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  Audience surrogate - Biocrawler
In the study of literature, an audience surrogate is a character who expresses the questions and confusion of the reader.
In detective fiction, the audience surrogate is usually a minor character that asks a central character how he or she accomplished certain deeds, for the purpose of inciting that character to explain (for the curious audience) his or her methods.
One possible meaning behind John's uses of an unnamed "beloved disciple" in the New Testament is to serve as an audience surrogate.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Viewpoint_character   (201 words)

  
 Reviews: Surrogate Cities concert
Surrogate Cities is a metropolis built from fl dots and big ideas, and the audience is its residents.
Surrogate Cities is postmodernism par excellence, superb music theatre, a symphony that thinks as well as feels, a great way to start a festival of music and debate.
Commissioned for the 1200th anniversary of the city of Frankfurt, Heiner Goebbels' Surrogate Cities, a 90 minute orchestral collection, celebrates the city as a dominant way of being in the world today, proceeding on the conceit that it is possible to generalise the urban experience to all cities.
www.heinergoebbels.com /english/kritiken/r-surrog.htm   (5248 words)

  
 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal
Frequently, the author surrogate is the same as the main character and/or the protagonist, and is also often the narrator.
As an example, the author surrogate may be the one who delivers political diatribe, expressing the author's beliefs at an appropriate time, or expound on the strengths and weakness of other characters, thereby communicating directly the author's opinion on the characters in question.
Most stories have an author surrogate, insofar as the author is usually capable of pointing to one character (major or minor) whom he or she identifies with to a much greater degree than any other character.
www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=author_surrogate   (421 words)

  
 ACP Observer, June 2003 - Surrogate decision-makers and end-of-life care: no 'right' answers, but plenty of tough ...
One audience member said he found a suggestion from a member of his hospital's ethics committee extremely useful: Help family members "turn the corner." Encouraging them to talk about their once-vibrant loved one helps them acknowledge that the life they cherish is now in terminal decline and is about to end.
But often, he added, surrogates who have had time to accept the fact that the patient is dying will decide within a day or two to end heroic measures and let nature take its course.
And one audience member pointed out that the ethical challenges associated with surrogate decision-making show how important it is to have frank end-of-life discussions ahead of time with patients.
www.acponline.org /journals/news/jun03/surrogate.htm   (1781 words)

  
 Audience Lyrics
Audience - An audience is a group of people who participate in an experience or encounter a work of art, literature, theatre, music or academics in any medium.
Audience (band) - Audience is a cult British art-rock band which existed between 1969 and 1972, and reformed in 2004.
Audience surrogate - In the study of literature, an audience surrogate is a character who expresses the questions and confusion of the reader.
www.go2lyrics.com /audience-lyrics-artist.html   (177 words)

  
 Cloud structure, fractals and surrogates
My paper on iterative surrogate cloud fields shows that the Bernard cells of a stratocumulus fields are not present in a field with the same power spectrum, which describes the two-point structure with linear spatial correlations.
The iterative surrogate cloud fields I am generating have a measured power spectrum (not an idealised fractal one) and a measured cloud liquid water distribution (not some beautiful well-known mathematical distribution).
Together with the scanning measurements, this combination can be used to make cloud fields with are almost fractal, but have a wave in them, or cloud fields with a jump in cloud properties at a land-sea interface (if you happen to have measured on the beach).
www.meteo.uni-bonn.de /mitarbeiter/venema/essays/2004/fractal_cloud_structure.html   (1886 words)

  
 Scopophilia: The Morbid Urge of Peeping Tom
The murderer is shown repeating the action of the audience: the passive voyeurism of watching a film depicting death.
This is given by the clues of the echoey whistle heard and bright lights thrown on her (a continual visual motif for the watcher's target).
The audience is encouraged to view him in a paradoxically sympathetic and sadistic manner.
pages.emerson.edu /organizations/fas/latent_image/issues/1997-04/scopophilia.htm   (1595 words)

  
 [About Blodgett Forest] [About the Fire and Fire Surrogate Study]
AUDIENCE: 1 professor and 6 PhD students from the University of California.
AUDIENCE: Director and Staff of the Lawrence Berkeley Lab.
AUDIENCE: Composed of 75 agency personnel (CA Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, U.S. Forest Service: Region 5 and El Dorado NF, CA Department of Fish and Game), fire department personnel (Georgetown Volunteer Fire Department), foresters (Collins Pine, Sierra Pacific), researchers (U.C. Berkeley and U.C. Davis), and local community representatives (the Quintette Water Association).
www.cnr.berkeley.edu /fire-surrogate-study/presentations.htm   (2876 words)

  
 Surrogate Cities
"Surrogate Cities" is an attempt to approach the phenomenon of the city from various sides, to tell stories of cities, expose oneself to them, observe them, it is material about metropolises that has accumulated over the course of time.
The work was inspired partly by texts, but also by drawings, structures and sounds, the juxtaposition of orchestra and sampler playing a considerable role because of the latter's ability to store sounds and noises ordinarily alien to orchestral sonorities.
I construct something that confronts the audience and the audience reacts to it, discovering in the music a space they can enter complete with their associations and ideas.
www.heinergoebbels.com /cds/cd00a.htm   (236 words)

