This article investigates the role of viewers’ personality traits, sensation-seeking, and voyeurism in relation to reported consumption of voyeuristic program content in various television genres. A uses and gratifications approach was employed to identify factors predicting appeal of particular TV programs. The study combines two types of media research: survey and content analysis. Results we...

The authors of the article subtitled “Depression and ways of coping with stress” emphasize in the discussion of their results that “the dispute is whether the symptoms of depression contribute to the choice of less effective ways to deal with stress or perhaps these strategies are used by the patients before the onset of the diseases and this way become risk factors for the depression” [1].

BACKGROUND Mothers' self-efficacy for limiting their children's television viewing is an important correlate of this behaviour in young children. However, no studies have examined how maternal self-efficacy changes over time, which is potentially important during periods of rapid child development. This study examined tracking of maternal self-efficacy for limiting young children's television v...

The reality television genre has been increasingly at the forefront of media and cultural studies and a subject of critique across the disciplines of communications, anthropology and visual studies. While reality television programs have been analyzed for elements of racism and sexism, quantitative research to date has rarely been done to explore whether the portrayal of the American southerner...

The new subtitling system will be established along with the digital television broadcasting. The system uses MPEG-2 multiplexing and region-based bitmap graphics (with indexed pixel colors) technologies to transmit subtitle data to set-top box. It provides more interactivity than the existing analogue television although interactivity is limited. This paper gives a description of Digital Video...

This study examined the extent to which glossaries may affect the percentage of known words (coverage) in television programs. The transcripts of 51 episodes of 2 television programs (House and Grey’s Anatomy) were analyzed using Range (Heatley, Nation, & Coxhead, 2002) to create glossaries consisting of the low-frequency (less frequent than the 3,000 word level) word families that were encount...

Opinion There has been increasing interest in the field of medicine and in the social life of patients as well as health care providers in the realm of the media, namely, films and television shows. Table 1 lists some popular television series that are based on events germane to the medical field [1–7]. These shows constitute a genre in television, the ''medical drama. " A medical drama can be ...