Watching TV Programs Research Articles

Reading Interest and Proficiency of Grade 7 Learners

This descriptive-correlational study aimed to assess the reading interest and proficiency of 170 randomly selected Grade 7 learners. It utilized two sets of research instruments—the Learner’s Reading Interest Survey (RIS) and the Philippine Informal Reading Inventory (PHIL-IRI). Specifically, a self-made questionnaire was used to assess the respondents’ reading interest, while the PHIL-IRI assessment tool was employed to gauge their reading proficiency. Statistical tools such as percentage, weighted mean, Linear Regression Analysis, and Multiple Linear Regression Analysis were used to analyze the data. The results indicated that the majority of learners have a favorable attitude toward reading, with a preference for social media platforms as their primary reading resource. Overall, the learners’ reading proficiency, in terms of word reading score and comprehension score, is at the “frustration” level. The data further revealed that the frequency of (a) reading fiction and books, (b) utilizing online learning tools like social media posts, and (c) watching social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok is positively and significantly related to the learners’ reading proficiency in terms of reading score. Conversely, the frequency of (a) reading magazines and (b) watching TV programs like Food Network Asia is negatively and significantly related to the learners’ reading proficiency in terms of reading score. In conclusion, this inquiry sheds light on the complex relationship between students' reading preferences and their proficiency levels. While there is a prevalent inclination towards reading among learners, a noteworthy segment demonstrates restrained enthusiasm, primarily due to time constraints. Therefore, addressing obstacles such as limited time and harnessing digital tools are essential for devising effective approaches to improve reading engagement and skill levels.

Influence of Watching TV Programs on Human Recognition of a Robot's Emotions

Influence of Watching TV Programs on Human Recognition of a Robot's Emotions

Exploring the effects of target-language extramural activities on students’ written production

Frequent engagement in English extramural activities (i.e., activities that take place outside the classroom) has been found to have a positive impact on EFL learners’ vocabulary knowledge and reading comprehension. In the present study, we aim to extend our knowledge of the possible impact of extramural activities into the realm of second-language writing. Specifically, we investigate the relationship among a number of English extramural activities and two aspects of writing development: lexical diversity and noun phrase complexity. The data are drawn from the Swedish Learner English Corpus (SLEC) which includes texts produced by Swedish secondary school students. The corpus also includes information on how many hours per week students (i) engage in conversations in English, (ii) communicate in English while playing computer/video games, (iii) read in English, (iv) spend time on social media with English content, (v) and watch TV shows or movies in English. The results show that reading in English leads to higher frequency of adjectival modification, whereas conversing in English and watching TV programs positively impact lexical diversity. The results of the study have implications for discussions about the role of L2 classroom instruction vis-à-vis learners’ extramural activities.

A strategy for building a smart sports platform based on machine learning models

With the rapid development of big data technology, it has greatly changed the way people get information, and also improved the speed and quality of information. In this context, smart sports has become a new trend in sports development. This paper creates an intelligent learning environment and builds a smart sports platform through advanced concepts and technical means, which can effectively optimize the integration and sharing of sports resources. Starting from the overall architecture design of smart sports, the key technologies of machine learning model to realize smart sports are sorted out. Through the five basic linking stages with machine learning model as the core, the value innovation path of platform construction structure is analyzed. The current status of sports resources application is studied, and the data mining algorithm is used to calculate the user usage data of the smart sports platform and improve the construction of the smart platform. Through the construction of the smart sports platform, people shift from traditional reading books and watching TV programs to getting information through intelligent mobile terminals, and the proportion of attention to sports information is as high as 58.6%. This shows that by building a smart sports platform, it can provide support and guarantee for the sustainable development of sports.

Children TV Watching Habits: A Case Study of Pakistan

This research article deals with the TV viewing habits of children and their effects. The study was based on a survey research technique to explore and investigate the Children's TV programs effects.The sample size for this research study was 500 children belonging to different age groups and studying in different schools and colleges in Bahawalpur. Therefore, the population of the study was children studying in Bahawalpur. A close-ended questionnaire was used for data collection.Children who have aged between 3 to 6 and are unable to fill out the questionnaire. Their parents were asked to fill in the questions according to their habits of watching different TV programs related to children. The data were analyzed through SPSS. The exclusive analysis of the data reveals that the overall majority of children watch TV programs for 2 to 4 hours a day.The empirical analysis of the data reveals that overall majority of the children agree that their parents guide them on which program to watch and which is not. It is also worth noting that overall majority of the children are of the view that entertainment TV programs for children increase their healthy relationship with their parents.

