This dissertation provides a review of the literature and three studies related to home media environments and parent characteristics, attitudes, and media guidance for a group of preschool-aged children. The studies used a cross-sectional survey (N = 356) parents conducted at public health district WIC clinics over three weeks during 2008. In the first study, parents reported children’s media use, child and family characteristics, and the home media environment. Child’s age category (β = .495, p=.000) and the location of a TV or game console in the child’s room (β=.68, p = .000) predicted the number of media channels used by the child. The likelihood of activity-promoting media use was highest for two-and three-year-old children. The second study used structural equation modeling to examine child and parent characteristics, parent attitudes and home media density associated with time with media for 237 low-income Hispanic children aged six to 60 months. Results reflected significant relationships among parent media attitudes, home media density, and children’s time with TV, DVDs, and videogames. Parent attitudes and media density mediated children’s time with activity-promoting media. The third study examined the relationships of parent media guidance to media attitudes and children’s age and weight risk status. The study sample (n = 257) included low-income, primarily Hispanic, parents of children aged 12 to 72 months, with surveys matched to children’s weight measurements. Factor analysis and structural equation modeling reflected that parent media guidance was comprised of restrictive and promotive factors. Child age and child weight risk category were associated with promotive guidance, and child weight risk was negatively associated with parents’ health locus of control beliefs. These media use patterns imply that young children will use home screen media that promote physical activity. Interventions geared to reduce young children’s time with media as part of obesity prevention efforts should consider parent attitudes and beliefs concerning media and their children’s health as well as the health-promoting potential of the media children are using. / text

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T20:23:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Edileusa Regina Pena da Silva.pdf: 5208771 bytes, checksum: 25d7cd918f05fba4e13f26d44cf19b9e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-02-23 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / First of all, this Thesis follows a well-defined direction: to explain some structures, organizations and gears of the modern on line Social Communication, while addressing the components of love and affection that should never be absent from such processes, as essential requirements for the cognitive-evolutionary process of humans, especially in a postmodern society also emotionally affected by Information Technology. As result of the analysis of Brazilian blogosphere, it was revealed that the affective connections between people not only allows the exchange of information, knowledge, and experience, but above all emotions, affections, daily concerns, and a difuse human feeling beyond the barriers of space, time and format. Guided by the pillars of sociability and connective affection, our work starts from the premise that knowledge, combined with affection, can generate new visions of the world. It will also contribute to open minds and reformate thoughts, making us learn how to learn and interact with the New Communication and Information Technologies (NCIT's), always taking into account a real possibility of formation of subjects and proactive, inter-active participants on their own personal development, with priority issues that affect their community, their region, their nation. Thus, after analyzing the contents of six blogs in Brazilian blogosphere, we concluded, among other things, that man is capable of improving cognitive-intellectual abilities in favor of human, emotional, and educational growth. For reach these goals, however, we must find the means and the right conditions, in addition to learning how to share all this in a way humanly beneficial to all. One of the resolutions of one of the great enigmas of the Information Society by itself difficult to conceptualize adequately, even from its own denomination, which for some is post-modernity, and for other ones hypermodernity we might learn again to live together in social groups, developing feelings of connection with other people, a connection long ago lost in individualism (that now seems never to have existed!). This is, of course, the biggest challenge: (re)build the knowledge, and the wisdom, based on the taste for affection and brotherly love, in the midst of multiple social networks / Esta tese segue, antes de tudo, direção bem definida: explicar algumas estruturas, organizações e engrenagens da