Gerbner and Gross’s cultivation theory predicts that prolonged exposure to TV violence creates fear of crime, symptomatic of a mean world syndrome. We tested the theory’s prediction in a time series model with annual changes in violence portrayal on popular US TV shows from 1972 to 2010 as a predictor of changes in public perceptions of local crime rates and fear of crime. We found that contrar...

With the emerging of various online video platforms like Youtube, Youku and LeTV, online movie reviews become more and more important both for movie viewers and producers. As a result, automatically classifying reviews according to different requirements evolves as a popular research topic and is very essential in our daily life. In this paper, we focused on reviews of hot TV series in China an...

Collaborative filtering(CF) for the personalized recommendation is a successful and popular method in recommender systems. But the mainly researched and implemented cases focus on dealing with independent items with explicit feedback by users. For the domain of TV program recommendation in VOD service platform, we need to consider the unique characteristic and constraints of the domain. In this...

Abstract TV series have gained both economic and cultural relevance. Their development over time can hardly be traced back to the simple programmatic action of creative intentionality. Instead, might studied as narrative ecosystems with emergent trends patterns. This paper aims boost quantitative research in field media studies, first considering a comparative data-driven study features US medi...

SANTTSUR is a pilot project which was set up to evaluate the benefit of, live, interactive, digital TV broadcasting, combined with video conferencing and access to the Internet, as an integrated distance learning medium for doctors in basic surgical training. A series of thirty 90-minute TV broadcasts has been developed, aimed at doctors in the working in 26 hospitals across the UK and Ireland....

OBJECTIVE Evidence suggests that TV viewing is associated with body mass index (BMI) and metabolic syndrome (MetS) in adolescents. However, it is unclear whether dietary intake mediates these relationships. METHODS A cross-sectional analysis was conducted in adolescents (12-19 years) participating in the 2003-2006 United States National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. BMI z scores (z...