This is an examination of two kinds of conversations that parents and children sometimes have about television programs: first, conversations in which parents and children seek and/or exchange information about some aspect of reality portrayed or referred to on television; second, conversations in which family members discuss the appropriateness or inappropriateness of behavior shown or mention...

Prescription and over-the-counter (OTC) drug advertisements that appear on television are among the most common forms of health communication reaching the U.S. public, but no studies to date have explored the quantity, frequency, or placement of these ads on television. We explored these questions by recording all programs and advertisements that appeared on network television in a southeastern...

broadcast digitalization with its enormous benefits to the broadcasting industry will improve the quality of content of programs delivered by television stations. africa has a switchover date of june, 2017. for nigerians to have access to television broadcast once the switch over is completed, they must purchase high definition television sets or the set-up box. the awareness among urban dwelle...

Since /959, the University of Nebraska Medical Center has been using two-way closedcircuit television for medical treal nenl and education, large/v in psychiatry. Television has been used to link the medical center with hospitals in remote rural areas, as well as to assist in educational programs within the university complex. Electronic comm unicalion has been valuable in extending education a...

Example 1: The following is from an editorial in the Midvale Observer, a local newspaper. "Ever since the 1950s, when television sets began to appear in the average home, the rate of crimes committed by teenagers in the country of Alta has steadily increased. This increase in teenage crime parallels the increase in violence shown on television. According to several national studies, even very y...

OBJECTIVE To estimate associations between children's peer integration and amount of time they spend (1) watching television, (2) watching violent television, and (3) co-viewing television with friends. DESIGN Survey using nationally representative data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics-Child Development Supplement Wave 1. SETTING Nationwide survey of families with young children perf...

We have designed and constructed a mechanism for using caption text from broadcast television programs to analyze their content. In this paper, we describe the method by which captions are captured and translated from the raw video signal into text on the ViewStation. We also describe our Caption Parser, which analyzes the text and extracts information about the content of broadcast television ...

what is the reaction of viewers when characters speak directly to the audience—breaking the invisible "fourth wall" of the theater—in films or television programs? Mel Brooks did this in "Blazing Saddles" and, more recently, Gary Shandling did in his television program with questions like: "Does my hair look OK?" This experiment using college students suggests that audiences do, within limits, ...

This paper presents a method of automatically creating hypermedia documents from conventional transcriptions of television programs. Using parallel text alignment techniques, the temporal information derived from the closed caption signal is exploited to convert the transcription into a synchronized text stream. Given this text stream, we can create links between the transcription and the image...

This study focuses on the hypothesis that television viewers’, depth of psychological involvement in a program is inversely related to their recall and recognition of accompanying advertisements. Ninety subjects watched an involving or a relatively uninvolving television program accompanied by six completely unfamiliar advertisements. They then responded to a series of questionnaires designed t...