moderna Comunicação Social on line, sem deixar de abordar os componentes de amor e de afetividade que nunca devem estar ausentes de tais processos, como lubrificantes essenciais para o processo cognitivoevolutivo do ser humano, especialmente numa sociedade pós-moderna também emocionalmente afetada pela Tecnologia da Informação. Isto porque, no decorrer da análise da blogosfera brasileira, foi possível perceber que a afetividade nas conexões entre as pessoas permite não apenas a troca de informações, conhecimentos e experiências, mas, sobretudo, de emoções, de afetos, de inquietações e de um sentimento difusamente humano que ultrapassa as barreiras de espaço, do tempo e da materialização. Pautada nos pilares da sociabilidade e da afetividade conectiva, nosso trabalho parte da premissa de que o conhecimento, aliado à afetividade, pode gerar novas visões de mundo. Produzirá também a abertura de mentalidades e a reformatação de pensamentos, fazendo-nos aprender a aprender e interagir com as Novas Tecnologias da Comunicação e da Informação (NTCI´s) levando sempre em conta uma real possibilidade de formação de sujeitos proativos interrelacionados e ativos participantes de seu próprio desenvolvimento pessoal e das questões prioritárias que afetam sua comunidade, sua região, sua nação. Assim, depois de se analisar o conteúdo de seis blogs da blogosfera brasileira, conclui-se, entre outras coisas, que o ser humano é capaz de aperfeiçoar habilidades cognitivo-intelectuais favoráveis ao seu crescimento humano, emocional e educacional. Para que isto ocorra, no entanto, é necessário encontrar os meios e as condições adequadas, além do aprendizado de como compartilhar tudo isto de uma maneira humanamente vantajosa para todos. Uma das resoluções de um dos grandes enigmas desta Sociedade da Informação difícil de conceituar adequadamente até mesmo a partir de sua própria denominação, que para uns é a pós-modernidade e, para outros, a hipermodernidade talvez seja reaprender a convivência em grupos sociais, desenvolvendo sentimentos de ligação com o(s) outro(s), perdido(s) num individualismo que hoje aparenta nunca haver existido. Será este, certamente, o maior desafio: (re)construir o Saber ao sabor do afeto e do amor fraterno, em meio às múltiplas redes sociais

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T14:58:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Edileusa Regina Pena da Silva.pdf: 5208771 bytes, checksum: 25d7cd918f05fba4e13f26d44cf19b9e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-02-23 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / First of all, this Thesis follows a well-defined direction: to explain some structures, organizations and gears of the modern on line Social Communication, while addressing the components of love and affection that should never be absent from such processes, as essential requirements for the cognitive-evolutionary process of humans, especially in a postmodern society also emotionally affected by Information Technology. As result of the analysis of Brazilian blogosphere, it was revealed that the affective connections between people not only allows the exchange of information, knowledge, and experience, but above all emotions, affections, daily concerns, and a difuse human feeling beyond the barriers of space, time and format. Guided by the pillars of sociability and connective affection, our work starts from the premise that knowledge, combined with affection, can generate new visions of the world. It will also contribute to open minds and reformate thoughts, making us learn how to learn and interact with the New Communication and Information Technologies (NCIT's), always taking into account a real possibility of formation of subjects and proactive, inter-active participants on their own personal development, with priority issues that affect their community, their region, their nation. Thus, after analyzing the contents of six blogs in Brazilian blogosphere, we concluded, among other things, that man is capable of improving cognitive-intellectual abilities in favor of human, emotional, and educational growth. For reach these goals, however, we must find the means and the right conditions, in addition to learning how to share all this in a way humanly beneficial to all. One of the resolutions of one of the great enigmas of the Information Society by itself difficult to conceptualize adequately, even from its own denomination, which for some is post-modernity, and for other ones hypermodernity we might learn again to live together in social groups, developing feelings of connection with other people, a connection long ago lost in individualism (that now seems never to have existed!). This is, of course, the biggest challenge: (re)build the knowledge, and the wisdom, based on the taste for affection and brotherly love, in the midst of multiple social networks / Esta tese segue, antes de