"Hello, is There Anybody Who Reads Me?" Radio Programs and Popular Facebook Posts

Radio stations are increasingly active on social networks, as radio continues to adjust and adapt to online spaces. This research is intended to conceptualize and characterize the success of radio programs beyond their native FM environment, focusing on their attempts at achieving popularity on social networks. Success on social networks is measured by user involvement and interaction with posted content and comments. This study looked at the activity of leading Israeli radio programs on Facebook pages and user engagement, evaluating highly involved posts by coding. It was found that radio program activity on social networks expands the reach of radio stations and promotes higher levels of interaction with listeners beyond broadcast schedule. In addition, integration of various media forms such as videos or images increases the likelihood of a post becoming popular. This research presents the convergence of radio programs in accordance with the theoretical framework of technological determinism

COMBINED APPROACH FOR BUILDING A DOMAIN-SPECIFIC NATURAL LANGUAGE SEMANTIC PARSER

Proposed herein is a combined approach for building a domain-specific natural language semantic parser. The disclosed technique uniquely combines several known approaches with a new, original rule-based approach to obtain accurate mappings of utterances in a given domain into a single, pre-defined, domain-specific data structure that can be used for further processing. An implementation of the semantic parser has been built for the networking domain, including the QoS, filter (ACL) and set-path sub-domains, and has been integrated with a dashboard-managed L3 firewall for end-to-end implementation of filtering commands

The surprising role of marital status on sport second-screening: demographic influences during the 2022 world cup viewing in Israel

To better understand what characterizes those who use a second screen while watching sport, the study examine a variety of demographic factors influencing browsing device trends before, during (“second screen”), and after sports games. It does so by utilizing survey data from Israeli viewers of the 2022 World Cup using a convenience sample (N = 242). In line with our hypotheses, those with higher education and higher reported income were more likely to browse devices for information around and during games. Against our hypothesis, young adults were less likely to engage in browsing before, during and after the games, possibly because they tend to watch games with friends or in public places. Divorced and single individuals are more likely to engage in multi-platform browsing and second-screening during sport games vs. married participants, who tended to watch the games with friends or in public places. The results are the first to indicate the important role of marital status in second-screening during sport games. Overall, they depict a picture of the average second-screener as a non-married older male with higher income and education, thus indicating that higher intellect combined with non-marital status, thus potentially more spare time as well as possibly higher levels of loneliness and during games are linked to sport second-screening. The results are the first to highlight the important role of marital status over young age on the tendency to second screen during sport games

Case Report Extraskeletal Chondroma: Another Diagnostic Possibility for a Soft Tissue Axillary Mass in an Adolescent

Extraskeletal chondroma is a benign cartilaginous tumor that occurs predominantly in the soft tissues near small joints of the hands and feet. There are rare reports of the lesion in other sites, such as the head, neck, trunk, oral cavity, larynx, and pharynx. We present a case of an axillary mass in a 15-year-old girl who underwent MRI examination and resection, with the ultimate diagnosis of an extraskeletal chondroma, in order to expand the differential diagnosis of an axillary soft tissue mass in an adolescent

The educational radio project : educational radio stations operating out of academic institutions

