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Responses to Mental Health Care Posts by Social Media Influencers: The Moderating Effects of Previous Experience and Follower Involvement

ABSTRACT Mental health information on social media is more often communicated by regular users as opposed to healthcare professionals, and a subset of these regular users, social media influencers, are employed as marketing sources for therapy companies. According to social cognitive theory, an influencer’s story about their positive experiences with therapy should encourage followers to also seek therapy, and stronger involvement with the influencer should enhance these effects. Although research has found that previous experience with modeled behaviors may mute vicarious learning effects, with a nuanced and stigmatized context like mental health treatment, it is important to parse out both the quantity and valence of previous experience in understanding how it shapes audience responses to mental health content on social media. The current study tests a moderated mediation model to help explain the impact of previous viewer experience with therapy (quantity and valence) and involvement with the influencer (similarity and parasocial relationship) on social cognitive theory-related outcomes. Results indicate no interaction effects of the moderators; however, there were direct positive effects of previous viewer experience and SMI outcome on outcome expectations, which in turn positively predicted behavioral intentions to seek therapy. Interestingly, self-efficacy had a negative effect on behavioral intentions.

THE IMPACT OF INDIAN EXAGGERATED ANIMATED TELEVISION ADVERTISEMENTS ON CONSUMER

Indian animated television advertisements have a significant impact on consumer behavior. These advertisements are designed to capture the attention of consumers and make an emotional connection with them. They use a combination of visual and auditory elements to create a memorable and engaging experience for viewers. One of the key advantages of animated advertisements is their ability to create a unique brand personality. Through the use of characters and storytelling, these advertisements can help build a strong brand image that resonates with consumers. For example, the Amul Girl is an iconic character that has become synonymous with the Amul brand in India.

Evaluating the viewer experience of interactive virtual reality movies

Significant advances in virtual reality (VR) technology have called into question the traditional methods of cinema storytelling and dissemination. New VR devices, such as the Meta (Oculus) Quest, have expanded the possibilities for viewing movies. The purpose of this study is to compare the emotional and cognitive impacts of VR and traditional 2D movies. In this study, sixty volunteers were divided into two groups and presented a movie (Gala) in 2D or VR format. We employed a multimodal method to assess the cognitive and emotional effects of the film both during and after watching. Our technique combined self-reports, interviews, questionnaires, and objective heart rate and EEG brain activity data. After quantitative and qualitative evaluation, it was discovered, that regardless of media, there was a substantial influence of the movie on the emotional state of the participant’s mood. Moreover, compared to the traditional 2D-movie, the VR movie led to more consistent and robust positive effect on all aspects of self-rated affect. The difference in self-reported mood was corroborated by reduced EEG amplitudes in the beta frequency band, indicating higher levels of positive affectivity, which was only observed for the VR movie. Lastly, the VR movie also leads to overall higher self-rated immersion and engagement than the 2D version. Our results highlight the potential of VR movies to engage and emotionally affect audiences beyond traditional cinema. Moreover, our study highlights the value of using a multidisciplinary method for analysing audience impacts.

Pragmatic Architectonics of Stand-Up Comedy: Actor’s Image, Addressee’s Factor, Interactivity

Stand-up comedy is interpreted in the study as a discourse pattern, perfect for the “cynical” opposition of all aspects of real eventfulness. Fixing the relevant areas of implicit (usually socially labeled) knowledge, not always covered by traditional institutional sources, bringing this knowledge to the target audience are important discourse functions performed by comedians in their appropriate roles. It is established that the actor puts on the mask of an ordinary representative of society, against the background of a comic distortion of reality, he voices “marginal” metaphorical meanings that form the current everyday routine, expressing anger and despair about vicious and weak manifestations inherent in human nature. The comedy genre allows performers to demonstrate a personal view of the world order, to realize their place in the world around them. It is concluded that these possibilities become the central element of the identity of the actor-comedian, determine the parameters of who he objectively is, fix his finding between the internal state and the external manner of behavior that can be recognized by the audience. The comedian is like a creative “persona”, a psychological entity with special characteristics that can be publicly noticed, recognized and used by representatives of a certain culture as a whole. The scenarios generated by the comedian are investigated, which can be traditional or situational (specific to the current communication environment). Their switching in the actor’s discourse determines the nature of the relationship with the audience from complete collusion to confrontation with it.The humorous potential of the actor’s judgments programs a sudden cognitive shift in the audience’s consciousness, which is generated by the discrepancy between perceived meanings and generally accepted mental models of explication of meanings from linguistic units, the effect of deceived expectations. The viewer experiences an unexpected change of psychological state due to spontaneous changes in the interpretation of individual words, phrases or the actor’s narrative as a whole. At the same time, the actor’s jokes do not always correspond to the comedy genre, as a rule, they acquire a deeply tragic content.

