Academic literature on the topic 'Media reception'

As the field of Australian media history expands, so too does the need for a broader and more innovative range of questions, issues and debates. This special issue of MIA responds to that need by considering the sources and research questions raised by media reception historians working on film, radio, television and the press. From print to new media, the papers assembled highlight the ingenuity of Australian historians working to recover the experiences of audiences in urban and regional settings.

Authenticity, Reception and Media Reality This article deals with the reception of media reality, which is meant to be an alternative mode of consciousness, and with the phenomenon of authenticity and its understanding within media reality. It is also pointed out the distortion in the reception of media reality. As an unifying concept for media education and for the treatment of reception defects it is mentioned media anthropology - an interdisciplinary, respectively trans-disciplinary science, which can provide more consistent re-analyzing of the relationship between man and media as tools for improving his skills. From the methodological point of view the method of epistemological anarchism, Paul Feyerabend's "anything goes" is explained as an epistemological translation tool for developing reviewing competences and reception skills as a whole (organic reception). We propose to deal the distortion of media reception in different therapeutic ways: from sensory deprivation, through media substitution, organic reception, to transcendence of the observer and imitation of media - meta-creation. In the sense of organic, systemic reception we in fact propose to "copy" the communication strategy of media system(s) in order to extend or set appropriate "epistemic" competences. In the related illustration of this mechanism, the theory of A. Weinstock is applied for setting a research indifference point in the middle of a fictive reception continuum of polarities sympathy and antipathy with media. This paper represents a part of activities, which summarize author's dissertation thesis Reception instruction in the media reality, where there are presented not only analyses and attempted typology of reception instructions, but also case studies with specific proposals for teaching and researching within areas of media ethics and media education.

This article introduces quantitative reception aesthetics as a method and demonstrates how big data derived from social media services and textual analysis can be employed to uncover hitherto hidden processes of media spectatorship. It demonstrates how mixing quantitative and qualitative methods allows us to understand textual engagement and how media spectatorship evolves over time. Taking the Norwegian web series, Skam (2015–2017), as its case study, the article demonstrates how (web)television engagement on Instagram is linked to aesthetics and narrative events and how textual engagement is more universal than perhaps post-structuralist reception studies of media reception might have us believe.

Multisensory Environment and Sensory Deprivation in the Treatment of Reception Defects This article deals with two types of alternative therapy and treatment methods. They are considered to be used in media education, in the treatment of reception defects, such as abuse, narcosis, neurosis, frustration, fetishism and superimposition. Purpose of this article is to summarize and discuss not only these media reality reception defects, but also to object them in two ways - multisensory environment within special pedagogic treatment, sensory deprivation within alternative psychiatric therapy (dark therapy, chamber and floating tanks, meditation, holotropic breathing, neuro-linguistic programming, etc.). Methodology in this study is to consider them as using media in the way of organic reception and therefore included in media anthropology, education and ethics. Within media reality a system reception feedback is needed, therefore the method "anything goes" for this use is explained. The aim of this article is to bind alternative media based methods with the research of reception of the media reality and the outstanding media anthropological issues: therapy, education, ethics, philosophy, etc. The scientific aim not only of this study, but also of author's whole work is to sustain the whole - media anthropological view - by using partial methods for media reality analysis and proving its relevance in disputing other theories being enclosed within media discourse. Also the ethics - code of dealing with technological extensions of human competence - the media - is a part of the organic reception. As the conclusion a need of such kind of research, education and treatment is objected and the examples of author's effort are explained. There is strongly recommended to create and use other media anthropology based equipment: Hitchhiker's Guide to Media Reality, A Chronicle of Abused media, blogs, a textbook, etc.

Reception Analysis audience research since its evolution from the German Reception Theory of the Constance School has been beset with varied methodological issues. This is stridently because reception analysis per se straddles both the humanities and the social sciences. This paper attempts to set off the methodological perspective that can enable audience researchers in the field of media studies in Africa conduct reliable and valid reception analysis research. This paper posits the qualitative method as a viable analytical tool for reception researchers. Additionally, this paper takes into consideration factors in the social systems in which media discourses are embedded. These factors enable the generation of interpretative strategies shared by individuals belonging to a specific audience group within a specified cultural context. In the light of this, these interpretative repertoires can thus serve as veritable texts that could be analyzed in reception analysis research.

