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Soap opera and social order: Glenroe, Fair City and contemporary Ireland. [PDF]
How far can contemporary Ireland recognise itself in Glenroe and Fair City? To what extent do its characters, settings and storylines testify to the temper of the times? What relation do these serials bear to the lives we lead?
Sheehan, Helena
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Courtship behavior is a series of joint activities tinged intimacy (such as a sense of ownership and self-disclosure) as well as their emotional attraction between men and unmarried women with the aim to know each other and see the fit between one ...
Vusvi Eka Sari Zendrato +2 more
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Portrayal of Mental Illness on Television: A Review of the Literature [PDF]
The focus of this thesis is to present peer-reviewed studies relating to mental illness and television. Up to this point there has not been a review paper exclusively examining mental illness and television exclusively.
Oostdyk, Alicia Marie
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Abstract This article uses the concepts of embedding, anchoring and translocality to investigate ICT use among Thai migrant workers in South Korea. Steering away from the dichotomy of migrants being either integrated or isolated in the host society, this article sheds light on embedding and anchoring beyond places of destination by focusing on the ...
Reena Tadee +3 more
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Abstract This article explores young children's language socialization to kinship vocatives and some of their indexicalities in “Dovubaravi,” a rural Indo‐Fijian community in Fiji. The investigation engaged 11 young Dovubaravi children and their extended families in qualitative ethnographic data generation across 2 years.
Alexandra Diamond
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Portuguese Soap Operas: A Genre at the Crossroads
In the context of ever greater circulation of televisual content of all genres and formats, this paper focuses on the intersections between the global and the local to understand how a specific genre – soap opera – was localised in a specific cultural ...
Manuel José Damásio +1 more
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(Re)contextualising audience receptions of reality TV [PDF]
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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Perceptions of Turkish film and television among Turkish‐Australians in Broadmeadows
Abstract This article investigates the importance of Turkish film and television in preserving Turkishness among the Turkish‐Australian diaspora. Turkish film and television are found to be crucial to diversifying constructions of Turkishness in the diaspora.
Orhan Karagoz
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Framing errors : reality and fiction in audio drama [PDF]
Many genres and media create a blurring line between reality and fiction. Radio serials and in particular radio soap operas have inspired devotion in their listeners to the point where their fans throw themselves wholeheartedly into a universe of outward
McMurtry, LG
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The Influence of Authoritarian Beliefs on Support for Transgender Rights in the UK
ABSTRACT In the UK one can barely turn the page of a newspaper without coming across some article written about transgender people. Such articles rarely tend to be trans‐supportive. Sensational stories about trans women invading women's spaces, appropriating female “sex‐based rights”, and trans women dominating women's sports can be found in print ...
Anna McLean, Paul B. Stretesky
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