Competitive video gaming, collectively known as esports, has surged in popularity over the last decade. The rapid growth revenue, viewership, players and exposure to date led rise of impropriety form cheating. “Boosting” is a cheating whereby high-skilled access lower-skilled players’ accounts for purpose increasing rank account monetary gain. From esports games such League Legends Overwatch, a...

This article is a study of mourning among Shi'a Muslims during the COVID-19 pandemic through call-in talk show called #IAMHUSSEINI. By analyzing discourses callers and presenters locating them within visual context television studio, this shows how viewership #IAMHUSSEINI constitutes televisual majlis (Arabic: ‘assembly') composed more than passive asynchronous consumption resembling what Patri...

YouTube is a source of income for many people, and therefore video’s popularity ultimately becomes the top priority sustaining steady income, provided that videos remains highest. Analysts researchers use different algorithms models to predict maximum viewership popular videos. This study predicts such using XGBoost model, considering features selection, fusion, min-max normalization some preci...

Socio-economic tastes of urban and rural reality television (Reality TV) viewers appear diverse may account for divergent lifestyles, especially concerning media exposure. This article investigated comparatively the viewership levels Reality TV shows by dwellers in Rivers State, Nigeria, using Who Wants to be a Millionaire as fulcrum analysis discussion. Relevant data were gathered from 387 res...

BACKGROUND Recent publications on YouTube have advocated its potential for patient education. However, a reliable description of what could be considered quality information for patient education on YouTube is missing. OBJECTIVE To identify topics associated with the concept of quality information for patient education on YouTube in the scientific literature. METHODS A literature review was...

Ever since the 1960s, media and communication studies have abounded in heated debates concerning psychological social effects of fictional violence. Massive empirical research has first tried to tie film violence cultivating either fear or aggressive tendencies among its viewership, while later focused on other as well (television, video games). The present paper does not aim settle factual que...

Objective : Swift desirability of people have arisen towards YouTube videos for keeping abreast the ever-evolving situation with COVID-19 occurrence. We aimed to determine easy understand and educationally beneficial ‘awareness videos’ available on YouTube, based viewers’ engagement. Methods: gathered using phrases ‘COVID-19 awareness’ ‘Coronavirus knowledge’. Information retrieved included aut...