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An audience perspective on the second screen phenomenon [PDF]
Second screen applications are among the latest of the TV industry’s innovations to retain the TV viewer’s attention in a challenging multi-screen environment.
Bleumers, Lizzy +2 more
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Short Abstract In this paper, I describe how I have contended with the fraught relationships among mapping, nationalism, and colonialism in my teaching and research. I describe the ways my own thinking about mapping has been pushed in new directions by insights from Black geographies.
Camilla Hawthorne
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Balkan Music Industries Between Europeanisation and Regionalisation: Balkan Music Awards
Taking the regional music event “Balkan Music Awards” – presented as the Eurovision of the Balkans – as a case study, the article explores the ways in which the assumed exotic value of Balkan music and the existing sonic image of the Balkans are employed
Ana Hofman
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We investigate the complex relationships between countries in the Eurovision Song Contest, by recasting past voting data in terms of a dynamical network. Despite the British tendency to feel distant from Europe, our analysis shows that the U.K.
Albert +15 more
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The ‘Friday effect’: School attendance over the weeki
Abstract Using newly released detailed data on absence from school, we find a ‘Friday effect’—children are much less likely to attend schools in England on Fridays. We use daily level data across the whole of England and find that this pattern holds for different schools and for different types of absence, including illness‐related authorised and ...
Joanna Clifton‐Sprigg, Jonathan James
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What Sweden thinks about markets, capitalism and the rich
Abstract Attitudes towards the rich are far more positive in Sweden than in France, Spain, Germany, and Italy. Attitudes towards the market economy are also more positive in Sweden than in all other European countries, except Poland. Although Sweden is perceived by some as a model of ‘democratic socialism’, it has been 50 years since that this was ...
Anders Ydstedt, Rainer Zitelmann
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In this article the phenomenon of SMS TV in relation to the Eurovision Song Contest is described from a reception analysis perspective. The article describes how young viewers experience the structure of the Song Contest and the special social event of ...
Thomas Bjørner
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Abstract The ability of the European community to respond to the multiple crises threatening the European Union and Europe depends in part on citizens' shared European identity giving legitimacy and support to communal action. Men's elite European club football is an example of a cultural practice that is highly Europeanised, reaches diverse audiences ...
Jonas Biel +7 more
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Cultural Proximity and Trade [PDF]
Cultural proximity is an important determinant of bilateral trade volumes. However, empirical quantification and testing are difficult due to the elusiveness of the concept and lack of observability.
Farid Toubal, Gabriel Felbermayr
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