather sufficient data from users. Methods used have been: survey questionnaire, focus groups with users, and seven exploratory interviews with experts on mobile TV. Scenarios and schematics have been used in designing of concept....

The impact of television on children has been analyzed from various perspectives. The social cognitive theory of mass communication explicates the mechanism of children’s social learning from television. The premise of this study is that television may have positive effects on youngsters by exploring prosocial themes and developing community-oriented content. A distinctive example of prosocial ...

In this paper, we propose a new scenario description language for analysis and synthesis of the TV news program. The proposed language is used for the advanced news system where a news program is distributed in the form of a collection of news items rather than a complete xed program. For the synthesis, we rst analyze a news program by its video, audio and text segments, decompose it into chunk...

The article analyzes the balance of positive and negative news on three Ukrainian TV channels «1 + 1», «Inter» ICTV. features each their influence mass consciousness are determined. study nature television confirms idea that society has a demand for news. And if people regularly taught news, it can change moral health society. At same time, journalists do not need to varnish reality or conceal ...

1 TRUSTWORTHINESS OF NEWS PROVIDERS The World Wide Web is a dominant medium for news and information exchange. Together with TV it enjoys far larger regular audiences in the U.S. than print and radio, and recent studies suggest that also the gap to TV consumption is closing fast1. The reasons are diverse, ranging from ease of (commonly: free) access to the democratization of publishing, as the ...