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This study examines Israeli youth's news consumption habits and perceptions in a fragmented multi-media landscape intertwined in conflictual society. Using Q methodology and in-depth interviews with participants aged 15–18, the research uncovers four distinct cross-media repertoires of news consumers ("newsers") varying by frequency, content, and platform. Our findings underscore that in the digital era, the definition of "news" has evolved, encompassing not only traditional media but also personal stories and social media updates on current affairs, including everyday life events. Building on existing literature, this research offers insights into the lives of young individuals navigating a rapidly evolving media terrain in a society marked by persistent conflict. The study sheds light on the emerging generation poised to influence Israeli democracy. Understanding their nuanced perception of news can inform content creation strategies to connect with and activate them. Our findings hold broader theoretical, methodological and practical implications for fostering civic engagement and promoting constructive action not only within Israel but also in other nations grappling with political unrest. By leveraging these insights, policymakers, media professionals, and educators can work toward cultivating a more informed and participatory citizenry, thus contributing to the advancement of democracy and social cohesion on a global scale. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Food media content has recently grown tremendously in quantity and types. To understand food media's popularity and the role they play for their audience members, this paper applies a uses and gratifications (U&G) approach to study the recipients' motives for using or encountering various food media. Where do they come across media messages about food? Do they consciously or unconsciously seek or use them, and why? How do they perceive the outcomes of using food media? Twelve focus group interviews were conducted combined with a photovoice task. Results indicate that many of the encounters with food media were accidental in nature. In total, seven gratifications for using food media were confirmed: education, entertainment, social utility, identity-building, passing the time, motivations for healthier eating, and making grocery choices. Affordance-driven gratifications were ease-of-use of a medium, accessibility of -, trust in -, and emotional connection to the medium. This study forms a basis for further audience-centered research on food content so that both scholars and content creators can better understand how food media content can meet recipients' needs and how it can be employed in communication strategies regarding, for example, conveying nutritional information or providing entertainment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Based on a theoretical perspective of the optimum stimulation level (OSL), we investigate how the cross-media usage (multi-device and multi-app usage) of individual users influences their exploration of new music in a music-streaming platform. We also examine whether gender moderates the link between cross-media usage and new music exploration behavior. We analyze survey responses from 1116 college students in China, and our findings show a significant and positive effect of multi-device usage on new music exploration. By contrast, multi-app usage does not have any statistically significant effect. The results also indicate that being a woman positively moderates the relationship between multi-app usage and new music exploration behavior. Our study contributes to the understanding of exploratory user behavior in a new media context by linking the OSL theory to digital music consumption. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the functioning of the cross-media system during wartime by comparing the strategy of two Ukrainian newspaper websites, one attached to the daily Vysoky Zamok, published in Lviv, and the other to the English-language weekly from the capital, the Kyiv Post. For the interpretation of data this study relies on content analysis as well as a combination of comparative and systematizing strategies. Both newspapers, as we have found, are adept at using various communication channels to push their cross-media information production and distribution. This strategy has a lot of advantages for the operator. He can get information from consumers who retain their privacy, and he can induce individual consumers to interact regularly online with media outlets offering the latest blogs, films, photos, commentaries, opinion polls, product rankings, etc. Moreover, the use of multiple media channels by the consumer may result in content being placed and reproduced in a widening circle of platforms and social media chats. Finally, it can be observed that since 2022 each platform has developed its own activity pattern (whereby the frequency of new uploads is the most important indicator of its health). