Community detection methods from complex network theory are applied to a subset of the Myspace artist network to identify groups of similar artists. Methods based on the greedy optimization of modularity and random walks are used. In a second iteration, inter-artist audio-based similarity scores are used as input to enhance these community detection methods. The resulting community structures a...

According to educational gaming advocates, the engaging nature of games encourages sustained game play and enhanced attention to learning outcomes among players. Because children's and adolescents' play time varies by game genre, engagement with a game likely reflects the match between the genre and the player's preferences and needs. Youth learn which games are likely to promote satisfying psy...

Two studies examined how adult age and time of measurement influence media preferences. Study 1 (using TV ratings data from 1970s to 1980s) found that the popularity of genres varied over time, but even after controlling for year, age groups differed in (a) genre choices (consistent with socioemotional selectivity theory) and (b) age of characters viewed (consistent with age identity theory). T...

of Thesis vi Chapter One: Introduction 1 Chapter Two: Literature Review 6 Introduction 6 Uses and Gratifications Perspective 6 Early History of Media Gratification 7 Development of Uses and Gratifications Theory 9 Extensions into Uses and Gratifications 10 Summary of Uses and Gratifications Theory 12 Television Popularity and the Audience 12 A Historical Review of the Television Genre 13 Realit...

This study reports on the findings of a genre teaching course for developing academic writing of a class of EFL students in Iran. The information report genre was taught in a cyclical way of teaching and learning, which was started from ‘setting the context’ and ‘deconstruction’ of prototype information report genre, and continued with ‘joint construction’, ‘independent construction’, and final...