  
 CDS Specialty Programs & Services
Audience: New homeowners who have purchased a home through a City of Rochester program who feel that contractual terms have not been met.
Audience: A face-to-face meeting between victim and offender guided by an experienced mediator.
Audience: People in, or associated with, the agricultural community.
www.cdsadr.org /specialty-intro.html   (435 words)

  
 Frank Catalano: A call for moderation
As a result, you should be the panel's audience surrogate -- asking for definitions of terms and clarification of statements which a panelist may state as though everyone knows about them.
The audience is there to learn from the panelists, not you.
Whatever attention you draw needs to be with the intent of making sure the audience gets what they came for.
www.frankcatalano.com /2006/10/call-for-moderation.html   (574 words)

  
 Hard but unfair…
In the beginning of a show you always have at least one character that functions as a audience surrogate.
The audience surrogates function is to ask the questions the audience has about the show and the world the show is set in.
The audience surrogate is also used for the exposition scenes.
www.gregorvogt.com   (5501 words)

  
 Practical Guidelines for African Americans : 7.0 Determining the Effectiveness of Education Materials
It is necessary to pretest the materials and to review them for readability levels to insure that the cancer prevention message reaches your audience.
After developing a preliminary draft, the printed cancer education material should be presented to the audience.
Readability can be improved by use of information oriented towards the audience's culture; short, simple words; and concrete concepts that maximize understanding.
www.txcancer.org /pgpcemaa/7.html   (286 words)

  
 Current Trends / Carlos Avila - San Diego Latino Film Festival Web site   (Site not responding. Last check: )
You have mentioned that you are concerned with the storytelling capacity of film, and that one of the primary goals of a film is to tell its story authentically.
For me the most reasonable person to really be the audience's navigator through all these issues and situations would be a child who is processing those events, taking it from a child's point of view, trying to confront those things.
For me, it made more sense to do it in a naturalistic way and having the kid be the audience's surrogate, and not necessarily burden him by putting all those other things on top of him.
www.sdlatinofilm.com /trends1.html   (2495 words)

  
 DGA
I was simply trying to show the audience a little bit of what those actual young kids experienced when they hit those beaches 54 years ago, and at the same rime, those kids, aside from basic training, had never before seen combat.
Figuring that most of the members of our audience had never seen combat, I thought it was a good way to put the audience in the shoes of every member of that squad, because that sequence would inform every square inch of terrain that they had to navigate to somehow get to Private Ryan.
It wasn't the logistics of so many people, it was how do I put the audience at eye level with actual battlefield experiences, so the audience can become as combat fatigued as I was assuming those soldiers were after they went through such an ordeal.
www.dga.org /news/features/saving_private_ryan.php3   (4299 words)

  
 PsyArt: An Online Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts.
It is interesting to note that several critics, including Kent Cartwright and Martin Elliott, consider Emilia to be the audience’s surrogate onstage in the final scene as she speaks the truths the onlookers have realized throughout the play.
The audience can look upon her body, centerstage throughout the remainder of the drama, and know that she confronted despotic brutality and has "come.
It lives with the audience in the awareness that even a lone voice, fortified by the truth, has the strength to triumph over evil.
www.clas.ufl.edu /ipsa/journal/2005_schwab01.shtml   (3257 words)

  
 Gadfly Online.
Many critics say this is Hitchcock's masterstroke, getting the audience not only to switch alliances, but also to implicate ourselves in acts of theft and murder by endorsing their success.
The audience's surrogate is never in a position to be maimed during slumber, unless it's Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton.
Audiences nod their heads, until Bickle begins to do things we know we would never do, like take a nice lady on a date to a pornoflick, shoot a politician, or start a bloodbath—even if it's to kill some really bad dudes.
www.gadflyonline.com /archive/MayJune00/archive-pain.html   (2664 words)

  
 UIE Brain Sparks » Blog Archive » The Benefits of Surrogate Testing
While these students were not the target audience for the application, they helped us find some some of the biggest problems with the application’s functionality early on in our testing.
In any instance where the surrogate medical students were missing the necessary domain knowledge to complete a task, we prompted them with the information any surgeon would possess.
We test with surrogates early on in the development process, understanding that the user behavior may not completely reflect the behavior of the actual target users.
www.uie.com /brainsparks/2005/08/02/the-benefits-of-surrogate-testing   (617 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Philadelphia was not only a hit, it also won Oscars for Bruce Springsteen's haunting "The Streets of Philadelphia," and for Tom Hanks as the gay lawyer Andrew Beckett who is unjustly fired by his firm because he has AIDS.
Denzel Washington is another lawyer (functioning as the mainstream-audience surrogate) who reluctantly takes Beckett's case and learns to overcome his misconceptions about the disease, about those who contract it, and about gay people in general.
The combined warmth and humanism of Hanks and Demme were absolutely essential to making this picture a success.
www.readthemovie.com /mall/dvd/740182.html   (1072 words)

