Indian audience interpretations of health-related content in the bold and the beautiful

Article Abstract:

The meanings given by Indian viewers to a series of health-related episodes dealing with 'Tony's HIV' in the Hollywood television soap opera, 'The Bold and the Beautiful' is discussed. The study of Indian respondents' interpretations of 'The Bold and Beautiful' was limited by the relatively small sample of Indian respondents.

Surveys, Television viewers, The Bold and the Beautiful (Television program)

---

Exposure, involvement and satisfaction with online activities

Article Abstract:

Involvement and post-exposure satisfaction with online activities among Internet users in the US and India is studied. Satisfaction was highest for information search and communication, activities for which higher levels of cognitive and emotional involvement and exposure were reported.

United States, Usage, Internet, Internet access

---

Guardians of culture, development communicators, or state capitalists?

Article Abstract:

A comparison between television policy in India and China in the broadcast and Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS) areas is made. Indian and Chinese policy responses to the satellite television challenge and the implications for future research are discussed.

China, Government domestic functions, International aspects, Comparative analysis, Broadcasting policy

Similar abstracts:

• Abstracts: Diana doc to head 50hr United slate. Aiming for the 'heart of Britain.' License to fill LWT schedule
• Abstracts: Mediatization of the net and internetization of the mass media. Priming or framing: media influence on attitudes toward foreign countries
• Abstracts: Framing an ideology of information: retail credit and the mass media, 1910-30. Caught in the cross-fire: Tibet, media and promotional culture
• Abstracts: Near and far: banal national identity and the press in Scotland. Reproducing the nation: 'banal nationalism' in the Turkish press
• Abstracts: Local specificity and regional unity under siege: territorial identity and the television news of Aquitaine. The new sense of place in 19th-century news

This website is not affiliated with document authors or copyright owners. This page is provided for informational purposes only. Unintentional errors are possible.