Sentences with phrase «by mass audiences»

Six years ago, Nintendo's Wii was in a position that every hardware company dreamed of — a game system that not only captured the imagination of the core player but also was widely and warmly embraced by the mass audience.

Due to the limited offer to iPhone owners only (iPad app will be released later this fall), the initial phase can be underutilized by the mass audience when Android and other smartphone OS users are excluded at least for now.

Asus believes that the best technology should be used by a mass audience, and we have drawn on our core competence to deliver beautiful design and unprecedented performance in an empowering luxury for everyone to enjoy.»

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By contrast, the film's audience score on the site sits at an impressive 86 % — a figure that Netflix CEO Reed Hastings recently cited to suggest that critics of «Bright» were «pretty disconnected from the mass appeal.»

Sundance bestows status to independent films; simply by being screened at the legendary venue which recognized iconic sex, lies and videotape, American Splendor, and the like; being picked up by a movie studio is a sure path to mass audiences and used to be every filmmaker's Holy Grail.

But selling to a tech company like Amazon would allow CBS to more effectively compete with other networks by bidding higher for sports rights — the only content that still keeps mass audiences tied to TV sets — while at the same time getting ahead of TV's inevitable shift to online distribution.

With the development of radio and television, which became mass media in a one - way mode, the message interaction on telephones became overshadowed in the mind of the public by the scintillation of media focusing largely on entertainment for mass audiences.

The publication of The Five Gospels was heralded by a feature story on National Public Radio (the broadcast heard by my brother - in - law), and the charismatic Crossan has broken through to a mass audience by appearing on «The Larry King Show.»

The recent discovery of nuclear war by television and mass - circulation magazines, and efforts to publicize the consequences of nuclear war through Ground Zero and university teach - ins, have brought war concerns to a wider audience.

Of course, advertisers can target by interest as well as by demographics, running ads only on special - interest sites or on special - interest sections of mass - audience and news sites.

If you want to persuade a mass audience, particularly a geographically concentrated one, television is your tool of choice, supplemented by radio, press outreach, direct mail and robo - calls.

For some time now, there has been an ad hoc means of dealing with logjams created by spontaneous mass audiences — mirror sites containing copies of the original file.

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While dominated by big name, mass audience sites, like Match.com and eHarmony, a growing number of niche sites are finding success targeting singles looking for something very specific.

Eventually, it becomes clear that the magician is planning to commit mass murder by hypnotizing the audience of Sherry's TV show, and Jack has to act fast.

Originally set for a worldwide release in cinemas this week, the film was picked up by Netflix when producers feared it was too cerebral for a mass audience.

In typical Wiseau fashion, though, the oddball filmmaker was not merely satisfied having his story recreated for mass audiences by well - known actors — he demanded, in his contract, to act opposite James at some point in the film.

As director Paul Greengrass explains in his brief introduction to the new edition (the «special» part), he wanted to make a movie that would expose the huge audience for the Bourne thrillers to the real - world skulduggery by which the Bush administration sold the Iraq invasion as a hunt for weapons of mass destruction.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit helped bring animation back to the masses with its huge success paving the way for modern animated films such as The Little Mermaid and Aladdin to be accepted by adult audiences as much as they are by children, just as Walt Disney intended for his animated films such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Alice in Wonderland and Pinocchio.

This movie has been four years in the making with Marvel Studios, recently acquired by Disney, deciding to invest millions of dollars to introduce a mass audience to each of the members of the Avengers team with... Continue reading «ASSEMBLING «THE AVENGERS»»

The Prestige's «Transported Man» pales beside Christopher Nolan's own astounding magic trick: persuading a mass audience to see movies so structurally complex that they just about qualify as avant - garde, at least by Hollywood standards.

The movie's self - awareness is may be the biggest hook for those of us with previous knowledge of the titular character (played by a fiery Ryan Reynolds), but for mass audiences, its clear appeal is its free pass to show us hard - R, bloody, vulgar stuff you almost never see in superhero movies.

«Although modern coolness emerged out of jazz and spread through popular music, the movies brought cool to the masses by giving audiences unparalleled access to it.

Instead, they're hell - bent on the idea that the online masses, guilty of exercising poor taste, are somehow complicit in the worst kinds of crimes that might be committed somewhere on the Internet by some sicko craving an audience.

Resources will support students in doing the following: - explore the effectiveness of and create questionnaires - understand the difference between primary and secondary research - use the NRS website (secondary research) to investigate print media audiences - gather qualitative and quantitative data - explore mass and niche audiences - conduct audience research, market research and production research - research attitudes and preferences in TV - Use the BARB website (Secondary research) to investigate viewing figures - Gather research to gain data ahead of creating a new media product - present the results of research Differentiation by points.