Trends in the development of book printing and book distribution in the world's leading countries through the lens of reading problems

The features of book distribution systems in different countries of the world are investigated. The role of book clubs and book chains in the way of a book to its reader is revealed. The leading role of the state support for book publishing is outlined. Factors of state support for book publishing and book distribution, such as creating reading development programs, facilitating the opening of new bookstores, organizing book fairs, exhibitions, festivals and other events to support the book, establishing literary prizes and competitions, replenishing library funds, protecting copyright, have been identified. Possibilities of introduction of experience of leading countries of the world (in particular Canada) in support of book publishing and book distribution industry, such as granting of preferential credits, influence on book pricing, introduction of a "fixed" price during book realization, are investigated. The media habits of the inhabitants of different countries of the world have been researched, it has been found out how much time a person spends watching TV programs, listening to music on the radio, reading. Although in the modern world, residents are spending less and less time on the book, preferring other types of entertainment and leisure, the books are no less printable, book publishing remains a large business, valued at $ 151 billion and generating more than cinema, magazines, video games and music. In an effort to survive, book publishers are united in media conglomerates, most of their profits are from book sales. The readers' preferences been investigated. The competitiveness of paper and e-books has been investigated too. The advantages of paper books over e-books have been proved. Research shows that e-books are growing in popularity, but growth has slowed slightly since 2016. It is emphasized that paper books are the basis of reader's attention and demand.

Investigation of the Perceived Coronavirus Threat, E-Health Literacy, and Psychological Well-Being in Turkey

ABSTRACT This study aims to examine the relationship between e-health literacy, psychological well-being, and perceived coronavirus disease threat in people aged 18 and over living in Turkey. Another aim of the study is to reveal whether the participants’ perceptions about the threat of coronavirus disease, e-health literacy, and psychological well-being differ according to various socio-demographic characteristics. Data was collected from 5153 people through a questionnaire created via Google Form on the Internet. The data collection process was carried out on April 22–27, 2020. According to the result of the regression analysis made in line with the data obtained; it was determined that the perceived coronavirus threat explained 4.6% of the total variance on psychological well-being and 2.7% of the total variance on e-health literacy; and finally, e-health literacy explained 18.6% of the total variance on psychological well-being. The study also revealed that the participants’ scores regarding the perceived coronavirus threat show statistically significant differences depending on age, gender, marital status, education level, place of residence, income level, having a chronic disease, regular drug use, smoking use, the degree of information about the coronavirus disease and watching TV programs about the current coronavirus news. As a result of this research, it is thought that individuals should minimize their perception of coronavirus threats by increasing their e-health literacy levels, and thus, their psychological well-being levels should be increased.

스포츠 방송시청자 유형에 따른 차별적 시청 행동 경향분석 : 기술수용모델을 중심으로

This study aims to classify the types of sports media consumers based on the technology acceptance model and to reveal the discriminatory media consumption trends by type, focusing on the fact that a new viewing phenomenon using other media while watching TV programs is actively appearing due to the recent development of media technology. In order to collect primary data, this study conducted online random sampling across the United States, targeting US sports fans, and collected 1,617 copies of data. To verify the hypothesis of this study, first, through cluster analysis, viewer types were classified according to the use of second media, perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, and technology acceptance attitude in the context of watching sports broadcasting. Moreover, through chi-squared analysis, the relationship between two consumer types and demographic characteristics was identified. Lastly, through one-way ANOVA, the discriminatory trend of sports media consumption according to the two types of consumers was revealed.

