Audience Participation Research Articles

The Impact of the Digital Era on Spanish-Speaking Social Audiences: A Systematic Review of Its Academic Literature

We are currently witnessing a paradigm shift in digital communication, determined by platformization. Digital channels have abandoned any unidirectional pretension to become interactive and bidirectional channels. Through a systematic literature review, this research aims to obtain a clear, complete, and updated definition of the concept of "social audience". The results point to an increase in the incidence of terms such as participation, participatory audience, and social networks, without specifically alluding to the concept of social audience, allowing evidence of a lack of consensus in terminology and the approach to the role of audiences in the current digital context. The lack of consensus leaves open considerations and debates on the study of cyber activism, as well as public opinion and influencers, for example.

Case competition sessions: a global education and academic engagement tool.

Radiology virtual teaching sessions utilize live video conferencing to promote collaborative learning and engagement by discussing radiology cases. Because of its convenience and flexibility, this mode of education has gained popularity, particularly after the corona virus disease 2019pandemic. We describe our experience in organizing a series of "Global Health Imaging Case Competitions" for trainees in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). These competitions provide the trainees with an opportunity to present unique radiology cases, network with radiologists, learn about various radiology topics, win prizes and potentially publish their case reports in a peer-reviewed journal. Planning and execution of the competition involves several steps. First, trainees are invited to participate and submit abstracts discussing unique cases. The organizing committee grades these abstracts; the authors of the 20 abstracts with the highest scores are asked to submit a video presentation of their cases to be presented during the live webinar. During this webinar, presentations are displayed and graded to select winners. Additionally, the audience votes to choose a participant as the people's favorite. We have completed four cycles (Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa and the Middle East and Asia) and will continue in the same order of rotation. Attendance totalled 2,510 participants from 50 countries. Pediatric cases represented the majority of cases among finalists. Feedback was positive; 26 out of 29 (90%)participants surveyed indicated that the webinar was "very good" to "excellent" with well-organized and challenging cases. Diversity of participating countries was noted. Limitations included technology barriers such as internet connectivity. This innovative approach emphasizing audience participation engaged trainees from LMICs and fostered locoregional collegiality and mentoring.

Enacting care: Feminist interventions and social activism in the work of Hong Kong artist Jaffa Lam

This article focuses on the intersectionality of feminist interventions and social activism in the works by Hong Kong artist Jaffa Lam (b. 1973). Using the dialogical aesthetics approach, Lam engages with people of disenfranchised groups and collaborates with them to produce installations and public participatory works. While the works aim to build relations between art and local communities, they also consider the profound social-cultural changes in Hong Kong and reflect on the city’s identity through exploring the notions of gender, class, migration and language. Through interacting with collaborators and audience participants of various regions, generations and social-economic backgrounds, Lam creates space for dialogues, enacting care, building valuable relations and questioning the hierarchies of value attributions in neo-liberal society.

From State to Public Service: Legal and Structural Constraints in the Sri Lankan Broadcasting Sphere


 
 
 In the contemporary world, Public Service Broadcasting plays a decisive and challenging role in creating an informed citizenry through editorial independence, diversity of content, freedom of expression, audience participation, and active democracy. However, in Sri Lanka, the opposite is true, where there are no public service media, but state-owned and privately-owned media enterprises. This paper looks at the absence of public service broadcasting in Sri Lanka, its effect on a democratic society, and its resistance to the initiative. The case study desk review approach was employed to investigate public service broadcasting in the Sri Lankan context. The study finds that in the absence of public service media, citizens tend to consume information reproduced and delivered through a hegemonic media landscape, compiled according to the agenda of radio and television station owners. Such content has been found to be devoid of professionalism, editorial independence, diversity, and pluralism, leading to misrepresentation of facts in the coverage of conflicts, controversial issues, and elections, and by extension the destruction of society. In Sri Lanka, a developing country, state-owned media must be transformed into public service media. The selfish interests of political parties, policymakers, bureaucracy, and trade unions and limited awareness amongst the public makes this task difficult. The study recommended to appoint a public commission to identify processes and actions to transform State owned media to public service media. Nevertheless, suggests to launch a public campaign that would educate the public and influence policy makers’ thinking towards liberating State owned media from government control.
 
