Personal Media Research Articles

Electronic Devices as Correlates of Sedentary Behavior and Screen Time Among Diverse Low-Income Adolescents During the School Year and Summer Time

Excessive screen time among adolescents increases risk for overweight/obesity. Having electronic devices in the adolescent’s bedroom is associated with more screen time. The present study expanded on previous studies by also examining portable personal electronic devices and social media membership as correlates of screen time use and total sedentary time in the school year and summer among diverse low-income adolescents. Adolescents aged 10-17 years were recruited from lower-income areas, and n=150 completed surveys and wore accelerometers in both the school year and summer: 34 African Americans, 23 American Indians, 16 Asian/Pacific Islanders, 39 Latinos, and 38 White/non-Hispanics. Total sedentary time was computed from accelerometers. Recreational screen time was assessed with a 3-item validated scale. Adolescents reported the presence of 6 electronic devices in their bedrooms, ownership of 4 portable devices, and social media membership. General linear modeling was conducted for both time periods, with demographic covariates and interactions with sex and race-ethnicity. More electronic devices in bedrooms were related to more screen time during the school year and summer, and to more total sedentary time in summer. Personal electronics were only related to more screen time in the school year. Social media membership was related to more total sedentary time in summer, but only among African Americans, American Indians, and non-Hispanic Whites. Electronic devices in bedrooms was confirmed as a risk factor for sedentary behavior among low-income adolescents of color. Social media membership and use should be further studied with diverse adolescents.

Aberration of mind or soul: the role of media in perceptions of mass violence

Purpose Unconscious biases against certain groups aid in forming assumptions which may be promulgated in the USA via popular news media linking rare but memorable violent acts with specific groups. However, the relationship between marginalized group association, assumptions regarding the motive for violent acts and individual media consumption has never been directly examined. This study aims to directly examine this relationship. Design/methodology/approach In the present study, individuals read a vignette of a mass shooting in which the perpetrator’s implied religion (i.e. Islam or unknown religion) was manipulated. Participants then indicated their assumptions regarding motive (i.e. terrorism or mental illness) and personal media consumption habits. Findings Contrary to hypotheses, differences in assumed motive based on implied religion were not found; participants were not more likely to associate an assumed Muslim perpetrator with terrorism as a motive or consider the assumed non-Muslim perpetrator to be mentally ill. Originality/value These unexpected findings are discussed in the context of the data-collection period, which coincidentally overlapped with a well-publicized act of domestic terrorism that led to a unique national debate regarding biased news coverage and associations between religion, ethnicity, terrorism and mental illness.

1인 미디어 주최 e스포츠 대회 참여자의 자기결정성과 만족도 및 재참여의도, 타인추천의도와의 관계

The purpose was to examine the structural relationship of satisfaction, re-participation intention and recommendation intention on self-determination of a participant from esports events hosted by personal media. To achieve this, a convenience sampling through online survey was applied to the users experienced with esports. After discarding unreliable responses, 277 out of 300 samples were practically used for empirical analysis. These data were then processed with SPSS 25.0 and AMOS 20.0 to conduct the frequency analysis, descriptive statistical analysis, correlation analysis, confirmatory factor analysis and path analysis. This research has shown that the autonomy of self-determination does not significantly influence the satisfaction whereas the competence and relatedness of self-determination have an influence on the satisfaction. Also, the satisfaction was found to significantly influence on both re-participation intention and recommendation intention. Along with the result of this study, discussions and additional implications were suggested.

Pengelolaan Kesan Roleplayer K-Pop Melalui Media Sosial Twitter (Studi Dramaturgi Pada Akun Twitter Fandom Di Kota Bandung)

Korean Wave has become a trend in Indonesia, which was started with the high popularity of K-Drama (Korean Drama) back in the 2000s among the Indonesian. Along with the high interest in society, the Korean government kept spreading this Korean wave. In 2011, the Korean music industry, known as K-Pop started to appear and arise a big group; boyband and girlband. Since then, some fandoms or an assemblage of people who puts a high interest in them. The fandom members usually make some activities, one of the activities in the new media is a roleplay.Roleplay is one type of the games on social media played by individuals by acting like him/herself, potraying and imitating the characters that was delivered with how he/she writes status and responds to comments from others. This study focuses on the impression management of K-Pop Roleplayers on social media Twitter with qualitative research methods and dramaturgy approach to the three informants whom are the active Roleplayers on Twitter. Based on the results of the research of K-Pop Roleplayers on social media Twitter to keep and form a positive impression at the front stage is the Timeline. This research was also using the middle stage, Roleplayers perform displacement from Timeline towards more personal media such as direct message and KakaoTalk. As form some of the preparations made by the players at the back stage through was that pre-survey idol character through a variety show on YouTube.

