Young African Americans have not participated as long as their white counterparts in the media culture industry (Nightingale 1993). In truth, it is difficult to discern a substantive relationship between black youth and the mass media prior to the 1960s. The initial exclusion of blacks from popular media culture is attributable to two main factors: 1) a lack of discretionary income on the part ...

Named Data Networking offers significant advantages for media distribution applications: in-network caching and multicast capabilities. This technical report provides a detailed view on two video streaming applications: NDNlive and NDNtube. NDNlive is capable of streaming live video captured by the camera and handling network problems by dropping individual video or audio frames. NDNtube protot...

The present study was conducted with the aim of effecting consumer media on the Indicators of rural and nomadic lifestyle Gilane Gharb in 2017 by descriptive method. The statistical population consists of youths of 20-34 years old in rural and nomadic of Gilane Gharb. The multi-stage cluster sampling method was used and the sample size was 381 based on Cochran's formula. The data were collected...

*Author for correspondence: Phone: +1 302.831.6514; Fax: +1 302.831.6395; E-mail: [email protected] Broader food safety communication may help engage consumers and contribute to an overall improvement in food safety. Results of an online questionnaire demonstrate the importance of the Internet in food safety communications about foodborne illness outbreaks. Despite the great potential of social m...

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In this article, David Buckingham addresses the challenges media educators face in dealing with postmodern media culture. Buckingham begins by outlining the nature of contemporary developments in children’s media environments and how these relate to broader changes in their social status. He argues that these developments represent a fundamental challenge to the modernist project of media educa...

We study the ability of banks and merchants to influence the consumer’s payment instrument choice. Consumers participate in payment card networks to insure themselves against three types of shocks— income, theft, and their merchant match. Merchants choose which payment instruments to accept based on their production costs and increased profit opportunities. Our key results can be summarized as ...

This study examines how consumers’ interest in a new movie develops around paid and earned media in pre-launch periods, how this interest impacts opening-week revenue, and how postlaunch revenue of a movie is influenced by advertising and various earned media. The prelaunch, opening-week and post-launch worlds are structurally different and we therefore develop three separate models, two multip...

Social media is changing the balance of power as well as the dynamics of communication between manufacturers and retailers, their brands, and consumers. In this research we examine the effects of companies’ responses to consumer criticism in social media. Our findings indicate that a vulnerable response leads to more positive behavioral consequences without damaging product quality perceptions ...

BACKGROUND Although a number of studies have investigated how consumers use social media for health-related purposes, there is a paucity of studies in the Australian context. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to explore how Australian consumers used social media for health-related purposes, specifically how they identified social media platforms, which were used, and which health-related activities ...