Entertainment Research Articles

From the Margins to the Mainstream: Explicating and Validating Queer Readings Among Sexual Minority Youth

ABSTRACT Scholars posit that media texts are polysemic (i.e., open to multiple interpretations) with popular media representing a social institution within Western cultures that spreads dominant societal values, norms, and expectations. Due to their marginalized position within society, sexual minority individuals (i.e., LGBQ+) are frequently underrepresented by mainstream media messages. One way in which marginalized individuals can challenge the dominant, heteronormative discourse is through subversive in which individuals interpret messages against heteronormative ideals (i.e., queer readings). Across two studies, a reliable and valid measure of the uses and gratifications of queer readings was explicated; revealing a four-factor, 20-item scale. Results contribute to the entertainment media and fan studies literatures by providing an understanding of the utility of queer readings in the experiences and development of sexual minority individuals, as well as presents numerous future avenues for inquiry.

‘I Just Wanted to Get It Over and Done With’: A Grounded Theory of Psychological Need Frustration in Video Games

Psychological need frustration—experiences like failure, loneliness, or coercion—is emerging as a promising explanation for why people disengage with games and other entertainment media, and how media may induce dysregulated use and ill-being. However, existing research on game-related need frustration relies on general instruments with unclear content validity for games. We also do not know how need frustration arises in video games, nor how it leads to disengagement. We therefore conducted a semi-structured interview study with 12 video game players, following grounded theory methods to develop a model of need-frustrating play. We find that need frustration is a common and impactful experience in games, with distinct antecedents not fully captured in existing measures. Felt need frustration arises when observed need-frustrating events negatively violate expected need frustration or satisfaction; repeated violations update players’ expectations, which lead them to modulate or quit play to reduce expected frustration exposure.

“No wonder you have a diversity problem”: Hollywood’s systemic gatekeeping against assistants of color

Abstract This article examines the experiences of Black, Indigenous, and/or people of color (BIPOC) assistants in Hollywood, focusing on those who work for above-the-line creatives and executives. I argue that despite Hollywood industry’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, the logics and mechanisms of whiteness remain deeply ingrained in Hollywood’s treatment of entry-level workers. The article is divided into three sections: first, it historicizes post-Civil Rights Hollywood and maps it onto present-day US and Hollywood cultural whiteness; second, it analyzes how Hollywood industry gatekeeps BIPOC assistants using interviews, demographic information, and survey responses; and finally, it considers ways to create more equitable working structures within Hollywood. The article highlights the unpublicized harm behind entertainment media and the need for greater attention to the experiences of BIPOC workers in Hollywood.

Generations X, Y, Z: Attitudes toward social workers in the age of media technologies

The media portrayal of social workers (SWs) tends toward a negative bias that undermines their public image. The main purpose of the current study was to examine differences between three generational cohorts: Gen X, Gen Y, and Gen Z in terms of the effects of different media as a source of information about SWs on public attitudes toward them. The sample included 783 respondents. The findings reveal dissimilar associations between exposure to different media as information sources about SWs and public attitudes toward them among three generations. In Gen X, attitudes toward SWs were negatively associated with exposure to print newspaper references and positively associated with exposure to radio. In Gen Y, attitudes toward SWs were negatively associated with electronic media reportage and positively associated with entertainment media and TV news references. No association was found between media exposure as an information source about SWs and attitudes toward them in Gen Z. Also, a negative association was found between the perception that the media depict SWs negatively and attitudes toward SWs among all generations. Substantial cooperation between SWs and media representatives is required to promote a more balanced media portrayal of SWs and a more positive attitude toward them.

