tended to rate both candidates more negatively, even when controlling for par-tisanship and other demographic variables. Moreover, we find that viewers exhibit more cynicism toward the electoral system and the news media at large. Despite these negative reactions, viewers of The Daily Show reported increased confidence in their ability to understand the complicated world of politics. Our findings are significant in the burgeoning field of research on the effects of “soft news ” on the American public. Although research indicates that soft news contributes to democratic citizenship in America by reaching out to the inattentive public, our findings indicate that The Daily Show may have more detrimental effects, driving down support for political institutions and leaders among those already inclined toward nonparticipation.

Automatic recognition of broadcast feeds from radio and television sources has been gaining importance recently, especially with the success of systems such as the CMU Informedia system [1]. In this work we describe the problems faced in adapting a system built to recognize one utterance at a time

Using questionnaire data from digital television subscribers, links are established between the information sources used and the characteristics and interests of users. The research establishes that groupings can be made and identifies user groups most likely to use each source type. Four groups

.g., it is their principal source of information on public affairs. Television. designed to convey information can be quite effective, and entertainment prograins occasionally provide instruction, but their impact is sometile:i limited by redundancy with one another. Commercials also instruct

Responsive Television consists of a stream of media objects and procedural metadata that describes responses to viewer actions, identity, context, and equipment. Such a system enables providing personalized or responsive content even given a broadcast or multicast environment, and doesnt require

We give cryptographic schemes that help trace the source of leaks when sensitive or proprietary data is made available to a large set of parties. A very relevant application is in the context of pay television, where only paying customers should be able to view certain programs. In this application

stations, stock exchanges and amusement arcades. I'm using one at this very moment as I write this on our Mac. Even University Academics agree that a Television Screen can now (sometimes) be a source of useful information. It's no longer always a signal to switch off and relax. You could almost

THE title of this month's comment is ambiguous but we hope that before we have finished the ob-scurity will have been clarified and the dual mean-ing established. In the voluminous evidence submitted both publicly and privately to the Pilkington Committee the quality of television programmes

Abstract: Objective: The study investigated the impact of thin idealized images of women as presented in music television, a popular form of entertainment for young people. Methods: A sample of 84 women viewed a videotape containing either appearance music videos (which emphasized appearance

conclude that repeated exposure enhances encoding of the target actions from a 2D television source. ß 2007 Wiley-Periodicals, Inc. Dev Psychobiol 49: 196-207, 2007.