The present paper examines the microfoundations of how households form subjective expectations about the macroeconomy. In particular, we are interested in the role of perceived news. The paper outlines a theoretical model where households may give unequal importance (or weights) to „good‟ and „bad‟ news. We also consider whether the relationship is state-varying and has any structural changes. ...

Media in general and news in particular constitute indispensable parts of modern life. TV news which contains visual elements in addition to the verbal aspects was used as the corpus of this study. In fact, this research culled out the ideologies of Iranian national television in presenting different issues. To be more precise, three internationally-significant pieces of news reports were chose...

Television service is indispensable to a human life in the modern age. The people who are seeing or hearing impaired, however, do not enjoy the TV programs as much as they want. In closed-caption service, the speech in TV programs are put into characters and superimposed on TV pictures for the bene t of hearing impaired people. We proposed in the paper natural language and speech processing tec...

VISUAL COMPLEXITY IN TELEVISION NEWS: A TIME SERIES ANALYSIS OF AUDIENCE EVALUATIONS OF AN ELECTRONICALLY ESTIMA ED FORM COMPLEXITY V BLE Tony Rimmer School of Journalism Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405 Telephone: (812) 335-1717 Office The object of this study was to develop a content-free, form complexity measure of a network TV newscast based on pixel light Intensity, and to test aud...

Matrix Factorization (MF) is known as an effective technique in collaborative filtering for recommendation. The MF approaches have often been applied for movie recommender systems which have user rating data. However, they cannot effectively be applicable for TV program recommender systems because (i) explicit rating values are not available; (ii) many TV programs are broadcast under single TV ...

news via mobile devices and digital platforms such as search engines social media. The study examined whether trends were escalating in the contexts where a large number of people continued to access from traditional media sources TV, news, print. A survey 512 respondents living Sarawak, Malaysia was conducted (33.8% rural, 10% suburban, 56.2% urban). results showed that gadgets most commonly u...

This paper describes a technique for classifying TV broadcast video using Hidden Markov Model (HMM) [1]. Here we consider the problem of discriminating five types of TV programs, namely commercials, basketball games, football games, news reports, and weather forecasts. Eight frame-based audio features are used to characterize the low-level audio properties, and fourteen clip-based audio feature...

This article presents findings from two studies that describe news portrayals of cancer causes and prevention in local TV and test the effects of typical aspects of this coverage on cancer-related fatalism and overload. Study 1 analyzed the content of stories focused on cancer causes and prevention from an October 2002 national sample of local TV and newspaper cancer coverage (n = 122 televisio...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to describe the source, length, number of views, and content of the most widely viewed Zika virus (ZIKV)-related YouTube videos. We hypothesized that ZIKV-related videos uploaded by different sources contained different content. METHODS The 100 most viewed English ZIKV-related videos were manually coded and analyzed statistically. RESULTS Among the 1...

This paper describes a technique for classifying TV broadcast video using Hidden Markov Model (HMM) [1]. Here we consider the problem of discriminating five types of TV programs, namely commercials, basketball games, football games, news reports, and weather forecasts. Eight frame-based audio features are used to characterize the low-level audio properties, and fourteen clip-based audio feature...