Predicting Media Appeal From Instinctive Moral Values     

Ron Tamborini  Allison Eden  Nicholas David Bowman  Matthew Grizzard  René Weber 《Mass Communication and Society》2013,16(3):325-346

Zillmann's moral sanction theory defines morality subcultures for entertainment as groups of media viewers who evaluate character actions with shared value systems. However, the theory provides no a priori means to identify these shared value systems. The model of intuitive morality and exemplars incorporates a theoretical framework for identifying and testing the factors from which these shared value systems emerge. This study applies the model's framework, based on 5 “moral domains” from moral foundations theory, to test the influence of shared value systems on character perceptions and narrative appeal. A within-subject experiment varied violation of these five domains (care, fairness, ingroup loyalty, authority, and purity) and narrative resolutions (positive or negative outcomes) in 10 short narrative scenarios. The 5 domains predicted character perceptions and narrative appeal. The results are discussed in terms of the utility of these domains for understanding the reciprocal relationship between audience values and media response.  相似文献   

The impact of past dating relationship solidarity on commitment,satisfaction, and investment in current relationships     

Andy J. Merolla  Keith D. Weber  Scott A. Myers  Melanie Booth‐Butterfield 《Communication quarterly》2013,61(3):251-264

The purpose of this study was to determine how previous romantic relationships impact subsequent romantic relationships. Specifically, this study examined if past relationship solidarity is related to current relationship commitment, satisfaction, and investment among individuals in dating relationships. Participants were 204 undergraduates at an Eastern university who were currently in a dating relationship. Results indicated that past relationship solidarity is significantly and negatively related to current relationship commitment and satisfaction, but not significantly related to current investment. Several moderating variables were also examined, including the nature and attribution of individuals' breakups, the length of past and current relationships, and participant sex. Results revealed that the nature and style of past breakups were particularly salient moderating variables, such that past solidarity was related to future relationship commitment and satisfaction only when breakups were mutual and somewhat ambiguous. Furthermore, these relationships were significant only for women and not men.  相似文献   

Learning,Media, and the Case of Dax Cowart: A Comparison of Text,Film, and Interactive Multimedia     

Robert Cavalier  Keith Weber 《Interactive Learning Environments》2013,21(3):243-262

Alternate reality games (ARGs) are a relatively new form of collaborative game that make use of both the virtual and real worlds to engage players in a series of challenges within a compelling narrative. The Alternate Reality Games for Orientation, Socialisation and Induction (ARGOSI) project aimed to use this game format to provide an alternative way to support the student induction process at Manchester Metropolitan University. The ViolaQuest game provided a mechanism for new university students to meet with others, navigate a new city and undertake information literacy induction activities within a purposeful context. The project ran from April 2008 to March 2009, and while the game itself had limited success in terms of student participation and impact, there were many lessons learned in terms of appropriate design and implementation of alternative reality games to support learning. This article describes the evaluation, results, lessons learned and raises a number of questions as to the suitability of ARGs in higher education.  相似文献   

Can digital information literacy among undergraduates be improved? Evidence from an experimental study     

Hannes Weber  Steffen Hillmert  Karin Julia Rott 《Teaching in Higher Education》2013,18(8):909-926

ABSTRACT

The Internet has become a pivotal source of information among university students. However, studies routinely show that many students lack digital information literacy skills (i.e. skills needed to find and evaluate information online). In this paper, we report results from an experimental study testing the effect of a workshop for third-year students of a German university. The workshop was designed to teach relevant information literacy skills in a computer lab. Afterwards, students were given academic search tasks and their search behavior was recorded with a tracking device. We find that, compared with the control group, workshop participants significantly increased their use of academic databases and cited more articles from scholarly journals. On the other hand, we find no effect on the relevance of the content students found online. Teaching digital information literacy is essential and feasible, but it is no panacea for increasing the academic quality of students’ work.  相似文献   

Predictors of Cheating among Early Adolescents: Academic and Social Motivations   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Murdock TB  Hale NM  Weber MJ 《Contemporary educational psychology》2001,26(1):96-115

