Audience Discussion Research Articles

Review and Prioritize the Factors Affecting on Attract and Keep Audiences on the Internet at the Student Sports Organizations

The most important concern every marketing mental sport to find the audience and finally preserving and creating loyalty in sports audience discussion is attracting and keeping viewers and users by presenting electronic services through web sites. One method of establishing relations with the audience and most important priorities student sports organizations are considered. Web sites effectiveness student sports organizations in order to establish relations with the students and addresses are very important. Undoubtedly the situation of sport organizations has been changed all over the world, especially in Iran. In fact internet and E-commerce has become a tool for sport organizations to attract and keep the audience, also to communicate with fans and sport students. Therefore student sports organizations need to know the information in connection with their website which makes it able to their effectiveness and capability in communications and information and selling electronic services to evaluate. The aim of this investigation and identification of variables effective on the Internet services provided by Iran Student sports organizations .Given the necessary investigation of audiences student sports organizations active in Iran that electronic services through web site. Estimate by a questionnaire made based on a scale 5 option likert narrative that after you and the problem behaviors ankle bracelet polls model with the volume of 140 people had not have an accident in a separate distribution and has been collected. Method analysis test for this research, our analysis and Variance Friedman’s and to study the connection between the investigation of variables test excluded solidarity and manuscripts diagnosing analysis has been used based on the results of the site users graphic variables, the contents site, ability, technical variables and reviewing the site purchases of Internet services web sites by the other conversional technical and other function” there was a meaningful relationship. Also the research priority each of the function” to attract audiences and keep respectively following has specified: reliability, technical varier, site investigations, and the facade site content site.

Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems

For over a decade the human factors of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS, but also known as Unmanned Aerial Systems-UAS or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles –UAV) has been the continued focus of a community of scientists and engineers. Their efforts have been highlighted in various workshops, conferences and books and range from the design of effective ground control stations to crew coordination, spatial disorientation, supervisory control of multiple vehicles, soda straw views of camera feed, and training and selection. Much progress has been made. But new problems are surfacing of a different, more complex nature. Current pressing issues such as the integration of UAS in the national airspace, training and certification of civilian pilots, or exploitation of sensor data from these platforms and concomitant privacy concerns fall within the scope of the discipline of Human Systems Integration (HSI). This panel will highlight several human systems integrations issues surrounding RPAS and will engage the audience in discussion of those issues.

Bollywood Horror as an Uncanny Public Sphere: Genre Theories, Postcolonial Concepts, and the Insightful Audience

This article critically interrogates the many ways in which contemporary urban life in India is imagined and theorized by Hindi horror films and their critics and audiences. It suggests that “horrific” representations of tropes such as living space, family life, labor, gender relations and childhood are repositioned by the meanings attributed in critical and audience discussions across time and national boundaries. Acknowledging and questioning a conceptual melange from “abjection” and “subalternity” to “voice” and “carnival,” it complicates homogenizing accounts of Bollywood's ideological allegiance to authoritarian master-narratives. While Hindi horror films invite spectators to engage with political rhetorics about economic success, exclusion, justice, and patriarchy, the outcomes of such engagement are inflected by individual spectators's cultural, political, and generic experiences.

Voice, alienation and the struggle to be heard: a case study of community radio programming in South Africa

In post-apartheid South Africa, how possible is it for community radio to dissociate from elite practices in terms of media creation and consumption that reflect inclusive and participatory public spheres? This article is based on a study of a current affairs community radio show, Lunchtime Live. The show attempted to capture diverse voices, to offer balanced perspectives between powerful political elites and ordinary citizens, and to create spaces for ordinary citizens in a rural South African town, Grahamstown, to participate in public spheres with the aim of fostering inclusive public discussion and accountability. However, high levels of poverty and inequality made this aspect of citizenship unattainable, especially in view of the costs involved with participating in studio discussions through audience-initiated phone calls. While the diction used on Lunchtime Live was couched in struggle and revolutionary language and pitted the community against the authorities, the audience discussions revealed that the community felt alienated, and that the chasm between them and their leaders may be widening. This was because of the perception that Lunchtime Live shows were, ab initio, tainted by elite participation and frames, which turned many potential and actual audiences against it.

