In theory, speech recognition technology can make any spoken words in video or audio media usable for text indexing, search and retrieval. This article describes the News-on-Demand application created within the InformediaTM Digital Video Library project and discusses how speech recognition is used in transcript creation from video, alignment with closed-captioned transcripts, audio paragraph s...

BACKGROUND Local television news is the number 1 source of information for most Americans, and media health reporting has increased significantly during the past 10 years. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the health topics and reporting characteristics of health stories on local television news across the United States. STUDY DESIGN Content analysis of full-length broadcasts of local television news f...

This paper explores China's increasing media engagement with Latin American partners. It examines the case of Mundo China (MC), a China-news segment broadcast by Brazilian news channel BandNews TV and co-produced in partnership CCTV. By conducting content analysis, we assess how is presented, contrast framing before since agreement, compare televised image between other channels Brazil. The fin...

To win the attention of the audience, presidential candidates rely on their own rhetorical methods. Hedges and boosters as metadiscourse markers have been the focus of many studies as the communicative strategies enabling speakers to soften the force of utterances or moderate their assertive force. TV news was used as the corpus of this study, whereas most of the previous studies have focused o...

Amid signs of renewed scholarly interest in the effects of mass communication in presidential campaigns, the 1995 NES Pilot undertook three mini-studies to improve the measurement of exposure to the mass media. The first involves exposure to TV news, which is believed by some scholars to be the most important influence in presidential campaigns. The second involves exposure to paid advertising,...