The study takes ideological domination in the field of the media as a point of departure, concentrating on current affairs as one of the most keenly debated issues in the field of mass media since the emergence of news agencies and up to the present age of satellite television channels. The study deals in particular with monopolies of news coverage by the major news agencies, including Reuters, Associated Press (AP), United Press International (UP), and Agence France Press (AFP). The study focuses on the cultural dimensions of news stories and the controversies over their content which have spurred regional and international efforts to establish alternatives to the one-way flow of news and information from core countries to the rest of the world. The study also focuses on American domination in the field of news and the establishment of CNN, which has itself become a symbol of American influence as well as a significant influence on the live news coverage of events. The impact of CNN has also triggered many reactions, including efforts in various countries to compete with it in order to cover the news from perspectives within these countries. The study goes on to focus on the Arab region, which has its own characteristics but also shares many features with other peripheral countries, particularly in the field of the mass media and the reliance of Arab audiences on news sources in core countries. This study deals with various issues concerning the mass media and news coverage in the Arab region, providing a historical framework for the development of its mass media; the political atmosphere and other factors which have affected their performance. The study also examines attempts by Arab countries to work collectively in order to establish alternatives to the core countries’ news outlets. By focusing on the Arab region this study aims to examine in particular the significance of the Arab satellite news channels and their success in competing with the news outlets of core countries. The competitiveness of the Arab satellite channels is evaluated, considering Al-Jazeera as a particularly important example. The study finally focuses on Libya as an example both of an Arab county and as a representative of peripheral countries. This section of the work involves an empirical study into perception and evaluation of regional and international news. This provides ideal opportunities to assess the theoretical framework of the study with references to the features and difficulties of peripheral countries. Libya’s efforts in the field of mass media, and particularly its news outlets, are also evaluated. In addition the study examines the attitudes of the Libyan people towards domestic, regional and international news outlets and their significance in terms of news coverage. This provides a thorough understanding of the perceived weaknesses and strengths of these news outlets, and such information may help in the development of a new strategy for the Libyan mass media in order to make them more competitive.

This study offers insight into international audience reception of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) communication. Swedish companies are currently reaching international audiences through a variety of social media channels and this study analyzes how audiences in Sweden and the U.S. respond to specific messages.   Qualitative interviews with professionals offer background information on how CSR is currently communicated while audience responses to CSR communication are gathered through a web-based survey and focus groups consisting of American and Swedish citizens.   Results indicate that the two countries have more similarities than differences. Americans have a slightly more positive outlook on the communication and they are more likely to look up information about CSR initiatives after hearing a corporate message. This might indicate a more profound interest. Cultural and social differences are given as a possible explanation for the key differences.

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Recepção da ficção de John Updike na mídia brasileira que tenta resgatar, dentro de uma perspectiva histórica, o que foi dito sobre o romancista no Brasil. Propõe verificar quais valores foram atribuídos a sua ficção ao longo de 30 anos de sua recepção aqui. Utiliza a teoria da estética da recepção de Hans Robert Jauss e também a noção de comunidades interpretativas da crítica de Stanley Fish para definir o grupo de jornalistas que escreveram sobre Updike no Brasil. A maneira como os jornalistas perceberam o trabalho do romancista produziu valores para sua ficção no contexto brasileiro. Visto que os valores atribuídos à ficção de Updike experimentaram mudanças, o estudo da recepção está dividido em 3 períodos que revelam expectativas diferentes dos jornalistas, que são considerados os leitores da ficção de Updike no Brasil. Tais períodos estão associados a publicações dos romances aqui, a seu reconhecimento mundial como artista maior, e a sua visita ao Brasil.

