Academic Articles & Research Papers

Rethinking Visual Anthropology.

For many years the field of visual anthropology has been dominated by a focus on the production and study of ethnographic film, leading many anthropologists to dismiss it as of little importance to their work. This book shows that the scope...

Research and Public Policy

Professor Hyman has reviewed for us all the research that has been done on the effects of corporal punishment in the schools.1 It is actually a meager record because of the reasons he has mentioned, many of them ethical, demographic, and re...

COMMUNICATION STUDIES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM

Communication Studies in the United Kingdom has a short past, a lively present and an uncertain but promising future. The paper discusses each of them, and presents a definition of this extremely diverse new academic field...

Knowledge, attitude and human papillomavirus vaccination among market women in North-Central Nigeria

Abstract Non-vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV) has serious implications on population health. This study therefore investigates the awareness and knowledge of HPV and its vaccines, attitude towards HPV vaccines, and adoption ra...

“Like a small trip back to the GDR”? East German evaluations of the television serial Weissensee and its authenticity in a dynamic discourse landscape

In this article, I take the example of the historical German television fiction success Weissensee and ask how East Germans have read and judged the way this serial constructed their past more than a decade after its television premiere. Th...

THE EMERGENCE OF COMMUNICATION STUDIES

This article charts the vast multiplicity of phenomena that can be brought under the ‘communication’ umbrella. The author denies that these can be integrated within a framework of communication regarded as a discipline in its own right. He ...

Consumers' trust and their purchasing intention via the television channel

This paper investigates the key elements influencing consumer’s trust and purchasing intention via the shopping television (TV) channels. Through the convenient sampling, questionnaires were distributed to 350 ...

Media use and antimicrobial resistance misinformation and misuse: Survey evidence of information channels and fatalism in augmenting a global health threat

Recent research has identified that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is giving rise to a global public health threat that involves all major microbial pathogens and antimicrobial drugs, and additional studies have found that despite its gravi...

Impact of Consumer Education Programs on Agricultural Consumer Behaviour in Makurdi Metropolis, Nigeria

This study evaluated the impact of consumer education programs in influencing consumer behavior in Makurdi Metropolis, Benue State, Nigeria. The study was motivated by the increasing concern that many consumers in the area lack adequate kno...

An update on the impact of SARS-CoV-2 pandemic public awareness on cancer patients' COVID-19 vaccine compliance: Outcomes and recommendations

Background:Aside from the pandemic's negative health effects, the world was confronted with public confusion since proper communication and favorable decisions became an ongoing challenge. As a result, the public's perceptions were influenc...

Nonverbal Communication: Studies and Applications

Providing a thoughtful balance of theory and practice, Nonverbal Communication: and Applications, Fifth Edition, offers students an engaging, sophisticated, and up-to-date introduction to the field. Nina-Jo Moore, Mark Hickson, III, and Don...

Legal basis information security states of broadcasters

Problem setting. The need for the emergence and development of the law of information security explained by the need to organize social relations that occur between individuals and legal entities, citizens' associations and public authoriti...

Clustering TV Viewing Behavior for Digital Twin Construction Using Television Viewing History Data

This study presents the construction of the first digital twin utilizing non-identifiable television viewing history data. As the media landscape continues to evolve, understanding viewer behavior has become increasingly crucial. By simulat...

Exploring the cultural influence of Turkish TV dramas: a mixed‑methods study among Tunisian viewers

The Turkish television series industry has experienced significant growth over the past twenty years and has gained widespread popularity both domestically and internationally. This expansion has generated economic value while reinforcing T...

Public Health Communication

Contents: Preface. Introduction. R. Hornik, Public Health Communication: Making Sense of Contradictory Evidence. Part I: Deliberate Trials. J.K. Worden, B.S. Flynn, Using Mass Media to Prevent Cigarette Smoking. P. Palmgreen, L. Donohew, E....

Several Sociolinguistic Particularities of French-English Bi-Lingualism in Canada

Introduction. The relevance of the study is explained by the necessity to preserve Frenchspeaking culture and language on the territory of Canada in the conditions of globalization, the spread of American mass culture and the significant im...

Brain-inspired predictive visual attention for spatiotemporal semantic understanding of complex film and television videos.

A polyhedron representation for computer vision

My approach to computer vision is best characterized as inverse computer graphics. In computer graphics, the world is represented in sufficient detail so that the image forming process can be numerically simulated to generate synthetic tele...

Computer Vision: Evolution And Promise

In this paper we give a somewhat personal and perhaps biased overview of the field of Computer Vision.First, we define computer vision and give a very brief history of it.Then, we outline some of the reasons why computer vision is a very di...

LatentColorization: Latent Diffusion-Based Speaker Video Colorization

While current research predominantly focuses on image-based colorization, the domain of video-based colorization remains relatively unexplored. Many existing video colorization techniques operate frame-by-frame, often overlooking the critic...