Risk on Demand? A Quantitative Content Analysis of the Portrayal of Risky Health Behaviors in Popular on Demand Content

ABSTRACT Video on Demand (VOD) has become the most popular way for adolescent viewers to consume entertainment media, often without parental supervision. Given the potential for modeling, this study aims to investigate the prevalence and nature with which risky health behaviors are portrayed in popular VOD programs. A quantitative content analysis of trending programs (N = 529) from popular VOD-platforms investigated the prevalence, co-occurrence, tone, social context, and consequences with which alcohol use, tobacco use, drug use, unsafe sexual behavior, reckless behavior, and self-harm behaviors are portrayed in popular VOD programs. In addition, we analyzed the demographic characteristics of the characters who portrayed the risk behaviors Risk behaviors were portrayed frequently, with substance use behaviors (i.e. alcohol, smoking, drugs) being most prevalent and most likely to co-occur. Reckless behavior, self-harm behaviors, and explicitly unsafe sexual behaviors were much less common. Findings show that risk behavior was often portrayed in a normalized manner, with alcohol and smoking, in particular, being portrayed as neutral behaviors that rarely have consequences. Most risk-taking characters were (young) adult white males, mirroring the general overrepresentation of this demographic in popular media. Risk behavior was rarely problematized in popular on demand content. Potential consequences for adolescent viewers are discussed.

Inspiration by Pop-up Advertising among the Community in Batam and Consumer

The rapid increase in the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in society has affected significant changes in entertainment media specifically in the field of video games. Advertisements in video games can influence user behavior, particularly in Inspired-To. In order to learn more about Inspired-To and how it can influence the behavior of video game players, the author will administer a questionnaire (N=390) and conduct interviews (N=30) with video game players. The authors of this study discovered that users were contented with the results of pop-up advertisements if the content was entertaining and provided incentives. The author also notes that each of the advertisements is entertaining and that providing incentive benefits can enhance the value of the advertisement. The author discovers that a strong ad value can inspire users to discover something new, which will then inspire them to download the new game advertised by the pop-up ad. This research will assist users in identifying factors that increase the likelihood that they will acquire a new game.

Transformasi Polopalo sebagai Media Hiburan Masyarakat Gorontalo di Lihuta Lo Polopalo

Transformation polopalo as an entertainment medium, especially in the case of lihuta lo polopalo experiences a use-value remodeling conflict. The existence of conflict results in the degradation of functions and preservation. Base on the conflict so the purpose of this study is to describe the transformation of polopalo as an entertainment medium for the people of Gorontalo in the context of lihuta lo polopalo. The research method uses case study ethnography. The results of the study show that the Transformation of polopalo has an impact on the chronobiology relations of its manifest-latency function on aspects of entertainment, such as physical, aesthetic, economic, social and cultural values.

Translation Strategies for Indonesian Version of The Adventure of Tintin Land of Black Gold

Knowing translation strategies allows the translator to select the best word choices when translating a text, which is especially important in entertainment media. The purpose of this research is to examine the translator's translation strategies used in translating the comic The Adventure of Tintin: Land of Black Gold into the comic Petualangan Tintin di Negeri Emas Hitam. Baker's (2018) eight translation strategies are used as the main theory of analysis in the study. The qualitative approach is used in this study's methodology. The writer examines each utterance and bubble in the book, excluding publisher information and mistakes or incorrect translations. According to the findings of this study, the translator only employs six of Baker's (2018) strategies. The loan word or loan word plus explanation, as well as translation by illustration, are not used in the translation. According to the findings of the study, translation by cultural substitution is the most used method to translate words that are unfamiliar to Indonesian readers. Following translation by omission, the translator omitted some sentences and words that were not necessary to translate into Indonesian to meet the main ideas of the sentence.

Analisis Resepsi Mahasiswa Surabaya terhadap Konten Lina Mukherjee Makan Babi Diawali Bacaan Bismillah pada Akun Tiktok @lilumukerji