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite being central to the media repertoire approach, operationalizations of interrelations of media repertoire components often remain limited to proportions of use, or the personal relevance of repertoire components. This paper seeks to contribute to our understanding of these interrelations by focusing specifically on one particular operationalization: the (in)compatibility of parts of the repertoire. Recent discussions in newspaper headlines indicate how Flemish reality TV-show Temptation Island might function as one such component, deemed incompatible with the repertoire of higher-educated young viewers. By drawing upon Lahire's theory of dissonance, and exploring the appropriation of Temptation Island within repertoires through a moral economy of media use, the paper explores how young viewers under thirty-five make sense of "dissonant components" within their repertoire, and alleviate the tensions that their presence can create by adopting strategies that establish distance from the text or by hiding parts of the repertoire in certain social contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the rapid growth of multimedia data (e.g., text, image, video, audio and 3D model, etc) in the web, there are a large number of media objects with different modalities in the multimedia documents such as webpages, which exhibit latent semantic correlation. As a new type of multimedia retrieval method, cross-media retrieval is becoming increasingly attractive, through which users can get the results with various media types with the same semantic information by submitting a retrieval of any media type. The explosive increasing of the number of media objects, however, makes it difficult for the traditional local standalone mode to process efficiently. So the powerful parallel processing capability of cloud computing is accommodated to facilitate the efficient large-scale cross-media retrieval. In this paper, based on a Multi-Layer-Cross-Reference-Graph(MLCRG) model, we propose an efficient parallel cross-media retrieval (PCMR) method in which two enabling techniques (i.e., 1) the adaptive cross-media data allocation algorithm and 2) the PCIndex scheme) are accommodated to effectively speedup the retrieval performance. To the best of our knowledge, there is little research on the parallel retrieval processing of the large-scale cross-media databases in the mobile cloud network. Extensive experiments are conducted to testify that our proposed PCIndex method outperform the three competitors (e.g., the PFAR (Mao et al, 22), the MBSR (Retrieval 4(2):153-164, 42) and the SPECH (Knowl Based Syst 251(5):1-13, 40)) in terms of the effectiveness and efficiency, respectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For urban agglomerations that contain multiple interconnected cities, carbon pollution mitigation is particularly challenging due to the complex pollution transfer among environmental media and among cities. Insufficient attention has been paid to the city‐level metabolic processes of carbon in diverse physicochemical forms and their spatial interactions, impeding the identification and management of multi‐media carbon pollution from the integrated perspective of the whole urban agglomeration. Using the Greater Bay Area of China as a case, this study reveals the dynamic characteristics and spatial influencing factors of multi‐media carbon pollution covering 30 consecutive years based on substance flow analysis and a spatial econometric model. We find increasing necessity for controlling carbon pollution in the solid state, which reached 1890 Gg C/a in 2018 and was significantly higher than that in the gaseous (290 Gg C/a) and liquid (730 Gg C/a) state. Cross‐media transfer of carbon pollution made an increasingly substantial contribution to total carbon pollution from 14.6% to 20.7%, stressing the need for treatment and harmless disposal of sludge and the control of CH4 produced from waste landfilling, wastewater treatment, and livestock manure. Relocation of heavily polluting industries and variances at the level of environmental regulation between cities causes spatial transfer of carbon pollution, while the improvement of industrial structure and the advancement of pollution treatment technology have a positive demonstration effect for carbon pollution abatement of the neighboring cities. This study demonstrates the necessity of multi‐media and multi‐city integrities in carbon pollution mitigation within clustered cities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Web video event mining based on cross-media fusion has become a research hotspot. However, each video is only described by a dozen noisy words, resulting in extremely unstable textual features. Moreover, different people might describe the same video with completely different words. Thus, the semantic association between textual and visual information would be much sparse, which brings great challenges to web video event mining based on cross-media associations. To address this issue, this paper proposes a novel framework to enrich the associations between near duplicate keyframes (NDK) and terms based on multiple semantic-paths embedding. After data preprocessing, we build a heterogeneous information network to establish associations among NDKs, terms and videos. Then, semantic-path walk strategy is designed to generate meaningful semantic-node sequences for embedding. Next, an embedding fusion method is proposed to predict the distribution characteristics of each term in NDKs. Finally, multiple correspondence analysis is used to mine web video events. Experiments on web videos from YouTube show that our proposed method performs better than several state-of-the-art baseline models, with an average F1 score improvement of 19–50%. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study investigates the propagation characteristics of rectangular Hermite-Gaussian array beams (RHGABs) through the oceanic and atmospheric turbulence considering ocean waves. Firstly, a theoretical model for the RHGABs in seawater-to-air propagation path is proposed. Secondly, we derive the expressions of the mean squared beam width and angular spread of RHGABs by using the extended Huygens-Fresnel principle and Rytov approximation. Finally, the effects of turbulent mediums on the RHGABs spreading are studied by analyzing the Rayleigh range. Our findings suggest that the Rayleigh range increases with the beam order of RHGABs. And the mean squared beam width of RHGABs in oceanic turbulence increases significantly higher than that in atmospheric turbulence. The results of this research can be applied to underwater optical communication systems.