The dissertation examines the early reception of Piers Plowman through the responses of the poem's early readers and copyists in order to revive the context in which the poem was originally read and understood. These responses are derived from manuscript evidence. The dissertation is divided into five chapters, and begins with an examination of the background to the study, previous work on and assumptions about the reception of the poem. This is followed by a discussion of the theory of reception of literary works, and its relevance to MS studies, thus setting out the theoretical basis of the dissertation. A brief discussion of methodology follows. The next three chapters analyse the evidence from the MSS, examining respectively the contributions of the professional book producers in terms of layout, decoration and rubrication; readers' comments, usually in the form of marginalia; and the contribution of the scribes, through alteration of the text. The concluding chapter draws together the evidence from all three areas of analysis and discusses the relevance of the study to the understanding of the poem. There are four appendices, the first providing a list of early poems associated with Piers Plowman in the sixteenth century, and a list of names associated with the poem before Robert Crowley printed the poem in 1550. The other three appendices provide evidence from the MSS, respectively descriptions of all the Piers Plowman MSS; all the professional rubrication from the MSS; full readers' annotation from selected MSS, Digby MS 145, BL Additional 35287, Douce MS 104, and BL Additional 35157, the reader's wordlist from CUL L1 4.14, and glossed words from TCD MS 212. These appendices are included to provide as much evidence as possible from the MSS in a readily accessible form.

This research explores Iranian audiences of Farsi Christian satellite channels. It considers what the narratives and interviews of participants of this research reveal about the way audiences interact and negotiate with both religious broadcasts and their socio-political or religious contexts. What are the motivating factors that led the audiences first to watch Christian channels and secondly, where relevant, to change or add to their religious belief system? For those whose faith was transformed, how did this process happen according to their self-declared stories? Expressions of belief are analysed in order to consider their different understandings of religion, faith and their own belief system. The research also studies the triangular relationships between the audience, Farsi Christian media, and the audience’s culture(s). It is therefore a study of Farsi Christian channel audiences, their motivations in viewing the Christian message, their methods of interpretation and negotiations with different media texts, and their process of changing or altering their religion, using the concept of conversion as a tool of analysis. More specifically, I investigate the motivations of those in the audience of the four Farsi Christian satellite channels who stated that they had become Christians through that medium. I will examine factors that influenced both their interpretations of and negotiations with the religious media message, and their process of changing, adding to or modifying their belief system, including their understanding of religious conversion. My research investigates the interactions and negotiations between meaning making and mediation, and the process of faith transformation within Reception Theory against the background of the sociology of religion and culture in contemporary Iran. This research contributes to three areas of study: media reception (largely religious television) and sociology of religion and culture, mostly from the point of view of selfidentified conversion; Media, Religion and Culture, mainly using audiences’ interactions and negotiations methods with the channels, and the religion of Islam and Christianity in the Iranian political-cultural context. This involved analysing three hundred narratives drawn from audiences of four Farsi Christian satellite television channels, during the period between 2010 and 2015, as well as fifteen semi-structured interviews, two focus group discussions and a telephone survey. The argument develops over nine chapters. Chapter one provides the socio-political and religious context of the Iranian audience as well as presenting literature reviews and methodology, while Chapter two gives the Iranian (state and society) understanding of religion (din and mazhab) and of globalisation, as well as discussing the satellite channel usage. Chapter three introduces the four Farsi Christian satellite channels using data from interviews channel directors. Chapter four analyses the two focus groups’ discussion of the central question: how do audiences interact and negotiate with the Christian message presented on the channels? Chapters five, six and seven examine the participants’ narratives and interviews using respectively experimenting, negotiating and resisting attitudes of participants. Chapter eight discusses and analyses the findings, the conclusion sets out the implications, contributions and limitations of the research.

