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Media Consumption (media + consumption)

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COSMOPOLITANISM, REMEDIATION, AND THE GHOST WORLD OF BOLLYWOOD

CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 1 2010
DAVID NOVAK
ABSTRACT This essay considers the process of remediation in two North American reproductions of the song-and-dance sequence Jaan Pehechaan Ho from the 1965 "Bollywood" film Gumnaam. The song was used in the opening sequence of the 2001 U.S. independent film Ghost World as a familiar-but-strange object of ironic bewilderment and fantasy for its alienated teenage protagonist Enid. But a decade before Ghost World's release, Jaan Pehechaan Ho had already become the lynchpin of a complex debate about cultural appropriation and multicultural identity for an "alternative" audience in the United States. I illustrate this through an ethnographic analysis of a 1994 videotape of the Heavenly Ten Stems, an experimental rock band in San Francisco, whose performance of the song was disrupted by a group of activists who perceived their reproduction as a mockery. How is Bollywood film song, often itself a kitschy send-up of American popular culture, remediated differently for different projects of reception? How do these cycles of appropriation create overlapping conditions for new identities,whether national, diasporic, or "alternative",within the context of transcultural media consumption? In drawing out the "ghost world" of Bollywood's juxtapositions, I argue that the process of remediation produces more than just new forms and meanings of media, but is constitutive of the cosmopolitan subjects formed in its global circulations. [source]

Mood Adjustment to Social Situations Through Mass Media Use: How Men Ruminate and Women Dissipate Angry Moods

HUMAN COMMUNICATION RESEARCH, Issue 1 2006
Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick
Mood adjustment goals served to explain gender differences regarding media preferences. Before reacting to antagonism, females are likely to prevent aggression by dissolving aversive states through media consumption, whereas males could preserve aggression by choosing negative content. In a computerized procedure, participants (N = 86) were provoked by supervisor feedback to instigate angry moods. Half of the sample was led to anticipate a retaliation opportunity. In a purportedly separate study, participants were free to choose from online news while software unobtrusively logged their selective news exposure. The articles had been classified as positive or negative news in a pretest. When anticipating a retaliation opportunity, females spent more time reading positive news to dissipate their anger. Males expecting a retaliation opportunity spent more time on negative news to sustain their anger. Males' generally lower news consumption, especially when anticipating a chance to retaliate, indicated anger rumination through news avoidance altogether. [source]

Social Influence of an International Celebrity: Responses to the Death of Princess Diana

JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION, Issue 4 2003
William J. Brown
When Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed in 1997, a massive public outpouring of grief occurred. Six years after her death, the public and the tabloids still debate whether the paparazzi were to blame for her fatal car accident. Previous studies of celebrities suggest that psychological involvement with a celebrity will determine to what extent stories of the celebrity and their subsequent social influence will affect the general public. The same process was examined in this study of Princess Diana. To study this phenomenon, a survey administered immediately after her fatal car accident compared people's level of involvement with Princess Diana to their viewing of stories about her funeral and their attitudes toward the press. Results showed that gender and age similarities predicted involvement with Princess Diana. This involvement, in turn, predicted people's media use in response to her death and their attitudes toward the press. This finding reinforces previous studies that have shown involvement is an important variable that influences both media consumption and media effects. The authors consider implications of this research for investigating the growing international influence of celebrities through mass media. [source]

The Problem of Media Habits

COMMUNICATION THEORY, Issue 2 2010
Robert LaRose
To what extent is repeated media consumption behavior a matter of habit rather than continuing and active self-instruction? The physiological and cognitive origins of habits are examined in the context of current research in neurology and social psychology. The result is a reconceptualization of media habits along a continuum from consciously enacted behaviors to those that are activated automatically by external stimuli. Communication research perspectives of the role of habits in media consumption are critically reviewed. From this analysis, habits emerge as automatic thought processes that are powerful predictors of media behavior and a model of habitual media consumption is proposed. Le problème des habitudes médiatiques Robert LaRose Dans quelle mesure la répétition d'un comportement de consommation médiatique est-elle une affaire d'habitude plutôt qu'un choix continu et actif? Les origines physiologiques et cognitives des habitudes sont étudiées dans le contexte de la recherche actuelle en neurologie et en psychologie sociale. Il en résulte une reconceptualisation des habitudes médiatiques selon un continuum allant des comportements conscients à ceux qui sont automatiquement activés par des stimulus extérieurs. Les perspectives de la recherche en communication sur le rôle des habitudes dans la consommation médiatique sont passées en revue d'un ,il critique. De cette analyse, les habitudes émergent comme étant des processus de pensée automatiques qui sont de forts prédicteurs des comportements médiatiques. Un modèle de la consommation médiatique habituelle est proposé. Das Problem von Mediengewohnheiten Robert LaRose Inwiefern ist ein wiederholtes Medienkonsumverhalten eine Frage der Gewohnheit und nicht der ständigen aktiven Selbstkonstruktion? Im Kontext aktueller Forschung in der Neurologie und Sozialpsychologie werden die physiologischen und kognitiven Ursprünge von Gewohnheiten betrachtet. Das Ergebnis ist eine Neukonzeptualisierung von Mediengewohnheiten entlang eines Kontinuums von bewusst ausgeführten Verhaltensweisen hin zu jenen Verhaltensweisen, die automatisch von externalen Stimuli aktiviert werden. Die Perspektive der Kommunikationsforschung zur Rolle von Gewohnheiten bei der Mediennutzung wird kritisch untersucht. Basierend auf dieser Analyse entstehen Gewohnheiten als automatische Gedankenprozesse, die wiederum starke Prädiktoren für Medienverhalten sind. Ein Modell der habitualisierten Mediennutzung wird vorgeschlagen. El Problema de los Hábitos de los Medios Robert LaRose Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA Resumen ¿Hasta qué punto el comportamiento repetitivo de consumo de los medios es un asunto de hábito en vez de auto instrucción continúa y activa? Los orígenes psicológicos y cognitivos de los hábitos son examinados en el contexto de la investigación corriente en neurología y psicología social. El resultado es una reconceptualización de los hábitos de los medios a través de un continuo entre los comportamientos conscientemente representados y aquellos que son automáticamente activados por estímulos externos. Las perspectivas de la investigación en comunicación sobre el rol de los hábitos de consumo de los medios son revisados críticamente. De este análisis, los hábitos emergen como procesos de pensamiento automático los cuales son vaticinadores poderosos del comportamiento de los medios y un modelo de consumo habitual de los medios es propuesto. [source]