Sentences with phrase «of mass audiences»

Viral social campaigns can effectively capture the attention and support of mass audiences, but in order to make viral altruism stick, more gradual and deeper engagement with a social cause is required over a sustained period of time.

Surprisingly, when one thinks of the mass audiences attracted to TV, the audience for the Electronic Church is not large.

Yet another example of citizens using the new tools of online communications and social media to organize for political action and to push a story out in front of a mass audience.

Yet films that reach even the barest form of mass audience are often most vulnerable to accusations that they're somehow capitulating to dominant political, narrative, or aesthetic modes — most significant in the U.S., perhaps, have been Brokeback Mountain (2005) and Milk (2008), which respectively take on, rather than truly subvert, the Western and the Great Man Biopic.

Summing up the tastes of the mass audience, one character remarks, «Love, and a bit with a dog — that's what they want.»

While many complain of online piracy as cutting into comics sales and hurting creators» ability to earn a living making comics, he argued the most important takeaway from the digital revolution was proof of a mass audience.

youtube puts them in the same bucket, the bucket of mass audience attracting, mass comment conflicting, lowest brow puke — that makes them the most coin.

Not exact matches

Selling media buyers, especially those focused on mass TV audiences, on the concept isn't necessarily a slam dunk, either, because Blue Ant is trying to push out so many different content formats, which appeal to different demographics and different sorts of advertising strategies.

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.

Under a set of deals, the likes of the New York Times and BuzzFeed will «publish» articles right within Facebook's iOS app where they will reach a mass audience — and everyone will make money.

The mass circulation of information has enlightened audiences, broadening their perspectives.

«This lively book for a popular audience covers our current understanding of all the major mass extinctions in the history of life and what they collectively mean for our future,» writes Lauren Sallan.

In the age of Kim Kardashian, naked pictures of women have pervaded the web, easily accessible to a mass audience.

You can see the trend of building apps for a mass audience, but that's what everybody else is doing, ignoring the niche segments — those that have the potential to spend far more on their habit.

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.»

In a pattern familiar to all kinds of media, the era of huge mass - market tentpoles has given way to a seemingly limitless number of outlets — some well known, others almost secret - society - like in their nicheness — in which performers can reach audiences directly.

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.

Radio has continued to maintain the broadest audience among all mass media, reaching over 90 % of consumers each week.

It released a video this week blaming the «mainstream media» for mass shootings in America and Wayne LaPierre, head of the NRA, told an audience at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Thursday that the post-Parkland gun control push is the result of socialism.

These accounts are counterfeit coins in the booming economy of online influence, reaching into virtually any industry where a mass audience — or the illusion of it — can be monetized.

Some have praised the books for bringing Christian thoughts and theology to a mass - market audience, while others have accused them of revelling in the suffering of people who don't know God.

The internet allows us to communicate with a mass audience at the press of a button, but with it comes the risk that we might publish our thoughts without adequately reflecting on our choice of words or how they might be interpreted.

At Easter, 1965, I attempted to present the «good news» of Christ's Resurrection to a mass audience through a televised sermon delivered at a service of Holy Communion in a great parish church.

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.

Taking over # 8m in its opening weekend in the UK alone, the resulting mass audiences, many of whom returned to see it several times, made a mockery of the film's $ 60m budget.

The fact that the capitalist system tends to turn everything into a commodity is admirably suited to the propaganda system of the mass media which turns each member of the audience into a consumer.

This is true of many entrepreneurial endeavors, not simply women's ministry; but if the majority of female leaders are operating in the marketplace (as opposed to the institutional church), women's ministry as a whole can reach a point of critical mass where an audience - centric philosophy creates wider expectations about style, topics, and content.

Paul Lazarsfeld and Robert Merton have said: «To the extent that the media of mass communication has had an influence upon their audiences it has stemmed not only from what is said but more significantly from what is not said, for these media not only continue to affirm the status quo but in the same measure they fail to raise essential questions about the structure of society.

The author of this uninspired piece lacking in true research and zero enlightenment would do well to take a journey in solitude so he may hear the true word of God for himself, rather than an interpretation meant to please a mass audience who will feel obligated to part with their hard earned and hard to find money....

It is important to remember that there literally is no such thing as a mass audience; there are only ways of looking at individuals in the mass.

Partly this claim rests on the mass audience feeling that because something is duplicated in millions of home, it must be true, or at least «real.»

The fact that capitalism tends to turn everything into a commodity is admirably suited to the myths of the mass media which turns each member of the audience into a consumer.

The irony of the Colbert Report would have been inaccessible to mass audiences in 1970.

As we have seen, the techno - logic of mass media hardware is to reach larger and larger 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.»

These programs, he suggests are irrelevant to the mass audience of television because they fail to understand and adapt to the true nature of television as it functions in American society.

One of the most valuable theoretical approaches for understanding the connection between the content of a specific program and the nature of the audience it attracts is that of the uses - and - gratifications approach to mass - communication effect.

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.

The public square is attractive and beguiling; it offers mass audiences, and the illusion of fame.

The Director of Communications and Audience Engagement will work closely with the CEO to create, curate, and market an expansive collection of film clips (full episodes and movies as well as short clips) focused on bringing light escapist pleasure to the (mostly female) masses.

The mass audience will not be able to relate to him, to assemble an image of him, to measure him against his peers as they do the white player.

The circuit of mass communication: media strategies, representation and audience responses in the AIDS crisis.

Sites with mass audiences operate in an entirely different universe, since they're generally making money off of their visitors in bulk.

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 siteOf 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 siteof 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.

It's interesting that the most critical comments this site gets come in when I have something unflattering to say about either Second Life or Ron Paul, i.e., generally that I don't see much chance for either of them to build a mass audience.

And as TV commercials and other mass - audience channels steadily lose effectiveness, campaigns may NEED the potential evangelists that social networking sites naturally draw in — building an army of active and aggressive supporters may be the only way to cut through the endless clutter of media saturation and reach actual voters.

But, good content CAN spread widely to targeted audiences through viral channels, regardless of whether or not it breaks out to a larger / mass audience.

Some outlets will obviously be more important than others, and mass exposure rarely hurts, but even a blog with a tiny audience can be a good pickup IF that audience is made up of the right people.

assuming during the next election republicans and democrats are equal in the e-savy, then it is all about who gets a more clever semi-random (i believe) hook that captures the attention of the mass internet audience.