Using Social Media Influencers to Deliver Positive Information About the Flu Vaccine: Findings from a Multi-Year Qualitative Study

Introduction: Large-scale flu vaccine campaigns have experienced difficulty in increasing vaccination coverage among African Americans and Hispanics. Digital campaigns about flu vaccination are routinely inundated by negative responses from those in opposition to vaccines. To address this issue, from September 2018 - March 2020 and September 2019 – March 2020, a digital campaign was implemented to disseminate positive information about the flu vaccine. Methods: The campaign employed user-generated content from social media “micro” influencers who are predominantly followed by African Americans or Hispanics. Influencers wrote messages promoting the flu vaccine and posted them on their personal social media accounts. To date, this constituted the largest influencer-driven health campaign focused on reaching these communities in the United States. Analysts qualitatively coded public comments on influencer posts to determine content perceptions among those exposed to posts. Digital metrics were also analyzed. Results: In Year 1, influencer posts reached over 9 million individuals on social media and generated 64,612 likes or shares, and 1,512 responses. In Year 2, posts reached over 8 million individuals and generated 155,600 likes or shares, and 3,122 responses. On average, around 94% of public responses to posts were positive. Conclusions: This campaign strategy represents a more community-led and participatory approach than large-scale vaccination campaigns have attempted to date. The overwhelmingly positive responses to influencer posts suggest that this may be a promising strategy to communicate health information and could ultimately shift social norms, particularly for heavily debated topics such as vaccination.

TACTICS OF ALGORITHMIC LITERACY: HOW YOUNG PEOPLE UNDERSTAND AND NEGOTIATE ALGORITHMIC NEWS SELECTION

With the growing centrality of the smartphone in everyday life, the news and public information that young people consume is increasingly subject to algorithmic curation. From the apps and websites of legacy news media to news aggregators and social media, more and more spaces through which young people access news are personalized. Yet, while numerous studies explore algorithms’ influence on citizens’ everyday life, few of these have considered how users themselves perceive and deal with news personalization. This paper considers how young news users experience the algorithmic selection of the news they receive via their smartphones, and how and under what circumstances they aim to negotiate these decisions. Combining walk-through methods with in-depth interviews, it explores young people’s perceptions of algorithms affect their practices on personalized news media and how they aim to intervene in news personalization. The paper finds a variety of tactics through which audiences intervene in algorithmic news selection, arguing that these can be seen as expressions of algorithmic literacy. These practices, however, are far from self-evident: overall, even amongst frequent users of personalized media, algorithmic awareness and knowledge are low. Moreover, such literacy varies considerably between platform contexts. This is problematic, as these deficiencies prevent young people from assessing the completeness, accuracy and balance of the news they are exposed to. Thus, the study stresses a need for media educators to pay more attention to how algorithmic curation shapes the news that users encounter, to further empower young people to navigate an increasingly personalized media landscape.

WITHDRAWN: Experimental investigation of automated system for twitter sentiment analysis to predict the public emotions using machine learning algorithms

Abstract This paper introduces an automated twitter sentiment analysis system for predicting public emotions using machine learning algorithms. Sentiment analysis prediction is an innovative technique to analyze the emotions of the people with their suggestions uploaded in their personal media. One novel idea is a research study of the behavioral attributes of individuals in social networks. Such type of characteristics may be found on other social networking websites viz Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Flickers etc. So the social networking site is the best way to find actions of people, thought style, mood, selfish networks, and opinions etc. Here, we are dealing with machine learning algorithms to predict users' online social activity which provides an opportunity to actively identify the positive and negative emotion rates. The experimental evaluation shows positive and negative emotion rate for both proposed and existing algorithms DAN, DAN2, SVM and SVM-of. The proposed system gives better results with 95.9% accuracy. The experimental investigation can be found that machine learning algorithms are a good choice for predicting public sentiments using twitter data.