Emerging perspective of a mathematics teacher educator on connections between advanced and school mathematics

Contemporary research on mathematics teacher education reveals attention by researchers on mathematics connections (MC). Nevertheless, researchers have not investigated experiential views of mathematics teacher educators (MTEs) around MC. This article addresses the scenario by relating findings of an intrinsic case study involving a purposively chosen MTE. MTE responded to interview questions regarding experiential viewpoints on connections between advanced and school mathematics. Narrative data analysis suggested that MTE prefers special mathematics education courses (MECs). Envisaged MEC are supposed to align with school mathematics but comprised of subject matter, which is neither advanced mathematics nor school mathematics. Such courses coupled with school-based mentorship are expected to acquaint mathematics student teachers with MC. MTE could not provide subject matter-based connections except for pedagogic ones. Study of advanced mathematics was encouraged to foster understanding of MC. These findings motivate further research concerning how advanced mathematics ought to be connected to school mathematics concepts.

Evaluation of online videos to engage viewers and support decision-making for COVID-19 vaccination: how narratives and race/ethnicity enhance viewer experiences.

Vaccine hesitancy has hampered the control of COVID-19 and other vaccine-preventable diseases. We conducted a national internet-based, quasi-experimental study to evaluate COVID-19 vaccine informational videos. Participants received an informational animated video paired with the randomized assignment of (1) a credible source (differing race/ethnicity) and (2) sequencing of a personal narrative before or after the video addressing their primary vaccine concern. We examined viewing time and asked video evaluation questions to those who viewed the full video. Among 14,235 participants, 2,422 (17.0%) viewed the full video. Those who viewed a personal story first (concern video second) were 10 times more likely to view the full video (p < 0.01). Respondent-provider race/ethnicity congruence was associated with increased odds of viewing the full video (aOR: 1.89, p < 0.01). Most viewers rated the informational video(s) to be helpful, easy to understand, trustworthy, and likely to impact others' vaccine decisions, with differences by demographics and also vaccine intentions and concerns. Using peer-delivered, personal narrative, and/or racially congruent credible sources to introduce and deliver vaccine safety information may improve the openness of vaccine message recipients to messages and engagement.

Perceptual Quality Assessment of Colored 3D Point Clouds.

3D point clouds have found a wide variety of applications in multimedia processing, remote sensing, and scientific computing. Although most point cloud processing systems are developed to improve viewer experiences, little work has been dedicated to perceptual quality assessment of 3D point clouds. In this work, we build a new 3D point cloud database, namely the Waterloo Point Cloud (WPC) database. In contrast to existing datasets consisting of small-scale and low-quality source content of constrained viewing angles, the WPC database contains 20 high quality, realistic, and omni-directional source point clouds and 740 diversely distorted point clouds. We carry out a subjective quality assessment experiment over the database in a controlled lab environment. Our statistical analysis suggests that existing objective point cloud quality assessment (PCQA) models only achieve limited success in predicting subjective quality ratings. We propose a novel objective PCQA model based on an attention mechanism and a variant of information content-weighted structural similarity, which significantly outperforms existing PCQA models. The database has been made publicly available at https://github.com/qdushl/Waterloo-Point-Cloud-Database.

