Local Restaurants’ Effect on Tourist Experience: A Case from Istanbul by H. Ayşen Karagöz, Ezgi Erkmen, Tevfik Demirciftci

“…Contrary to the experience economy model, which proposes four dimensions of experience, this research has identified three dimensions, for the local restaurant experience, namely entertainment and esthetics, education, and escapism. …”
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Project approach to the development of rural tourism by M. V. Andreeva, I. V. Kryukova, E. N. Yakovleva

“…The necessity of holding events in order to smooth out the seasonality of rural tourism and attract tourists interested not only in standard services of rural guest houses but also in entertainment events is proved. Special emphasis is placed on the application of the project approach to the process of creating events. …”
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PERCEPTIONS AND EXPERIENCES OF M-HEALTH TECHNOLOGIES AND SOCIAL MEDIA: A QUALITATIVE STUDY IN PATIENTS WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA by Pasquale Caponnetto, Maria Salvina Signorelli, Jennifer Tiralongo, Alessandro Rodolico, Carmen Concerto, Antonino Petralia, Lucio Inguscio

“…The results show that the participants use digital tools for various activities such as work, searching for information, entertainment, and socialising. Their perceptions confirm the usefulness and easy accessibility of these tools, which enable positive changes in the organisation of daily life and social relationships. …”
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Beyond Risk: How the Z Generation Resist the Temptation of Online Games by Sri Ayu Evianti, Dien Vidia Rosa

“…The findings highlight several key issues, including the temptations of social media integration, peer influence, and financial gains, as well as the risks of accumulating debt and developing dependencies on gaming for entertainment and monetary rewards. These challenges pose significant implications for the mental well-being of Generation Z individuals.…”
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Playing the Game, or Not: Reframing Understandings of Children’s Digital Play by Magladry Madison, Willson Michele

“…Parents are in fear of the ‘dangers’ of gaming and screen time yet enticed by the educational promise and the entertainment value of keeping their children occupied. …”
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Integrating humanoid robots with human musicians for synchronized musical performances by MengCheng Lau, John Anderson, Jacky Baltes

“…Entertainment robotics has garnered significant attention in recent years, with researchers focusing on developing robots capable of performing a variety of tasks, including magic, drawing, dancing, and music. …”
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Ottoman Hunting Organization of Silistra Sanjak in The 16th Century by Mustafa ALKAN, Ferdi GÖKBUĞA

“…While hunting in traditional societies, was most commonly practised as a profession, for food, sports or entertainment, it was fully a part of Ottoman State organization as a military exercise or war game. …”
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Feasts of Indifference: Racialization, Affect, and Necropolitics in 1X War Games by Mahshid Mayar

“…Adopting Achille Mbembe’s notion of necroplitics in the ludic, mechropolitical sense proposed by Amanda Phillips, I focus on these games’ opposing, yet usefully comparable, approaches to enmification through racialization through entertainment—a two-step project of death that, nodding to Sharon Patricia Holland, I understand as affective, yet heedless feasts of indifference.…”
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Pengaruh Social Media Marketing terhadap Intensi Membeli Produk Perawatan Kulit pada Pria by Rafael Hans Christian, Dewi Syarifah

“…Kemudian, hasil analisis moderasi menunjukkan bahwa credibility endorser tidak dapat memoderasi pengaruh customization, interaction dan word of mouth namun credibility endorser dapat memperkuat pengaruh pada dimensi entertainment dan trendiness terhadap intensi membeli.…”
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Examine the Role of Psychological Resilience in Predicting Social and Professional Performance in Patients with Diabetes, Multiple Sclerosis, and Rheumatism by Ahmad S Alsheikh Al, Ashraf Alqudah

“…Regression analyses were used to examine the amount of variance predicted by psychological resilience in terms of the following variables of social and professional functions: relationships, communication, social activities, entertainment activities, life skills, employment-based job functions, and unemployment-based job functions. …”
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Capital of Feedback by Nina Stener Jørgensen

“…In this article, I depart from the economic logic of today’s digital platforms to analyse the participatory elements Cedric Price designed for Oxford Corner House (1965–66) to be ‘self-participatory entertainment’. As user participation has gradually been capitalised on through the evolution of digital technologies, I argue that the conditions for what participatory architecture entails have changed in turn. …”
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Move Analysis of Awards Acceptance Speeches in The 22nd Vodafone Ghana Music Awards Ceremony by John York-Williams, Joseph Benjamin Archibald Afful, Emmanuel Mensah Bonsu

“…The study concluded with implications for successful acculturation of musicians and other entertainment industry players in their discourse communities and recommendations for further studies. …”
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Second Screen Engagement of Event Spectators by Tomas Cerny, Michael Jeff Donahoo

“…Consumers demand personalized experience; thus, a single channel perspective fails. Modern entertainment must extend to spectator mobile devices and adapt content to individual interests. …”
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Coping Strategies in Analyzing the Stress Impact of Online Gambling Addiction for Children and Adults by Akbar Rizki, Meilia Ishar, Khairani Khairani

“…Coping strategies to minimize the stressful impact of online gambling addiction are achieved by focusing efforts on financial management,  social support,  and developing entertainment alternatives. The study found that dependence on online gambling triggers significant stress in both children and adults. …”
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Long Memory of Pathfinding Aesthetics by Ron Coleman

“…These conclusions will be of interest to researchers investigating games as well as other forms of entertainment, simulation, and in general nonshortest path motion planning.…”
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Gambaran kecanduan internet pada remaja by Balqis Urwatul Wutsqo, Wirda Hanim, Eka Wahyuni

“…Internet is used to refer to all the contacts an individual has with web-based services, including websites, internet-based games, social media, and online entertainment. The type of research used is quantitative and descriptive. …”
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Move Analysis of Awards Acceptance Speeches in The 22nd Vodafone Ghana Music Awards Ceremony by John York-Williams, Joseph Benjamin Archibald Afful, Emmanuel Mensah Bonsu

“…The study concluded with implications for successful acculturation of musicians and other entertainment industry players in their discourse communities and recommendations for further studies. …”
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Mercados culturais no Brasil: a expansão dos shoppings centers e das livrarias megastores by Carlos Alexsandro de Carvalho Souza

“…This work presents some of the most recent transformations in the relations between culture and market in contemporary Brazil, in order to indicate some of the empirical indicators that have been able to reshape and resize the strategies of some of the main market agents involved in this process, whether state or private, generating all sorts of new business models and companies classified as cultural, inscribed in the widespread expansion of the entertainment and leisure markets. It should be noted that the reflections are included on what part of the specialized literature in the social sciences categorizes as creative economy, specially due to the management of the agents involved, of the new aesthetic and symbolic justifications that start to develop a panorama which, based on the general growth of the Brazilian economy in the period considered, indicates the robustness of what can be described as contemporary cultural capitalism. …”
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Effect of Social Media on Patient’s Perception of Dental Aesthetics in Saudi Arabia by Khadijah M. Baik, Ghazal Anbar, Abeer Alshaikh, Arwa Banjar

“…The majority of patients used SM for communication and entertainment purposes. It was also found that the most popular platform used by patients was Snapchat (71.1%), followed by Instagram (66.9%). …”
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