Play Hermeneutics Again, Sam

Play it again, Sam--depression is recurring.

Generating Media Stories – Play it again, Sam

New types of knowledge spaces, such as the web, allow for yet unexplored forms of knowledge exploration and social relationships. Such an interactive, open and multimodal system sustains the activation of articulation expressions that form the basis of adaptive discourses. In this paper we look at the problem of how stories in such environments can be established. We are in particular intereste...

Play it again, Sam: brain correlates of emotional music recognition

BACKGROUND Music can elicit strong emotions and can be remembered in connection with these emotions even decades later. Yet, the brain correlates of episodic memory for highly emotional music compared with less emotional music have not been examined. We therefore used fMRI to investigate brain structures activated by emotional processing of short excerpts of film music successfully retrieved fr...

Don’t Play it Again Sam: Radio Play, Record Sales, and Property Rights

This paper undertakes an econometric investigation of the impact of radio play on sales of sound recordings using a sample of American cities. The results indicate that radio play does not have the positive impact on record sales normally attributed to it and instead appears to have an economically important negative impact, implying that overall radio listening is more of a substitute for the ...

Play It Again, Sam? Optimal Replacement Policies for a Motion Picture Exhibitor

Every week, motion picture exhibitors must decide whether to keep or replace the movies playing in their theaters in light of the past week’s sales data. This decision is complex because of the dynamic decision environment, the uncertainty of demand, the complex revenue sharing terms between the retailer and the distributor, the need to commit to new movies for several weeks and the competitive...