La radio est l’un des médias de masse les plus anciens et les plus puissants. Elle possède en effet un fort potentiel en matière d’éducation morale, d’influence sur l’opinion publique et de promotion d’agendas et de positions spécifiques. En Israël, les radios étudiantes émettant à partir d’établissements universitaires opèrent depuis environ un quart de siècle. Pourtant, elles n’ont pas encore fait l’objet de recherches approfondies pour analyser les différents aspects de leur présence dans le secteur de la communication, ainsi que dans l’espace académique, communautaire et social. En plus de constituer une étude de l’industrie radiophonique, la présente recherche vise à combler un manque dans la littérature quant à la caractérisation de la place et de l’apport du projet de la radio étudiante, émettant à partir des établissements académiques, collèges et universités en Israël. Ce projet est le résultat d’une rencontre entre deux branches importantes de la société israélienne : « Kol Israel », le principal organisme public de radiodiffusion, qui parraine l’activité du projet, d’une part, et sur le plan organisationnel, les établissements académiques, des organismes prestigieux qui forment la génération future de maintes façons, aussi bien sur le plan intellectuel, de la connaissance et des professions libérales, que dans le domaine de la recherche, bien sûr.Pour atteindre cet objectif, une recherche combinant des méthodes quantitatives et qualitatives a été effectuée. Pour explorer les jalons historiques de l’évolution de ce projet, nous avons analysé des documents issus des archives de « Kol Israel » et effectué des entretiens avec des dirigeants de « Kol Israel ». Les résultats ainsi obtenus montrent que ce projet a suivi des processus formateurs, complexes et bureaucratiques face à trois importants organismes gouvernementaux : le ministère de l’Éducation, le ministère de la Communication et l’Autorité de radiodiffusion. Il convient de souligner que d’éminents ministres de l’Éducation sont impliqués dans la constitution de la radio étudiante. Ce processus a commencé au début des années 1990, tandis qu’aujourd’hui 47 stations de radio étudiante émettent depuis plus de 80 établissements d’éducation : écoles primaires et secondaires, centres communautaires, collèges et universités sur l’ensemble du territoire israélien. La vision des créateurs de ce projet était de former des professionnels des médias ayant une bonne compréhension de la communication, aux couleurs et nuances diverses, et ayant un regard libéral et des valeurs démocratiques.Radio is one of the earliest and most powerful of all mass media, which explains its strong potential as a means of moral education, influence on public opinion, and role in public agenda setting. In Israel, educational radio stations operating out of academic institutions have been in operation for more than 50 years, yet no comprehensive study has examined the various aspects of their presence in the media, academic, community, and social spheres. Alongside extensive research on the radio industry, the purpose of the current study is to fill the lacuna in the literature on the role and contribution of educational radio stations operating out of colleges and universities in Israel. The educational radio project is the product of an encounter between two significant branches of Israeli society: One branch is The Voice of Israel, a major public media organization that sponsors the project, and the second, executive branch, is the academic institutions, which are prestigious institutions that train future generations through a variety of means, including intellectual development, knowledge, professional development, and, of course, research. To examine the educational radio stations’ role and contribution, we conducted a mixed methodology research combining qualitative and quantitative methods. To identify the historical milestones in the project’s development, we analyzed documents stored in The Voice of Israel archives, and conducted interviews with the station’s senior executives. Findings indicate that the project underwent several significant, complex, and bureaucratic changes involving important government organizations: the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Communications, and the Broadcasting Authority. Senior ministers of education were most markedly involved in determining the features of the educational radio project. The project, which was initiated in the early 1990s, now boasts 47 educational radio stations currently in operation in over 80 educational institutions including elementary schools, high schools, community centers, colleges, and universities, throughout Israel. The vision of the project’s founders was to develop media professionals with an understanding of the media industry, who would represent non-mainstream formats, issues, and opinions, including a liberal perspective and democratic value

The race to escape: Location-based escapism and physical activity as a motivator in the consumption of the AR game Pokémon Go

This research examines motives for engagement in Augmented Reality (AR) games. The research field examined in this study was Pokémon Go, due to the game’s rapid rise in popularity. The study is based on semi-structured interviews with 35 Pokémon Go players. The theoretical framework guiding this study is the uses and gratifications theory, which deals with media consumers’ uses of various media and content types to satisfy psychological and social needs (Ruggiero, 2000). Pokémon Go satisfies diverse player needs, and players’ main uses of the game are related to escapism, social interaction, and challenging others. The study revealed multiple motivations for playing Pokémon Go, which were consistent with previous research, and identified two additional motivations of Pokémon Go players, which are also applicable to AR use in general: increased physical activity and location-dependent escapism integrated into everyday activities outside the home. This consumption pattern is apparently part of the revolution of data accessibility online and on mobile phones, which also function as social means for satisfying needs for entertainment, escapism, and highly accessible information