Although efforts have been made by the Afghan government and its international partners to promote the tents of gender equality in Afghan society, biases against women and other marginalized groups persist in the society and media sector, particularly. The current study is a timely research because feminist media studies are an under-researched field in the context of Afghanistan. My research aims to be a contribution to this field and open a path for Afghan feminist media studies. The current study explores the representations of gender relations in transnational television soap operas broadcast on Afghan television stations, audiences’ decoding of the representations, and the role of the media in promoting social change. The selected soap operas for the study are Paiman and Qesay Maa, Turkish television soap operas dubbed in the Dari language. The current study is based on feminist theory and feminist methodology, providing a balance of content and reception analysis. Drawing on feminist media studies and focusing on media representations, the content analysis of transnational soap operas echoed previous studies on representations of gender relations and indicated that gender relations are often portrayed in stereotypical and traditional manners. The content analysis further demonstrated that women are objectified in different ways and are often represented as domestic, passive, selfless beings in men’s service. Moreover, relationships between women are often based on rivalry, hatred, and shaming and often without any particular reason. The study also found that contrary to women, men are often represented at outdoor and professional settings. Additionally, grounded on encoding/decoding model through a feminist lens, the thematic analysis of focus group discussions demonstrated that audiences constantly interact with media text and actively make meaning. Interestingly, FGD findings further indicated that as active viewers, both female and male participants, derive multiple and often diverse meanings from the media text. Although both female and male participants problematize the content of transnational soap operas, their interpretations of representations of gender relations and gender equality are dissimilar. The study concludes that transnational soap operas, and the media in general, can play an important role in promoting social change in Afghanistan, particularly gender parity through the Entertainment-Education strategy. However, an intersectional framework is essential in designing EE programmes for promoting gender equality in a diverse society like Afghanistan.

In this essay a mediated video game reception of the game Life Is Strange is made, with the purpose of examining the players' meaning-making processes from a gender perspective. The materials of this essay consist of videos from six different YouTube channels where each player film themselves whilst playing through Life Is Strange as a way to review and share the gaming experience. The results show how the meaning-making processes are littered with gender discourses and affects. The affects offset discourses by amplification or by revealing discord between available cultural narratives and the simulated reality of the game. Even though the game highlights themes like female-centric relationships, suicide, euthanasia, lesbianism, socio-economic circumstances, social accountability and men's violence against women, it successfully delivers highly involving, enjoyable and appreciated gameplay experience. The game is shown to provide players with a platform around which they can connect and continue to discuss, raise awareness and produce knowledge around these important topics. The fan generated culture will in turn, reach a much larger audience than the game sales numbers reflect.

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The aim of this study is to explore advertising and in particular advertising reception as a significant part of contemporary social practice. Although advertising in some form has been a feature of a wide range of societies, historically and culturally, its economic and social importance has perhaps never been greater. Advertising, across the industrial period and in particular since the Second World War, has through the entrenchment of market economies and the development of different media technologies increased its reach and density through a variety of means. It has become a significant media form, received by audiences differentiated by social, economic, spatial and other factors. This study enquires into the nature of audience reception of advertising through an exploration and application of the encoding/decoding media model. The study argues that attention to the textual and formal elements of the model need to be given greater emphasis and the decoding aspect of the model broadened to deal with a complexity of contextual factors contributing to the process. Advertising media by their nature are comprised of different formal and presentational means. The study focuses on newsprint, television and billboard and other outdoor advertising. The public and private environments in which these forms appear can be characterised through the social and symbolic difference between the domestic environment in which much television is viewed and the outdoor urban environment in which much billboard advertising appears. These are recognised as contributory elements in the reception of advertising and any significance the advert may have for its audience. Audience decoding of advertisements is then a combination of producer intent and a complexity of contributory factors brought to or found in the decoding process. This includes a recognition of various ways of seeing associated with different media forms and social and spatial circumstances and the presentation and reception of adverts as part of a flow of advertising and of a wider social experience. The relation between adverts and other texts also has important intertextual consequences for reception. In the process of decoding, it will be argued that social groups can be understood to act as interpretive communities and a process of advertising diffusion can be observed. Three empirical case studies form a survey of mainly car or car related advertising, featuring television, billboard and newsprint advertising, and highlight a range of possible decodings. The significance of historical and social factors is confirmed as important in securing particular readings of advertisements, and spatial, environmental and contextual features are emphasised in this survey. The survey acknowledges the significance of advertising form and medium and highlights the circumstances in which negotiated and oppositional readings may occur. This study re-emphasises that advertising texts form their signification within a complex arrangement of synchronic and diachronic circumstances in which immediate social and environmental factors should be accorded further significance in the study of advertising. The study concludes with a reflection on its methods and procedures and a consideration of further work that might be carried out in the area of empirical advertising studies. In the interest of a richer understanding of advertising, further research would acknowledge the complexities of audience reception and might include an enquiry into further advertising contexts and environments.

