The politics of power, pleasure and prayer in the Eurovision Song Contest [PDF]
Since the first annual Eurovision Song Contest in 1956, politics and popularity have intersected to influence the ways in which Eurovision songs have reflected the complex forms of European nationalism.
Bolman Filip V.
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Evidence for the influence of the mere-exposure effect on voting in the Eurovision Song Contest [PDF]
The mere exposure, or familiarity, effect is the tendency for people to feel more positive about stimuli to which they have previously been exposed. The Eurovision Song Contest is a two-stage event, in which some contestants in the final will be more ...
Diarmuid B. Verrier
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Grand Prix Eurovision: Eine Fankultur im Medienzeitalter [PDF]
Der Grand Prix Eurovision ist seit Jahrzehnten eine der bekanntesten Unterhaltungssendungen im europäischen Raum. Dennoch erregte es Verwunderung, wenn der Schreibende Bekannten darüber berichtete, daß dies ein Forschungsgegenstand sei.
Heinz Moser
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EUROVISION SONG CONTEST: HISTORY AND CONTEMPORANEITY [PDF]
The present article analyses the Eurovision Song Contest’s history including the evolution of the Republic of Moldova’s participation in this important event from both points of view, that is, the cultural and political ones.
TCACENCO VICTORIA
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Identidad, espectáculo y representación: las candidaturas de Israel en el Festival de la Canción de Eurovisión [PDF]
A partir de una sofisticada inversión, capital y simbólica, el Festival de Eurovisión genera anualmente un espectáculo audiovisual en la televisión pública problematizando conceptos como “comunidad”, “Europeidad” e “identidad cultural”.
José Luis Panea Fernández
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Order effects in the results of song contests: Evidence from the Eurovision and the New Wave [PDF]
The results of song contests offer a unique opportunity to analyze possible distortions arising from various biases in performance evaluations using observational data.
Evgeny A. Antipov +1 more
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The ‘Gay Olympics’? : the Eurovision Song Contest and the politics of LGBT/European belonging [PDF]
The politics of gay and transgender visibility and representation at the Eurovision Song Contest, an annual televised popular music festival presented to viewers as a contest between European nations, show that processes of interest to Queer ...
Baker, Catherine
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Blurring boundaries: Researching self‐tracking and body size through auto‐netnography
Short Abstract This paper explores the ways in which doing an auto‐netnography through self‐tracking technology led to intensified surveillance of my body size. To understand this, I discuss my experiences of the materiality of self‐tracking, where the blurring of the boundaries between online and offline impacted my feelings around my body size and my
Olivia Fletcher
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User experiments with the Eurovision cross-language image retrieval system [PDF]
In this paper we present Eurovision, a text-based system for cross-language (CL) image retrieval. The system is evaluated by multilingual users for two search tasks with the system configured in English and five other languages.
Armitage +37 more
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EFFECT OF SOME CHEMICAL MUTAGENS ON MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERS AND CORM PRODUCTIVITY OF SOME GLADIOLUS SP. CULTIVARS [PDF]
Two pot experiments were carried out at the Nursery of Antoniades Botanical Garden, Hort. Res. Inst., Alexandria, Egyptduring the years of 2012 and 2013.
H. El-Tayeb
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