특수 분장 퍼스널 미디어의 콘텐츠 분석

특수 분장 퍼스널 미디어의 콘텐츠 분석

Me, Myself, and My Favorite Media Figure: An Objectification Perspective on the Role of Media and Peers in Early Adolescents’ Self-sexualization

ABSTRACT This study seeks a deeper understanding of the associations between early adolescents’ encounter with sexualizing messages, both through media and peers, and self-sexualization (i.e., performing sexualizing appearance behaviors). To address this aim, this three-wave panel study (N = 971, 49% girls; Mage = 11.14) takes both intra- and interpersonal aspects of sexualization into account. Specifically, sexualizing experiences have been shown to play a role in individuals’ adoption of an observer’s perspective on both their own physical self (intrapersonal) and on others (interpersonal), which were included as mediating variables. Structural equation modeling revealed that interactions with peers (W1) related to self-objectification (W2) but not the objectification of others (W2). Moreover, self-objectification (W2) but not the objectification of others (W2) was, in turn, associated with self-sexualization. The findings thereby point out that an appearance-focused attitude toward the self was a more important correlate of self-sexualization than an objectified perception of others. Moreover, early adolescents’ appearance investment most likely stems from encountering sexualizing messages through interactions and with peers rather than from personal media use.

LGBTIQ+-Themed Education at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna – Guided Tours with a Drag Queen

ABSTRACT The Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria, holds countless European Old Master paintings, some of which can be interpreted to reference queer themes. But working there as an educator, I noticed there was a lack of LGBTIQ+ outreach. Since I held the academic skills to develop queer-themed guided tours and because I also performed as a drag queen in my free time, I decided to combine both activities and offered guided tours in drag. The tours became an immense success with visitors, as evidenced by personal feedback, participant numbers, and social media engagement. In addition, the project attracted far more positive media coverage than expected. Serious, in-depth analysis of the artworks and their implications about social history remained the project’s core mission throughout. Despite its tremendous success, I retired the program after three years because it required significant personal investment. Still, both the project’s successes and its challenges offer valuable insights about museum outreach strategies in general.

Information Technology's Personal Influence on Popular Evaluation of Politics

Social networking has been increasing the personal influence of information technology. The news required to evaluate politics is increasingly from social media. This paper intends to improve how three issues that arise from this political reality are comprehended. An impressive theme runs throughout all of these issues. Political news and analysis is now reaching people in a more personal way than ever. There is a need to improve concepts for analyzing the more personal media now presenting much of our political news. Political science education can make people more sophisticated in reasoning with changing sources of political news and information. Information technology's personal influence on political evaluation is presented as influenced by three issues. Better understanding of these issues improves ability to be critical of the social media and politics phenomenon. All three are related to developments in social networking. As 2020 politics are extensively influenced by social networking news, these issues educate about present politics. First, the paper considers if belief systems are vulnerable to social networking. Belief systems are effective and economic tools for evaluating information about changing conditions. The paper questions the possible harm to belief systems from social media’s salesmanship and manipulation. Second, effects social networking may have on personality are analyzed. Critics suggest social media may leave a chaotic legacy. A narrative in images is created for both the favorable and unfavorable opinion of social networking. Awareness of concern about problems occurring with multitasking, depression, addiction, and interpersonal relationships is produced from the narrative data. The third issue the paper is concerned with is how media rich political communications, networks, and political choice interact. The cognitive implications of framing political news with viral images is analyzed. Problems that could occur from mainstream media losing framing abilities to the increasing media richness of Internet images is discussed. The strength artificial intelligence has, theoretically, to manipulate networks is analyzed. How Internet personalities affect network transactions for political information is mentioned. The personal implications of how information technology delivers political news have been analyzed in this paper. Educational concerns about recognizing the paper’s three issues have been mentioned. The possibility of using narrative analysis from qualitative methods to improve analytic capabilities has been explained. Narrative techniques appear to have meaningful ability to increase perception of the issues that concern this paper. Methods to more effectively question innovations in ICT relevant to politics have been presented.

THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY IN GLOBALIZATION PERSPECTIVE

Modernistic globalization with empirical and rational methods has given its significant advancement to Western society. The advancement, however, eroded the spiritual values, especially Christianity, that for almost ten centuries championed the Europeans minds. Spiritualism or religions is regarded as ancient and have no value in the development of society. Blavatsky and Olcott felt that the rapid growth of modernistic globalization has to be equaled by spiritualism. Therefore, they founded an organization with goals to reestablish spiritual and traditional values that have been long lost from Western society. In order to challenge the modernistic globalization, Theosophical Society used spiritualistic globalization. The organization is quite successful and gains lots of followers from renowned people. Olcott, the first president, is an experienced media person. Newspapers and magazines are the two main components that brought the organization to its fame.

