Entertainment and Media in UK Law
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Interpreting and Reinterpreting the Political Significance of Popular Media: The Importance of Seeing from a Range of Perspectives
Studies of popular culture have elucidated important insights about the extent to which politics is constructed by entertainment media. Nevertheless, I contend that when it comes to studies of secu......... Schulzke Abstract Studies of popular culture have elucidated important insights about the extent to which politics is constructed by entertainment media. Nevertheless, I contend that when it comes to studies of security discourses in entertainment, researchers are too preoccupied with ......
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Social media and student performance: the moderating role of ICT knowledge
Purpose: This study aims to determine the impact of social media usage on university student’s academic performance in Ghana. Design/methodology/approach: A quantitative research method was used f......... collected was analysed using structural equationmodelling to establish the relationship among social media information, social media entertainment, socialmedia innovation,social media knowledge generation and student performance.Findings –The findings of this study indicatethat social media ......
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The Mass Media TNCs: An Overall Review of their Operations and of Control Options
Varis, Tapio. The Mass Media TNCs: An Overall Review of their Operations and of Control Options. Cooperation and Conflict, XIII, 1978 193-213. Recent discussions on transnational corpo......... The main focus is on the information media, al- though some observations on the entertainment media are also made. The control options of these TNCs are discussed with particular attention to the problems connected with the ......
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Clownpants in the classroom? Hypnotizing chickens? Measurement of structural distraction in visual presentation documents
Purpose: – The purpose of this paper is to consider the structure of entertainment media as a possible foundation for measuring aspects of visual presentations that could enhance or interfere with ......... purpose of this paper is to consider the structure of enter tainment media as a possiblefoundation for measuring aspects of visual presentations that ... who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn’t knowthe first thing about either (Marshall McLuhan).A ......
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“Write the story you want to read”: world-queering through slash fanfiction creation
Purpose: This pilot study explores how queer slash fanfiction writers reorient cis/heteronormative entertainment media (EM) content to create queer information worlds. Design/methodology/approach:......... slash fanfiction writers reorient cis/heteronormativeentertainment media (EM) content to create queer information ...For example, somequeer individuals use entertainment media (EM), which can be broadly defined as fiction andcreative ......
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How do social enterprises recruit workers? The case of social enterprises in Thailand
Purpose: This paper aims to bridge the literatures on social enterprises and human resource management to examine the recruitment practices, specifically the recruitment channels, which are used by........., textiles and garments, printing and publishing and entertainment andmedia. The casestudy evidence draws on semi-structuredinterviews, field ... the printing and publishing industry and theentertainment and media industry, are also understudied in the literature on human ......
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War Toys, War Movies, and the Militarization of the United States, 1900-85
Various themes in the scholarly literature have argued that an entrenched military is able to maintain its level of influence through the manipulation of perceptions of a hostile environment. While...... @media screen{}@media print{@page ......
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Social media use by undergraduate students of education in Nigeria: a survey
Purpose: This paper aims to investigate teacher students’ perceptions, intentions, experiences, attitudes, opinions and barriers concerning social media use and impact of social media on their lear..........Findings –The students widelyused mobile phones to access social media, and social media was extremelypopular for education, entertainment and communication among them. Educational and informationalcommunities were also preferredby students to other social media communities. The study ......
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Exploring information security education on social media use. Perspective of uses and gratifications theory
Purpose: Based on the literature on information security (InfoSec) education and uses and gratifications theory, the purpose of this paper is to propose and test a research model to examine the imp......... view.Findings –The results reveal the significant impacts of perceived content quality, perceived social influence andperceived entertainment on user satisfaction in the context of security education and social media. Usersatisfaction is significantly associated with user stickiness and ......
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Uses and gratifications of social media: a comparison of microblog and WeChat
Purpose: – The purpose of this study is to explore the general and specific gratifications obtained from using microblog and WeChat. Design/methodology/approach: – To shed light on the difference .........Furthermore, content gratication of WeChat usage refersto high-quality information provided and information sharing, and entertainment and passing timedevelop hedonic gratication of microblog usage, while that of WeChat usage refers to entertainment.Originality/value – Extant ......
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