LITERATURE REVIEW: PERAN MEDIA SOSIAL DALAM PEMASARAN FILM INDONESIA: ANALISIS KEPUASAN DAN NIAT BELI PENONTON

This literature review article discusses the role of social media in Indonesian film marketing with a focus on analyzing audience satisfaction and purchase intent. This study was conducted to see the extent to which the use of social media can affect audience satisfaction and purchase intention towards Indonesian films. The method used in this study is to conduct a literature study of previous studies related to the role of social media in film marketing. In its analysis, the study found that the use of social media can increase audience satisfaction and also influence their purchase intention towards Indonesian films. Previous studies have shown that the use of social media can provide more complete and faster information about upcoming films, as well as provide a more interactive experience for viewers. With more complete and interactive information, viewers feel more satisfied with the viewing experience, and have a greater tendency to buy tickets for the film. In addition, the study also found that social media use can influence viewers' purchase intent through the influence of movie recommendations and reviews by other social media users. The more people who recommend and give positive reviews about the film on social media, the greater the audience's buying intention to watch it. In conclusion, the study shows that the use of social media plays an important role in the marketing of Indonesian films, and can affect audience satisfaction and purchase intent. Therefore, film producers in Indonesia can utilize social media more effectively in their film marketing campaigns to increase audience satisfaction and purchase intent.

Why the Experiential View Is Vital To Marketing Communications Research Now

Advertising and, more generally, marketing communications, along with consumer behaviors, have changed in important ways. Whereas, traditionally, brands and companies have forced information on consumers, they now are creating numerous forms of communications to trigger diverse gratifications for consumers who are most often exposed incidentally to them. This essay, therefore, urges researchers and practitioners to open up the theoretical framework of marketing communication research beyond the traditional information-processing paradigm by incorporating the experiential view. The authors develop three major arguments in favor of adding the experiential view to provide an enhanced framework for examining the effects of contemporary marketing communications. They conclude with a set of implications for both researchers and practitioners.

Design elements evoke embodiment at cultural sites in Rwanda and South Africa

Design elements, the physical or architectural choices that determine the character of space, can have a dramatic effect on visitor experience at museums and memorial sites. At those employing strategies of embodiment, viewer experience takes on added significance. Many contemporary memorial sites employ physical touchstones that evoke emotional experiences, giving viewers a deeper empathy for injustice or humanitarian tragedy. This visual essay examines design elements—such as architectural details and the placement of objects—that evoke embodiment at three sites: the Bisesero genocide memorial in Rwanda and the Apartheid Museum and Prestwich Memorial museum in South Africa. Each of these sites manifests design elements that encourage visitors to engage physically and emotionally with the victims of historical atrocities. Moving visitors beyond a detached, intellectual understanding of traumatic histories toward a physical/emotional engagement may engender a deeper connection with humanitarian tragedy and the struggle for healing and reconciliation.

Clarifying rupture: An authors’ reply

In our article, ‘Rupture: Towards a Critical, Emplaced, and Experiential View of Nature-Society Crisis’, we advocated for contextually rich and critical understandings of environmental crises and their catalytic effects. This authors’ reply responds to four commentaries whose authors raise helpful questions and insights. We first review the spatial and temporal connections between specific rupture episodes and ongoing processes of extraction and exploitation. We then discuss how the impacts of rupture disproportionately fall to those with the smallest contribution to the crisis. Third, we clarify how our contextually rich view of rupture differs from planetary analytics such as the Anthropocene. In terms of rupture's effects, we agree with comments that rupture does not simply represent a politics of hope but can strengthen authoritarian interests. Finally, we clarify what it means to ‘put rupture to work’.