Developmental Study on personal media contents for Higher Education

Developmental Study on personal media contents for Higher Education

A Study on the Utilization of Projection Mapping in Personal Media

This paper studies the current development of personal media and the development of project mapping technology. The speed of social life is speeding up, and information dissemination tends to be fragmented. With the rapid development of mobile technology in recent years, personal media has gradually attracted the attention of people. And now image production and video editing become more and more simple in mobile devices, which provide a basis for the active personal media. The emergence of video content with high creative which is producing by projection mapping. And also providing an attractive new content for the general public. With the popularity of home projector, and the development of mobile terminal projection mapping production application. In the future, it will be possible to use projection mapping to produce personal media contents on the basis of mobile media platform.

RETRACTED: 'Beyond the Floyd Narrative': Reviewing racism through the lens of social psychiatry.

The recent and unfortunate death of George Floyd in the United States (U.S.) has sparked the age-old debate and discourse on racism. The discrimination, stereotyping and othering based on skin color, ethnicity, caste, etc. have given rise to the 'social evil' of racism throughout the evolution of humankind. Irrespective of the numerous legal petitions, organizational and personal protests, media uproar and globalization, racism has continued to perpetuate in various communities across the world, amplifying the 'we versus they' dichotomy. The racist 'identity', the racist 'constructs', within group favoritism, stigma based on physical attributes, self-stigma and administrative apathy help in maintaining the vicious cycle of racist discrimination. The implications are immense and can be transgenerational, in socioeconomic, biological and psychological dimensions. Public awareness about the presence and effects of racism are still overshadowed by myths and misinformation. Several questions have been theorized in available literature, namely what leads to the perpetuation of racism and how does it affect generations altogether, in spite of the constant proponents of collectivism and humanity that try to fight it. This article attempts to answer some of these questions, by comprehensively evaluating racism from varied angles. It reviews theories in the genesis of racism, its biopsychosocial offshoots, the global problem statement and finally proposes 'minority stress' as a probable common pathway in mediating the vicious effects of discrimination based on race. The multi-pronged strategies possible to mitigate these effects are subsequently discussed.

A question of addressing the real issues of the Nigerian Police operatives’ ineffectiveness for improved petormance

The Nigerian Police ineffectiveness in internal security services is a national challenge. The police have been labelled unfriendly and discredited by many due to their personal experiences and media reports. Research findings indicate that with the police, Nigerians are among the worst Police victims of human rights violations in Africa, due to corruption, unlawful and prolonged detention without trials and various unprofessional conduct. This investigation explores the issues of the Nigerian Police road traffic operatives along a heavy traffic highway in North Central Nigeria that qualify their unprofessional attitudes and behaviors, with possible insights to advance knowledge for policies towards improving service delivery. We collected data from police officers of two police formations in the research area, by quantitative survey. Also from the same two locations and another location, we collected qualitative data by applying in-depth analyses of opinion leaders. We applied Herzberg’s two factor theory and observed that lack of both motivators and hygiene factors seem to be impacting the operatives negatively hence they are not motivated to operate effectively. Data suggest that the Police immediate constraints are mainly hygiene factors (monetary rewards, welfare, tools, among others) which build up frustration and predispose them to oppression and extortion of road users, reflecting the overarching corrupt environment. The results support some earlier findings that both motivators and hygiene factors, not mainly motivators, drive employee motivation and performance. Policy implications include enhanced statutory spending and overhaul of the agency structure for improved employee performance.

The Effects of One Person Media Broadcasting Use Motivation and Social Viewing on Consumer Brand Attitudes, Brand Engagement, and Purchase Intention

The Effects of One Person Media Broadcasting Use Motivation and Social Viewing on Consumer Brand Attitudes, Brand Engagement, and Purchase Intention

Dissemination Strategies and Usage of Psychological Assistance Hotlines During the COVID-19 Outbreak in China

