Sentence examples for media characters from inspiring English sources

I conclude by examining the value of creating engaging educational media characters for children's future scholastic and occupational success.

Specifically, I describe the importance of emotionally tinged relationships, known as parasocial relationships, that children form with media characters in early learning.

The creation of engaging media characters is explored, including ways to address the developmental needs of children and how certain production features aid cognitive skill development.

In this chapter, I examine the ubiquitous presence and value of media characters as children's early teachers of STEM concepts in informal environments through social processes that bind the child to the character.

Following Freud, Kotsko groups media characters into three main types: psychotics ("they totally reject reality and construct 'their own little world' in accordance with their desires"), perverts ("acknowledging the rules while still maintaining some small, unrepressed outlet for the prohibited desire"), and neurotics (who historically came in two gendered flavors: obsessives and hysterics).

My research project for the Summer 2016 will be to examine how black cosplayers make their performances of media characters ­­(comic books, television, film, etc.) of all races ­­widely visible on a range of Internet platforms, including Tumblr, YouTube, and blogs dedicated to fans of color (such as Black Girl Nerds).

As Schultz told the Seattle news media, character matters.

(" 'Cece,' my social media character, is more hyper and active," she says).

When she came back to television in 1985, she tried to do for the "career gal working in the media" character in the 80s what she'd done with her Emmy-winning hit a decade earlier.

Signed comment about sports writing and media character judgments of the New York Knicks... It's a pretty extraordinary thing that some of the most serious American newspapers often cover sports as closely, and with as many resources, as they cover, say, news.

"Fans of popular media often develop parasocial interactions, ie individuals believe they have a personal relationship with a media character where none exists," says Bradley Okdie, an assistant professor at the University of Ohio who studies how technology affects the way humans interact.