Tree-Based Real-Time Advertisement Recommendation System in Online Broadcasting

The viewing time of media content per week through TV is still dominant. Users are exposed to numerous advertisements, such as commercials, electronic home shopping, product placement (PPL), and T-Commerce while watching TV programs. Most of the advertisement systems provide a good overview of products. However, traditional advertising services do not consider user preferences, meaning it is difficult to expect anything more than mere exposure to them. We can adopt a recommendation system to predict the preference. However, existing recommendation systems find it difficult to satisfy the real-time requirements of online broadcasting because of the large overhead incurred in preference prediction processes. In this paper, we propose a real-time recommendation system to provide personalized advertisements. The proposed system generates tree models based on user historical data. To reduce the overhead of preference prediction, we introduce a sorted HashMap that enables fast tree searches. For sophisticated preference prediction, the proposed system normalizes the users' preferences by considering the characteristics of their tree model. Finally, we conduct experiments to evaluate the performance of the proposed tree-based recommendation system.

TV 프로그램 시청동기가 정보 신뢰도 및 만족도, 음식관광 방문의도에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of viewing motivation of TV program which are called Mukbang and Cookbang on the visit intention of food tourism. The online survey was conducted using online data panels of 334 respondents with the experience of participation of food tourism after watching TV programs that contained about famous foods and restaurants. First, the effect of TV program viewing motivation on the reliability and satisfaction was investigated. Second, the effect of the reliability and satisfaction of TV program on the visit intention was examined. The collected data were analysed by using frequency analysis, factor analysis, and regression analysis. The results showed that there were significant effects of viewing motivation of TV program on the reliability. However, TV program viewing motivation had only a partial significant effect on the satisfaction. Also, there was a significant effect of the reliability and satisfaction of TV program on the visit intention of food tourism. Based on the results, the study suggests that there is a need to provide reliable information by TV programs which can provide a better satisfaction of the increasing demand for the potential and existing food tourists.

DIGITALNI MEDIJI I DIDAKTIČKE INOVACIJE U RADU VASPITAČA

Osnovni cilj istraživanja bio je utvrditi da li vaspitači koriste digitalne medije u pripremi i realizaciji aktivnosti i u informisanju o didaktičkim inovacijama u radu sa decom predškolskog uzrasta. Korišćenje digitalnih medija je operaciono definisano preko upotrebe interneta, društvenih mreža, gledanja TV programa, korišćenja mobilnih telefona i kompjutera. Osnovni metod je neeksperimentalan - anketno istraživanje na uzorku. Ukupan uzorak je činilo 112 vaspitača. Uzorak je nameran i prigodan, što odgovara eksplorativnoj prirodi ovog istraživanja. Dobijeni rezultati istraživanja pokazuju da vaspitači koriste pojedine digitalne medije u pripremi, realizaciji i informisanju o didaktičkim inovacijama, što ukazuje na neophodnost razvijanja njihovih kompetencija u oblasti upotrebe digitalnih medija u vaspitno-obrazovnom radu kao i u cilju integrisanja novih informacionih tehnologija u predškolsko obrazovanje.

The Sustained and Selective Effectiveness of a Videophone Conversation for Individuals with Dementia

Studies reported that a videophone conversation allows individuals with dementia to be psychologically stable even after a 3 h conversation session. The individuals who exhibited difficulty in watching TV programs could still enjoy a conversation. This follow-up study investigated the effectiveness of a videophone conversation using five subjects with mild to moderate dementia. Two sessions were conducted during the study. In Session A, a subject convers with a talking partner through videophone for 30 min, and in Session B, a subject watches his/her favorite TV program. Sessions A and B were rotated on a day-by-day basis. Their psychological stability was evaluated by caregivers using the revised GBS scale (concomitant evaluation) and the overall psychological stability 3 h after each session (delayed evaluation) was also assessed. The significant psychological stability was obtained for two subjects in the concomitant evaluation, and one subject in the delayed evaluation. This indicates that a videophone conversation is a promising remote intervention for assisting individuals with dementia. Further investigation with the participation of more subjects must be conducted.

