The literature is mixed as to whether the addition of lecture capture technologies provide for better student success. In this work, we consider not just the broad effect of lecture capture technology on academic achievement between cohorts, but whether this effect is related to patterns of viewership among learners. At the centre of our interest is determining whether there are strategies lear...

We develop a statistical model of browsing behavior by predicting the number of web pages, in a particular category, that are viewed by a user in a single web session. The purpose of this analysis is to better understand web browsing behavior, and to help predict which sessions are likely to result in retail visits. A single record in our database consists of the number of web pages viewed by a...

Using 16,068 articles in Wikipedias Medicine Wikiproject, we study the relationship between collaboration and quality. We assess whether certain collaborative patterns are associated with information quality in terms of selfevaluated quality and article viewership. We find that the number of contributors has a curvilinear relationship to information quality, more contributors improving quality ...

This paper explores the impact of the introduction of the widely viewed MTV reality show 16 and Pregnant on teen childbearing. Our main analysis relates geographic variation in changes in teen childbearing rates to viewership of the show. We implement an instrumental variables (IV ) strategy using local area MTV ratings data from a pre-period to predict local area 16 and Pregnant ratings. The r...

Television advertising levels in Europe are regulated according to the “Audiovisual Service Media Directive”, where member states of the European Union usually impose stricter regulation on their Public Service Broadcasting (PSB) channels. The present model evaluates the effects of symmetric and asymmetric regulation of ad levels on competition for viewers and advertisers in a duopoly framework...

This paper examines whether viewers of the popular television show, American Idol, exhibit racial preferences. We find evidence on same-race preferences among black viewers only; when there are more black contestants in the show, more black viewers are tuned in to watch it. The finding is robust after we account for the endogeneity problem regarding the contestants’ racial composition, which ar...

VIEWER RESPONSES TO INTEACTIVE NARRATIVE: A COMPARISION OF INTERACTIVE VERSUS LINEAR VIEWERSHIP IN ALINE AND GROUP SETTING By Sangyeob Lee Based on researches about viewers’ emotional responses to media, the emotional responses to interactive video were studied. Because of the nature of interactive television, the involvement of people during watching the video was expected to be increased. Thi...

Many markets have “unraveled” and experienced inefficient, early, dispersed transactions, and subsequently developed institutions to delay transaction timing. However, it has previously proved difficult to measure and identify the resulting efficiency gains. Prior to 1992, college football teams were matched for post-season play up to several weeks before the end of the regular season. Since 19...