The last few years have increasingly shown that the boundaries between film and television are porous. This In Focus section re-examines historical intermedial connections, calling into question the dominant narrative of rivalry and contest. Case studies on specific genres, film and television viewing practices and discourses on the emergence of television demonstrate that there were numerous points of contact and cooperation between the two media in the 1950s and 1960s, a reassessment that opens up new perspectives and paves the way for further intermedial research on film–television relations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper explores the evolving landscape of cultural participatory platforms. Scientific research on this subject tends to identify and describe two opposing phenomena: on the one hand, amateur platforms rooted in participatory culture, and on the other, institutional platforms, often embodied as crowdsourcing tools. We argue for the interest in overcoming this opposition and for studying the circulation across distinct digital spaces with diverse affordances. Based on the concept of 'cross-media,' we aim to propose a new theoretical and empirical approach for analyzing and designing cultural participatory platforms. A complex methodology, combining quantitative and qualitative techniques, is defined to analyze the different digital (amateur and institutional) spaces related to the 1 Day 1 Soldier project. Building upon this case study, this paper contributes a theoretical and empirical framework for understanding participatory platforms as dynamic, multi-space environments that accommodate diverse collective and individual needs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cross-media association mining based on heterogeneous information network(HIN) has received widespread attention. However, video is described by only a few words, leading to the lack of association between visual and textual information. As a result, the heterogeneous graph is inevitably incomplete, which brings great challenges to event mining. Fortunately, topological relationships can infer correlations between similar nodes. In view of this, a novel framework of web video event mining based on attention graph structure learning is proposed to generate a new adjacency matrix, which reconstructs the association among nodes. First, a novel heterogeneous network is constructed, while each relation subgraph is produced separately. Then, in each relational subgraph, feature graphs are generated by feature similarity, which can capture potential relationships between nodes. Simultaneously, semantic graph is also created by learning semantic structures to describe complex heterogeneous interactions between node semantics. Next, these graphs are fused by channel attention to reconstruct the correlation among nodes. Finally, graph convolutional network(GCN) is applied for web video event mining. Experiments on web videos from YouTube demonstrate that our proposed method is more effective than the state-of-the-art methods with significant improvement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We empirically examine the cross-media effects of personalized and mass media on consumers' purchase incidence in a multichannel shopping environment. We capture the cross-media effect as the combined impact of two distinct marketing communications on consumers' purchase behavior. Our data consists of individual-level transaction data and information on consumers' exposure to multiple marketing media consisting of personalized (catalog and email) and mass (television and radio) media. We find that personalized (mass) media are more influential in driving consumers' online (offline) purchases in a multichannel shopping environment. Our analysis of cross-media effects reveals synergistic (attenuating) effects between media components across (within) personalized and mass media. Furthermore, our examination of media elasticities demonstrates that discounting such cross-media effects between personalized and mass media components can bias a firm's assessment of the effectiveness of media components in a multichannel-multimedia marketing environment. Results from our model can help marketing managers in the optimal planning of integrated marketing communication in a multichannel-multimedia shopping environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Journey to the West as one of the 'four great Chinese classic novels' has had an extraordinary influence across history and around the world. Journey to the West depicts how a Tang Dynasty Buddhist monk Xuanzang and his three disciples went through 81 trials to obtain the Buddhist texts (Sutras) from the Western Heaven (ancient India). Despite the novel itself being a product of a long history of adaptation, this article aims to offer an overview of the modern and contemporary cross-media adaptations of both the novel and the tale Journey to the West, with examples of literature (including web fictions), stage performances, films, TV series, manga and animation, video games and music. These adaptations not only happen in the Chinese-speaking world but also on an Asian and global level. Through introducing the extensive and diverse cases that inform an idea of 'IP (intellectual property)' as favoured in the Chinese cultural market, this article aims to point out the cultural and capital flow within this one single series of adaptations. In place of a relationship between source and adaptation, the contemporary context supports the idea of a wider context in which a source may be seen to validate a range of new and highly commercialized genres. It is developed from a presentation in the 2019 JAFP symposium Looking Back, Stepping Forward. