Audience responses to diverse superheroes: The roles of gender and race in forging connections with media characters in superhero franchise films.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice E. Hall
Keyword(s):  
Gender And Race ◽  
Media Characters ◽  
Audience Responses

Stepping In and Out of Media Characters

2021 ◽  
pp. 265-284
Author(s):  
Jonathan Cohen ◽  
Christoph Klimmt
Keyword(s):  
Video Game ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
Entertainment Media ◽  
Talk Show ◽  
Media Characters ◽  
Audience Responses ◽  
New Framework ◽  
The Way

Identification with media characters is a highly prevalent phenomenon in media entertainment. Audience members may take the perspective of—or become experientially “one with” the personae of various kinds of entertainment media, including movie and novel protagonists, video game avatars, or talk show hosts. After briefly reviewing past theoretical work on identification, we introduce a new framework that contextualizes identification within a set of six different modes of audience positioning toward media characters. We suggest interindividual and intermessage differences as well as intraindividual dynamics in audience positionings, with identification being a mode that is bound to particular conditions, including an experience of transportation. The framework may harmonize discrepant past propositions on audience responses to media characters, pave the way for improved measurement of these responses in future experiments across different media and message genres, and advance conceptualizations of the links between identification, hedonic as well as eudaimonic entertainment outcomes.

Framing Issues in Gender and Race

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol A. Gosselink
Keyword(s):  
Gender And Race

Making Sense of Religion and Food

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 18-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Bailey
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Biological Information ◽  
Approaches To Teaching ◽  
Cultural System ◽  
Gender And Race ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Mary Douglas ◽  
Pedagogical Approaches

When looking at eating beyond physical nourishment, British anthropologist Mary Douglas (1921-2007) defined food as a cultural system, or code that communicates not only biological information, but social structure and meaning. What can a study of food and faith teach us, as scholars of religion, that we might not otherwise know? This article outlines thematic and pedagogical approaches to teaching food and religion through the lens of five semesters of teaching this course to undergraduate and graduate students. In it, I explore the topics of Food memory and community; Food and scripture; Food, gender and race; and Stewardship and Charity, thinking about spiritual and physical nourishment in the world's major religious traditions.

Exploring the Facial Color Representative Regions Using the Humanae Images

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuchun Yan ◽  
Hayan Choi ◽  
Hyeon-Jeong Suk
Keyword(s):  
Image Analysis ◽  
Future Study ◽  
Skin Color ◽  
Color Difference ◽  
Facial Skin ◽  
Female Images ◽  
Gender And Race ◽  
Facial Landmarks

It is difficult to describe facial skin color through a solid color as it varies from region to region. In this article, the authors utilized image analysis to identify the facial color representative region. A total of 1052 female images from Humanae project were selected as a solid color was generated for each image as their representative skin colors by the photographer. Using the open CV-based libraries, such as EOS of Surrey Face Models and DeepFace, 3448 facial landmarks together with gender and race information were detected. For an illustrative and intuitive analysis, they then re-defined 27 visually important sub-regions to cluster the landmarks. The 27 sub-region colors for each image were finally derived and recorded in L ∗ , a ∗ , and b ∗ . By estimating the color difference among representative color and 27 sub-regions, we discovered that sub-regions of below lips (low Labial) and central cheeks (upper Buccal) were the most representative regions across four major ethnicity groups. In future study, the methodology is expected to be applied for more image sources.

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