William J Brown
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 110014 |
|---|---|
| NOME | William J Brown |
| PRENOMES | William J |
| SOBRENOME | Brown |
| ASSINATURA | BROWN W J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Regent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1521-092X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 165 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1961 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
‘Subaltern’ imaginings of artificial intelligence
Supercinema
Drawing on a variety of popular films, including Avatar, Enter the Void, Fight Club, The Matrix, Speed Racer, X-Men and War of the Worlds, Supercinema studies the ways in which digital special effects and editing techniques require a new theoretical framework in order to be properly understood. Here William Brown proposes that while analogue cinema often tried to hide the technological limitations of its creation through ingenious methods, digita…
Innocence killed
Children of ISIS have no childhood. They are exposed to extreme violence and targeted by ISIS for recruitment. This study examines the role of ISIS child propaganda videos in catalysing the process of radicalising and recruiting children to join the Islamic State. Sixty in-depth interviews of Syrian families and children who have been exposed to ISIS propaganda show that children join ISIS mainly for survival. When they join the Islamic State, th…
Celebrity involvement
This chapter examines three powerful processes through which audiences become involved with and affected by celebrities: parasocial interaction, identification and worship. Studies of these processes are found in celebrity-related research throughout the academic literature, particularly in communication, social psychology, psychology and sociology journals. The chapter discusses conceptualizations of celebrity involvement and how parasocial inte…
Examining Four Processes of Audience Involvement With Media Personae
The proliferation of visual media worldwide during the past 50 years has made mediated personalities, both real people and fictional characters, powerful agents of social change. Communication theorists have explored various forms of involvement with these personalities, generally referred to as media personae. The current academic literature that explores various forms of audience involvement with media personae lacks conceptual clarity. The pre…
Facilitating Dialog About Development Through Digital Photography
In recent decades the Maasai of East Africa have undergone substantive cultural change in response to national development efforts. This study uses participant observation, in-depth interviews, and digital photography to better understand the lived experience and development perspectives of Maasai women. Through dialog about digital photographs they had taken, Maasai women powerfully articulated their concerns and ideas about development and soci…
Steve Irwin's Influence on Wildlife Conservation
The present study assesses audience involvement with popular television personality Steve Irwin, who died tragically at the peak of his career. A survey of 1,800 media consumers revealed that Irwin was perceived to be a hero and role model for wildlife conservation. News of his death spread quickly and globally, promoting interpersonal dialoguing and Internet searching. Those more highly involved with Irwin talked with more people and longer abou…
Social Influence of an International Celebrity
When Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed in 1997, a massive public outpouring of grief occurred. Six years after her death, the public and the tabloids still debate whether the paparazzi were to blame for her fatal car accident. Previous studies of celebrities suggest that psychological involvement with a celebrity will determine to what extent stories of the celebrity and their subsequent social influence will affect the general public. The sam…
Differences in Univariate Values Versus Multivariate Relationships
A recent debate has called to light an important issue for communication researchers and other social scientists: Does the use of student samples jeopardize the validity of research? Importantly, this question has failed to make a critical distinction between estimates of univariate values versus those examining multivariate relationships. Estimates of univariate values provide information on the prevalence of an attitude or belief from the sampl…
Media, Celebrities, and Social Influence
The extensive reach of popular culture through global communication systems has given rise to the international celebrity. This study provides insight into the powerful influence that celebrities can have on those who identify closely with their mediated images. An ethnographic study was conducted of 35 Elvis Presley fans, including in-depth interviews of more than 2 dozen popular Elvis impersonators representing a broad demographic of this popul…
Was There a Pliocene-Pleistocene Fluvial-Lacustrine Connection between Death Valley and the Colorado River?