Toward a Definition of Evaluation Within the Canadian Context: Who Knew This Would Be So Difficult?

Abstract: This article describes the systematic examination and membership consultation process undertaken to define evaluation within the Canadian context. To that end, the article (a) presents the findings from a literature scan and analysis of social media postings, (b) considers the outcomes of the audience discussion during the presentation at the 2013 Canadian Evaluation Society conference, and (c) offers ideas for next steps. Together, the literature scan results, social media analysis, and membership discussion reveal that no single definition currently exists. Further, there are indications that a shared definition would be difficult to achieve within the Canadian evaluation community. Among the potential implications discussed is that a single definition might restrict or oversimplify the current scope of practice, given the wide range of contexts and purposes for evaluation in Canada.

Future Directions in 3D Materials Science: Outlook from the First International Conference on 3D Materials Science

The First International Conference on Three-Dimensional Materials Science was held in July 2012 in Seven Springs, Pennsylvania. The final session of the meeting consisted of a panel and audience discussion of the future directions of 3D materials science. Here we summarize these directions in four categories: improving data collection capabilities; increasing efficiency of collection, analysis, and modeling of data; error quantification; and data management.

Digging Deep in the Dirt of Communication: Teaching Skill, Conflict Management, and Negotiation Stance in Bedside, Intraprofessional, and Personal Interactions (FR410)

misalignment between the goals of the surgical team and the palliative medicine specialists. But are there missed opportunities to further increase quality of life through palliative surgery? Can surgical interventions be incorporated within a palliative care philosophy to improve the symptoms without causing increased complications, hospitalizations, or other outcomes thought inconsistent with the goals of palliative medicine? As a multidisciplinary and multi-institutional panel of surgeons, oncologists, and palliativemedicine physicians, we aim to discuss how palliative surgery can be best incorporated into complex symptom management. Using a case-based approach integrated with audience discussion, we will highlight both typical and novel surgical interventions that may not be familiar to our discipline to relieve symptom distress. These cases will come from our own experiences, including management of complexmalignant bowel obstruction, intractable ascites and pleural effusions, and biliaryobstruction.Finally,wewill explore thecomplex dynamics between surgical specialties and palliative medicine, especially how to reconcile attitudes and feelings that our goals are different when they are truly not. It is hoped that this discussion will help participants to formulate an action plan to create stronger relationships with surgery colleagues, and ultimately deliver better collaborative care, at their own institutions.

A ‘Moot’ for Educational Research in Europe?

For many years the EERJ Roundtable has been a standing event within the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER). In a discursive style it addresses issues related to contemporary relationships between educational research and educational policy in Europe. The changing educational landscape, together with shifting practices and discourses of educational research, prompted researchers to discuss the need for increased self-governance. It was taken up as the topic for the 2013 EERJ Roundtable and couched as a question: What is the possibility of a ‘moot’ for educational research in Europe? This article reports on the 2013 Roundtable. Its three short presentations and subsequent audience discussion have been summarised and reflected upon to make a case for a moot: a self-governing space for educational research. It reveals ECER, and particularly the EERJ Roundtable, as a scholarly and a political arena where the interplay between research, policy and larger patterns of social change can be reviewed, interrogated and appropriated critically into the disciplinary logics of educational research.

Found in translation: debating the abstract elements of cultures through actor training styles

While the synthesis of acting methodologies in intercultural acting has been discussed at length, little discussion has focussed on the potential of diverse actor training styles to affect performance making and audience reception. This article explores a project where the abstract elements of the British and American cultures were translated in rehearsal and in production through the purposeful juxtaposition of two differing actor training styles: the British ‘traditional’ approach and the American Method. William Nicholson's Shadowlands was produced by Crossbow Productions at the Brisbane Powerhouse in 2010. Nicholson's play contains a discourse on the cultural cringe of British–American relations. As a research project, the production aimed to extend and augment audience experience of the socio-cultural tensions inherent in the play by juxtaposing two seemingly culturally inscribed approaches to acting. Actors were chosen who had been trained under a traditional conservatoire approach and the American Method. A brief overview of these acting approaches is followed by a discussion centred on the project. This article analyses how from the casting room to the rehearsal room to the mise en scene and into the audience discussions, cultural issues were articulated, translated and debated through the language of acting.