 

The Role Visual Resources and Improvised Techniques Play in the Actualization of Bukusu Circumcision Songs

The study is an analysis of visual resources and improvised techniques in actualization of the Bukusu circumcision songs. The purpose of this study was to investigate the role visual resources and improvised techniques play in the actualization of Bukusu circumcision songs. The study employed Performance Theory because it was performance-centered approach and more adequate to analyze visual resources and improvised techniques employed in Bukusu circumcision songs in a more effective way. The study relied on fieldwork methods like note taking, video recording, interviews, and questionnaire and participant observation. It also employed purposive sampling procedures that used to obtain a maximum number possible of informants from whom data was collected, analyzed and documented. Both primary and secondary sources were utilized in data collection. The quantitative data was analysed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) in which, the rating scale was as follows: Strongly Disagree (SD) = 1; Disagree (D) = 2; Agree (A) = 3; Strongly Agree (SA) = 4. While the qualititative data was analysed thematically then subjected to the rating scale. The researcher concluded that, visual resources and improvised techniques play a role in the actualization of Bukusu circumcision songs in regard to; composition, aesthetics and performance. The findings in table 2 showed that, majority of respondents 106 (56.7%) strongly agreed that composition of visual resources and improvised techniques played a role in the actualization of Bukusu circumcision songs. Elements like gestures, costumes and dramatic elements like body movements, facial expressions and tonal variations. VR and IT turned a boring song into an interesting and memorable song. Facial expression showed feelings of the performer and audiences, the costumes of the performers, all combined reveled the beauty and the semantic content of the song and the performance. The findings on aesthetics in table 3 established that, women’s personal interest in aesthetics in BSC had a role on use of visual resources and improvised techniques, ululation brought in a happy mood of the mother and aunties of a circumcision candidate at 15 (76.9%). Youth at 20 (66.3%) believed that aesthetics had a role on VR and IT like costumes was associated with seriousness of the initiation process. Men liked aesthetics of visual resources and improvised techniques at 35 (70.7%). These implied that, men just like women and youth had an interest in aesthetics exhibited in BCS through VR and IT made the song exciting. VR and IT in BCSs had its messages as well as its aesthetics which were learned through the language of drum, the clapping of hands, the characterization and body movements of the performers; the participation of audience and their imitation of the other audience-performers and the ululations by aunties and mothers made the songs enjoyable. Concerning the performance of VT and IT, the study in table 4 established that, 113 (60.6%) strongly agreed that, during performance of BSC, visual resources and improvised techniques were employed by the both the performer and audience-performer that made a song lively. The study recommends that, the roles of visual resources and improvised techniques in Bukusu circumcision songs cannot be ignored; there is need for the government of Kenya and other cultural stakeholders to appreciate these components and initiate programs that promotes traditional circumcision songs as a sources of tourist attraction activities in Kenya.

Modest trickster: a response to Last Words

ABSTRACT This essay explores the proposition of the relational aesthetics of audience participation in Kirt Shineman's performance Last Words. I describe my own participation in the performance as a modest trickster and question the possibility of moving beyond this modest intervention to truly test the limits of audience interactivity.

A preceptor development program using an interactive board game

Background and purposeColleges and schools of pharmacy and residency programs must be engaged in the purposeful development of their preceptors. Preceptor development needs vary widely from a new preceptor needing foundational preceptor skills to a more experienced preceptor who may wish to incorporate more sophisticated precepting methods such as layered learning or interprofessional precepting. It can be challenging to create preceptor development activities that meet these varied needs and keep preceptors of all levels engaged. Educational activity and settingThe Preceptor's Game of Life was developed to incorporate serious gaming into preceptor development to increase engagement and promote learning across all precepting levels. This game was designed to review precepting fundamentals and focused heavily on the application of these principles to authentic precepting scenarios. An element of friendly competition, collaboration, and storytelling created a safe and fun environment where participants could discuss solutions to scenario-based problems. FindingsThe Preceptor's Game of Life has been well received by state and national audiences. Audience members were engaged and invested as they discussed the scenarios presented. Individual, informal feedback following the session and formal session evaluations were positive. SummaryThough the Preceptor's Game of Life required careful logistical planning, the outcome was positive. High levels of engagement amongst the participants were noted in the form of note taking and audience participation. Audience members appreciated activating their prior knowledge and experiences and applying that to future scenarios. This manuscript serves as a tool for others interested in novel preceptor development methods.

Rebreather Forum Four consensus statements.