The Photographer’s Visual Grammar: Visual Rightness and Aesthetics of Artistic Photographs

Abstract We are living in a world where photography is everywhere, and almost everyone is a photographer (in the sense of producing photographs with some aesthetic aspiration). Yet, despite the democratic nature of the medium, which suggests that anyone can make great photographs, there are large differences in the aesthetic quality of photographs. Scientifically, we do not yet grasp very well what differentiates aesthetic from non-aesthetic photographs, and how this results in a different viewer experience. In this study, we explored the visual rightness of 21 high-quality artistic photographs, compared with their ecologically valid less-than-optimal variants (one to four alternatives). The high-quality photographs were selected from an online contemporary photography competition which is judged by experts (http://www.life-framer.com). The alternatives were variants provided by the photographers themselves. Participants () preferred the original photograph significantly more than chance level for the majority of the sets (13 out of 21), and significantly less than chance level for a minority of sets (three out of 21). This is in line with the visual rightness theory of picture perception, maintaining that artists are experts in creating visually right images, and that this is salient to nonexpert viewers. Yet, the preference for the original differed greatly between sets (range: 9.63–79.68%) and the original photograph was also the most preferred one in ‘only’ 12 out of 21 sets. Qualitative content analysis showed that preferences were influenced by many levels of photographic information (color, contrast, sharpness, composition, emotional expression, etc.), which were often working together. The most aesthetically powerful photographs reveal a skillful combination of medium, form, and subject matter levels, to produce an optimal visual message. Results have implications for empirical aesthetics, the photography practice, and for our understanding of photography literacy, a key topic in a world where there are many more photographs than humans that can appreciate them.

Integrating Visual and Network Data with Deep Learning for Streaming Video Quality Assessment.

Existing video Quality-of-Experience (QoE) metrics rely on the decoded video for the estimation. In this work, we explore how the overall viewer experience, quantified via the QoE score, can be automatically derived using only information available before and during the transmission of videos, on the server side. To validate the merits of the proposed scheme, we consider a dataset of videos encoded and streamed under different conditions and train a novel deep learning architecture for estimating the QoE of the decoded video. The major novelty of our work is the exploitation and demonstration of cutting-edge deep learning techniques in automatically estimating video QoE scores. Our work significantly extends the existing approach for estimating the QoE in video streaming services by combining visual information and network conditions.

Gods, Goddesses, and Mortals for the 21st Century: The Reinstallation of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts Collection of Ancient Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Art

Gods, Goddesses, and Mortals for the 21st Century: The Reinstallation of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts Collection of Ancient Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Art

CHARACTERISTICS of an ENGAGING VIRTUAL WINE TASTING

Wine tasting rooms in the United States play an important role in the wine industry and the economic vitality of the regions that wine tourists visit, as wine tourists are generally well-educated and affluent, and they eagerly buy wine when they experience “pleasure” with their wine tourism experience (Bruwer &amp; Rueger-Muck, 2019). When the COVID-19 pandemic forced many winery tasting rooms to shut down for months and operate under severe constraints once allowed to reopen, many wineries turned to virtual wine tastings to stay engaged with their consumers and attract new ones. This paper is an exploratory study of the features of a virtual wine tasting that participants in the U.S. find most engaging. We adopted the concept of winery tourism as a hedonic experience as the framework for our study of virtual wine tastings and apply the experiential view first applied to wine tourism by Bruwer and Alant (2009) to create an online survey employing the Best – Worst methodology first published by Finn and Louviere (1992). We collected 261 valid responses from people in the U.S. who participated in at least one virtual wine tasting. Using the classic agglomerative method, we performed unsupervised clustering on the raw survey response data to identify five main clusters of virtual wine tasting participant segments.

IEDB-3D 2.0: Structural data analysis within the Immune Epitope Database.

The Immune Epitope Database (IEDB) catalogs T cell, B cell, and major histocompatibility complex ligand information in the context of infectious disease, allergy, autoimmunity, and transplantation. An important component of this information is three-dimensional structural data on T cell receptors, antibodies, and pairwise residue interactions between immune receptors and antigens, which we refer to as IEDB-3D. Such data is highly valuable for mechanically understanding receptor:ligand interactions. Here, we present IEDB-3D 2.0, which comprises a complete overhaul of how we obtain and present 3D structural data. A new 3D viewer experience that utilizes iCn3D has been implemented to replace outdated java-based technology. In addition, we have designed a new epitope mapping system that matches each epitope available in the IEDB with its antigen structural data. Finally, immunogenicity data retrieved from the IEDB's ImmunomeBrowser can now be used to highlight immunogenic regions of an antigen directly in iCn3D. Overall, the IEDB-3D 2.0 provides an updated tool platform to visualize epitope data cataloged in the IEDB.