HEALTH TECHNOLOGY REASSESSMENT: THE ART OF THE POSSIBLE

Health technology reassessment (HTR) is "a structured, evidence-based assessment of the clinical, social, ethical, and economic effects of a technology currently used in the healthcare system, to inform optimal use of that technology in comparison to its alternatives." The purpose of this study is to describe the key themes in the context of current HTR activities and propose a way forward for this newly emerging field. Data were gathered from a workshop held as part of the 2012 Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technology in Health (CADTH) symposium. The workshop consisted of two panel presentations followed by discussion; data gathered, including presentations and rich audience discussion transcripts, were analyzed for key themes emerging in the field of HTR using constant comparative analysis. The language chosen to describe HTR will set the tone for engagement. The identification of champions at multiple levels and political will are essential. Key lessons from international experience are: disinvestment is difficult, focus on clinical areas not specific technologies, identify clear goals of the HTR agenda. Six key themes were identified to move the HTR agenda forward: emphasize integration over segregation, focus on development of HTR methods and processes, processes are context-specific but lessons must be shared, build capacity in synergistic interdisciplinary fields, develop meaningful stakeholder engagement, strengthen postimplementation monitoring and evaluation. To move this field forward, we must continue to build on international experiences with a focus on developing novel methodological approaches to generating, incorporating, and implementing evidence into policy and practice.

From therapy to poetry and back again: One writer's journey

This reflective piece suggests three phases from therapeutic writing to full-fledged poetry to an audience's reading and discussion, illustrated with specific examples and commentary. The author, a social scientist, an adult educator and a published poet, begins with the role of writing in her own processing of the painful experience of a family member's severe mental illness and suicide, showing us her earliest therapeutic writing. She then illuminates a second phase, in which she gives us an inside look at the rewriting process that led to two poems suitable for public display. She considers how the resulting poems might be used for both therapeutic and educational purposes, offering discussion prompts and questions related to the poems.

Gender Mores on Indian Tv: The ‘Respectable’ Middle Class and Ndtv'sThe Big Fight

While India's booming entertainment channels are often examined for their lifestyle content, the nation's equally vibrant English-language news networks can also be read as offering lifestyle-oriented content and advice. Talk shows of both the controlled panel debate and the more interactive studio audience discussion variety often veer into social commentary, particularly on issues pertaining to the transitioning social values of the middle classes, including normative gender. In light of this, this article examines a recent love, sex and marriage-themed episode of leading news channel NDTV 24×7's debate-style talk show, The Big Fight. Such discussions are often cast among ‘respectable’ middle-class Indian households as being ‘too forward’ to watch with the family. Do the panelists on these shows simply articulate ‘respectable’ middle-class sentiments, or are they drawn from a wider social pool? What is the role of the host in re-mediating the material under discussion? How do studio audience questions impact on form and content? Most importantly, what role does such programming play in the ongoing transformation of gendered social norms among the middle classes in India today? These questions are considered within the broader framework of the transnational talk show genre and its appropriation in a specific instance in the contemporary Indian context.

Celebrity Suicide and the Search for the Moral High Ground: Comparing Frames in Media and Audience Discussions of the Death of a Flemish Celebrity

Taking a case study and framing approach, this article analyzes media coverage of and (on- and off-line) audience reactions to a gay celebrity's death and its aftermath to see how it triggers discussion about socially and ethically sensitive issues. It starts from the assumption that the celebrity construct is not just a commodity but also acts as a forum to discuss social and ethical issues, norms, and values. Media coverage of the suicide of Flemish singer Yasmine is revealed to be dominated by frames relating to the soap of life (especially divorce), the celebrity's status as a lesbian icon, and her position as a victim of abuse, with framing differing according to media and journalistic style. Audience reactions do not simply mimic these frames, but are mediated in different ways by personal experiences, peers, and parasocial relationships, resulting in active negotiations of the media frames, even creating counter-frames, particularly regarding the act of suicide and the gay status of the celebrity.