Closed circuit rebreathers have been widely adopted by technical divers as tools for reducing gas consumption and extending depth and duration capabilities. Rebreathers are technologically complex with many failure points, and their use appears associated with a higher accident rate than open circuit scuba. Rebreather Forum Four (RF4) was held in Malta in April 2023 attracting approximately 300 attendees and representatives of multiple manufacturers and training agencies. Over two and a half days a series of lectures was given by influential divers, engineers, researchers and educators on topics of contemporary relevance to rebreather diving safety. Each lecture was followed by a discussion session with audience participation. Potential consensus statements were drafted by the authors (SJM and NWP) during the course of the meeting. These were worded to be confluent with some important messages emerging from the presentations and subsequent discussions. The statements were presented one by one in a half-day plenary session of participants, and discussion was invited on each. After discussion and any necessary revision, the participants voted on whether to adopt the statement as a position of the forum. A clear majority was required for acceptance. Twenty-eight statements embracing thematic areas designated 'safety', 'research', 'operational issues', 'education and training', and 'engineering' were adopted. Those statements are presented along with contextualising narrative where necessary. The statements may help shape research and teaching initiatives, and research and development strategies over subsequent years.

Training on Making Hand Sanitizers Made from Local Plants to Prevent the Spread of Covid-19 (Case Study in Kambu District Kendari City)

This activity is expected to be a solution to prevent the spread of Corona Virus Disease (Covid-19), which is becoming a global pandemic. This effort is expected to provide additional knowledge to the community about how to make, function, and component, the practice of making and using hand sanitizers made from natural non-alcoholic, and non-toxic ingredients from local plants that are easy to obtain. This activity was carried out in September 2022. Counseling begins with the presentation of material through interactive presentations and discussions with the target subject. Then the counseling continued with the practice of making and using hand sanitizers made from local plants: lime, mint leaves, and aloe vera gel. The activity's success can be said to be successful because it is seen from the participation of the target audience, namely 75% of the targeted minimum of 60%, and the implementation of all community service procedures thoroughly and adequately by the implementing committee of community service activities.

디지털 헤리티지 관점에서 홀로그래피 기술의 적용과 활용

Hologram is a 3D image technology that can realize a three-dimensional effect and a sense of realism, called a 'screenless display'. If the characteristics of a hologram that allows you to enjoy three-dimensional content and an interactive element that induces audience participation are combined, cultural heritage can be shown in three dimensions from multiple angles, making up for the limitations of existing realistic content. Currently, holography technology is developing, but holograms have not yet been discussed in Digital Heritage. In this paper, we look at how holograms can be applied in the field of digital heritage, and define 'hologram heritage' as a field of digital heritage from the point of view of digital utilization of cultural heritage.

Do those who listen also speak out? Political and citizen participation of radio newscasts audiences in Mexico

Audience studies highlight the relevance of studying citizens’ participation in the media convergence environment. This study evaluates audience participation in the three foremost local radio newscasts in Aguascalientes, Mexico, where radio remains present in everyday life and public issues trigger audience’s interest to express themselves through this medium. The methodology was designed based on Carpentier’s Analytical Tool for Critical Analysis of Media Processes and UNESCO’s Media Development Indicators (MDI). It consisted of an analysis of modalities of audience participation and interviews with audience members, production teams, activists, and politicians. Findings show that audiences prefer to listen to other citizens on air, but participation is scarce and mainly limited to messages on the radio newscasts’ social networks sites. Audiences’ rights and the role of radio as a platform for democratic conversation among citizens and government need to be promoted and regulated, because commercial interests prevail. Despite technological innovations, the design of newscasts remains unidirectional.

Motion vector steganography algorithm of sports training video integrating with artificial bee colony algorithm and human-centered AI for web applications

AbstractIn multimedia correspondence, steganography schemes are commonly applied. To reduce storage capacity, multimedia files, including images, are always compressed. Most steganographic video schemes are, therefore, not compression tolerant. In the frame sequences, the video includes extra hidden space. Artificial intelligence (AI) creates a digital world of real-time information for athletes, sponsors, and broadcasters. AI is reshaping business, and although it has already produced a significant impact on other sectors, the sports industry is the newest and most receptive one. Human-centered AI for web applications has substantially influenced audience participation, strategic plan execution, and other aspects of the sports industry that have traditionally relied heavily on statistics. Thus, this study presents the motion vector steganography of sports training video integrating with the artificial bee colony algorithm (MVS-ABC). The motion vector stenography detects the hidden information from the motion vectors in the sports training video bitstreams. Artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm optimizes the block assignment to inject a hidden message into a host video, in which the block assignment is considered a combinatorial optimization problem. The experimental analysis evaluates the data embedding performance using steganographic technology compared with existing embedding technologies, using the ABC algorithm compared with other genetic algorithms. The findings show that the proposed model can give the highest performance in terms of embedding capacity and the least error rate of video steganography compared with the existing models.