Since the turn of the century, a Pliocene-Pleistocene connection between the Death Valley-Owens River pluvial system and the Colorado River drainage basin has been frequently postulated. The two most commonly proposed routes involve (1) a southward overflow from the Death Valley Lake system or (2) southward migration of the Mojave River between its present course and a more southerly route. Under the present topographic regime, a Death Valley Lak…
Media Celebrities and Public Health
Exposure to celebrities through the media can have an important influence on the public's health-related attitudes, beliefs, and behavior. The announcement by Los Angeles Lakers' basketball star Magic Johnson that he tested positive for HIV infection was intended to promote HIVIAIDS prevention, particularly among adolescents and young adults. The present study analyzes how previous knowledge of Johnson acquired through the media affected the publ…
Trading arms for hostages? How the government and print media “spin” portrayals of the United States' policy toward Iran
The relationship between the United States and Iran has had an important influence on world affairs during the past two decades. Accordingly, the U.S. news media have an instrumental role in portraying U.S.‐Iran relations to the public. The Iranian Revolution and hostage crisis of 1979–1981, the TWA hijacking of 1985, the Irangate controversy of 1986–1987, and the Persian Gulf War of 1990–1991 are examples of important media events that have impa…
Culture, Self, and Collectivist Communication Linking Culture to Individual Behavior
This study develops and demonstrates a theoretical framework and corresponding methodology to link variables at the culture level to the individual level and, then, to specific outcome variables. The authors argue that in order to advance theory about culture's influence on communication, researchers must begin to examine how culture affects individual level (psychological) processes and, subsequently, how these processes affect communication. Th…
Walter Gropius and grain elevators
Granaries have been used by human societies ever since the time of ancient Egypt. One reads the following famous story in Chapter 41 of the book of Genesis
Ethical Considerations of Promoting Prosocial Messages Through the Popular Media
Harnessing the potential of entertainment-education telenovelas
The enormous economic, political and social problems of the developing world call for creating effective, equitable, and socially responsible mass media programs that will solve human problems and benefit society. The present article investigates the use of the entertainment-education strategy in mass communication, especially focusing on the potential of telenovelas in addressing problems of national development. We trace the diffusion of the en…
Short-Duration Holocene Lakes in the Mojave River Drainage Basin, Southern California
Stratigraphic, sedimentologic, and pedologic studies of beach ridge and lacustrine deposits indicate that up to five times during the Holocene, shallow lakes covered Silver Lake playa in southeastern California for periods of years to decades. The two youngest lacustrine events (at about 390 ± 90 yr B. P. and 3620 ± 70 yr B. P.) coincide with the early and late Neoglacial episodes of North America. Increasing evidence in recent years from other n…
Sociocultural Influences of Prodevelopment Soap Operas in the Third World
(1992). Sociocultural Influences of Prodevelopment Soap Operas in the Third World. Journal of Popular Film and Television: Vol. 19, Theme Issue: The International Agenda in Popular Film and Television, pp. 157-164
Culture and Aids education
The present study assesses the effects of culture on responses to AIDS educational messages among high‐risk heterosexuals in an Asian‐American community. The Department of Health Services at a large university located in the western region of the U.S. implemented an ongoing AIDS education program for its multicultural campus community. The program specifically targets heterosexual young‐adults, considered to be a high‐risk group for HIV infection…
The use of entertainment television programs for promoting prosocial messages
The role of entertainment television in development communication has recently attracted the attention of a number of communication scholars and policy planners. Historically this subject has received little attention; most research on the use of television for development focuses on the effects of educational programs designed to disseminate knowledge and information. Audience exposure to entertainment television programs worldwide is rapidly in…
An Aids Prevention Campaign
