rogue or a charlatan. Again and again, in recent years, television has shown enraged audiences, or sections of audiences, shouting down an unpopular speaker; or mobs roaming the streets looking for prey. At its extreme it becomes lynch law; but in ordinary everyday life it is busy perpetuating artificial barriers, or erecting new ones, in social life, in education, in the professions. In intern...

With the decreasing audience of classical music performance, this research aims to develop a performance-enhancement system, called AIDA, to help classical performers better communicating with their audiences. With three procedures Input-Processing-Output, AIDA system can sense and analyze the body information of performers and further reflect it onto the responsive skin. Thus abstract and inta...

In this paper we propose that the measurement of an audiences emotional response to the performance of a new musical instrument correlates with an expert judgment of liveness. An initial experiment has shown a strong positive correlation between the two, indicating that audiences who have a positive emotional response to a performance also consider the performance as being more ‘live’. Observat...

Conventions of Spatial Literacy Conventions in media serve as a kind of shorthand between creator and audience: In order to understand and enjoy novels, films, theaters, audiences must be able to “read” the conventions of these media. Though early filmgoers did not understand that the train coming toward them in the Lumiere Brothers’ L'Arrivée d'un train à La Ciotat (1895) was merely a projecte...

This paper studies how audiences should be expressed in a Cyber− theater, in which remotely located persons can direct plays as directors, perform as performers and/or see the performances as audiences through a networked virtual environment. It is noted that the audience effect has been widely acknowledged in the real−world theater: that is, the audience reaction has a significant effect on th...

The rise of sophisticated tools for tracking audiences online has begun to change the way media producers think about media audiences. This study examines this phenomenon in journalism. Research suggests that journalists, after long resisting or ignoring audience preferences, are becoming increasingly aware of user desires, manifest via metrics. However, research also finds a gap in the news pr...