There is a growing body of research on government use of Facebook (FB) and citizen engagement; however there is a paucity of empirical research that identify the extent of agency and audience engagement on government FB pages. Little is known if different types of agencies engage differently in FB. Based on a large-scale world-first empirical analysis of over 145 federal government FB pages, th...

Flock is a full-evening work for saxophone quartet, dancers, audience participation, video, and electronic sound. A computer vision system tracks the location of participants as they move around an open performance space, and custom software then uses that data to generate music notation, video animation, and electronic sound. In this paper, we discuss the project’s connection to previous work ...

This article draws on an extensive corpus of broadcast material to examine the performed aspects of a media personality’s talk—the host of a long-standing audience participation debate in the United Kingdom. The context of interaction in which this host engages in rapport and impression management work plays a crucial role in the analysis. It is a context that resembles some of the patterns of ...

Centre of the Cell is a unique biomedical science education centre, a widening participation and outreach project in London's East End. This article describes Centre of the Cell's first five years of operation, the evolution of the project in response to audience demand, and the impact of siting a major public engagement project within a research laboratory.

This paper compares methods and objectives of cheating in low-tech and high-tech interactive entertainment, oral storytelling tradition and computer gaming. Oral story traditions are one of the oldest forms of interactive entertainment. The interaction between the audience and the storyteller is a limited form of interpersonal communication and is regulated by traditions or an interaction syste...

Background: In 2008, the Southern California Earthquake Center in collaboration with the U.S. Geological Survey Earthquake Hazards Program launched the first annual Great ShakeOut, the largest earthquake preparedness drill in the history of the United States. Materials and Methods: We collected online survey data from 2052 campaign registrants to assess how people participated, whether audience...

Magicians utilize many techniques for misdirecting audience attention away from the secret sleight of a trick. One technique is to ask an audience member to participate in a trick either physically by asking them to choose a card or cognitively by having them keep track of a card. While such audience participation is an established part of most magic the cognitive mechanisms by which it operate...

BACKGROUND Knowledge Translation is a process that includes synthesis, dissemination, exchange and application of knowledge to improve the health, services and products In this study we have attempted to examine the knowledge translation practice and its perceived barriers on the universalities and research institutes (research sector) in Iran. METHODS Both qualitative and quantitative approa...

The purpose of the study is to create the advertising more effective to influence the audience being targeted. The study mainly concerned with the advertisement campaigns to target the audiences belonging from the different cultures. The theory posits that the combination of factors such as humor, medium uniqueness, marketing strategy, national cultures and consumer motives all constitute the e...