Response speeds and response times of urban police patrol cars in Ottawa, Canada
Marlowe's Debasement of Bajazet
One interesting facet of Tamburlaine, Part I is Marlowe's dramatic characterization of Bajazet. The Great Turk's defeat and humiliation by Tamburlaine are standard features of Marlowe's acknowledged sources: his captivity in an iron cage, his being fed like a dog from Tamburlaine's table scraps, his use as Tamburlaine's footstool, and his final desperate suicide by braining against the bars of his cage. But Marlowe's debasement of Bajazet is more…
Cluster Testing—A New Development in Syphilis Case Finding
Cluster Testing—A New Development in Syphilis Case Finding William J. Brown CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.51.7.1043 Published Online: August 29, 2011
Culture, Self, and Collectivist Communication Linking Culture to Individual Behavior
This study develops and demonstrates a theoretical framework and corresponding methodology to link variables at the culture level to the individual level and, then, to specific outcome variables. The authors argue that in order to advance theory about culture's influence on communication, researchers must begin to examine how culture affects individual level (psychological) processes and, subsequently, how these processes affect communication. Th…
Examining Four Processes of Audience Involvement With Media Personae
The proliferation of visual media worldwide during the past 50 years has made mediated personalities, both real people and fictional characters, powerful agents of social change. Communication theorists have explored various forms of involvement with these personalities, generally referred to as media personae. The current academic literature that explores various forms of audience involvement with media personae lacks conceptual clarity. The pre…
Media, Celebrities, and Social Influence
The extensive reach of popular culture through global communication systems has given rise to the international celebrity. This study provides insight into the powerful influence that celebrities can have on those who identify closely with their mediated images. An ethnographic study was conducted of 35 Elvis Presley fans, including in-depth interviews of more than 2 dozen popular Elvis impersonators representing a broad demographic of this popul…
Harnessing the potential of entertainment-education telenovelas
The enormous economic, political and social problems of the developing world call for creating effective, equitable, and socially responsible mass media programs that will solve human problems and benefit society. The present article investigates the use of the entertainment-education strategy in mass communication, especially focusing on the potential of telenovelas in addressing problems of national development. We trace the diffusion of the en…
Culture and Aids education
The present study assesses the effects of culture on responses to AIDS educational messages among high‐risk heterosexuals in an Asian‐American community. The Department of Health Services at a large university located in the western region of the U.S. implemented an ongoing AIDS education program for its multicultural campus community. The program specifically targets heterosexual young‐adults, considered to be a high‐risk group for HIV infection…
Trading arms for hostages? How the government and print media “spin” portrayals of the United States' policy toward Iran
The relationship between the United States and Iran has had an important influence on world affairs during the past two decades. Accordingly, the U.S. news media have an instrumental role in portraying U.S.‐Iran relations to the public. The Iranian Revolution and hostage crisis of 1979–1981, the TWA hijacking of 1985, the Irangate controversy of 1986–1987, and the Persian Gulf War of 1990–1991 are examples of important media events that have impa…
Facilitating Dialog About Development Through Digital Photography
In recent decades the Maasai of East Africa have undergone substantive cultural change in response to national development efforts. This study uses participant observation, in-depth interviews, and digital photography to better understand the lived experience and development perspectives of Maasai women. Through dialog about digital photographs they had taken, Maasai women powerfully articulated their concerns and ideas about development and soci…
Ethical Considerations of Promoting Prosocial Messages Through the Popular Media
Sociocultural Influences of Prodevelopment Soap Operas in the Third World
(1992). Sociocultural Influences of Prodevelopment Soap Operas in the Third World. Journal of Popular Film and Television: Vol. 19, Theme Issue: The International Agenda in Popular Film and Television, pp. 157-164
