OBJECTIVE To characterize children's television programs in terms of their unintentional injury-related messages. DESIGN Content analysis. Episodes representing a total of 216 unique television programs were coded for the presence of imitable unsafe behaviors without consequences. SETTING A census of all children's programming airing in a northeastern city during the first week of December ...

This paper investigates the effect of aggregation and non-linearity in relation to television rating forecasts. Several linear models for aggregated and disaggregated television viewing have appeared in the literature. The current analysis extends this work using an empirical approach. We compare the accuracy of population rating models, segment rating models and individual viewing behaviour mo...

This study examines the characteristics of the Japanese imagination of outer space inconjunction with its representations in television and cinema during the late 1960s.Cinema and television have offered the Japanese many films and television programs inthe form of dramas, news programs, documentaries, and variety shows on the topics ofspace, the space race, space flight, and as...

In her paper, "Television and Politics in the Former East Germany," Claudia Dittmar analyzes how in the former East Germany (GDR) while television audience was restricted severly by government, at the same time West German broadcasts acquired a substantial audience and what the impact of these broadcasts had on the audience. West German television programs enjoyed a high level of popularity wit...

[abstract] The export of Japanese television programs overseas started in the 1970s and the rapid growth of Japanese television programs globally especially in Asia started in the early 1980s. However, in the 21st century, the glory of Japanese dramas seems to have faded and replaced by the “Korean wave”. Perhaps the younger generation nowadays has not heard of “J-Pop” and here is an examinatio...

BACKGROUND Medical television programs offer students fictional representations of their chosen career. This study aimed to discover undergraduate medical students' viewing of medical television programs and students' perceptions of professionalism, ethics, realism and role models in the programs. The purpose was to consider implications for teaching strategies. METHODS A medical television s...

. Canonical correltotion analysis identified two viewer types. The first viewer type--the one who used television out'of habit, to pass the time, and for entertainment--exhibited sizable levels of television viewing, af#inity (the importance of television in the life of the respondent) , and realism (how realistic the television portrayals were perceived to be). The second viewer type used tele...

Traditionally, educators have perceived television as not particularly beneficial to literacy development. Concerns were fueled by findings suggesting that with the introduction of television people spend less time reading books and reading scores decline (e. However, as our society is striving to make adjustments to the decline in literacy skills and new ways of learning and teaching are being...