Some studies have directly linked adverse social, health and financial circumstances to increased student drop-out, negative experiences and failure during the first year of study (Armour, 1999, Devlin, 2002, Kreber, 2003). university study can be the most critical in a student's academic life with consequential impact on future student learning, engagement, and success (McInnis, 2001 Pitkethly & Prosser, 2001). Typeset in Common Ground Markup Language using CGCreator multichannel typesetting system Abstract: It has been shown that the first-year of. JOURNAL OF THE WORLD UNIVERSITIES FORUM is peer-reviewed, supported by rigorous processes of criterion-referenced article ranking and qualitative commentary, ensuring that only intellectual work of the greatest substance and highest significance is published. In the German sample, mean-world beliefs were also affected by viewing tabloid-style (infotainment) television news. The self-reported frequency of watching fiction on television was positively related to the BJW, whereas the general amount of television viewing was positively related to mean- and scary-world beliefs. Two cross-sectional studies with N = 128 participants (German sample) and N = 387 (Austrian sample) corroborate our assumptions. Further, we assume this effect to be compatible with the television use/mean-world relationship expressed by cultivation theory.
We propose that the amount of fiction watched on television predicts the belief in a just world (BJW). Theories on the narrative structure of fictional narratives and disposition-based theories of media enjoyment suggest that televised fictional narratives tend to portray the world as a just place. In recent years, experimental research has demonstrated that fictional narratives are powerful means to change audience beliefs. Finally, this article will evaluate Khan's belief in the relevance of social realism as a philosophical interpretation for an ideologically driven cinema-of-intent and whether or not it can serve as a framework for the future of Malaysian cinema.Ĭultivation research has identified several misrepresentations on television and has shown that the more people watch television, the more their beliefs correspond to the television world. This article then revisits Khan's scholarship on Malay cinema, particularly the factors shaping his 'true picture' idealism in the context of emerging Malaysian cinema in terms of it as a developmental and critical sphere of cosmopolitan aesthetics. Comparatively, Khan's conceptualization is juxtaposed in this article for a critical appraisal between the influential Australian and British cinema contexts, as both are forms of national cinemas in their own rights. Khan's seminal work is located within the critical debates on the notion of national cinema that preoccupied film scholars, predominantly in the West, from the mid 1980s through the 1990s. One of the most important works on Malaysian cinema of the last twenty years has been Hatta Azad Khan's The Malay Cinema (1997).
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