This study aimed to review TV series/shows’ content watched by teenagers in Turkey. The of ten television shows with the highest ratings and popularity among between 10-14 15-18 were examined terms physical development (psychomotor sexual development), cognitive/perceptual development, social/emotional language other developmental issues such as violence, consumer culture, role modeling, family...

This study develops a model for selecting a host for a travel show. First, the proposed model adopts the “Modified Delphi Method” to find out suitable criteria to evaluative hosts of travel shows. Next, the research model applies the “Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)” to determine the relative weights of the evaluative criteria, and then ranks the alternatives and selects the optimum host for a...

FALL 2015 73 The recent explosion of content (such as movies, TV shows, sports, and others) available on television coupled with an increase use in mobile devices (that is, smartphones and tablets) has created significant interest in second-screen applications from both end users and content providers. Second screen applications are designed to run from mobile devices and to enhance the televis...

A U.S. consumer watches TV for about five hours a day on average. While the majority of viewed content is still the broadcast TV programming, the share of the time‐shifted content has been ever increasing. One third of the U.S. consumers currently use a digital video recorder (DVR)‐like device for time‐shifting, however, the trends are showing that more and more consumers are going to the Web t...

Abstract This paper analyzes adjective positioning in French through the lens of language contact. Though some adjectives are nearly always either before their noun (pre-nominal) or after (post-nominal), others – usually that depict a positive negative value can be found position without any detectable semantic change. Our aim is to investigate possible influence English on these by using corpu...

This paper is dedicated to the use of auxiliary information in order to help a classical acoustic-based speaker identification system in the specific context of TV shows. The underlying assumption is that auxiliary information could help (1) to rerank n-best speaker hypotheses provided by the acoustic-based only speaker identification system, (2) to provide confidence score to refine a rejectio...

Speaker role recognition in TV Broadcast News shows is addressed in this paper. Speaker turns are assigned a role among anchor, reporter and other. A multi-view approach is proposed exploiting the complementarities of lexical cues obtained from Automatic Speech Recognition output and acoustical cues obtained from speech signal analysis. Early and late fusions are compared. 90.1% classification ...

This work constitutes a pilot study of male/female relationships in television situational comedies. Twenty-five sitcom episodes which aired on major television networks between the years 2000-2011 were evaluated for instances of the perpetuation of patriarchy and the stereotyping of traditional gender roles. The episodes were chosen from three different television shows. The findings indicated...

Inspired from the Joint Factor Analysis, the I-vector-based analysis has become the most popular and state-of-the-art framework for the speaker verification task. Mainly applied within the NIST/SRE evaluation campaigns, many studies have been proposed to improve more and more performance of speaker verification systems. Nevertheless, while the i-vector framework has been used in other speech pr...