  
 Arthur Esposito
The message seems to be "audience is everything," and makes one look closer at Letterman, Leno and O’Brien’s adjustments to their shows and styles.
Koppel’s humor-free, award-winning interview, breaking news and documentary program won over such a solid audience base during Carson’s era, in fact, that when Leno and Letterman split the comedy audience, Koppel would often win the nightly Nielsen race in the mid-90's with an uneroded news crowd.
NBC was increasingly unwilling to content themselves with Carson’s older-skewing audience, and so, Carson stepped aside while he still could, to make way for Leno.
web.syr.edu /~tjconnel/145/AnnBib/ArthurAB.html   (1403 words)

  
 Stage Preview: Durang exorcises demons through plays' characters
She's there as the audience's surrogate, as their way in, not as saying everyone in the world is crazy."
If Betty invites the audience into her summer home from hell, Durang beckons them deeper into the closet.
He holds back little in his work and is surprisingly candid in conversation, as if by exposing his childhood to the glare of the spotlight he might somehow cleanse the stains of being the only child of an alcoholic father and a dominant mom who split when he was 13.
www.post-gazette.com /magazine/20000425durang4.asp   (730 words)

  
 The Harvard Crimson :: Arts :: Movie Review
Despite being a bit of a mouthful, the title perfectly fits the movie, as it is an examination of leadership in times of danger and strife and an exploration of the sailors’ reactions to being in a mysterious place which, to them, is the far side of the world.
Hopefully, the non-stop action flick advertising will bring in audiences that wouldn’t ordinarily go for the actual film, which is more of a rarity: although it has three action scenes, at the beginning, middle and end, most of the movie is focused on smaller, less dramatic moments.
Far from being a simple audience surrogate, Maturin is just confused by the technical jargon.
www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=350053   (577 words)

  
 TASC: The American Surrogacy Center. Comprehensive information for surrogacy and egg donation!
The Defense Department is moving to make women in the military community less attractive candidates to be surrogate parents by cutting off coverage for any medical procedures related to surrogate pregnancy.
Under current procedures, a surrogate mother covered by military health care could be expected to pay part of her medical costs if her contractual arrangement is known.
Tricare is supposed to cover only the remaining balance of costs not covered by the surrogacy contract, and the military’s interpretation assumes that any payments — not just a payment specifically to reimburse medical care — could be first used to pay for medical treatment, according to the Tricare operations manual.
www.surrogacy.com   (567 words)

  
 ClickZ: The Most Important SEO Strategy
Therefore, the document surrogate, or a text-based substitute for a non-text file, must contain text search engines can crawl and use to determine relevancy.
As much as I understand the use of text-based, keyword-focused documents and document surrogates for information retrieval, however, I don't believe keyword-rich text is the most important component of a successful SEO program.
Additionally, a target audience's search behavior often varies by site type (B2B, B2C, publisher, education, etc.), age, gender, education level, and so forth.
www.clickz.com /showPage.html?page=3623372   (1303 words)

  
 Bono Interviews Eddie Izzard
She died when I was six, and at seven I saw a kid on stage in a play and I thought, I want to do that, and that feeling stayed.
The conclusion I have come to is that the audience is a surrogate affection organism for the loss of my mother's affection.
The loss of my mother definitely started me singing and writing, but the audience was probably some sort of attempt at my father.
www.auntiemomo.com /cakeordeath/bono.html   (3363 words)

  
 :: MARIAN VAN DER ZON: IN AND OUT OF THE STUDIO::
Sound effects are used to “establish setting, direct audience to particular sound, establish time, establish mood, signify entrances and exits, serve as transition between segments of time or place, and to create unrealistic effects.
Music, sound effects, and to a lesser degree, interviewed material are often conceptualised at a later date, in the editing room, after the general sequences have been constructed.
They are able to do this in part because they rely on their own subjectivity in this application, reacting to material they shoot and edit as viewers themselves, and often falling back on their subjective responses to defend these reactions.
artsandscience.concordia.ca /facstaff/m-o/mccartney/inandout/html_pages/marian/soudnandmessage.html   (1003 words)

  
 Types of Sessions
During the discussion, moderators present fair overviews of the key issues for the audience, keep the speakers on track and on time, translate jargon and acronyms and spark discussion among competing points of view.
The moderator poses questions, generates arguments, involves the audience and tells the story through the interaction of all participants.
As the audience's surrogate, the moderator asks the clarifying questions of speakers who mumble and use too many obscure references and slaps down the presenters who try to do commercial spiels.
www.speakerforums.com /types.asp   (622 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The actual project will consist of: - Introductory material about the project & audience - A description of the selection and evaluation criteria you used to choose which resources to include - Annotations for each resource you included.
You'll also give me the outcome of the evaluation you get from one or more audience members (or surrogate audience members if the real audience is difficult to reach).
This can be informal: simply provide the person with your goals, and ask them to look over your project and provide feedback.
ils.unc.edu /inls80/Fall97/termp.txt   (374 words)

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