This study examined the relations between middle school students' self-reported cheating and several indicators of academic and social motivation. It was hypothesized that students' academic self-efficacy and personal and classroom goal orientations would predict cheating. Social motivations were presumed to predict cheating above and beyond achievement motivation. Four dimensions of relationships within schools were measured: participation structure, teacher commitment and competence, teacher respect, and sense of school belonging. Logistic regression analyses were used to predict classification as a cheater or noncheater. Although academic motivation variables predicted cheating, the addition of the relationship variables significantly improved the classification rates. The final model included grade in school, academic self-efficacy, extrinsic goal orientation, participation structure, teacher commitment, and teacher respect. Copyright 2001 Academic Press.  相似文献   

Alleviating cross-cultural challenges of Indian subcontinent students: University staff perspectives     

Kansal  Monika  Chugh  Ritesh  Weber  Anthony  Macht  Stephanie  Grose  Robert  Shah  Mahsood 《Tertiary Education and Management》2022,28(2):171-185

Tertiary Education and Management - The growth in student numbers from the Indian subcontinent countries has increased exponentially in the Australian higher education system over the past decade....  相似文献   

The effect of recovery duration on running speed and stroke quality during intermittent training drills in elite tennis players     

Alexander Ferrauti  Babette M. Pluim  Karl Weber 《Journal of sports sciences》2013,31(4):235-242

The aim of this study was to assess the effect of the recovery duration in intermittent training drills on metabolism and coordination in sport games. Ten nationally ranked male tennis players (age 25.3±3.7 years, height 1.83±0.8 m, body mass 77.8±7.7 kg; mean ±s _x ) participated in a passing-shot drill (baseline sprint with subsequent passing shot) that aimed to improve both starting speed and stroke quality (speed and precision). Time pressure for stroke preparation was individually adjusted by a ball-machine and corresponded to 80% of maximum running speed. In two trials (T₁₀, T₁₅) separated by 2 weeks, the players completed 30 strokes and sprints subdivided into 6 2 5 repetitions with a 1 min rest between series. The rest between each stroke-and-sprint lasted either 10 s (T₁₀) or 15 s (T₁₅). The sequence of both conditions was randomized between participants. Post-exercise blood lactate concentration was significantly elevated in T₁₀ (9.04±3.06 vs 5.01±1.35 mmol·l^-1, P ? 0.01). Running time for stroke preparation (1.405±0.044 vs 1.376±0.045 s, P ? 0.05) and stroke speed (106±12 vs 114±8 km·h^-1, P ? 0.05) were significantly decreased in T₁₀, while stroke precision - that is, more target hits ( P ? 0.1) and fewer errors (P ? 0.05) - tended to be higher. We conclude that running speed and stroke quality during intermittent tennis drills are highly dependent on the duration of recovery time. Optimization of training efficacy in sport games (e.g. combined improvement of conditional and technical skills) requires skilful fine-tuning of monitoring guidelines.  相似文献   

Correction to: Book review: Baruch B. Schwarz and Michael J. Baker (Foreword by L. B. Resnick with F. Schantz) (2017) <Emphasis Type="Italic">Dialogue,Argumentation and Education: History,Theory and Practice</Emphasis>     

Keith Weber 《Educational Studies in Mathematics》2018,97(1):119-119

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Legitimizing research, technology and innovation policies for transformative change: Combining insights from innovation systems and multi-level perspective in a comprehensive ‘failures’ framework     

K. Matthias Weber  Harald Rohracher 《Research Policy》2012,41(6):1037-1047

The recent policy debates about orientating research, technology and innovation policy towards societal challenges, rather than economic growth objectives only, call for new lines of argumentation to systematically legitimize policy interventions. While the multi-level perspective on long-term transitions has attracted quite some interest over the past years as a framework for dealing with long-term processes of transformative change, but the innovation systems approach is still the dominant perspective for devising innovation policy. Innovation systems approaches stress the importance of improving innovation capabilities of firms and the institutional settings to support them, but they are less suited for dealing with the strategic challenges of transforming systems of innovation, production and consumption, and thus with long-term challenges such as climate change or resource depletion. It is therefore suggested to consider insights from transition studies more prominently in a policy framework that is based on the innovation systems approach and the associated notion of ‘failures’. We propose a comprehensive framework that allows legitimizing and devising policies for transformative change that draws on a combination of market failures, structural system failures and transformational system failures.  相似文献   

“The Manufacturer and Builder” Science,Technology, and the American Mechanic     

Daniel B. Weber 《Journal of American culture (Malden, Mass. : 2003)》1985,8(4):35-42

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