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Nadine Dolby - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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popular culture and public space in africa the possibilities of cultural citizenship
African Studies Review, 2006Co-Authors: Nadine DolbyAbstract:Abstract: Popular culture in Africa is increasingly intertwined with the public space of nations. Drawing on contemporary scholarship on popular culture, citizenship, and identity in transnational and global contexts, this article analyzes the phenomenal success of the Television Show Big Brother Africa in 2003 and argues that people's everyday engagement with popular culture, including Television, must be a central component of understanding emergent public spaces and citizenship practices in Africa's present and future. Resume: En Afrique, la culture populaire se fond de plus en plus avec l'espace public des etats. S'appuyant sur des recherches recentes portant sur la culture populaire, la citoyennete et l'identite dans un contexte transnational et mondial, cet article analyse le succes phenomenal que l'emission de Television Big Brother Africa a rencontre en 2003 et demontre que la relation qu'entretiennent au quotidien les citoyens avec la culture populaire y compris la Television est un element essentiel pour comprendre les espaces publics et les pratiques citoyennes qui emergent dans l'Afrique d'aujourd'hui et de demain. Introduction While research on traditional forms of popular culture has an established history in the field of African studies, there is a growing interest in studying emergent cultural and media forms, such as contemporary music (Hofmeyr, Nyairo, & Ogude 2003; Larkin 2004), movies and films (Diawara 2003), popular magazines (Nuttall 2003), clothing and fashion (Dolby 2001; Hansen 2000; Scheld 2003; Nuttall 2004); Television (Barnett 2004; Fair 2003), and urban and rural culture (Barber 1997; Zeleza & Veney 2003). Such intensified research and analysis are timely, as popular culture in Africa-as elsewhere in the world-is increasingly intertwined with the public spaces of nations. For example, in the Kenyan context, Isabel Hofmeyr, Joyce Nyairo, and James Ogude (2003) analyzed the interplay of popular music and politics in the 2002 elections. In Liberia, George Weah, a world renowned football (soccer) star, used his popular celebrity as the basis for his campaign for the presidency of the nation (Rice 2005). Popular culture is also a significant component of transnational imaginaries and spaces (Appadurai 1993, 1996), as demonstrated, for example, by Rob Nixon's (1994) scholarship on the relationship between mediascapes in South Africa and the United States. In this article, I draw on contemporary scholarship on popular culture, citizenship, and identity in a transnational and global context to analyze the phenomenal success of the Television Show Big Brother Africa in 2003. I argue that people's everyday engagement with popular culture-including in this case, a Television Show-must be a central component in understanding emergent public spaces and citizenship practices in Africa's present and future. Popular Culture and Public Space Popular culture is a critical component of people's lives and identities in societies throughout the world (Dolby 2003; Grossberg 1989; Hall 1981). Youth are particularly voracious consumers and producers of popular culture (Lipsitz, Maira, & Soep 2004; Willis 1990). Though youths' ability to consume popular culture is largely dictated by their economic means, and is in some cases constrained by religious or cultural norms, the products of a media-obsessed world shape the imaginative landscape of youth's lives. As Larry Grossberg (1989) argues, popular culture is a central force of affective investment for people: it grips their hearts and minds and strongly influences the possibilities of their imagination. Regardless of their actual access to media, youth around the world are captivated by the images and sounds that flow from screens and boomboxes; being part of popular culture is a key component of modernity and feeling that one is somehow connected to the global flows described by Arjun Appadurai (1996). …
Jared Williams - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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market madness the case of mad money
Management Science, 2012Co-Authors: Joseph Engelberg, Caroline Sasseville, Jared WilliamsAbstract:We use the popular Television Show Mad Money, hosted by Jim Cramer, to test theories of attention and limits to arbitrage. Stock recommendations on Mad Money constitute attention shocks to a large audience of individual traders. We find that stock recommendations lead to large overnight returns that subsequently reverse over the next few months. The spike-reversal pattern is strongest among small, illiquid stocks that are hard to arbitrage. Using daily Nielsen ratings as a direct measure of attention, we find that the overnight return is strongest when high-income viewership is high. We also find weak price effects among sell recommendations. Taken together, the evidence supports the retail attention hypothesis of Barber and Odean (Barber, B., T. Odean. 2008. All that glitters: The effect of attention and news on the buying behavior of individual and institutional investors. Rev. Financial Stud.21(2) 785--818) and illustrates the potential role of media in generating mispricing. This paper was accepted by Brad Barber, Teck Ho, and Terrance Odean, special issue editors.
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market madness the case of mad money
2010Co-Authors: Joseph Engelberg, Caroline Sasseville, Jared WilliamsAbstract:We use the popular Television Show Mad Money hosted by Jim Cramer to test theories of attention and limits to arbitrage. Stock recommendations on Mad Money constitute attention shocks to a large audience of individual traders. We find that stock recommendations lead to large overnight returns which subsequently reverse over the next few months. The spike-reversal pattern is strongest among small, illiquid stocks that are hard-to-arbitrage. Using daily Nielsen ratings as a direct measure of attention, we find the overnight return is strongest when high income viewership is high. We also find weak price effects among sell recommendations. Taken together, the evidence supports the retail attention hypothesis of Barber and Odean (2008) and illustrates the potential role of media in generating mispricing.