La interpretació en llengua de signes (ILS) és un dels principals serveis d’accessibilitat als mitjans audiovisuals, juntament amb l’àudiodescripció i la subtitulació. Tot i la seva rellevància, la recerca en aquest camp és incipient. Actualment, les organitzacions de radiotelevisió que ofereixen aquests serveis no compten encara amb guies de bones pràctiques basades en resultats empírics. Aquesta tesi té com a finalitat cobrir parcialment aquest buit de coneixement a partir de l’estudi dels paràmetres formals que afecten la llegibilitat de la ILS i la lectura dels diferents elements visuals de la composició de la pantalla televisiva. El marc conceptual d’aquesta recerca conjumina dos models complementaris sobre els drets dels usuaris de la LS: (1) el model inclusiu d’accessibilitat i (2) el doble estatus social d’aquest grup, com a persones amb una discapacitat sensorial i com a membres d’una comunitat lingüística minoritària. Aquesta tesi té dos objectius: d’una banda, (1) identificar els paràmetres formals d’inserció de la ILS i els seus efectes en l’accessibilitat als contingut televisats. De l’altra, (2) estudiar la recepció i el processament d’un documental interpretat a la LS emprant diferents dissenys. La investigació implementa mètodes mixtos seguint un disseny exploratori seqüencial que integra tres etapes: (1) un estudi inicial qualitatiu, (2) una etapa intermèdia de desenvolupament de l’instrument de mesura psicomètrica i (3) una etapa final amb l’estudi preeminent de naturalesa quantitativa. La primera fase es va dissenyar amb l’objectiu de recollir dades qualitatives de dos dels principals grups d’interès del servei d’ILS a la TV: (1) les intèrprets professionals i (2) els sords signants com a principals usuaris dels serveis d’accessibilitat. Els resultats d’aquesta primera fase de recerca suggereixen que la velocitat i la mida de la intèrpret a la pantalla són els paràmetres formals més importants pel que fa a la llegibilitat, mentre que la posició pot ser un dels paràmetres que condicionen la lectura dels diferents elements visuals de la pantalla. Aquests resultats varen constituir la base per al desenvolupament de les fases posteriors de recerca. L’etapa intermèdia tenia com a objectiu desenvolupar una eina de recollida de dades que pogués implementar un qüestionari accessible en LS i que constituís un instrument vàlid i fiable per avaluar el record visual d’informació en LS. L’etapa quantitativa final va incloure dos estudis experimentals: (1) la captura dels moviments oculars per estudiar els patrons de distribució de l’atenció visual dels signants sords a la pantalla de TV amb ILS incrustada i (2) les proves de record mitjançant qüestionaris de memòria per mesurar l’accessibilitat del contingut. A partir d’aquestes proves quantitatives de recepció, es pot concloure que, a l’hora de produir continguts audiovisuals accessibles que inclouen una finestra per a la ILS en un format televisiu de pantalla dividida, la mida en combinació amb la posició a la pantalla són factors importants a tenir en compte. Els resultats mostren que el format de pantalla òptim per a l’accessibilitat als contingut audiovisuals s’obté mitjançant la combinació d’una finestra de mida mitjana per a la ILS a l’esquerra de la pantalla. Tot i que la visualització de continguts televisius en LS és una tasca complexa que requereix atenció dividida, els resultats d’aquesta tesi mostren que implementar els paràmetres òptims pot tenir un impacte positiu en la llegibilitat i la lectura dels continguts i, en definitiva, sobre la usabilitat i l’accessibilitat global. Aquesta tesi constitueix un primer pas cap a la realització de futurs tests de recepció de la LS dins del camp de l’accessibilitat als mitjans i la traducció audiovisual.
La interpretación en lengua de signos (ILS) es uno de los principales servicios de accesibilidad a los medios audiovisuales, junto con la subtitulación y la audiodescripción. Pese a su relevancia, la investigación de los servicios en lengua de signos (LS) en el campo de la accesibilidad a los medios es incipiente. Actualmente, las radiotelevisiones que ofrecen este servicio no cuentan aún con guías de buenas prácticas basadas en resultados empíricos. Esta tesis doctoral tiene como finalidad cubrir parcialmente este vacío de conocimiento a partir del estudio de los parámetros formales que afectan a la legibilidad de la ILS y la lectura de los diferentes elementos visuales en pantalla televisiva. El marco conceptual de esta investigación combina dos modelos complementarios sobre los derechos de los sordos signantes: (1) el modelo inclusivo de accesibilidad y (2) el doble estatus social de este grupo, como personas con una discapacidad sensorial y como miembros de una comunidad lingüística minoritaria. Esta tesis tiene dos objetivos: por un lado, (1) identificar los parámetros formales de inserción de la ILS y sus efectos en la accesibilidad a contenidos televisados; por otro, (2) estudiar la recepción y el procesamiento de un documental con inserción de la ILS empleando diferentes diseños de pantalla. La investigación implementa métodos mixtos siguiendo un diseño exploratorio secuencial que integra tres fases: (1) un estudio inicial cualitativo, (2) una fase intermedia de desarrollo del instrumento de medida y (3) la ulterior fase principal cuantitativa con el estudio de recepción. La fase cualitativa fue diseñada para recoger datos exploratorios de los principales grupos de interés del servicio de ILS en la TV: (1) las intérpretes profesionales y (2) los sordos usuarios de la LS, como principales usuarios del servicio de accesibilidad. Los resultados sugieren que los parámetros formales más importantes en cuanto a legibilidad son la velocidad y el tamaño de la