A group to bring together scholarship and researchers that work with the multifaceted field that is Television Studies – from politics to industries, from fan-based research to Cultural Media Studies approaches to particular shows and/or the histories of and in Television – you name it 🙂
Camille Alexander started the topic CFP: Disrupting Norms in Supernatural Teen Serials in the discussion
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 2 days, 22 hours ago
Black Witches & Queer Ghosts: Disrupting Norms in Supernatural Teen Serials
While fascination with the supernatural has an extensive history, combining teen subjects and audiences with supernatural topics is a fairly contemporary form of entertainment. Serials like Teen Wolf, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, and the Vampire Diaries center…[Read more]
Derek Johnston deposited Reading Past Reception: A Case Study of the BBC Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954) in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 4 months ago
This paper draws on the letters and messages and newspaper clipping held by the BBC Written Archives Centre in relation to the 1954 adaptation of Nineteen Eighty-Four as a case study for considering how we understand the historical reception of programming. This production is particularly useful in this regard because it achieved a certain…[Read more]
Derek Johnston deposited The Folk of Folk Horror in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 4 months ago
‘Folk horror’ has often been considered, following Mark Gatiss’ description of the genre, as centrally focused on a particular ‘obsession with the British landscape, its folklore, and superstitions’. While these elements are clearly significant, they become more problematic when opening up the genre to include texts from beyond Britain. Not only…[Read more]
Jyotirmaya Patnaik deposited Branding Unity: Impact of Advertisements on Patriotism, Unity and Communal Harmony in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 12 months ago
Patriotism and national unity have become favorite brand positioning propositions for
advertisers in India. The paper explores the reasons behind the popularity of these patriotic
themes that also embrace notions of nationhood, communal harmony and national unity in
commercials and public service advertisements. While these patriotic themes…[Read more]Jyotirmaya Patnaik deposited Social Media Challenges and Adoption Patterns among Public Relations Practitioners in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 12 months ago
Social media has altered the design of modern society. It has changed the way people lived
and worked. Though no profession or industry is left untouched by the communication
revolution stirred by social media, yet communication professionals bore maximum impact.
This paper analyzed the usage and perception of public relation (PR) professionals…[Read more]Jyotirmaya Patnaik deposited Advertising and Ethnicities: A Comparative Study of Sri Lanka and Northeast India in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 12 months ago
Ethnicity has become a key interest of advertisers in diverse societies. Contrary to the
popular argument that ethnic identities are threatened by the intensified influence of media
and consumer culture, they have become the core sites of representation and reproduction
of ethnic identities. It is arguable that in today’s (mass) mediated s…[Read more]Jyotirmaya Patnaik deposited Percption of Government Public Relations Practice by the People in Sabah: A Public Opinion Survey in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 12 months ago
This survey focuses on how the people in Sabah perceived Malaysia’s governmental public
relations practice and their perception of the government based upon it. It includes how the
different types of mass media and its content that they expose themselves to have influence
their image of the nation administration as well as its policies and i…[Read more]Jyotirmaya Patnaik deposited Fake News? A Survey on Video News Releases and their Implications on Journalistic Ethics, Independence and Credibility of Broadcast News in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 12 months ago
The traditional lines between journalism and public relations are now intertwined and public
relations practitioners have an influential role on the content consumers see every day in
newspapers and on news broadcasts. This survey looked at video news releases and their
implications about journalists’ ethics, integrity, independence and c…[Read more]Jyotirmaya Patnaik deposited Sharing Fear via Facebook: A Lesson in Political Public Relations in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 12 months ago
Our study compared the use of fear messages on Facebook by Barack Obama and Mitt
Romney during the 2012 U.S. presidential elections. Results show that written fear messages
embedded in photographs posted on Facebook by both candidates affected the degree to
which those photographs were shared. More specifically, photographs containing…[Read more]Jyotirmaya Patnaik deposited Indian Television in the Eras of Pre-Liberalisation and Liberalisation in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 12 months ago
India witnessed a revolution in the television communication landscape following the
shift in the economic policies in 1991. This analytical study looks into the changes and
additions in the functions performed by mass communication using television medium
before and after the implementation of liberalization policies in India. Tables…[Read more]Jyotirmaya Patnaik deposited Political Mapping of Media in India in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 12 months ago
Every day media is interpreting the space with a new name, identity and representation.