Remembering the Herero-Nama Genocide in Namibia

Remembering the Herero-Nama Genocide in Namibia

Voyeuristic Advertisements and its Impact on the Viewers: An Empirical Study

Advertisements related to voyeurism portray people or objects in a sensual manner. Its main intention is to capture the attention of the audience. Such advertisements are mainly concerned with selling products associated with sensuality, and beauty such as lingerie and beauty products. Such advertisements have negatively impacted society as they propagate racism, false notions of a perfect body, an inferiority complex, low self-esteem, body shaming, and gender stereotypes which lead to sexual harassment and sexualization towards women. Empirical research was conducted through convenient sampling. Research Questions were shared through Google form with around 100 respondents, aged between 18 and 40. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of voyeuristic advertising on viewers The following are the research questions: 1. Do viewers feel comfortable watching Voyeuristic /pleasure-seeking ads with family on the TV? 2. Does Voyeuristic/pleasure-seeking ads on roads distract riding or driving? 3. Does the Viewer experience moral conflict while watching Voyeuristic/pleasure-seeking ads? 4. In which media does the viewer come across Voyeuristic/pleasure-seeking ads? 5. Are women actors in the Voyeuristic/pleasure-seeking ads perpetuating women’s subjugation? The findings of this study suggest that voyeuristic advertising should be discouraged as it can have a negative effect on viewers. The viewers of advertisements especially women should develop critical thinking and boycott such products that perpetrate and propagate gender stereotypes. Products promoting gender equality should be encouraged.

Depth-assisted calibration on learning-based factorization for a compressive light field display.

Due to the widespread applications of high-dimensional representations in many fields, the three-dimension (3D) display technique is increasingly being used for commercial purpose in a holographic-like and immersive demonstration. However, the visual discomfort and fatigue of 3D head mounts demonstrate the limits of usage in the sphere of marketing. The compressive light field (CLF) display is capable of providing binocular and motion parallaxes by stacking multiple liquid crystal screens without any extra accessories. It leverages optical viewpoint fusion to bring an immersive and visual-pleasing experience for viewers. Unfortunately, its practical application has been limited by processing complexity and reconstruction performance. In this paper, we propose a dual-guided learning-based factorization on polarization-based CLF display with depth-assisted calibration (DAC). This substantially improves the visual performance of factorization in real-time processing. In detail, we first take advantage of a dual-guided network structure under the constraints of reconstructed and viewing images. Additionally, by utilizing the proposed DAC, we distribute each pixel on displayed screens following the real depth. Furthermore, the subjective performance is increased by using a Gauss-distribution-based weighting (GDBW) toward the concentration of the observer's angular position. Experimental results illustrate the improved performance in qualitative and quantitative aspects over other competitive methods. A CLF prototype is assembled to verify the practicality of our factorization.

Rupture: Towards a critical, emplaced, and experiential view of nature-society crisis

We are currently seeing a global escalation in social and environmental disruption, yet concepts like the Anthropocene do not fully capture the intensity and generative scope of this crisis. ‘Rupture’ is being used as a term for specific and intense episodes of change, such as wildfires or toxic pollution releases. This is a useful addition to our lexicon for nature-society change but needs to be more robustly theorized. Defining rupture as an intense and adverse episode of nature-society disruption that ripples across scales, we elaborate four dimensions that account for rupture's sources and uncertain effects. The first two dimensions consider how rupture emerges in space and time from: (i) synergistic spatial, material, and socio-natural changes across scales; and (ii) the accumulation of slow violence that builds towards and is exposed by punctuated shifts and crisis moments. The second two dimensions consider the outcomes of rupture, namely: (iii) heightened uncertainty, insecurity, and socio-material deprivation, which are experienced in unequal and deeply affective ways; and (iv) the scope to catalyze diverse forms of agency that play out in uncertain ways. To illustrate our discussion, we draw from our long history of research on hydropower landscapes in the Mekong region.