tudo, direção bem definida: explicar algumas estruturas, organizações e engrenagens da moderna Comunicação Social on line, sem deixar de abordar os componentes de amor e de afetividade que nunca devem estar ausentes de tais processos, como lubrificantes essenciais para o processo cognitivoevolutivo do ser humano, especialmente numa sociedade pós-moderna também emocionalmente afetada pela Tecnologia da Informação. Isto porque, no decorrer da análise da blogosfera brasileira, foi possível perceber que a afetividade nas conexões entre as pessoas permite não apenas a troca de informações, conhecimentos e experiências, mas, sobretudo, de emoções, de afetos, de inquietações e de um sentimento difusamente humano que ultrapassa as barreiras de espaço, do tempo e da materialização. Pautada nos pilares da sociabilidade e da afetividade conectiva, nosso trabalho parte da premissa de que o conhecimento, aliado à afetividade, pode gerar novas visões de mundo. Produzirá também a abertura de mentalidades e a reformatação de pensamentos, fazendo-nos aprender a aprender e interagir com as Novas Tecnologias da Comunicação e da Informação (NTCI´s) levando sempre em conta uma real possibilidade de formação de sujeitos proativos interrelacionados e ativos participantes de seu próprio desenvolvimento pessoal e das questões prioritárias que afetam sua comunidade, sua região, sua nação. Assim, depois de se analisar o conteúdo de seis blogs da blogosfera brasileira, conclui-se, entre outras coisas, que o ser humano é capaz de aperfeiçoar habilidades cognitivo-intelectuais favoráveis ao seu crescimento humano, emocional e educacional. Para que isto ocorra, no entanto, é necessário encontrar os meios e as condições adequadas, além do aprendizado de como compartilhar tudo isto de uma maneira humanamente vantajosa para todos. Uma das resoluções de um dos grandes enigmas desta Sociedade da Informação difícil de conceituar adequadamente até mesmo a partir de sua própria denominação, que para uns é a pós-modernidade e, para outros, a hipermodernidade talvez seja reaprender a convivência em grupos sociais, desenvolvendo sentimentos de ligação com o(s) outro(s), perdido(s) num individualismo que hoje aparenta nunca haver existido. Será este, certamente, o maior desafio: (re)construir o Saber ao sabor do afeto e do amor fraterno, em meio às múltiplas redes sociais

After decades of digital developments, we are now entering a truly digital era. Digital information and communication technology has become a naturally embedded part ofthe designed environment we live in. Most parts of life are today pervaded by digital products and services. Evidence of such immersion can be noted in, for instance, media consumption. This development is gradually shaping and cultivating a media environment that is ubiquitous. Such ubiquity is manifested in media’s constant presence and thechanges in media consumption in the purview of digital innovation. Indeed, digital innovation is not only a shift in technology. It alters existing value networks and calls forrethinking existing value perceptions. While this disruptive change driven by digitizationcan be found in many industries, this thesis focuses on its impact on value networks in thenewspaper industry.The digitization of newspapers started with the introduction of the internet in the 90´sand soon emerged into new media innovations. While these new media innovations have not replaced existing media, they have been disruptive to newspaper value networks. Recently, the emergence of yet another digital innovation is specifically interesting whenstudying changes to value networks of the newspaper industry: the e-paper. This innovation (a screen technology very close to print on paper) exhibits inherent valuesthat make future replacement of print on paper a possibility. It is therefore regarded as avery promising technology in the newspaper industry. This thesis can be positioned at the intersection of the friction between forces to embarkon a new media trajectory and forces to hang on to the established structures andcontrol. The research question addressed in this thesis is: How are value networks of newspapers influenced by digital innovation? Addressing the research question, a multimethod approach was adopted to gain a broad understanding of how digital innovationinfluences value networks of newspapers. Drawing on digital innovation literature, the thesis presents a theoretical perspective with which to understand how digital innovation influences value networks. This perspective is instantiated as a model of value network configuration. The model emphasizes the multi-layered, dynamic, dialectic, and diametrical character of value networks in digital innovation. The model is offered as abasis and analytical tool to further explore value networks in digital innovation. This tool is useful for newspaper stakeholders when entering the digital era.