MEDIA PLURALISM IN THE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT FROM THE USERS’ POINT OF VIEW

The rapid development of communication platforms and services on the Internet created the conditions for greater audience participation in the online sphere. Parallel to the emergence of new communication spaces in which different ideas, opinions, and attitudes can be generated, there is a trend of algorithmic arrangement of content that is distributed to media users. Cognitive horizon narrowing, fake news, and public polarization are just a few of the consequences of these algorithmic calculations. Media pluralism, which is seen as an essential quality and norm of a democratic and informed society, is facing unique challenges. Given that previous researchers of media pluralism did not consider users’ perspectives, this exploratory study aims to identify media users’ perceptions and interpretations of the phenomenon. From the perspective of the user, the paper examines four dimensions of media pluralism: access to news sources and quality journalism; credibility, trust in the media, and attitudes toward misinformation; media transparency, and the ability to locate or avoid news (Klimkiewicz, 2019). An online questionnaire was used to collect the data. The conclusion is that ignoring citizen journalism and communication with media users, as well as the lack of opportunities for users to manage information in the online space, leads to an increase and deepening of the gap between the media and users.

Reader influence on the creation of transmedia science fiction: a participatory culture perspective

The term “Participatory Culture” was first put forward by Henry Jenkins in the book Text Poacher with the aim of comparing participation and the bystander (Jenkins, 2015. Participatory culture in a networked era: a conversation on youth, learning, commerce, and politics. Polity Press, Cambridge, UK). The earliest example is the study of the cultural logic of fan groups (or “fan culture”). When it was later studied more extensively, it took on different meanings. It has greatly influenced novels in the cross-media creative environment, and this has not only helped to expand the imagination and inspiration of authors but has also enriched novel plots. It can also increase audience participation and reading enthusiasm. This paper takes China’s science fiction transmedia as its example to analyze the significance and role of Participatory Culture, and it does this with the intention of helping to provide suggestions for the development of transmedia fictions.

SPECIAL ISSUE: Exploring the Effects of Shared Heart-Focused Intention in Music Performance on Musicians and Audience Members

This exploratory study sought to determine if a shared group intention by members of a string quartet for two pieces of music would have an effect on themselves and audience members. An experimental design was implemented consisting of two interventions. The first intervention introduced a series of exercises focused on posture and biomechanical movements. The second intervention introduced HeartMath’s Quick Coherence and Heart Lock-In techniques. The Pachelbel Canon in D and Mozart Divertimenti in F K138 were chosen as the works to perform. For data collection, all participants (N = 12) were fitted with ambulatory Bodyguard heart rate variability (HRV) recorders. Qualitative data were collected with questionnaires, and videos recorded comments. All three sessions were video recorded. Repeated-measures analysis of variance was used to test within-subjects effects in baseline HRV measurements among three sessions. Audience participants (n = 8) and musician participants (n = 4) were analyzed as separate groups. Quantitative results showed a significant change in HRV among the musicians from baseline after the Heart Lock-In breathing technique was introduced. Qualitative results showed improved mental focus and feelings of connectivity among the musicians. Audience HRV data had a high level of artifact, and the results showed no significance. After the final performance, qualitative comments focused on the performances being more engaging and the musicians being more connected with each other.

Audience perception of African Independent Television's Focus Nigeria programme

The research is based on the popular television show AIT Focus Nigeria, which was broadcast to discuss democratic issues in Nigeria. The study's relevance stemmed from the program's ability to remain on the news despite its candid and unvarnished examination of political issues in a nation where the Government has used intimidation and censorship against the media. The study used the agenda-setting theory and drew on scholars' understanding of the importance of broadcast media in maintaining long-term democracy and the use of broadcasting to promote the ideas of accountability, integrity, honesty, justice, and equality in the polity. The theory advances the notion that the media can effectively influence public opinion and present arguments for the kinds of innovations that proliferate in a country. This research used a survey as its primary data collection tool and a cross-sectional design. The average findings demonstrate that the Nigerian political class and electorates are aware of the AIT Focus Nigeria program, with coefficients of variations for awareness among observed cities to be 9.47%, 11.67%, and 13.59. The program has a favorable impact on the cities used, with C.V. values of 4.68%, 4.73%, and 7.81%. More than two-thirds of the respondents thought the initiative was worthwhile to continue. The research urges the opening of more channels for audience participation in the program.