The growing social media in Indonesia has caused social media users in Indonesia to increase very rapidly. Social media users use it as a basic need in finding the latest information that is out there, besides that users also use social media as a medium for entertainment, self-expression, and channeling hobbies or even what they have. One of the social media that is in great demand by the public is tiktok. Tiktok is a platform used by its users to exercise freedom of expression. The purpose of this study was to examine the acceptance of Surabaya students towards the tiktok content Lina Mukherjee eats pork beginning with Bismillah reading on freedom of expression using Stuart Hall's reception theory. This study used a descriptive qualitative approach with audience acceptance method. In-depth interviews and documentation were used as data collection techniques. In accordance with the theory put forward by Stuart Hall, this study obtained results, namely the acceptance of Surabaya students towards the tiktok content Lina Mukherjee eats pork beginning with Bismillah reading in freedom of expression which is divided into two positions, namely the negotiated position and the oppositional position. In expressing ourselves or exercising freedom of expression, we should always pay attention to the norms and regulations of religion, state, culture, customs according to the environment we live in, so as not to cause debate in society.
 Keywords: Freedom of Expression, Mass Communication, Reception Analysis, Tiktok

Antagonistic Sports Fandom

Abstract: This essay explains the role of sports media entertainment in habituating audiences to a logic of conservative populism, which connects justifications for racialized and gendered violence with a sense of anxiety and humiliation. The essay develops the concept of antagonistic sports fandom, a mode of engagement in which verbal duels become the dominant way that fans and media figures engage with sports. It argues that one of the crucial roles of antagonistic sports fandom is to provide a public forum where the pleasure of subjugating bodies can be justified via the invocation of victimization and humiliation, presented as apolitical fun. The essay develops these points by examining the sports media company Barstool Sports, the FX television series The League , and the 2009 film Big Fan .

ANALISIS DAMPAK PENGGUNAAN MEDIA SOSIAL TIKTOK PADA PERILAKU MORAL ANAK KELAS V SEKOLAH DASAR

The use of social media TikTok can cause addiction which can affect children's moral behavior. Due to the existence of video content that is less educational. This study aims to analyze the impact of social media use TikTok and the moral behavior of fifth grade students at SDN Sumberjo. Moral behavior is behavior that is in accordance with the rules and values ​​in the society where the individual lives. The research method used is a qualitative method with a case study approach. This research will be conducted in class V SDN Sumberjo, Ngawen Blora. Collecting data in this study is observation, interviews, and documentation. Validity test using source triangulation. Data analysis techniques using data reduction, data presentation, and conclusions. The results of this study conclude that TikTok social media has a positive impact, namely as a means for entertainment media, encouragement to make creative videos so that they are famous, can add to relationships and also have negative impacts such as losing track of time and speaking more impolite or impolite words. have courtesy to elders. With social media, TikTok greatly influences the moral behavior of fifth graders at SDN Sumberjo. Many children follow the trendy style on social media TikTok, such as imitating the pargoy sway, imitating impolite words with the names of animals. This of course requires supervision in its use, so that the character and manners in the child are maintained and moral.

Relationship between the use of social media and the effects on the sleep cycle among Sri Lankan undergraduate students

Background: University students do not get enough sleep due to many reasons such as mental, health, studies and addicted to social media issues. This research allows to find the impact on sleep cycle of undergraduate students after using social media (Facebook, YouTube and Instagram) Methods and materials: A questionnaire which consist of 10 questions was distributed among undergraduate students from Sri Lanka and 207 students responded. Moreover researches, journals and articles from Google scholar and Pub med are used. IBM SPSS software is used to analyze the gathered data. Results: A comprehensive data analysis shows Facebook is the most used social media. Majority, 108 students use social media for entertainment. 114 students use social media before sleep. Among them 54 students have rated 9 as their quality of sleep. And also 28 students who don’t use social media at all have rated 9 as their quality of sleep. 34 students who do not social media before bedtime have rated 10 as their quality of sleep. Findings give the opportunity to compare the quality of sleep between students who use social media before sleep and who don’t use social media. Conclusion: This project conveys no significant impact on the sleep cycle, using social media before bedtime. According to the survey results students use social media for educational and entertainment purposes. Even though they uses social media before bed, they tend to have a good sleep.

