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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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Paradoxes of new media: digital discourses on Eurovision 2014, media flows and post-Soviet nation-building [PDF]
, 2017 This article explores the contradictions inherent in new media representations of sexual minorities in two bordering post-Soviet countries, Belarus and Lithuania.
Miazhevich, Galina
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Emotions in Eurovision Song Contest Lyrics
2025 MIPRO 48th ICT and Electronics ConventionThe Eurovision Song Contest, started in 1956, is the longest-running annual TV music competition. So far, more than 1,500 songs have been sung at the competition, the lyrics of which contain numerous emotions. Emotion mining, one of the areas of sentiment analysis, deals with the automatic detection of emotions in text.
Dobša, Jasminka, Bužić, Dalibor
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MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research, 2009 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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Ukraine’s Eurovision victory brings the plight of Crimean Tatars to a European audience [PDF]
, 2016 Ukraine won the Eurovision song contest on 14 May, with a song framed around the deportation of Crimean Tatars under Stalin in 1944. Ellie Knott writes that the result highlights the plight of Crimean Tatars following the territory’s annexation by Russia
Knott, Ellie
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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 50, Issue 1, March 2025.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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Nature and Magic as Representation of “The Sami”—Sami Shamanistic Material in Popular Culture
Religions, 2020 This article examines how magic and nature become representations of both “the Sami” and “Sami shamanism” in animation films Frozen 2 and Klaus, in the television crime series Midnattssol (Midnight Sun) and in three Eurovision Song Contest contributions ...
Anne Kalvig
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Communication & Society (Formerly Comunicación y Sociedad), 2023 This study argues that, historically, televised media events managed to become prominent in the public agenda, not only through their live broadcast on television, but also through their long-term, continuous visibility in the print media. This, both on
Gilad Greenwald
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The ‘Friday effect’: School attendance over the weeki
British Educational Research Journal, Volume 51, Issue 1, Page 73-92, February 2025.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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From Ruslana to Gaitana: Performing “Ukrainianness” in the Eurovision Song Contest
Contemporary Southeastern Europe, 2015 This article considers how the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) has come to be used as a platform for the politicisation of national identity in Ukraine. Ukraine can be described as an amalgam of regions with different ethnolinguistic, economic, cultural ...
Paul Jordan
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