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The transition from orality to writing and from analogue to digital has had deep consequences on the traditional oral heritage. Even though fairy tales have suffered from this impact much more than other genres, they have shown a high degree of adaptability to the most diverse media. This work aims to verify the repercussions digital and virtual systems have had on fairy tales in order to explore possible future scenarios. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In order to meet increasing power-dissipation requirements of the electronics industry, compact, low-cost, and lightweight heat exchangers (HXs) are desired. With proper design, materials, and manufacture, polymer composite heat exchangers could meet these requirements. This paper presents a novel crossflow air-to-water, low-cost, and lightweight metal-polymer composite HX. This HX, which is entirely additively manufactured, utilizes a novel cross-media approach that provides direct heat exchange between air and liquid sides by using connecting fins. A robust numerical model was developed, which includes the dimensional effects of additive manufacturing. The study consists of a simplified 3D CFD model based on ellipsoidal-shaped staggered tube banks for the laminar range. It then uses an analytical approach to compute entire HX performance. The model is validated experimentally within 8% for thermal performance, 12% for air-side impedance, and 18% for water-side impedance. Finally, HX is compared with a conventional CPU radiator and performs within 10% of the conventional unit for reasonable flow rates and pressure-drop ranges. Moreover, HX also provides added design and cost advantages over the conventional unit, which makes the HX a potential candidate for electronic cooling applications.

Visual dialog, as a challenging cross-media task, requires answering a sequence of questions based on a given image and dialog history. Hence the key problem becomes how to answer visually grounded questions based on ambiguous reference information from dialog. In this work, we propose a novel method called Multi-View Semantic Understanding for Visual Dialog (MVSU) to resolve the visual coreference resolution problem. The model consists of two main textual processing modules, SRR (Semantic Retention RNN) and CRoT (Coreference Resolution on Text). Specifically, the SRR module generates word features that have semantical meaning by considering contextual information. The CRoT module is from a textual perspective to divide all useful nouns and pronouns into different clusters that serve as the supplement of the detailed information for semantic understanding. In experiments, we demonstrate that MVSU enhances the ability to understand the semantical information on the VisDial v1.0 dataset. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Frequent cloud data breaches cause irreparable damage to cloud users and providers. Cross-media retrieval can better leverage the value of data, but existing cross-media retrievals are conducted on plaintext data with limited security. In this paper, we propose a privacy-preserving cross-media retrieval on encrypted data in cloud computing (PPCMR). First, the user encrypts the data and uploads it to the cloud, which enhances cloud data security. Secondly, a two-branch feature extraction network based on a convolutional neural network is designed, which is used to extract cross-media features on encrypted data in a cloud environment. And the cosine distance between cross-media features is calculated for similarity metric to solve the 'semantic gap' problem of cross-media encrypted data. Finally, the user decrypts the encrypted retrieval results from the cloud to get the cross-media plaintext results. The scheme shifts complex computing operations from the client to the cloud server, with little client-side computation. We analytically evaluate PPCMR on real-world datasets: PPCMR outperforms plaintext retrieval schemes in terms of security and supports efficient cross-media encrypted retrieval on large-scale, dynamically updated cloud databases and mobile devices (lightweight). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In order to meet increasing power-dissipation requirements of the electronics industry, compact, low-cost, and lightweight heat exchangers (HXs) are desired. With proper design, materials, and manufacture, polymer composite heat exchangers could meet these requirements. This paper presents a novel crossflow air-to-water, low-cost, and lightweight metal-polymer composite HX. This HX, which is entirely additively manufactured, utilizes a novel cross-media approach that provides direct heat exchange between air and liquid sides by using connecting fins. A robust numerical model was developed, which includes the dimensional effects of additive manufacturing. The study consists of a simplified 3D CFD model based on ellipsoidal-shaped staggered tube banks for the laminar range. It then uses an analytical approach to compute entire HX performance. The model is validated experimentally within 8% for thermal performance, 12% for air-side impedance, and 18% for water-side impedance. Finally, HX is compared with a conventional CPU radiator and performs within 10% of the conventional unit for reasonable flow rates and pressure-drop ranges. Moreover, HX also provides added design and cost advantages over the conventional unit, which makes the HX a potential candidate for electronic cooling applications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]