The media discourse shaped in such extent that the identity of a space is deflecting from
original and existing together with new name both together as well. The constructed
identity and existing identity of the region is shaped in such an extent that the…[Read more]Jyotirmaya Patnaik deposited Glocalisation, Cultural Identity, and the Political Economy of Indian Television in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 12 months ago
From its Delhi moorings in the late 1950’s till date, the Indian television has gone through steady
evolution marked by phases of silent or radical revolution. Born with a political agenda of national
reconstruction and turning out to be an ideological hegemony, its course has been redefined by
absorbing transnational media participation and t…[Read more]Jyotirmaya Patnaik deposited Fictional Depictions of Youth in School in Films made in China and United States in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 12 months ago
This study discussed the differences between Chinese youth film and American teen film through the
perspective on cultural foundation. The authors argue that Confucianism was an alternative that greatly
affects the depiction of young characters and the causal relationship of morality and fate of the
characters in films. The objective of such a…[Read more]Jyotirmaya Patnaik deposited Recognizing the Politics of Visual Imagery through Transplanted Traditions in Indian Television Soap Operas in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 12 months ago
Television is known to be a powerful provoker and circulator of meanings. The attempt in this article
is to read the discursive elements of female soap opera protagonists and find out if they are idealised
partly as religious devotees in their whole existence. Wars of production and re-enforcement of
meanings are often waged in media space.…[Read more]Jyotirmaya Patnaik deposited Rural Women Psychology and Emotional Contents in Indian Television Advertisements, India in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 12 months ago
The current study examines the effect of emotional contents in television advertising on the rural
women and how they understand and react towards these advertisements. The study further leads
us to the issues of cognitive behaviour of rural women after the advertisement has influenced their
emotional corridor. For this study 167 women are…[Read more]Jyotirmaya Patnaik deposited Mapping the Portrayal of Females in Contemporary Indian Advertisements in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 12 months ago
The role of advertising as an effective vehicle of communication has long been acknowledged. It has
become the important ‘part of the cultural and economic fabric of a society and continues to be a
primary tool for marketing communication’ (Lane et. al., 2005). The current study examines the
portrayal of women in contemporary Indian mag…[Read more]Jyotirmaya Patnaik deposited Effect of Audience Personality Traits on Reality Show Watching Motives in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 12 months ago
The relationship between viewer personality and reality show watching has been a point
of discussion among media researchers but has been rarely tested. The authors in the
present study explore: (i) Reality Show Watching Motives (RSWM) of viewers, (ii) further
investigates the impact of viewer personality on RSWM in a developing nation context.…[Read more]Jyotirmaya Patnaik deposited Romanian Public Service Television: Struggle for Existence in the Digital Era in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 12 months ago
The increasing use of the internet has brought new challenges for the public service
television system all around the world. Despite the free access to information and the use
of digital technology, the Eastern European public service television is still in a shading
cone mostly because of the small scale of their broadcasting markets. This…[Read more]Jyotirmaya Patnaik deposited Liberalisation of the Malaysian Media and Politics: New Media, Strategies and Contestations in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 12 months ago
On 28 April 2012, ‘Bersih 3.0’, a rally calling for freer and fairer elections estimated that 250,
000 people gathered to support its cause. Government controlled newspapers the New
Straits Times and Utusan Malaysia accused this rally attended by 20, 000 demonstrators as a
plot to destabilise and overthrow the ruling coalition through chaos and…[Read more]Jyotirmaya Patnaik deposited Capturing Trends and Identifying the Emerging Cool: A Study of Indian Bollywood Celebs on Twitter in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 12 months ago
People actively participating on social networks like Facebook, Twitter and blogs are
questioning the age old logic of boundaries and space. Virtual networks like twitter have
given space which not only explores individual self but also connects to a mass phenomenon
emerging through thought leaders, celebrities or ‘trend setters’. This stu…[Read more]- Load More