Play It Again, Sam Weller: New Digital Audiobooks and Old Ways of Reading

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 ...

Assisted Reading with Digital Audiobooks for Students with Reading Disabilities

The goal of this study was to compare the efficacy of assisted reading with digital audiobooks with the traditional practice of sustained silent reading (SSR) in terms of reading fluency and reading attitude with upper elementary students with reading disabilities. Treatment group participants selected authentic children’s literature and engaged in assisted reading with digital audiobooks four ...