La recherche réalisée dans le cadre de notre thèse vise à étudier les conditions de la construction de l’énonciation de l’homosexualité masculine en proposant une analyse comparative des époques récentes. Ce qui nous intéresse alors, ce sont ainsi les supports de communication (espaces médiatiques et technologies numériques) et les formes de prise de parole. Notre thèse s’organise autour de trois parties. La première partie consiste à mettre en avant le contexte et les caractéristiques de l’énonciation de l’homosexualité. Nous proposons de revenir sur les travaux de Michel Foucault (au travers de son ouvrage La volonté de savoir) afin d’étudier la mise en discours du sexe et ainsi la construction des sexualités. Cela nous amène ainsi à identifier, à travers les époques, les variations de l’énonciation allant d’une logique du secret à une logique revendicative (voire subversive), mais également à étudier la place et les différentes conceptions du coming out. Dans une deuxième partie, nous mettons en avant les différents héritages des formes d’énonciation. Pour cela, nous évoquons les différentes manières de représenter l’homosexualité masculine au cinéma, à la télévision et dans les web séries, à travers une approche linéaire et généalogique des années 1930 à aujourd’hui. Puis, nous revenons également sur les pratiques de la drague homosexuelle selon les lieux ouverts et fermés ; ce qui nous amène alors à nous interroger sur l’existence d’une libération des formes expressives. Enfin, à partir de l’analyse de l’application mobile Grindr, nous proposons dans une troisième et dernière partie, d’identifier les différentes figures du dragueur et ses itinérances à l’heure de la géolocalisation. Nous abordons plus précisément le statut et le rapport à l’image, l’identification des différents types de regards qui s’organisent dans l’application, et les enjeux et les conséquences dans le cadre de l’énonciation de l’homosexualité. / The research conducted as part of our thesis aims at looking into the construction of the utterance of male homosexuality putting forward comparative analysis of recent times. Our concern is communication medium (media environment and digital technologies) as well as the different forms of speaking. Our thesis is organized around three parts. The first part consists in highlighting the context and the characteristics about telling homosexuality. We will suggest to revisit Michel Foucault’s work (through his work La volonté de savoir – The will to know) in order to study the implementation of the discourse about sex and then the construction of sexualities. It is also a question of identifying the variations of the self-ascription from the logic of secret to a protest or even subversive form of logic through different times, with the evocation of the place and the different aspects of “coming out”. In a second part, we will explain the different legacies of the ways to express homosexuality. We will then mention the different ways to represent male homosexuality in films, television and in web series through a linear and genealogical basis from the 1930’s until today. We will next review the practice of cruising according to open or closed areas: this will lead us to question the existence of the liberation of expressive forms. Finally, in a third and last part, we will put forward, from the mobile phone application Grindr, the identification of the different features of the cruiser as well as his roaming in a geo-tracking world. We will discuss more precisely the status and the relationship to image, the identification of the different types of views organized through the applications and the stakes and consequences as part of the utterance of homosexuality.

abstract: This dissertation describes the development of a state-of-the-art immersive media environment and its potential to motivate high school youth with autism to vocally express themselves. Due to the limited availability of media environments in public education settings, studies on the use of such systems in special education contexts are rare. A study called Sea of Signs utilized the Situated Multimodal Art Learning Lab (SMALLab), to present a custom-designed conversational scenario for pairs of youth with autism. Heuristics for building the scenario were developed following a 4-year design-based research approach that fosters social interaction, communication, and self-expression through embodied design. Sea of Signs implemented these heuristics through an immersive experience, supported by spatial and audio-visual feedback that helped clarify and reinforce students' vocal expressions within a partner-based conversational framework. A multiple-baseline design across participants was used to determine the extent to which individuals exhibited observable change as a result of the activity in SMALLab. Teacher interviews were conducted prior to the experimental phase to identify each student's pattern of social interaction, communication, and problem-solving strategies in the classroom. Ethnographic methods and video coding were used throughout the experimental phase to assess whether there were changes in (a) speech duration per session and per turn, (b) turn-taking patterns, and (c) teacher prompting per session. In addition, teacher interviews were conducted daily after every SMALLab session to further triangulate the nature of behaviors observed in each session. Final teacher interviews were conducted after the experimental phase to collect data on possible transfer of behavioral improvements into students' classroom lives beyond SMALLab. Results from this study suggest that the activity successfully increased independently generated speech in some students, while increasing a focus on seeking out social partners in others. Furthermore, the activity indicated a number of future directions in research on the nature of voice and discourse, rooted in the use of aesthetics and phenomenology, to augment, extend, and encourage developments in directed communication skills for youth with autism. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ph.D. Media Arts and Sciences 2013

