Soap operas have become a part and parcel of the lives of so many viewers all over the world. The popularity of this genre is ruling the Television Industry globally, nationally and locally. The history of soap opera can be traced back to the 1800s when novels such as Dickens appeared in newspapers in serialized formats (Kielwasser & Wolf) [1]. This' episodic format conformed...to melodramatic ...

The rising popularity of Korean entertainment content in Asia has created pop culture the industry including Malaysia. There seemed to be a gap previous research concerning Malaysian Perspective on Drama. purpose this study is explore strategies employed by productions attracting audiences. This uses qualitative methods, and findings are significant explaining global success dramas which fills ...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to determine how the mentally ill are depicted in prime-time television dramas. METHOD Fourteen television dramas that included at least one character with a mental illness, shown in prime-time during a 1-year period, were systematically viewed and analysed. RESULTS Fifteen of the 20 mentally ill characters were depicted as physically violent toward self ...

This study examines the role of power and politics in systems implementation. Current literature misses the complexities involved in systems implementation through human factors and the political nature of systems implementation and is simplistic in nature. The concept of power relations, as proposed by Foucault (1977, 1978), has been utilised by the authors to identify the dynamic nature of po...

BACKGROUND Unlike publications of medical science research that are more readily rewarded, clinician-educators' scholarly achievements are more nebulous and under-recognized. OBJECTIVE Create an education enterprise that empowers clinician-educators to engage in a broad range of scholarly activities and produce educational scholarship using strategic approaches to level the playing fields wit...

OBJECTIVE Determine representation by gender for individual recognition awards presented to physicians by the Association of Academic Physiatrists (AAP). DESIGN Cross-sectional survey was used. Lists of individual recognition award recipients for the 27-yr history of the AAP awards (1990-2016) were analyzed. The primary outcome measures were the total numbers of men versus women physician awa...