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Does the television program connectedness explain the television viewership patterns in Pakistani housewives? [PDF]

open access: yes
Media always helps to reveal the real face of the societies while it is also a source of entertainment besides portraying the various societal allegories to illuminate the various issues of various societies.
Hasan, Syed Akif   +1 more
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Recreando la sociedad del pasado : modernización y conflicto social en La Señora [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
El presente trabajo ahonda en la función socializadora del medio televisivo. Parte del supuesto de que el relato televisivo tiene la capacidad de proveer a sus públicos de estructuras de interpretación sobre la realidad circundante.
Chicharro Merayo, Mar
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La popularidad de las telenovelas Brasileñas

open access: yesEstudios sobre las Culturas Contemporáneas, 1988
A diversity of factors contributing to the popularity of Brazilian soap operas, both within and outside of Brazil, is discussed. Among these is the emergence of a typical style of soap opera in national television which has developed its own language
Jose Marques de Melo
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Girls and the Media: Girlhood Studies Agenda and Prospects in Italy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Within the Italian context, girlhood studies can hardly be considered a specific field: adolescence and gender construction in Italy have historically been investigated by sociology and psychology, although, in recent years, media studies have also ...
Romana Ando'
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BeastEnders: Pets and Soap Opera

open access: yesCritical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Television Studies
While soap operas typically focus their storylines on human characters, animals serve significant roles in them too. Focussing on the most common animal in the series – dogs – this analysis examines the functions animals play in EastEnders (1985-present), foregrounding species-based hierarchies and popular culture’s
openaire   +2 more sources

(Re)contextualising audience receptions of reality TV [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This paper seeks to recontextualise key findings from recent studies of reality TV audiences in light of insights drawn from across the wider field.
Michelle, Carolyn
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Human Communication Systems Evolve by Cultural Selection [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Human communication systems, such as language, evolve culturally; their components undergo reproduction and variation. However, a role for selection in cultural evolutionary dynamics is less clear.
Barr, Dale   +3 more
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