Playbor, gamble-play, and the financialization of digital games

This article examines non-fungible token (NFT) applications and their users through a qualitative textual analysis of NFT-based video game Axie Infinity’s Discord server. It considers NFT applications’ dual purposes as entertainment media and financial instruments and posits that the interests of capital inform users’ engagement. In an environment defined by distrust and uncertainty, predominantly Filipino digital laborers’ (“Scholars”) experiences and interactions with the game’s ownership class (“Managers”) reflect pre-existing patterns of exploitation made inexpensive by differences in currency valuations, accessible by access to digital devices, available by global financial uncertainty, possible by a lack of user protection and governance, and permissible by light government regulation. To navigate an interplay of designed systems and human behavior, users share gameplay and marketplace knowledge. The blurring of gaming, gambling, and finance discussed here risks fostering an increasingly gamified approach to work and finance and facilitates exploitation of global, stratified labor.

Pengaruh User Experience terhadap Customer Satisfaction pada Aplikasi Seluler Streaming Vidio

Business development through innovation in various industries is affected by rapid changes caused by various factors. The media and entertainment industry is showing an increase in revenue from year to year and is expected to continue growing until 2026. The average time spent by internet users in Indonesia watching broadcast and streaming for 2 hours 53 minutes per day has an impact on over-the-top penetration in Indonesia. The number of over-the-top platforms in entertainment media requires each company to innovate in the development of its services to be at the forefront. Vidio has the highest number of over-the-top service users in Indonesia. However, there are some negative reviews from users are related to the Vidio mobile app. Therefore, as an over-the-top media service from Indonesia, Vidio needs a great user experience to continue to increase users and customers. This study aims to determine the characteristics of Vidio mobile application customers and analyze the effect of user experience on customer satisfaction. Research data were obtained through observation and distributing questionnaires via the internet using convenience sampling technique from 136 active customers of Vidio mobile application. Data analysis uses validity test, reliability test, descriptive data analysis, classical assumption test, and hypothesis testing. The results showed that user experience has a positive and significant effect on customer satisfaction.

PROSES PENATAAN PESAN DIGITAL CONTENT PADA AKUN SOSIAL MEDIA (FACEBOOK & INSTAGRAM) KLINIK KECANTIKAN LALITA SIDOARJO DALAM MENJANGKAU KONSUMEN DI USIA 25 – 40 TAHUN

This research is a study of how the digital content process is formed on the social media accounts of the Lalita Sidoarjo beauty clinic in reaching consumers, considering that digital content during the digital era and especially during the COVID-19 pandemic is very much needed by an agency or company. In the world of journalism, we encounter what is called digital media, namely digital-based information and entertainment media or commonly called online. This digital content phenomenon is increasingly recognized by the general public when the emergence of content creators and causes many agencies and companies to use digital content to market or promote their interests. This study aims to determine the process of creating digital content flow and distributing it to Lalita beauty clinic consumers in order to have an impact on the clinic. By using descriptive qualitative research methods and data collection techniques for this study using participant observation and documentation. Participant observation was carried out because the researcher also took part in the activities being observed. Documentation was carried out to find out the extent to which digital content was good and could be enjoyed by lalita consumers. 
 Keywords: Digital Content, Content Creator, Branding, Digital Media, findings

Will self-gifting of streamers hurt unions? Analyzing the union’s compensation mechanism for a live streaming supply chain

As an emerging online media for entertainment and social contact, live streaming already has a considerable market after its boom in recent years. On a live streaming platform, as content providers and the agents of providers, streamers and unions are the two most important roles on the supply side. Once streamers join a union, they will be paid according to the union’s compensation mechanism instead of directly paid by the platform.In practice, the union’s compensation mechanism usually contains a basic requirement for streamers’ proceeds, which may induce a specific self-gifting behavior among streamers — when a streamer’s proceeds have not met the requirement, the streamer may donate to himself/herself to increase his/her income. An interesting question is how should the union respond to such speculation, stand by or prohibit it?This paper considers a Stackelberg game between a union and a mass of streamers. The union utilizes a typical compensation mechanism with a basic proceeds requirement, and streamers are heterogeneous in their abilities. Using a backward induction approach, we derive the streamers’ optimal decisions for a given compensation mechanism and then numerically optimize the union’s compensation parameters.Our analysis reveals that when the union’s compensation parameters meet certain conditions, some streamers will donate to themselves, and more low-ability streamers will join the union. We also interestingly find that self-gifting behavior never hurts the union under its optimal compensation mechanism. The union can avoid the self-gifting behavior of streamers or even make this behavior beneficial to itself by properly setting the parameters of the compensation mechanism in different cases.

