Audiovisual Media

Online virtual worlds can help social movements raise awareness and create safe spaces for their members, according to a new study by an academic at the University of East Anglia (UEA). The research examined how an LGBT group used a…

Pleasure with musicCredit: Journal of Neuroscience The white matter structure in the brain reflects music sensitivity, according to a study by the research group on Cognition and Brain Plasticity of the Institute of Neurosciences…

Credit: Video Credit - American Chemical Society Composers string notes of different pitch and duration together to create music. Similarly, cells join amino acids with different characteristics together to make proteins. Now,…

A new study in the Faculty of Public Health's Journal of Public Health finds that tobacco and alcohol usage are extremely common in British reality television shows. The researchers measured depictions of alcohol and tobacco products…

A chubby teen lolling on the sofa for hours on end, the game controller in one hand, a bag of crisps at his side and a bottle of coke on the coffee table. This is the mental picture many people have of the typical gamer. Along with this…

Award ceremony to be held in Japan for first time hosted by the University of Tsukuba in the framework of the Tsukuba Conference on Oct. 4, 2019Credit: COPYRIGHT © 2018 CONSEJO CULTURAL MUNDIAL/ University of Tsukuba. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.…

Credit: University of Washington People moving in and out of photographs used to be reserved for the world of Harry Potter. But now computer scientists at the University of Washington have brought that magic to real life. Their…

Research suggests that viewing viral videos of police shootings and detained immigrants is associated with depressive and PTSD symptoms in adolescents of color. Social media-based movements like #BlackLivesMatter and #SayHerName have taken…

New from the Journal of Marketing Researchers from the University of Southern California, University of Houston, and Uber Technologies, Inc. published a new paper in the Journal of Marketing, which finds that in order to create viral ads,…

Credit: Mark Miller and Stanford's Virtual Human Interaction Lab As major technology firms race to roll out augmented reality products, Stanford researchers are learning how it affects people's behavior - in both the physical world and a…