Stając się modlitwą. Trzy postaci, trzy głosy (tłum. B. Brzezińskiego)

The article Becoming what we pray: Three images, three voices by professor Michael Plekon presents three persons who were very important for Orthodox culture, spirituality and thought — saint Seraphim of Sarov, Mother Maria Skobtsova and Paul Evdokimov. Showing the most substantial facts from their life and activity the author exhibits the real transformation, metamorphosis of their personalities, hearts and consciousnesses under the action of practice of the Jesus' Prayer or the prayer of the heart. The main aim of the article is — one can suppose — to underline the role of the Jesus' Prayer in changing people who systematically practicing it in their life, and in giving them the power to go over the stereotypes, myths and customs, even religious. The heart of the matter is emphasizing — in positive meaning — the real close union between the prayer andthe life and the relationship with neighbour. Professor Plekon stresses that “the personaland interior aspects of this prayer are never separated from liturgical prayer and ourlives”. Christians believe in salvation and resurrection of Jesus Christ and they practice the Jesus Prayer, but this prayer formula is not only devoid of life meaning formula but it is the method of changing the whole human mentality, in each everyday circumstances concerning family, marriage, work, life in monastic community, doing shopping, reading books, watching TV programs, raising children, writing the scientific articles, being in different social and cultural situations, generally — it changes all, the vision of life and the universe.

Domestic TV in the European Television Space Context

Науковий рецензований журнал відкритого доступу, що публікує статті з актуальних питань загальнотеоретичних, мистецьких, історичних, практичних аспектів у галузі аудіовізуального мистецтва та виробництва.

The Effects of Watching TV Programs on Employees' Stress and Communication

The Effects of Watching TV Programs on Employees' Stress and Communication

Learning vocabulary through audiovisual input: The differential effect of L1 subtitles and captions

Recent research has shown that learners can learn new words while watching TV programs. However, the number of words learned tends to be low. Several studies have demonstrated that first language (L1) subtitles as well as captions (= subtitles in the foreign language) have the potential to increase learning gains compared to when no on-screen text aids are provided. However, the evidence regarding the differential effect of both types of subtitles is still inconclusive. This paper reports on two exploratory studies investigating the effect of L1 subtitles and captions on different aspects of word knowledge among English-as-a-foreign language (EFL) learners in Flanders (Belgium). Data were collected in two different educational settings: intermediate EFL learners from a general school and low-proficiency EFL learners from a vocational school. Although learning gains were generally low, results indicated that captions have the potential to increase form learning. However, learners who were exposed to the audiovisual input with L1 subtitles did not perform better than the captions group in the tests focusing on the meaning of the target items. Additionally, findings also suggested that learners' vocabulary size and an item's frequency of occurrence in the video clip correlated positively with word learning.

MAIN DIRECTIONS OF MASS MEDIA INFLUENCE ON INDIVIDUAL’S LEGAL CULTURE

The article deals with the content and characteristics of directions of mass media influence on individual’s legal culture. Main directions of legal influence, such as informative-legal education, legal nurturing, legal propaganda are defined by the author. Today there are a lot of problems in Ukraine, which prevent the country from becoming a developed European state. One of these problems is undeveloped legal outlook and legal nihilism of public and local self-governing authorities, and citizens, in particular. Taking into account everything mentioned above, effective legal influence is extremely important, and legal civility and high level of individual’s legal culture will be the results of this influence. The urgency of the issue lies in the fact that mass media influences legal awareness and individual’s legal culture; society’s perception of legal information depends on its operation. The aim of the paper is to distinguish and characterize main directions of mass media influence on individual’s legal culture. The press, TV and radio, as well as electronic mass media are the media that broadcasts spiritual and legal values in mass consciousness, makes powerful influence on individual’s legal awareness. Through legal influence national mass media regularly provides information on national legislation, the activities of the legislative, executive, judicial branches, the state of public order, law violations fighting, especially among minors, law violation prevention, etc.; general and educational television and radio channels, pages, headings and other popular forms of legal information are created. As we know, mass media is an institution of individual’s legal socialization. Legal socialization is the result of positive legal influence of mass media. Some elements that are destructive to an individual may be present in the process of legal socialization. Watching TV programs containing antisocial scenes is closely connected with antisocial behavior. Psychologists call it modelling of mass media acquired behavior, the result of learning through observation, which can also be called nonlegal or unlawful socialization. Among other things, there is a negative aspect of resorting to news and analytical programs which involve the selective supply of legal information on television and radio. Feature films, documentaries and criminal chronicles promote standards of legal behavior, which are incompatible with legal values of Ukrainian society. To sum up, it is possible to identify the following main areas of mass media influence on individual’s legal culture on the basis of the study: a) informative and legal education which forms legal thinking and individual’s legal outlook; b) legal nurturing that determines a positive attitude towards the law and individual’s good behavior, and is implemented through systematic legal influence on a person, development of his focus on socially active good behavior; c) legal propaganda which forms an individual’s conviction that it is necessary to follow rules of law and strengthen positive legal orientations. Mass media legal influence should not be limited only to the distribution of knowledge on legislation to citizens, it is also important to form an individual’s conviction that it is necessary to follow rules of law, create a positive attitude towards the law and have good behavior.

