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Persuading through fictional television : a mixed methods investigation of genre expectations
No full textGenres provide an effective way for viewers to categorize, select, and evaluate entertainment television (TV) programs (Bilandzic & Rossler, 2004; Hawkins et al., 2001). People tend to know, for example, whether they will enjoy a medical drama or animated comedy based on their prior experience watching shows of that genre. Despite growing interest in entertainment media as a vehicle for persuasion, minimal research has considered how genre may influence receptivity to and acceptance of persuasive appeals in fictional TV programming (J. Cohen & Weimann, 2000; Grabe & Drew, 2007). Even less work has offered theoretical explanations for why genre may impact the persuasion process. Across three studies, this dissertation, guided by expectancy-violations theory (Burgoon, 1993, 2015), offers a thorough investigation into how audiences consider fictional TV genres and whether those expectations influence the success of subsequent persuasive attempts.In Study 1, qualitative interviews were conducted to gauge how viewers feel about using fictional TV shows for persuasion and whether genre is an influential factor in their assessments. The results provided preliminary evidence that viewers hold strong expectations for the likelihood and appropriateness of persuasive appeals in certain genres. In Study 2, persuasion-relevant expectations, including content credibility, learning potential, and likelihood of distributing an educational message, were tested for ten fictional TV genres (animated comedy, animated drama, comedy, crime comedy, crime drama, general drama, historical drama, medical comedy, medical drama, science-fiction/fantasy). Results of the online survey provided strong statistical support that viewers consider the content of TV genres differently and that these expectations influence hypothetical acceptance of an educational appeal. Lastly, Study 3 offered an experimental manipulation of genre (historical fiction vs. science- fiction/fantasy) to test whether genre expectation violations and message resistance explain the success of entertainment media in facilitating persuasion. Although the hypotheses were not supported in Study 3, post-hoc analyses found genre to influence participants' perceived persuasive intent, which in turn, influenced attitudes, descriptive norms, and behavioral intention toward daily stretching. The cumulative results of this dissertation stress the importance of genre study in the entertainment media persuasion scholarship and offer several avenues for future research.Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Information and Media, 2022Includes bibliographical references (pages 116-139
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Putting the “self” in self-deprecation: When deprecating humor about minorities is acceptable
Full text linkThis study tested how source knowledge affects enjoyment of self- deprecating humor about a minority group. Participants made aware that the sourc of a message poking fun at people with disabilities was himself disabled had more positive evaluations of the cartoon and author than participants un-aware of his disability. Participants initially given no source information judged the author more positively the second time when they were given follow-up source information. Finally, some effects were moderated by the disability status of the message receiver, such that having a disability or knowing someone who does predicted higher liking of the cartoons when the author is disabled but lower liking when he is not. The results suggest a role for self-deprecating humor in intergroup relations, and predict when such humor will be accepted by mi-nority and non-minority group members.Klein College of Media and CommunicationCommunication and Social Influenc
I Did 10,000 Steps so I Earned This Treat: Problematic Smartwatch Use and Exercise Tracking Associations with Compensatory Eating and Sedentary Activity
No full textThis is the original submission version (pre-peer review) of the following article: Siddika, Aysha, and Morgan E. Ellithorpe. “I Did 10,000 Steps so I Earned This Treat: Problematic Smartwatch Use and Exercise Tracking Associations with Compensatory Eating and Sedentary Activity.” Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking 28, no. 3 (March 1, 2025): 211–16. https://doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2024.0204 which has now been formally published in final form at Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking at https://doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2024.0204. This original submission version of the article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with the Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers’ self-archiving terms and conditions.
This article was originally published in Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking Volume 28, Number 3, 2025. The version of record is available at: https://doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2024.0204.
© 2025, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers.Smartwatches are digital devices, similar to smartphones, and come with the possibility of problematic use. Problematic technology use is the experience of psychological distress or reduced daily functioning in response to excessive or addictive technology use. The purpose of this study was to explore whether problematic use of smartwatch devices for exercise tracking influences user’s health behaviors such as eating habits and sedentary activity. An online survey was conducted among college-aged smartwatch users (n = 221). Results showed that using smartwatches for exercise tracking has a positive relationship with compensatory eating behavior (i.e., increasing caloric intake after exercise) when the use is higher in problematic use. This study concludes that although smartwatch devices are promoted to aid healthy behaviors, their impact on positive health outcomes may be limited for some users, to the extent that compensatory eating can derail fitness goals and may exacerbate eating behaviors. Future research should aim to develop health messaging for smartwatch users to make them aware of the potential for compensatory eating behavior to undermine their goals in the face of excessive smartwatch use for fitness purposes
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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