abstract film theoreticians, in the early stages of practice, emphasized the corporeal characteristics of the medium and the relationship between cinema and the spectator’s senses. besides, in the opposite direction to the early cinema concentration on audience bodily identification with the film, the evolution of cinematic language and the subsequent prevailing of a dominant narrative system, ...

Often persuaders have a richer understanding of the world than their audience. This paper models such situations by letting persuader and audience have prior beliefs with different supports. This asymmetry adds unexplored aspects to the persuasion problem: Persuaders can hide their superior knowledge or surprise their audience with unexpected information; After surprises Bayes’ rule cannot desc...

This work aims to create a musical performance for large-scale audience participation using mobile phones as musical instruments. Utilizing ubiquitous smartphones, we attempted to facilitate audience engagement with networked phones as musical instruments. Drawing lessons learnt from previous works of mobile music, audience participation practices, and networked instrument design, we developed ...

This study investigated the effects of nesting status and the presence of an audience on 11-ketotestosterone (11KT) levels in male Siamese fighting fish, Betta splendens. Prior studies have demonstrated that both nesting status, an indicator of territory-holding power and reproductive state, and the sex of a conspecific audience lead to differences in male behavior during aggressive encounters....

Social network site users are often confronted with invisible audiences. Although various settings for managing audiences are available, we argue that these do not always match the users' interpretations. This study explores the audience-management strategies of 18 young adults when categorizing their (invisible) audiences in Facebook, using card sorting as a research method. Approximately 1254...

Although social support is related to substantial benefits for health and well-being, research has uncovered qualifications to its benefits. In a test of the psychological and biological impact of an audience on responses to laboratory stress challenges, 183 participants going through the Trier Social Stress Test experienced either (a) an unsupportive audience, (b) a supportive audience, or (c)...

Although social support is related to substantial benefits for health and well-being, research has uncovered qualifications to its benefits. In a test of the psychological and biological impact of an audience on responses to laboratory stress challenges, 183 participants going through the Trier Social Stress Test experienced either (a) an unsupportive audience, (b) a supportive audience, or (c)...

Audience interest, demography, purchase behavior and other possible classifications are extremely important factors to be carefully studied in a targeting campaign. This information can help advertisers and publishers deliver advertisements to the right audience group. However, it is not easy to collect such information, especially for the online audience with whom we have limited interaction a...

nowadays, the audience plays a key role in the interpretation of cultural products including movies. thus, discovering how the audience make sense of and interpret things can lead us to the social world underlying such interpretations. women are among audience who could have different readings based on their cultural and generational experiences and background. based on the interpretive paradig...