Real or fictional? Digital entrepreneurial narratives and the acquisition of attentional resources in social entrepreneurship

Digital entrepreneurial narratives compensate for the limited interactivity of traditional entrepreneurship narratives. This is achieved by incorporating elements of social entrepreneurship into tangible, real or fictional scenarios, thereby providing immersive experiences for the audience. In this sense, social entrepreneurs construct shared meanings and form socially identifiable values through the joint participation, communication, and value creation of entrepreneurs and audiences. We conceptualized the digital entrepreneurial narrative and proposed documentary and fictional narratives as its most salient features. Then, we explored the effect of these narratives on attentional resources in a digital entrepreneurial narrative from the perspective of sensemaking theory. Based on novel methods of natural language processing and machine learning, the empirical results from an examination of 304 social entrepreneurs who participated in the short-video platforms indicated that both documentary and fictional narratives have a positive impact on the acquisition of attentional resources for social entrepreneurship. Additionally, we found the documentary aspect of digital entrepreneurial narratives attracts attentional resources by fostering a shared sense of meaningfulness. However, the mediating effect is less effective with fictional narratives. Our results broaden the study of entrepreneurial narratives, and also expand the content of social entrepreneurial legitimacy and sensemaking perspectives.

Metajournalistic Discourse on Participatory Journalism: Examining a Decade of Coverage in Trade Magazines

Audience participation is a contested issue in newsrooms and can challenge journalistic authority. By conducting a mixed-method analysis of a decade (2009–2018) of metajournalistic discourse (N = 135) on participatory journalism in two leading trade magazines in the US and Germany (Columbia Journalism Review and Journalist), this study aims to contribute to the field’s understanding of how and in which contexts audience participation is covered in public discourse and of reasons for positive and negative public evaluations of participatory journalism. The results show that while metajournalistic discourse covered participatory journalism in all stages of the news production process, notable differences in the coverage emerged depending on the specific context factors of participation dealt with. It is therefore depicted as a pervasive and multi-faceted phenomenon. 93 articles featured an evaluation: 53% depicted participatory journalism positively, 16% negatively and 31% left a mixed impression. Several themes emerged in the reasons for these evaluations, some of which are exact opposites, indicating that the presented evaluation depends on the specific circumstances of audience participation, namely the contexts of participatory journalism, the degree of involvement and character of audience participation and the resources available to the journalists.

A Study of Interactional Metadiscourse Features in Chinese University Students' Prepared English Speech

Speech is an activity in which speakers convey their message to listeners continuously. A coherent, logical argument must be made by the speaker, and audience participation is essential for a successful speech. The majority of prior research on English Public Speaking (hence referred to as EPS) from the Critical Discourse Analysis (hereinafter referred to as CDA) perspective focused on political or academic speech. Although the speech of English language learners (also known as EFLs) has caught the interest of academics. There has not been much study of the interactional metadiscourse characteristics of EFLs' EPS. In this study, we investigate how the usage of metadiscourse influences speakers' performance and the ways presenters engage with their listeners. We do this by drawing on Hyland's stance and engagement framework from 2005. Based on a corpus of 90 prepared speech scripts from high-scoring and low-scoring groups, the results suggest that explicit mentions of oneself and listeners are the most frequent elements, whereas stance markers are employed more frequently than listener engagement markers. Additionally, this study found a positive correlation between the usage of hedges and speech scores and a marginally negative correlation between speech scores and the use of self-mentions. In terms of technique, the interactional metadiscourse analysis on investigating EPS is provided by this study, while in terms of pedagogy, it emphasizes the significance of interactional metadiscourse in EPS instruction.

Why It’s OK to Love Bad Movies

Matthew Strohl’s Why It’s OK to Love Bad Movies is a deeply personal, philosophically sophisticated, and thoroughly enjoyable book. Written devoid of unnecessary philosophical jargon, the book is accessible to non-specialists, a trademark of Routledge’s Why It’s OK… series. However, with novel and nuanced arguments, the book is more than merely accessible and will be interesting to cinephiles and philosophers alike. I want to start by summarizing why Strohl believes it is OK to love bad movies. I will put these reasons in two camps: personal reasons and film culture reasons. Personal reasons for watching good-bad movies include deepening your cinephilia, building social relationships with others (e.g. bonding with strangers through audience participation rituals), and the pure joy of the hunt for the overlooked gem. Watching good-bad movies also promotes creative engagement. We know the outline for appreciating serious art-house movies. Good-bad movies break us out of these scripts, forcing us to engage in less familiar ways. Loving good-bad movies also provides benefits to the film culture at large by working against stagnation in the culture, re-earthing overlooked gems, and promoting a diversity of taste.