The use of entertainment television programs for promoting prosocial messages
The role of entertainment television in development communication has recently attracted the attention of a number of communication scholars and policy planners. Historically this subject has received little attention; most research on the use of television for development focuses on the effects of educational programs designed to disseminate knowledge and information. Audience exposure to entertainment television programs worldwide is rapidly in…
An Aids Prevention Campaign
Marlowe's Debasement of Bajazet
One interesting facet of Tamburlaine, Part I is Marlowe's dramatic characterization of Bajazet. The Great Turk's defeat and humiliation by Tamburlaine are standard features of Marlowe's acknowledged sources: his captivity in an iron cage, his being fed like a dog from Tamburlaine's table scraps, his use as Tamburlaine's footstool, and his final desperate suicide by braining against the bars of his cage. But Marlowe's debasement of Bajazet is more…
Cluster Testing—A New Development in Syphilis Case Finding
Cluster Testing—A New Development in Syphilis Case Finding William J. Brown CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.51.7.1043 Published Online: August 29, 2011
Marlowe's Debasement of Bajazet
One interesting facet of Tamburlaine, Part I is Marlowe's dramatic characterization of Bajazet. The Great Turk's defeat and humiliation by Tamburlaine are standard features of Marlowe's acknowledged sources: his captivity in an iron cage, his being fed like a dog from Tamburlaine's table scraps, his use as Tamburlaine's footstool, and his final desperate suicide by braining against the bars of his cage. But Marlowe's debasement of Bajazet is more…
Response speeds and response times of urban police patrol cars in Ottawa, Canada
An Aids Prevention Campaign
Short-Duration Holocene Lakes in the Mojave River Drainage Basin, Southern California
Stratigraphic, sedimentologic, and pedologic studies of beach ridge and lacustrine deposits indicate that up to five times during the Holocene, shallow lakes covered Silver Lake playa in southeastern California for periods of years to decades. The two youngest lacustrine events (at about 390 ± 90 yr B. P. and 3620 ± 70 yr B. P.) coincide with the early and late Neoglacial episodes of North America. Increasing evidence in recent years from other n…
Sociocultural Influences of Prodevelopment Soap Operas in the Third World
(1992). Sociocultural Influences of Prodevelopment Soap Operas in the Third World. Journal of Popular Film and Television: Vol. 19, Theme Issue: The International Agenda in Popular Film and Television, pp. 157-164
Culture and Aids education
The present study assesses the effects of culture on responses to AIDS educational messages among high‐risk heterosexuals in an Asian‐American community. The Department of Health Services at a large university located in the western region of the U.S. implemented an ongoing AIDS education program for its multicultural campus community. The program specifically targets heterosexual young‐adults, considered to be a high‐risk group for HIV infection…
The use of entertainment television programs for promoting prosocial messages
The role of entertainment television in development communication has recently attracted the attention of a number of communication scholars and policy planners. Historically this subject has received little attention; most research on the use of television for development focuses on the effects of educational programs designed to disseminate knowledge and information. Audience exposure to entertainment television programs worldwide is rapidly in…
Walter Gropius and grain elevators
Granaries have been used by human societies ever since the time of ancient Egypt. One reads the following famous story in Chapter 41 of the book of Genesis
Ethical Considerations of Promoting Prosocial Messages Through the Popular Media
Harnessing the potential of entertainment-education telenovelas
The enormous economic, political and social problems of the developing world call for creating effective, equitable, and socially responsible mass media programs that will solve human problems and benefit society. The present article investigates the use of the entertainment-education strategy in mass communication, especially focusing on the potential of telenovelas in addressing problems of national development. We trace the diffusion of the en…
Was There a Pliocene-Pleistocene Fluvial-Lacustrine Connection between Death Valley and the Colorado River?
