A cross sectional study was done to investigate the impact of media on the physical health of adolescents in Chennai. Media usage was found tobe highly influencing factor for the physical health of adolescents. The sample comprised of 448school students in the age range of 11-17. A semi structured questionnaire was used to get information. The results revealed that 90% of the participants eat w...

Based on the "Cultivation of emotions" approach in media psychology we explore the emotional processes that occur while people are watching TVnews. Investigation of media reception is done by combining both timeline data of TV-news (describing formats and content of TV-news by using a computer assisted media analysis) and data about facial expressions as indicators of emotional appraisal proces...

Background Reflecting the increasing prevalence of online media, many mass media health campaigns are now delivered using both television (TV) and online media formats. The aim of this study was to evaluate a smoking cessation mass media campaign according to the cost-effectiveness of the various combinations of TV and online media formats to inform future media buying decisions. Methods A qu...

This paper presents a novel broadband multimedia service called TV-Anytime. The basic idea of this service is to store broadcast media assets onto media server systems and allow clients to access these streams at any time. We propose a hierarchical structure of a distributed server network to support a high quality TV-anytime service. A key issue, how to map the media assets onto such a hierarc...

This study explored in what way and to what extent people’s occupational position corresponds with the consumption of news and the exposure to political content offered by the traditional mass media TV, radio and newspaper. Empirical data from the ’Media use in the Netherlands, 2000’ survey among a representative sample of the Dutch population (Konig, et al., 2005) (N=825) were used. Occupation...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether parental screen-viewing, parental attitudes or access to media equipment were associated with the screen-viewing of 6-year-old to 8-year-old children. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. SETTING Online survey. MAIN OUTCOME Parental report of the number of hours per weekday that they and, separately, their 6-year-old to 8-year-old child spent watching TV, using a ga...

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The Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS Competence Center Future Applications and Media FAME researches and develops in the fields of interactive smart and social media services, cross-platform applications as well as personalized service offerings. All technical solutions comply with applicable international standards, such as DASH IF, the Open IPTV Forum, HbbTV and W3C. In this context, the theme of t...

The TV oak (Television Oak) conflict concerned felling an old tree in a wealthy area of Stockholm. The case received great public attention in different media formats with different scopes (e.g., newspapers, television, internet). The TV Oak issue involved actors with different, partly conflicting perceptions. Assuming that the relevance of urban tree management issues in particular leads to in...

Protagonists for 'the public understanding of science' still sometimes fail to recognize that there is also a need for 'the scientists' understanding of the public' and that for most of science most of the time we are all public. 'Science' is communicated to 'the public' through popular books, museums, TV, the Internet, but far too often the present state of scientific belief is presented uncri...