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Helena Sheehan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Martin White - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • portrayal of health related behaviours in Popular uk Television soap operas
    Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2007
    Co-Authors: T Verma, Jean Adams, Martin White
    Abstract:

    Background: Evidence suggests that health-related story lines in Popular Television programmes may lead to increased viewer knowledge or behaviour change. However, little is currently known about the portrayal of common health-related behaviours on UK Television soap operas. Methods: The portrayal of 11 key health-related behaviours on the 4 most Popular soap operas set and broadcast in the UK over 4 weeks in spring 2005 was assessed. Results: Seven of the 11 behaviours of interest were recorded a total of 959 times during 32 h of programming (or 30 behaviours per programming hour). The behaviour most frequently recorded was alcohol-related behaviours, recorded 619 times (19.3 per programming hour). No instances of four behaviours of interest were observed: driving soon after drinking, drinking during pregnancy, smoking during pregnancy or smoking around children. Conclusions: Popular Television serials offer the chance to portray “healthy” behaviours as normal, and so help change attitudes and shape behavioural norms among the viewing public. Engaging the makers of these programmes in a health promotion agenda may be a fruitful method of promoting healthy behaviours.

Russell Craig - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Popular Television formats the student as consumer metaphor acculturation and critical engagement in the teaching of accounting
    Accounting Education, 2000
    Co-Authors: Natalie Buckmaster, Russell Craig
    Abstract:

    This paper discusses six Television programme formats which were self-selected by Australian university students to facilitate their group-based presentations of accounting subject matter to fellow students in seminar and tutorial classes. This paper is a reflection upon the experiences of these formats (news and current affairs, game shows, tabloid Television, soap operas, children's programmes and situation comedies) using an evaluative framework comprising the student-as-consumer metaphor, notions of 'acculturation' and a model of 'critical engagement'. The Television programme format appears to be beneficial in serving accounting students' psychological and emotional needs and in providing them with a shared cultural structure by which to address accounting issues. This shared structure facilitates students' critical and creative engagement with accounting.

Christine Geraghty - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Discussing quality: critical vocabularies and Popular Television drama
    E-Compós, 2008
    Co-Authors: Christine Geraghty
    Abstract:

    As soap operas britânicas têm uma história enraizada no realismo, um forte senso de comunidade e um tratamento sério de questões sociais. Este ensaio sugere que, no final dos anos 90 e início dos anos 2000, as soap operas britânicas adotaram uma estética mais melodramática com uma ênfase no indivíduo isolado, nas situações extremas, nas paisagens simbólicas e numa polaridade moral. Seguindo Zygmunt Bauman, sugiro que estas mudanças refletem o sentimento de que a idéia de sociedade está sob ataque.

  • aesthetics and quality in Popular Television drama
    International Journal of Cultural Studies, 2003
    Co-Authors: Christine Geraghty
    Abstract:

    This article seeks to extend the debate about evaluating Television by focusing specifically on Television drama. It reviews some of the reasons why such evaluation has been difficult in cultural studies but suggests that by refusing evaluation in relation to Television cultural studies academics are opting out of a key debate in broadcasting and failing students who in their own viewing and practical work are making evaluative judgements. The article suggests that rather than looking for one set of Television aesthetics, as Williams, Ellis and others have done, a more precise approach might attend to particular Television categories, in this case Television drama. The article compares the position in film and in Television, suggesting that one of the problems is that Television lacks a critical culture in which evaluation is openly discussed. It offers a framework for assessing individual programmes and, through an analysis of some textbooks on teaching Television, indicates how this tactic would open up...

Jordi Franciscus Gosselt - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • there s alcohol in my soap portrayal and effects of alcohol use in a Popular Television series
    Health Education Research, 2009
    Co-Authors: Joris Jasper Van Hoof, Menno D T De Jong, Bob M Fennis, Jordi Franciscus Gosselt
    Abstract:

    Two studies are reported addressing the media influences on adolescents’ alcohol-related attitudes and behaviours. A content analysis was conducted to investigate the prevalence of alcohol portrayal in a Dutch soap series. The coding scheme covered the alcohol consumption per soap character, drinking situations and drinking times. Inter-coder reliability was satisfactory. The results showed that alcohol portrayal was prominent and that many instances of alcohol use reflected undesirable behaviours. To assess the influence of such alcohol cues on adolescents, a 2 × 2 experiment was conducted focusing on the separate and combined effects of alcohol portrayal in the soap series and surrounding alcohol commercials. Whereas the alcohol commercials had the expected effects on adolescents’ attitudes, the alcohol-related soap content only appeared to have unexpected effects. Adolescents who were exposed to the alcohol portrayal in the soap series had a less positive attitude towards alcohol and lower drinking intentions. Implications of these findings for health policy and future research are discussed.