Since the turn of the century, a Pliocene-Pleistocene connection between the Death Valley-Owens River pluvial system and the Colorado River drainage basin has been frequently postulated. The two most commonly proposed routes involve (1) a southward overflow from the Death Valley Lake system or (2) southward migration of the Mojave River between its present course and a more southerly route. Under the present topographic regime, a Death Valley Lak…
Media Celebrities and Public Health
Exposure to celebrities through the media can have an important influence on the public's health-related attitudes, beliefs, and behavior. The announcement by Los Angeles Lakers' basketball star Magic Johnson that he tested positive for HIV infection was intended to promote HIVIAIDS prevention, particularly among adolescents and young adults. The present study analyzes how previous knowledge of Johnson acquired through the media affected the publ…
Trading arms for hostages? How the government and print media “spin” portrayals of the United States' policy toward Iran
The relationship between the United States and Iran has had an important influence on world affairs during the past two decades. Accordingly, the U.S. news media have an instrumental role in portraying U.S.‐Iran relations to the public. The Iranian Revolution and hostage crisis of 1979–1981, the TWA hijacking of 1985, the Irangate controversy of 1986–1987, and the Persian Gulf War of 1990–1991 are examples of important media events that have impa…
Culture, Self, and Collectivist Communication Linking Culture to Individual Behavior
This study develops and demonstrates a theoretical framework and corresponding methodology to link variables at the culture level to the individual level and, then, to specific outcome variables. The authors argue that in order to advance theory about culture's influence on communication, researchers must begin to examine how culture affects individual level (psychological) processes and, subsequently, how these processes affect communication. Th…
Differences in Univariate Values Versus Multivariate Relationships
A recent debate has called to light an important issue for communication researchers and other social scientists: Does the use of student samples jeopardize the validity of research? Importantly, this question has failed to make a critical distinction between estimates of univariate values versus those examining multivariate relationships. Estimates of univariate values provide information on the prevalence of an attitude or belief from the sampl…
Media, Celebrities, and Social Influence
The extensive reach of popular culture through global communication systems has given rise to the international celebrity. This study provides insight into the powerful influence that celebrities can have on those who identify closely with their mediated images. An ethnographic study was conducted of 35 Elvis Presley fans, including in-depth interviews of more than 2 dozen popular Elvis impersonators representing a broad demographic of this popul…
Social Influence of an International Celebrity
When Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed in 1997, a massive public outpouring of grief occurred. Six years after her death, the public and the tabloids still debate whether the paparazzi were to blame for her fatal car accident. Previous studies of celebrities suggest that psychological involvement with a celebrity will determine to what extent stories of the celebrity and their subsequent social influence will affect the general public. The sam…
Steve Irwin's Influence on Wildlife Conservation
The present study assesses audience involvement with popular television personality Steve Irwin, who died tragically at the peak of his career. A survey of 1,800 media consumers revealed that Irwin was perceived to be a hero and role model for wildlife conservation. News of his death spread quickly and globally, promoting interpersonal dialoguing and Internet searching. Those more highly involved with Irwin talked with more people and longer abou…
Facilitating Dialog About Development Through Digital Photography
In recent decades the Maasai of East Africa have undergone substantive cultural change in response to national development efforts. This study uses participant observation, in-depth interviews, and digital photography to better understand the lived experience and development perspectives of Maasai women. Through dialog about digital photographs they had taken, Maasai women powerfully articulated their concerns and ideas about development and soci…
Examining Four Processes of Audience Involvement With Media Personae
The proliferation of visual media worldwide during the past 50 years has made mediated personalities, both real people and fictional characters, powerful agents of social change. Communication theorists have explored various forms of involvement with these personalities, generally referred to as media personae. The current academic literature that explores various forms of audience involvement with media personae lacks conceptual clarity. The pre…
Celebrity involvement
This chapter examines three powerful processes through which audiences become involved with and affected by celebrities: parasocial interaction, identification and worship. Studies of these processes are found in celebrity-related research throughout the academic literature, particularly in communication, social psychology, psychology and sociology journals. The chapter discusses conceptualizations of celebrity involvement and how parasocial inte…
Innocence killed
Children of ISIS have no childhood. They are exposed to extreme violence and targeted by ISIS for recruitment. This study examines the role of ISIS child propaganda videos in catalysing the process of radicalising and recruiting children to join the Islamic State. Sixty in-depth interviews of Syrian families and children who have been exposed to ISIS propaganda show that children join ISIS mainly for survival. When they join the Islamic State, th…
‘Subaltern’ imaginings of artificial intelligence
Supercinema
Drawing on a variety of popular films, including Avatar, Enter the Void, Fight Club, The Matrix, Speed Racer, X-Men and War of the Worlds, Supercinema studies the ways in which digital special effects and editing techniques require a new theoretical framework in order to be properly understood. Here William Brown proposes that while analogue cinema often tried to hide the technological limitations of its creation through ingenious methods, digita…
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