Joseph Engelberg - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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market madness the case of mad money
Management Science, 2012Co-Authors: Joseph Engelberg, Caroline Sasseville, Jared WilliamsAbstract:We use the popular Television Show Mad Money, hosted by Jim Cramer, to test theories of attention and limits to arbitrage. Stock recommendations on Mad Money constitute attention shocks to a large audience of individual traders. We find that stock recommendations lead to large overnight returns that subsequently reverse over the next few months. The spike-reversal pattern is strongest among small, illiquid stocks that are hard to arbitrage. Using daily Nielsen ratings as a direct measure of attention, we find that the overnight return is strongest when high-income viewership is high. We also find weak price effects among sell recommendations. Taken together, the evidence supports the retail attention hypothesis of Barber and Odean (Barber, B., T. Odean. 2008. All that glitters: The effect of attention and news on the buying behavior of individual and institutional investors. Rev. Financial Stud.21(2) 785--818) and illustrates the potential role of media in generating mispricing. This paper was accepted by Brad Barber, Teck Ho, and Terrance Odean, special issue editors.
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market madness the case of mad money
2010Co-Authors: Joseph Engelberg, Caroline Sasseville, Jared WilliamsAbstract:We use the popular Television Show Mad Money hosted by Jim Cramer to test theories of attention and limits to arbitrage. Stock recommendations on Mad Money constitute attention shocks to a large audience of individual traders. We find that stock recommendations lead to large overnight returns which subsequently reverse over the next few months. The spike-reversal pattern is strongest among small, illiquid stocks that are hard-to-arbitrage. Using daily Nielsen ratings as a direct measure of attention, we find the overnight return is strongest when high income viewership is high. We also find weak price effects among sell recommendations. Taken together, the evidence supports the retail attention hypothesis of Barber and Odean (2008) and illustrates the potential role of media in generating mispricing.
Angeline S. Lillard - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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can that really happen children s knowledge about the reality status of fantastical events in Television
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2015Co-Authors: Katherine Boguszewski, Hui Li, Angeline S. LillardAbstract:Abstract Although popular children’s cartoons are replete with fantastical events, we know little about whether children understand that these events are fantastical rather than real. In Study 1, 54 children ages 4 to 6 years and 18 adults were Shown 10 real and 10 fantastical events portrayed in 4 s video clips from a popular cartoon. After viewing each clip, participants were asked to judge the reality status of the event and to explain their judgments. Results indicated that even 4-year-olds have a fairly good understanding of fantastical events in animated cartoons but that they underestimate the reality status of real events in such cartoons. In Study 2, 35 4- to 6-year-olds and 18 adults watched video clips of 10 real and 10 fantastical events performed by real people from a Chinese Television Show. Once again, 4-year-olds underestimated the reality status of real events Shown on Television. However, against the “real” backdrop in this study, 4-year-olds also judged nearly half of the fantastical events to be real. The implications for children’s reality–fantasy discrimination and their media viewing are discussed.
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the immediate impact of different types of Television on young children s executive function
Pediatrics, 2011Co-Authors: Angeline S. Lillard, Jennifer PetersonAbstract:OBJECTIVE: The goal of this research was to study whether a fast-paced Television Show immediately influences preschool-aged children9s executive function (eg, self-regulation, working memory). METHODS: Sixty 4-year-olds were randomly assigned to watch a fast-paced Television cartoon or an educational cartoon or draw for 9 minutes. They were then given 4 tasks tapping executive function, including the classic delay-of-gratification and Tower of Hanoi tasks. Parents completed surveys regarding Television viewing and child9s attention. RESULTS: Children who watched the fast-paced Television cartoon performed significantly worse on the executive function tasks than children in the other 2 groups when controlling for child attention, age, and Television exposure. CONCLUSIONS: Just 9 minutes of viewing a fast-paced Television cartoon had immediate negative effects on 4-year-olds9 executive function. Parents should be aware that fast-paced Television Shows could at least temporarily impair young children9s executive function.
Caroline Sasseville - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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market madness the case of mad money
Management Science, 2012Co-Authors: Joseph Engelberg, Caroline Sasseville, Jared WilliamsAbstract:We use the popular Television Show Mad Money, hosted by Jim Cramer, to test theories of attention and limits to arbitrage. Stock recommendations on Mad Money constitute attention shocks to a large audience of individual traders. We find that stock recommendations lead to large overnight returns that subsequently reverse over the next few months. The spike-reversal pattern is strongest among small, illiquid stocks that are hard to arbitrage. Using daily Nielsen ratings as a direct measure of attention, we find that the overnight return is strongest when high-income viewership is high. We also find weak price effects among sell recommendations. Taken together, the evidence supports the retail attention hypothesis of Barber and Odean (Barber, B., T. Odean. 2008. All that glitters: The effect of attention and news on the buying behavior of individual and institutional investors. Rev. Financial Stud.21(2) 785--818) and illustrates the potential role of media in generating mispricing. This paper was accepted by Brad Barber, Teck Ho, and Terrance Odean, special issue editors.
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market madness the case of mad money
2010Co-Authors: Joseph Engelberg, Caroline Sasseville, Jared WilliamsAbstract:We use the popular Television Show Mad Money hosted by Jim Cramer to test theories of attention and limits to arbitrage. Stock recommendations on Mad Money constitute attention shocks to a large audience of individual traders. We find that stock recommendations lead to large overnight returns which subsequently reverse over the next few months. The spike-reversal pattern is strongest among small, illiquid stocks that are hard-to-arbitrage. Using daily Nielsen ratings as a direct measure of attention, we find the overnight return is strongest when high income viewership is high. We also find weak price effects among sell recommendations. Taken together, the evidence supports the retail attention hypothesis of Barber and Odean (2008) and illustrates the potential role of media in generating mispricing.
