How European adolescents get engaged with films?: Psychometric properties of the narrative engagement scale

Narrative engagement is a fundamental factor in understanding the enjoyment of narratives and their effects. This study seeks to develop a measure of engagement for youngsters and to gather evidence of validity and reliability for a sample of European adolescents. After watching a dramatic film, 310 European high school students (68.71% Italian, 17.74% Spanish and 13.55% German) responded to the proposed narrative engagement scale. The results confirmed the existence of a common factorial model of four factors for Germans and Italians and invariance measurement between samples. The mean score comparison shows that German adolescents have a greater understanding of the narrative than Italians. Also, Germans demonstrated greater emotional understanding than Spaniards. These results contribute to the comprehension of the narrative engagement and illuminate the conceptualization of the psychological phenomena related to the reception of dramatic narratives by youngsters of different cultures across Europe

Accés a persones amb discapacitats funcionals a la societat de la informació

This article is based on studies (including those for her doctoral thesis) which the author carried out on the speech and image of people on television and radio, and on diverse aspects of creation, production and evaluation of interactive products. The article urges not only public administrations but also journalists and theorists in communications to assume their responsibility for integrating the disabled and the elderly into the Information Society,especially concerning available services on the Web. After all, it is often claimed that on-line services will permit the disabled a greater degree personal autonomy

Adaptation of scripted television formats: Factors and mechanisms of cultural identity in a global world

International Journal of Communication15United State