intérprete, mientras que la posición puede ser uno de los parámetros que condicionan la lectura de los diferentes elementos visuales de la pantalla. Estos resultados constituyeron la base para el desarrollo de las fases posteriores de investigación. La fase intermedia tenía como objetivo desarrollar una herramienta de recogida de datos que pudiera implementar un cuestionario accesible en LS y que constituyera un instrumento válido y fiable para evaluar el recuerdo visual de información en LS. La fase cuantitativa final incluyó dos estudios experimentales (1) la captación de los movimientos oculares para estudiar los patrones de exploración y distribución de la atención visual en la pantalla de TV con ILS y (2) las pruebas de memoria mediante cuestionarios de recuerdo visual y lingüístico del contenido. A partir de estas pruebas cuantitativas de recepción, se puede concluir que a la hora de producir contenidos audiovisuales accesibles que incluyen una ventana para la ILS en un formato televisivo de pantalla dividida, el tamaño en combinación con la posición en la pantalla son dos factores importantes a tener en cuenta. Los resultados muestran que el formato de pantalla óptimo para la accesibilidad se obtienen mediante la combinación de una ventana para la ILS de tamaño medio (1/4 del ancho de pantalla) a la izquierda de la pantalla. Aunque la visualización de contenidos televisivos en LS es una tarea compleja que requiere atención dividida, los resultados de esta tesis muestran que implementar los parámetros óptimos tiene un impacto positivo en la legibilidad y la lectura de los contenidos y, en definitiva, sobre la usabilidad y la accesibilidad. Esta tesis constituye un primer paso hacia la realización de futuros tests de recepción de la LS dentro del campo de la accesibilidad a los medios y la traducción audiovisual.
Sign language interpreting (SLI) is the third major media accessibility service along with audio description and subtitling. Although SLI first appeared on TV nearly seventy years ago, the field of media accessibility on SLI still lacks critical investigation on tested te- chniques to produce guidelines that can constitute best practice for both broadcasters and stakeholders. This PhD thesis has the purpose of partially filling this knowledge gap by studying the formal parameters that affect legibility and readability of the sign langua- ge on the screen. It is framed within two complementary conceptual models regarding deaf sign language users' rights: (1) the inclusive model of accessibility and (2) the dual category status, where deaf signers are regarded as both persons with a disability and as members of a minority language group, namely a Sign Language Community. This dissertation is exploratory in nature and has two aims: (1) to identify the SLI on-screen parameters and their relevance to content accessibility and SLI service usability and (2) to explore the reception and processing of different split screen composites including sign-interpreted content -combining two variables- by deaf sign language service users in a documentary film. Within a mixed methods research approach, an ins- trument-development variant of an exploratory sequential design was implemented in order to meet the research aims. The research consisted of three steps: (1) an initial quali- tative phase; (2) an intermediate instrument development phase and (3) a final prioritised quantitative phase. First, the qualitative phase was designed to collect open-ended information from two stakeholder groups: one including semi-structured interviews with professional sign lan- guage interpreters working on TV, the other including focus groups with deaf sign lan- guage participants that were TV access service users. The results suggest that the speed rate and size of the interpreter on the screen were the most important formal parametersaffecting legibility while position may be related to screen readability. These findings provided informed choices to develop the next research phases. The intermediate phase aimed to develop a data collection tool that could implement an accessible and reliable questionnaire to assess information recall in sign language. The final quantitative phase aimed to gather close-ended information on both users' behaviour and performance. It included two experimental studies, the first using eye-tracking techniques to analyse deaf signers visual attention allocation patterns on sign-interpreted TV and the second using recall tests to analyse content accessibility. From the quantitative reception tests, it can be concluded that size in combination with on-screen position are two important factors to consider when producing AV works including signing in a TV split screen design. The results show that the most balanced information content recall scores are obtained using a mid-sized interpreter's window screen in a left position displaying the scene screen on the right. From this finding, it can be concluded that this split screen composite format encompasses the optimal combination of features for the size and position para- meters to access broadcast documentary contents. Although watching audiovisual contents with signing services is a complex task requiring divided attention, the results from the user tests show that implementing the optimal pa- rameters can have a positive impact on the SLI service legibility and readability and, ulti- mately, on service usability and content accessibility. This novel methodology combining users' opinions and measuring their psychological responses in a controlled reception test will hopefully constitute a first step towards conducting future research in the field of SLI in media accessibility and audiovisual translation studies.