Both Direct and Vicarious Experiences of Nature Affect Children's Willingness to Conserve Biodiversity.

Children are becoming less likely to have direct contact with nature. This ongoing loss of human interactions with nature, the extinction of experience, is viewed as one of the most fundamental obstacles to addressing global environmental challenges. However, the consequences for biodiversity conservation have been examined very little. Here, we conducted a questionnaire survey of elementary schoolchildren and investigated effects of the frequency of direct (participating in nature-based activities) and vicarious experiences of nature (reading books or watching TV programs about nature and talking about nature with parents or friends) on their affective attitudes (individuals’ emotional feelings) toward and willingness to conserve biodiversity. A total of 397 children participated in the surveys in Tokyo. Children’s affective attitudes and willingness to conserve biodiversity were positively associated with the frequency of both direct and vicarious experiences of nature. Path analysis showed that effects of direct and vicarious experiences on children’s willingness to conserve biodiversity were mediated by their affective attitudes. This study demonstrates that children who frequently experience nature are likely to develop greater emotional affinity to and support for protecting biodiversity. We suggest that children should be encouraged to experience nature and be provided with various types of these experiences.

An Automatic Video Reinforcing System for TV Programs using Semantic Metadata from Closed Captions

There are various TV programs such as travel and educational programs. While watching TV programs, viewers often search related information about the programs through the Web. Nevertheless, as TV programs keep playing, viewers possibly miss some important scenes when searching the Web. As a result, their enjoyment would be spoiled. Another problem is that there are various topics in each scene of a video, and viewers usually have different levels of knowledge. Thus, it is important to detect topics in videos and supplement videos with related information automatically. In this paper, the authors propose a novel automatic video reinforcing system with two functions: (1) a media synchronization mechanism, which presents supplementary information synchronized with videos, in order to enable viewers to effectively understand the geographic data in videos; (2) a video reconstruction mechanism, which generates new video contents based on viewers' interests and knowledge by adding and removing scenes, in order to enable viewers to enjoy the generated videos without additional search.

Topic-tracking-based dynamic user modeling with TV recommendation applications

One of the challenging issues in TV recommendation applications based on implicit rating data is how to make robust recommendation for the users who irregularly watch TV programs and for the users who have their time-varying preferences on watching TV programs. To achieve the robust recommendation for such users, it is important to capture dynamic behaviors of user preference on watched TV programs over time. In this paper, we propose a topic tracking based dynamic user model (TDUM) that extends the previous multi-scale dynamic topic model (MDTM) by incorporating topic-tracking into dynamic user modeling. In the proposed TDUM, the prior of the current user preference is estimated as a weighted combination of the previously learned preferences of a TV user in multi-time spans where the optimal weight set is found in the sense of the evidence maximization of the Bayesian probability. So, the proposed TDUM supports the dynamics of public users' preferences on TV programs for collaborative filtering based TV program recommendation and the highly ranked TV programs by similar watching taste user group (topic) can be traced with the same topic labels epoch by epoch. We also propose a rank model for TV program recommendation. In order to verify the effectiveness of the proposed TDUM and rank model, we use a real data set of the TV programs watched by 1,999 TV users for 7 months. The experiment results demonstrate that the proposed TDUM outperforms the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) model and the MDTM in log-likelihood for the topic modeling performance, and also shows its superiority compared to LDA, MDTM and Bayesian Personalized Rank Matrix Factorization (BPRMF) for TV program recommendation performance in terms of top-N precision-recall.