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Fighting poverty with soap operas [PDF]
, 2015 With their tremendous reach and popularity, soap operas might at first look like light entertainment but they are a potentially potent tool to influence attitudes and spur growth and ...
La Ferrara, Eliana
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Aesthetic Revolution: How Art Shapes Social Worlds
Social and Personality Psychology Compass, Volume 20, Issue 4, April 2026.ABSTRACT Art inhabits the imagination, but can it influence real‐world issues? While some scholars cast art as autonomous from moral and civic life, others see it as deeply entangled with the social world. We address this debate by synthesizing evidence on art's social influence across literature, music, visual art, and film.
Eftychia Stamkou, Dacher Keltner
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Dallas with balls: televized sport, soap opera and male and female pleasures [PDF]
, 1993 Two of the most popular of television genres, soap opera and sports coverage have been very much differentiated along gender lines in terms of their audiences.
Ang I. +21 more
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European Soap Operas: The Diversification of a Genre [PDF]
European Journal of Communication, 1998 Analysis of the most popular locally made soap operas in each of five European countries reveals that the soap opera is not simply an imported American genre. The study of British, Scandinavian and European soaps, based on an `ethnographic' approach to the social networks in the world of the soaps, shows that these countries have developed three ...
Liebes, Tamar, Livingstone, Sonia
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Male Breast Cancer: Growing Insights and Continuing Challenges
Cancer Medicine, Volume 15, Issue 3, March 2026.ABSTRACT Background Breast cancer (BC) in men accounts for less than 1% of all BC diagnoses worldwide. Despite its low incidence, the number of men being diagnosed is increasing. Historically perceived as a predominantly female disease, BC in men has received comparatively limited attention.
Sahar Iftikhar +10 more
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Children &Society, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 381-390, March 2026.ABSTRACT This article draws from a one‐year connective ethnographic study that examined Brazilian transnational children's composing practices on a digital gaming platform named Roblox. Building upon research on digital childhoods, transnational childhoods, and play, the authors thought with concepts of relational bleeding, bending, and diffraction to ...
Mariana Lima Becker, Alex Corbitt
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Going native: long-running television serials in the UK [PDF]
, 2018 This article examines in detail the development of the long-running serial in the UK, from its beginnings on radio in the 1940s, through the move to television in the mid 1950s and then up to the present day.
Chalmers, Douglas, O'Donnell, Hugh
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International Journal of Islamic Education, Research and MulticulturalismThe soap opera "Cinta Fitri" is one of the most popular TV drama series (soap operas) not only in Indonesia but also in Singapore (MdEntertainment). This paper focuses on the phenomenon of soap operas and gender representation in Indonesian media.
Bernika Yustisiana Narang
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Semiotic analysis of Islamic moral messages in soap operas "Buku Harian Seorang Istri" on SCTV
Islamic Communication Journal, 2023 Television is not only a means of information but also influences the audience based on views, attitudes and norms. This study discusses the Islamic moral messages in the soap opera "Buku Harian Seorang Istri (Diary of a Wife)" on SCTV to find out the ...
Qudratullah Qudratullah +2 more
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