Статья посвящена истории создания публицистического эссе А.И. Солженицына «Жить не по лжи!» и основным тематическим проблемам, поднимаемым писателем-публицистом. Данный медиатекст, функционирующий в российском и зарубежном информационном пространстве, представляет собой индивидуальную модель в системе рецепции медийной публицистики автора. The article is dedicated to the history of A.I. Solzhenitsyn's publicistic essay «Live Not By Lies» creation, and the main thematic issues raised by the writer-publicist. This media text, functioning in the Russian and foreign information space, is an individual model in the author's media publicism reception system.

This article focuses on the phenomenon of listening to music via radio transmission. In an examination of linguistic findings and media archaeological observations, the specific performance characteristics of mediatized music are worked out using the example of a radio broadcast of a Beethoven symphony. The music-aesthetic and sociological essay “The Radio Symphony: An Experiment in Theory” (1941), written by Theodor W. Adorno during his stay in New York, is subjected to a re-reading. Although Adorno showed the full scope of his cultural conservatism in this essay, his thoughts nevertheless exemplify a function of technically mediated music reception that seems to be constitutive for the concept of musical performance as a whole.

The subject of the study is the cooperation of S. Efremov with Western Ukrainian periodicals as a page in the history of Ukrainian journalism which covers the relationship of journalists and scientists of Eastern and Western Ukraine at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries. Research methods (biographical, historical, comparative, axiological, statistical, discursive) develop the comprehensive disclosure of the article. As a result of scientific research, the origins of Ukrainocentrism in the personality of S. Efremov were clarified; his person as a public figure, journalist, publisher, literary critic is multifaceted; taking into account the specifics of the memoir genre and with the involvement of the historical context, the turning points in the destiny of the author of memoirs are interpreted, revealing cooperation with Western Ukrainian magazines and newspapers. The publications ‘Zoria’, ‘Narod’, ‘Pravda’, ‘Bukovyna’, ‘Dzvinok’, are secretly got into sub-Russian Ukraine, became for S. Efremov a spiritual basis in understanding the specifics of the national (Ukrainian) mass media, ideas of education in culture of Ukraine at the end of XIX century, its territorial integrity, and state independence. Memoirs of S. Efremov on cooperation with the iconic Galician journals ‘Notes of the Scientific Society after the name Shevchenko’ and ‘Literary-Scientific Bulletin’, testify to an important stage in the formation of the author’s worldview, the expansion of the genre boundaries of his journalism, active development as a literary critic. S. Yefremov collaborated most fruitfully and for a long time with the Literary-Scientific Bulletin, and he was impressed by the democratic position of this publication. The author’s comments reveal a long-running controversy over the publication of a review of the new edition of Kobzar and thematically related discussions around his other literary criticism, in which the talent of the demanding critic was forged. S. Efremov steadfastly defended the main principles of literary criticism: objectivity and freedom of author’s thought. The names of the allies of the Ukrainian idea L. Skochkovskyi, O. Lototskyi, O. Konyskyi, P. Zhytskyi, M. Hrushevskyi in S. Efremov’s memoirs unfold in multifaceted portrait descriptions and function as historical and cultural facts that document the pages of the author’s biography, record his activities in space and time. The results of the study give grounds to characterize S. Efremov as the first professional Ukrainian-speaking journalist.