Relationship of media usage to attitudes toward police

ABSTRACT The present study examined the contribution of exposure to entertainment and news media to attitudes toward police. Using a survey of young adults (N = 321), various media repertoires as well as other contributory variables, such as race and political affiliation, were regressed on theoretically derived attitudes toward police. Significant major predictor variables included race (African Americans), political point of view (liberal) and liberal media news outlets such as CNN and news satire shows (“The Daily Show”), all significantly associated with negative attitudes toward police. More positive associations were found for exposure to mainstream local and national TV news outlets. Practical and theoretical implications are discussed.

Pathways of Global Cultural Diffusion: Mass Media and People’s Moral Declarations about Men’s Violence against Women

Current theories of global cultural diffusion outline abstract mechanisms through which cultural scripts spread across the world. To reveal how scripts reach individuals, one must identify the specific pathways of diffusion. I examine the case of how scripts about gender relations and violence are diffused through mass media to people in Malawi. Using a mixed-methods approach, I find that international development organizations work with Malawian journalists to produce an array of content denouncing the practice of men abusing women. Entertainment media companies, however, disseminate content portraying patriarchal gender stereotypes. I show that mass media content critical of men’s violence of women is positively associated with people’s stated rejection of this practice, whereas individuals’ exposure to content mixed with patriarchal scripts is not. Notably, a one-standard-deviation increase in the number of newspaper articles critically covering men’s abuse toward women in the 30 days leading up to a person’s unique survey interview date is associated with a 3.2 (women) or 2.1 (men) percentage-point increase in the probability of respondents stating that they condemn such violence. Broadly, the results outline a multifaceted portrait of global cultural diffusion, with liberal and patriarchal scripts simultaneously reaching individual people.

Orientalism in US digital entertainment media and anti-Americanism in the Arab world: an integrative review

ABSTRACT The digitalization of cultural spheres has profoundly impacted intergroup relations and power dynamics. Our understanding of digital anti-Americanism and Orientalism is embryonic. This integrative review provides a comprehensive appraisal of this research focus. Using databases, websites, and publication citations we integrated 36 studies (2001–2021) on anti-Americanism in the Arab Muslim world and neo-Orientalism in US war films and videogames. The findings indicated that digital culture underpins intergroup ambivalence. US digital epistemic power impedes intergroup rapprochement because digital entertainment media disseminate fear and instigate bias. However, research overlooked the correlation between digital Orientalism and anti-Americanism. We recommend further exploration of the influence of war culture on the waxing and waning of intragroup schisms and intergroup conflicts to promote global peace.

The Art of Slowness: Slow Motion Enhances Consumer Evaluations by Increasing Processing Fluency

Slow motion is a popular video editing tool used to enhance short-form videos (e.g., reels, stories, GIFs), which are commonly found in media entertainment and marketing communications. This research shows that slow motion increases the virality (e.g., likes, votes, views) of short-form videos and boosts brand liking, choice, and willingness to pay. The effect occurs because slow motion enhances the hedonic component of the viewing experience via processing fluency. By documenting how the success of slow motion is subject to moderators, this work shows marketers, entertainment producers, and everyday people how to use slow motion more effectively. Across a large-scale field data set and six experiments, the authors highlight that slow motion is especially effective when applied to short-form videos that are inherently pleasant and that involve complex movements that are difficult to perceive at regular speed. However, even simple movements benefit from slow motion when content creators zoom in on subtle movements to increase complexity. Moreover, slow motion is more effective when viewers engage in less elaborate processing. Finally, the authors show that the perceived disfluency of fast-motion editing is effective at boosting brand evaluations when viewers desire excitement.