When the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was rapidly spreading in China in early 2020, China’s National Health Commission quickly responded to the psychological crisis by issuing guidelines for establishing mental health intervention systems, including providing psychological assistance hotlines. However, recent critiques have emphasized China’s lack of pre-established mental health interventions which resulted in an inefficient response. This is the first empirical study to systematically examine mental health service use in China during the COVID-19 outbreak. The current study focused on the use of mental health hotlines in a Northern Chinese region. This region originally had a regional level hotline. During the outbreak, 12 out of its 16 sub-regional juridical areas started providing their own hotlines. Data regarding the regional level hotline and the 12 sub-regional level hotlines were obtained, including daily number of calls received, strategies for disseminating hotline services, and callers’ expressed concerns. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in China, in the region, and in each of the sub-regional juridical area were also recorded daily during China’s peak period of COVID-19. Analyses of these data revealed that the mental health hotlines tended to have low usage overall. Hotlines that merely provided their numbers to community centers and quarantine centers tended to receive few calls. Hotlines that encouraged individuals to advertise the service on personal social media accounts tended to receive more calls. The daily number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country was closely related the number of phone calls received at the regional hotline. Sub-regional hotline operators reported that a significant proportion of callers had concerns about contracting COVID-19, negative emotions from prolonged social isolation, and family conflicts while stay-at-home policies were implemented. It was also observed that the sub-regional level hotlines did not start until COVID-19 cases in the country started to decline. Overall, the psychological assistance hotlines provided during COVID-19 satisfied some mental health needs. However, consistent with recent commentaries, the hotline services were not established during the time that demand likely peaked. Future studies are warranted to determine the best strategies to improve the accessibility of mental health hotline services.

The Impact of the Audience’s Continuance Intention Towards the Vlog: Focusing on Intimacy, Media Synchronicity and Authenticity

The purpose of this study was to examine the impacts of the audience and vlog creator’s self-disclosure, media synchronicity (immediacy of feedback, variety of symbol set), as well as content authenticity on the intimacy between the vlogger and the audience and continuance intention of the audience. The participants of the online survey were young Chinese females, instructed to practice their routine of watching vlog and the fixed vlog channels. By the interpersonal process of intimacy model and media synchronicity theory, the results of the structural equation modeling revealed that self-disclosure (audience’s disclosure) and partner responsiveness (vlogger’s disclosure) form the experience of intimacy in interactions. Also, the quick immediacy of feedback, rich symbol set, and content authenticity positively impacted intimacy development. Meanwhile, intimacy enables the audience to form a continuous viewing behavior. We expect the results of this study will provide more insight into the relationship between the audience and the producer in online video content. In terms of the personal media influencers and MCN companies, this study is also suggests strategic implications.

Ecological Momentary Assessment Within a Digital Health Intervention for Reminiscence in Persons With Dementia and Caregivers: User Engagement Study.

BackgroundUser-interaction event logs provide rich and large data sets that can provide valuable insights into how people engage with technology. Approaches such as ecological momentary assessment (EMA) can be used to gather accurate real-time data in an individual’s natural environment by asking questions at any given instant.ObjectiveThe purpose of this study was to evaluate user engagement and responses to EMA questions using InspireD, an app used for reminiscence by persons with dementia and their caregivers. Research findings can be used to inform EMA use within digital health interventions.MethodsA feasibility trial was conducted in which participants (n=56) used the InspireD app over a 12-week period. Participants were a mean age of 73 (SD 13) and were either persons with dementia (n=28) or their caregivers (n=28). Questions, which they could either answer or choose to dismiss, were presented to participants at various instants after reminiscence with personal or generic photos, videos, and music. Presentation and dismissal rates for questions were compared by hour of the day and by trial week to investigate user engagement.ResultsOverall engagement was high, with 69.1% of questions answered when presented. Questions that were presented in the evening had the lowest dismissal rate; the dismissal rate for questions presented at 9 PM was significantly lower than the dismissal rate for questions presented at 11 AM (9 PM: 10%; 11 AM: 50%; χ21=21.4, P<.001). Questions asked following reminiscence with personal media, especially those asked after personal photos, were less likely to be answered compared to those asked after other media. In contrast, questions asked after the user had listened to generic media, in particular those asked after generic music, were much more likely to be answered.ConclusionsThe main limitation of our study was the lack of generalizability of results to a larger population given the quasi-experimental design and older demographic where half of participants were persons with dementia; however, this study shows that older people are willing to participate and engage in EMA. Based on this study, we propose a series of recommendations for app design to increase user engagement with EMA. These include presenting questions no more than once per day, after 8 PM in the evening, and only if the user is not trying to complete a task within the app.