Protecting the Brain: What's the Evidence Behind Strategies to Mitigate Cognitive Aging?

Protecting the Brain: What's the Evidence Behind Strategies to Mitigate Cognitive Aging?

Metropolitan (Im)migrants in the "Lettered City"

In her article Metropolitan (Im)migrants in the 'Lettered City' Stacey Balkan employs Angel Rama's discussion of audience as a means of analyzing a Latin American diaspora that exists beyond the rational periphery of the state. Herein, the term diaspora is redefined as a translocal phenomenon wherein the metropolitan (im)migrant moves from rural margin to urban center. Normative definitions of exile — persons displaced from autonomous nation-states — are likewise scrutinized in the context of what Balkan terms a post-contemporary city of letters. This postcontemporary city is the subject of what Mabel Morana refers to as a subaltern boom — that is, the McOndo generation. Balkan discusses the work of Roberto Bolano, Daniel Alarcon, and Junot Diaz who employ such narrative signatures as invisibility to reify the ephemeral (or lettered) city while also amplifying the predicament of the now urban Indian living within its borders. Stacey Balkan, Metropolitan (Im)migrants in the 'Lettered City' page 2 of 10 CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 14.5 (2012): Special issue New Work about the Journey and Its Portrayals. Ed. I-Chun Wang

Assignment of measurable costs and benefits to wildlife conservation projects

Success of wildlife conservation projects is determined by a suite of biological and economic factors. Donor and public understanding of the economic factors is becoming increasingly central to the longevity of funding for conservation efforts. Unlike typical economic evaluation, many costs and benefits related to conservation efforts are realised in non-monetary terms. We identify the types of benefits and costs that arise from conservation projects and examine several well developed techniques that economists use to convert benefits and costs into monetary values so they may be compared in a common metric. Costs are typically more readily identifiable than benefits, with financial project costs reported most frequently, and opportunity and damage costs reported much less often. Most current evaluation methods rely primarily on cost-effectiveness analysis rather than cost–benefit analysis, a result of the difficultly in measuring benefits. We highlight improved methodology to measure secondary costs and benefits on a broader spatial scale, thereby promoting project efficacy and long-term success. Estimation of the secondary effects can provide a means to engage a wider audience in discussions of wildlife conservation by illuminating the relevant impacts to income and employment in local economies.

The 2012 ISBER Annual Meeting & Exhibits.

The 2012 ISBER Annual Meeting & Exhibits.

The Note-Taker’s Perspective During Usability Testing: A Hands-On Approach to Recognizing What’s Important, What Isn’t

It is a well-known psychological phenomenon that one’s perceptions are influenced by one’s expectations and biases. This is manifest in behavioral situations ranging from detecting signals in noise to more complex cognitive situations like recounting eyewitness accounts of observed events. Such dynamics also affect our thought processes as we observe usability test participants. Yet the approach to observing user behavior, determining what to look for and what to consider important, seems highly individualized and not often explicated. Even how-to texts on usability testing give relatively little guidance on the process of observing test participants and taking notes on their performance and comments. Consequently, one suspects that some of the variability in usability test results that has plagued the field may be due to a lack of consensus about how to observe user behavior or how to prepare for observation. This alternative format presentation will use collective viewing of video clips from sample usability tests as a stimulant for audience discussion about these issues. We see this as a consensus building exercise, exploring the extent to which the audience can, as a group, agree on what is noteworthy in the clips we present. In doing so we hope to offer some tips and lessons learned that may point towards defining best practices for observing user behavior and comments during usability testing.