The research is devoted to the study of the phenomenon of mediatization of art on the example of virtual museums. Main objective of the study is to give communication characteristics of the mediatized socio-cultural institutions. The subject of the research is forms, directions and communication features of virtual museums. Methodology. In the process of study, the method of communication analysis, which allowed to identify and characterize the main factors of the museum’s functioning as a communication system, was used. Among them, special emphasis is put on receptive and metalinguistic functions. Results / findings and conclusions. The need to be competitive in the information space determines the gradual transformation of socio-cultural institutions into mass media, which is reflected in the content and forms of dialogue with recipients. When cultural institutions begin to function as media, they take on the features of media structures that create a communication environment localized by the functions of communicators and audience expectations. Museums function in such a way that along with the real art space they form a virtual space, which puts the recipients into the reality of the exhibitions based on the principle of immersion. Mediaization of art on the example of virtual museum institutions allows us to talk about: expanding of the perceptual capabilities of the audience; improvement of the exposition function of mediatized museums with the help of Internet technologies; interactivity of museum expositions; providing broad contextual background knowledge necessary for a deep understanding of the content of works of art; the possibility to have a delayed viewing of works of art; absence of thematic, time and space restrictions; possibility of communication between visitors; a huge target audience. Significance. The study of the mediatized forms of communication between museums and visitors as well as the directions of their transformation into media are certainly of interest to the scientific field of “Social Communications”.

La inestabilidad social, política y económica en Venezuela ha generado cambios en los patrones migratorios de la región en los últimos años, con millones de venezolanos en busca de oportunidades laborales o mejorar el sustento para las familias que dejan atrás. En este contexto, las remesas tienen un papel fundamental como componente del ingreso disponible de los hogares receptores. En este estudio, analizamos como estos flujos monetarios en el contexto de una crisis migratoria se convierte en una estrategia de vida para hacer frente a la inseguridad alimentaria que enfrentan los hogares venezolanos. Con base a los datos de la Encuesta Nacional de Condiciones de Vida (ENCOVI) de 2019, estimamos un modelo con variables instrumentales para medir los efectos de las remesas sobre tres medidas de seguridad alimentaria. Hallamos que ser receptor de remesas está asociado con un incremento en el consumo calórico y la diversidad alimentaria de los hogares y una reducción en sus limitaciones de acceso a los alimentos.

El propósito del presente informe es medir la transmisión de volatilidad que existe entre los mercados de deuda pública, deuda privada y acciones, de manera que se pueda identificar si un mercado, en determinado momento del tiempo, fue generador o receptor de volatilidad. Posteriormente, se estima el valor en riesgo (VeR) a un día del portafolio en posición propia de los tres mercados, así como los efectos de una posible materialización del riesgo de mercado sobre el balance de las entidades.