This study started with the awareness of the problem of government influence on the press in democracies in the 21st century. In other words, to ensure that the press can freely and faithfully fulfil its role as a ‘watchdog’ for power as originally sought by the 21st-century democracies, it is necessary to face up to how and in what way the governments have exerted their influence on the press. Accordingly, the study aimed to identify what and how governments in the 21st-century democracies exerted on the press, how the media environment responded to it, and what perceptions journalists have of their government’s influence. To this end, as objects of the study, the researcher took two countries of the East and the West, South Korea and Germany, that are externally recognized as countries with freedom of the press due to their fairly developed democratic systems and that have different forms of government. Also, as a qualitative research method, case study and in-depth interviews were carried out sequentially.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T18:15:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Fernanda Araujo Perniciotti.pdf: 1179445 bytes, checksum: 1f9d137c003dd9a59a4d4f22b2e5c886 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-12-07 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / In 1986, introduced to a new form of communication in Brazil - the notices - which has become a hegemonic model in proposing public cultural policies. The hypothesis is that it might just be a means of communication between artistic production and its financing became mediation (Martin-Barbero), overflowing its logic to all sectors of culture in the public and private spheres , thus composing over time, which here will be called editalização process. This process flourished along with the cultural journalism crisis, which does not act critically in relation to the tax relief mechanism installed in the country. The research aims to clarify the consequences of the kind of media coverage that cultural journalism practice. The theoretical part of the Martin-Barbero proposal (1987), which alerts us to the transformation of media in mediations. With it, you can find the new media environment in which cultural production has operated since the implementation of the Sarney Law, in a arising legacy of dictatorship-Civil Military in Brazil (RUBIM, 2008), and that has been woven by design policy associated with the market economy (MÉSZÁROS, 2002). The need to clarify the impact of the type of communication that is being built is justified because according to the theory Corpomída, what becomes a habit starts to act as a cognitive operator (Katz and GREINER, 2005) / Em 1986, instaurou-se uma nova forma de comunicação no Brasil - os editais -, que se tornou um modelo hegemônico na proposição de políticas públicas culturais. A hipótese é a de que o que poderia ser apenas um meio de comunicação entre a produção artística e seu financiamento, transformou-se em mediação (MARTIN-BARBERO), transbordando a sua lógica para todos os setores da cultura, nas esferas pública e privada, compondo, assim, ao longo do tempo, o que aqui será chamado processo de editalização. Tal processo floresceu junto com a crise do jornalismo cultural, que não atua criticamente face ao que o mecanismo de renúncia fiscal instalou no país. A pesquisa pretende explicitar as consequências do tipo de midiatização que o jornalismo cultural pratica. A fundamentação teórica parte da proposta de Martin-Barbero (1987), que nos alerta para a transformação de meios em mediações. Com ela, será possível pesquisar o novo ambiente midiático no qual a produção cultural passou a operar desde a implantação da Lei Sarney, em uma herança advinda da Ditadura-Civil Militar no Brasil (RUBIM, 2008), e que vem sendo tecido pela concepção de política associada à economia de mercado (MÉSZÁROS, 2002). A necessidade de esclarecer os impactos do tipo de comunicação que vem sendo construído justifica-se porque de acordo com a Teoria Corpomída, aquilo que se torna um hábito passa a atuar como um operador cognitivo (KATZ e GREINER, 2005)

The subject of this master thesis is the current development of the Hong Kong's news media in the period of 2005-2010 which is scrutinized through the prism of recent political and social changes of the region. The main object of this master thesis is to create a descriptive analysis of Hong Kong's mass media in the abovementioned period. This master thesis splits into three parts. First part is theoretical and examines the key media theories dealing with the concept of media systems. Furthermore, it uses the media theories to identify the Hong Kong's media system and embed it into the appropriate theoretical context. The second part presents the historical development of Hong Kong's press system and names Hong Kong's main newspapers of the last century. Third part, the main part of this master thesis, scrutinizes the development of the Hong Kong's media system after the political transition from the British to the Chinese "rule". Here, the main attention is paid to the current newspapers, broadcast stations and to the new trends in the Hong Kong's media environment. Finally, this master thesis evaluates whether the political pressure from China affects the Hong Kong's freedom of press and whether local journalists use methods of the self-censorship.

This master thesis deals with the current situation of the media environment in two selected countries from the Southeast Asia region - Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, and Singapore. The main object of the text is to create a descriptive analysis of Hong Kong's and Singapore's political and media systems and to compare the media environment of the two countries with a special focus on the freedom of the media. The comparison is based on the definition of their political systems, their constitutions and how they are respected, as well as on data published by international nongovernmental organizations focusing on the freedom of the press and the freedom of the speech. All findings will be illustrated with examples from Hong Kong and Singapore. The work is divided into four chapters. The first theoretical part defines basic terms and indexes, which measure the freedom of the press, as well as outlines the concept of Asian values and the concept of civil society. The descriptive section provides a brief summary of the history and political systems of both countries and introduces their constitutions, laws and power of political leaders. The third part of the thesis concentrates on the media environment of both countries and the role of local media. The...