This study assessed the speed of recognition of facial emotional expressions (happy and angry) as a function of violent media consumption. Color photos of calm facial expressions morphed to either an angry or a happy facial expression. Participants were asked to make a speeded identification of the emotion (happiness or anger) during the morph. Results indicated that, independent of trait aggre...

Research on farmers’ network information consumption behavior is an important issue, which cannot be avoided in Chinese rural informatization construction. Logit model is used to research the factors affecting farmers’ network information consumption, and the conclusions are as follows: 1) there are a number of factors affecting farmers’ consumption by using modern network information media; 2)...

There has been a recent surge of research looking at the reporting of food consumption on social media. The topic of alcohol consumption, however, remains poorly investigated. Social media has the potential to shed light on a topic that, traditionally, is difficult to collect fine-grained information on. One social app stands out in this regard: Untappd is an app that allows users to ‘check-in’...

the aim of this paper is to study individuals’ motivations to consume artistic goods in yasuj city located in south-west of iran. methodologically, this is a qualitative research and relevant data is collected by in-depth interviews. a sample consisted of 40 persons (20 males and 20 females), between the ages of 22 to 48 years old were interviewed. the interviews took more than 23 hours. the pl...

The media is a powerful presence in people’s lives. Within the field of communication, media is the term used to refer to the particular medium used to deliver a message to a large, anonymous, diverse audience (Pearce, 2009a). Media studies involve research on media effects, which refer to the influence that the media has on audiences, and media representations, which are portrayals of various ...

BACKGROUND In France, the 2009 A(H1N1) influenza epidemic occurred between September 2009 and January 2010. Sparking widespread controversy, it was intensely reported in the media. Despite therapeutic inefficacy, antibiotic consumption and viral respiratory infections are positively correlated, particularly in France, where antibiotic overconsumption is well-known. We first determined the perio...

Use of mobile devices for media consumption has become popular and is expected to grow significantly in the coming years. Optimizing energy consumption in this context can bring several benefits, especially to users of battery-powered devices where the consumption is directly noticeable. In this paper we describe a platform where the cloud computing model and container-based virtualization is u...