I have a specific audience in mind — people who care deeply about racial justice but who, for any number of reasons, do not yet appreciate the magnitude faced by communities of color as a result of mass incarceration... (and) those who have been struggling to persuade their friends, neighbors, relatives, teachers, co-workers, or political representatives... but who have lacked the facts and data to back up their claims.

The cameras were so far away that I forgot I was participating in a million - viewer spectacle, that my experience, my joy and pain, were being consumed by the masses, though I was aware enough to realize that everybody in the audience was crying.

Leveraging their publishing capabilities and their role as the only retailer with an audience large enough to deliver a critical mass of readers all by itself, they are introducing serialization by subscription with Kindle Serials.

However, even access to every big publisher's catalog won't guarantee material for every possible library audience; frontlist title acquisition is driven by anticipated sales numbers and focuses on mass - market appeal rather than meeting the needs of smaller interest - based communities.

While there are some obvious differences between dog trainers and retailers (namely, one sells services by appointment and the other sells products en mass), since both are targeting roughly the same audience, I thought a few of the takeaways from that data might be interesting and helpful for pet store owners and operators.

By not mentioning the platform or any of the other technical garbage that comes with a typical game advert EA can put the focus on the players experience, and that is exactly what will be desirable to an everyday, non-gamer, mass - market, casual (or whatever else you want to call it) audience.

By combining leaders in mass - market entertainment and subscription - based online games, Activision Blizzard will be the only publisher with leading market positions across all categories of the rapidly growing interactive entertainment software industry and reach the broadest possible audiences.»

«By coupling this evergreen brand and character with addictive game play, we are bringing a fun and entertaining mobile game to a mass - market audience based on a property and storyline that everyone knows and loves.»

Is it too much of a risk for the Tate, with its eye on attendance figures, to promote exhibitions of abstract painting to a mass audience whose attention span has been shortened by the expectation that contemporary art should be either shocking or fun?

Receiving the highest majority public vote, Banner's Break Point will now be shown alongside other favourites chosen by the public as well as work selected by chief curator Darsie Alexander, sparking a range of questions about the dynamics between expert and audience, or between curatorial practise and mass taste.

Meanwhile Zoom Pavilion by Rafael Lozano - Hemmer and Krzysztof Wodiczko gave visitors a disorientating encounter with mass surveillance, with 12 robotic cameras capturing the audience, and rendering the footage on the gallery walls in real time.

The exhibition's title, «Surround Audience,» is both a nod to Trecartin's work — surrounding an audience with art, which he accomplishes by installing his videos in rooms crammed with props and furniture — and, more to the point, a reference to mass surveAudience,» is both a nod to Trecartin's work — surrounding an audience with art, which he accomplishes by installing his videos in rooms crammed with props and furniture — and, more to the point, a reference to mass surveaudience with art, which he accomplishes by installing his videos in rooms crammed with props and furniture — and, more to the point, a reference to mass surveillance.

By focusing on illustrative and print - based work instead of painting, the topic of discussion shifts to accessibility, as well as affordability, and how these factors play into mass audiences» ability to connect with the work.

Four years, Groys gave a talk at SVA that outlined the idea that «social media and the internet is the new arena for the avant garde's production of «weak signs and low visibility»; the masses creating their own work for minuscule audiences in the 21st Century vs consuming the spectacles created by mass media in the 20th.»

Lichtenstein's screenprints were an important part of his oeuvre as alongside artists such as Andy Warhol, they were part of the attempt by artists and publishers to provide art for a mass audience through the production of prints in large editions.

Throughout his career, Bradley found much critical and commercial success as his work was always well accepted by both the experts and the wider masses of audiences.

I argue that Mosse's visual / aural strategies, by running counter to those programmed within the image supply chain dominated by mass - produced culture, set in motion jarring ambiguities that an uneasy audience must struggle with or at least decode.

One of the first posters designed by the Guerrilla Girls, copies of this poster were wheat - pasted on the streets of SoHo in the middle of the night by the masked female artists — a truly guerrilla - style method of distributing their work to mass audiences.

The difference — which I appreciate more than you can guess — is that a Physicist drops two like objects — one red and one blue — of dissimilar mass off the top of Uncertainty and watches what happens, and might like Newton derive laws, and builds on those laws to the point that interesting questions might be asked about a difference of a 60 billionth of a second, while a marketing scientist draws trees of all the opinions expressed by everyone in the audience and wonders what opinions he ought repeat so he can sell more red balls.

The idea that the drive for large audiences makes the mass media «democratic» thus suffers from the initial weakness that its political analogue is a voting system weighted by income!

IMHO it's an excellent summary of the likely consequences of the USA's withdrawal from the Paris agreement; and good work by NBC News in presenting climate science to a mass - meeja audience.

Our goal is to fill a unique space on the blogosphere, not only by bridging the worlds of law and policy, but also by translating the latest developments in a way that's understandable to a mass audience.

It's called the Pixel and it's a Google phone inside and out, sold directly by the company to a mass audience for the first time.