Search results for " Audience"

American Horror Story e i suoi fan italiani: interazioni e costruzione del discorso on-line

2020

A partire dal concetto sociologico di “audience performativa”, che contraddistingue alcune forme della spettatorialità televisiva contemporanea, in questo contributo prendo in considerazione l’attività di produzione dei fan; in particolare, la produttività testuale e discorsiva, che è spesso riferita alle serie TV. Discuto, poi, il posto dell’horror nella narrazione seriale, traendo spunto da American Horror Story, la serie di successo ideata, nel 2011, da Ryan Murphy e Brad Falchuk. Quindi, attraverso una ricerca empirica di tipo quali-quantitativo, provo a descrivere e spiegare le modalità d’interazione e i discorsi dei fan italiani, iscritti ad una pagina Facebook dedicata alla serie, fa…

On Theodor Adorno

2016

I have never fully bought (albeit often tempted to) into the simplistic and somewhat caricaturist versions of Theodor Adorno’s ideas about the cultural industry and the alienated consumer given by some supporters of the “active” audience. Even more so today, when digital social media seem to make participatory culture, creativity and active citizenship a dream coming true. I have always thought instead that, beyond the traps of binary thinking (powerful media vs active audience), there is a much more complex story to be told and that we, as cultural analysts and media literacy educators, need to patiently reconstruct – with all possible evidence coming from empirical data – the intricacy of…

Active Audiences

2019

The concept of the active audience has been one of the most fruitful and provocative ones in the field of media literacy as it has brought media educators to seriously question the traditional ways of defining both their students’ involvement with the media and the effects they supposedly produce on them.

Financial Literacy Self-Evaluation of Young People in Latvia

2021

Regular and proportionate voluntary savings in private pension funds can become an important part of oldage pensions. However, this can happen if the savings are made for a long period of time. This justifies the target group of the 3rd pension level, which are young people who have started to receive a regular income from their professional activity. One of the most discussed issues in promoting voluntary pension savings is the level of financial literacy. In addition to other motivating factors, such as financial incentives, the level of knowledge of the population about the opportunities to participate in the third pillar of pensions makes them want to build up voluntary savings. Effecti…

Profiling deaf and hard-of-hearing users of subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing in Italy: a questionnaire-based study

2012

The aim of this article is to present the results of a questionnaire-based study carried out as part of the author’s Master’s Degree dissertation about Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard-of-hearing (SDH). In particular, the need to gather specific information regarding audience design will be highlighted in the paper, since this research field has long been neglected in Italy. The questions were aimed at shedding light on the needs, cultural environment and world-view of Italian SDH users, by eliciting personal data as well as subtitlerelated information. Moreover, the 232 respondents were asked to suggest improvements to SDH services in Italy. Although these first results cannot allow definit…

Rhizomatic Target Audiences of the Cyber Domain

2016

Target Audience Analysis (TAA) is a process of finding suitable target audiences for psychological operations (PSYOPS). Typically, a TAA is a one-way process with some kind of a feedback system. The cyber domain presents a challenge to this type of sequential, linear process by refusing to stay still while the process is being executed, possibly leading to results from yesterday’s data in an environment that no longer exists today. Another challenge is that identifiable human beings—the traditional targets of PSYOPS—are not the only inhabitants of the cyber domain. Physical devices, nicknames, IP addresses, networks, and a vast amount of data populate this environment, in which there are no…

Understanding Twitch Esports Communities through Livestream Chat Analysis

2022

Translation history: audiences, collaboration and interdisciplinarity

2013

Translation history constitutes a huge field of research where methods, theories, research questions and topics vary widely. One important question here is who we write history to (who is our addressee) and what kind of an impact the perceived audience has on the ways of writing history. In the case of academic audiences, an audience often is also a partner in research collaboration. However, there are other audiences outside the academia as well. In this article, I will illustrate the issue of audiences and interdisciplinarity through describing the work done in translation historiography in Finland. There have been scholars and writers from different academic disciplines and orientations …

Vanishing points and horizons of audience perception in Shakespeare's late plays

2017

International audience

UPBRINGING AND LEARNING UNITY AS A SOURCE FOR DEVELOPING TEACHERS' EMOTIONAL RESPONSIVENESS

2020

In the second half of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century, the scientific research in Europe started focusing more on the problems of upbringing. Pedagogical science was no exception, and also started raising questions regarding upbringing including both the teaching/learning and the upbringing/self-education processes in pedagogical activities and in the education system as a whole. The united way in which the teaching/learning, upbringing/self-education work is conducted at educational institutions reflects the professionalism of the teacher. The study reveals the necessity and importance of upbringing and unity in teaching work for the pedagogical processes of the 21st…