Eudora Welty Foundation

Eudora Welty Foundation Jeanne B. Luckett, Communications Consultant Since the report from the Eudora Welty Foundation published in the Volume 9 Spring 2017 edition of the Eudora Welty Review, the Foundation has engaged in some stimulating new activities and produced rewarding installments of other on-going programs and projects. The Foundation partners with many organizations to promote Welty’s literary and photographic legacy and to encourage reading and writing. We present events and develop resources for students, teachers, scholars, and the public and assist the Mississippi Department of Archives and History in the preservation of the Welty House and Garden. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Presented Second Annual Eudora Welty Lecture Internationally acclaimed author and lecturer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie delivered the second annual Eudora Welty Lecture to a sold-out audience at the Lincoln Theatre in Washington, DC, on November 8, 2017. A native of Nigeria, Adichie spent college and graduate school years in the United States and splits her time today between her homeland and the US. Adichie spoke of her love of books and her early reading, as Welty did in One Writer’s Beginnings. She also discussed experiences in Nigeria as well as the United States that have contributed to her writing. The audience was welcomed by Holmes Adams, Welty Foundation Board Chair, and Adichie was introduced by W. Ralph Eubanks, author, professor, and member of the Welty Foundation National Advisory Board. Eubanks delivered moving tributes to Welty and Adichie. The introductions and lecture may be seen on CSpan 2 Book TV. Adichie’s novels, stories, and nonfiction works have been translated into more than thirty languages. The Danger of a Single Story, her 2009 TED Talk, is one of the most viewed TED Talks of all time. Her works on feminism have garnered worldwide attention. Her work has received numerous awards, and she was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow. The lecture was sponsored by the Eudora Welty Foundation in collaboration with the PEN/Faulkner Foundation and was generously endowed [End Page 155] by Martha Dowd Dalrymple and the family of Eudora Welty. The 2018 lecturer will be announced very soon. Check eudorawelty.org/news-events for details. New Online Teacher Resource Explores “Where Is the Voice Coming From?” Welty’s story about the murder of Mississippi civil rights leader Medgar Evers, told from the point of view of the assassin, is the subject of a robust, comprehensive teaching unit, accessible through a secure registration portal on eudorawelty.org under “Teacher Resources” on the home page. In research, production, and review for the last two years, the unit is an expansion of an earlier teaching resource about the story. The unit is enhanced with some 100 visuals including photographs, historical documents, correspondence, manuscripts, and newspaper clippings. Other teaching aids include website links, audio recordings, essays, scholar review excerpts, and classroom instructional guides. Another teacher resource unit is now in production focusing on three Welty stories that take place during the Great Depression—”Death of a Traveling Salesman,” “Flowers for Marjorie,” and “The Whistle.” It is expected to be launched before the 2018 fall semester. Alice McDermott Shares Her Love of Writing at the Bettye Jolly Lecture National Book Award-winner Alice McDermott brought her stories of New York Irish Catholic life to a large crowd gathered for the fourth annual Bettye Jolly Lecture held in the garden at the Welty House on March 8. McDermott read to a delighted audience from her eighth novel, The Ninth Hour, finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award. McDermott spoke of her admiration for Eudora Welty and how she was drawn to Welty’s use of the word “confluence” and described how it guided her writing of The Ninth Hour. The lecture may be heard online at eudorawelty.org. She was introduced by Suzanne Marrs, Welty Foundation Scholar-in-Residence, who also led audience discussion. A special connection between McDermott and Marrs was celebrated as well. McDermott was a student of Marrs’s at State University of New York in Oswego before Marrs moved to Jackson, met Eudora Welty, and began her career at Millsaps College. Today McDermott is the Richard A. Macksey Professor of the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University. [End...

‘Argue with Us!’: Audience Co-creation through Post-Performance Discussions

In this article Caroline Heim explores an avenue for the audience's contribution to the theatrical event that has emerged as increasingly important over the past decade: postperformance discussions. With the exception of theatres that actively encourage argument such as the Staatstheater Stuttgart, most extant audience discussions in Western mainstream theatres privilege the voice of the theatre expert. Caroline Heim presents case studies of post-performance discussions held after performances of Anne of the Thousand Days and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? which trialled a new model of audience co-creation. An audience text which informs the theatrical event was created, and a new role, that of audience critic, established in the process. Caroline Heim is a lecturer in Performance Studies at Queensland University of Technology. Her PhD examined the changing role of theatre audiences in recent years.