In the article the associative semantic series of Russian and German
linguocultures as native, grown and living on the territory of relevant countries
(Russia and Germany) are analyzed in juxtaposition with the associative
dictionary of Russian representatives who emigrated to Germany from Russia
at the end of 20th century (1980-2000). This…[Read more]

This study examines the diversity of news sources in climate change reporting
in the Pakistani press. A longitudinal quantitative content analysis of climate
change reporting of five significant climate change-related events such as Earth
Summit ((1992), Rio de Janeiro, Kyoto Protocol (1997), Ratification of Kyoto Protocol
Globally (2005),…[Read more]

The study discusses the role of dialogue communication in the interaction of
the state, business, and civil society. The results are aimed at creating favorable
conditions for the development of a business climate not only for a single
region but also for the entire Russian economy. The study uses methods of
system analysis, a sociological…[Read more]

The earliest medical descriptions of anorexia occurred in 1689 with Richard
Morton’s Phthisiologia, Or, A Treatise of Consumptions, however, it took another
century for medical science to accept anorexia nervosa as a medical condition.
Later on, it was Hilde Bruch who initiated the first public discussion on anorexia
in the latter half of t…[Read more]

In recent years, Arab academia inspected the phenomenon of new preachers of
Islam, especially in Egypt, predicted on such notions as new liberalism, selfhelp, and salvation. This study contributes to the scholarship by examining the
postmodern characteristics of Mustafa Hosni’s discourse, as appears in his new
media materials. Drawing upon i…[Read more]

Educational media resources are becoming increasingly popular. This actualizes
the issues of identifying their role and significance in the educational process,
typology, and classification of resources. The methodological basis of this study
is an interdisciplinary approach. Based on a review of the literature, the
constituent and functional…[Read more]

Corporate image and reputation is an essential element in any business
organization. However, not many studies have been done on service-oriented
organizations, especially universities. For the university that seeks to improve
its reputation, creating desirable images and positioning of a university’s image
are important. This study obtained s…[Read more]

Nigeria, with one of the most robust and freest media in Africa, provides a
fertile ground for unencumbered investigative journalism. In the last five years,
except for episodic exclusives in one or two newspapers, investigative stories
have waned. Why are Nigerian newspapers not engaging in investigative
reporting, and what implication does…[Read more]

The Uri attack in 2016 and the Pulwama attack in 2019 by terrorist in Jammu and
Kashmir have brought to the center-stage the Kashmir conflict as a core issue between
the two South Asian neighbors, India and Pakistan. This research analyzes the
mediatized indulgence of terror in reporting of these two incidents in television and
print media.…[Read more]

There has been a recurrent rate of prevalent and pervasive violent conflicts
between herders and farmers in Nigeria. Issues emanating from environmental
degradation, and socio-political disorder have shifted pastoralist migratory
patterns and increased tensions between farmers and herders. This, however,
has influenced conflicts and hostility…[Read more]

Journalism, the “first draft of history” (i.e. Barth, 1943, p. 667), often drafts a
history of tragedy and violence – “the oldest kinds of stories” (Coté & Simpson,
2000, p. 3). Throughout history, war and storytelling are intractably linked:
“Because of the far-reaching effects of war, we want to know as much about it
as possible. Fo…[Read more]

The period between 2014 and 2016 saw the rise of the radical Islamist terrorist
group Islamic State (IS), which committed acts of terrorism in not only Syria and
Iraq but also unleashed violence in the rest of the world. Twitter took the lead
in being the source of receiving and giving quick updates on terror news. However,
a key question that…[Read more]

The present study critically investigates the single case media reporting of the
Chapel Hill shooting incident in North Carolina, USA. Eight newspaper reports,
including BBC, Fox News, Independent, The Telegraph, The New York Times,
Huffington Post, and among which two from CNN were assessed, using the Critical
Discourse Analysis (CDA)…[Read more]

Research originally developed in the 1970s to make television and mass media
advertising more effective has involved into a contemporary system of
propaganda manipulation. Agents use social media to convince people that
fake news is a valid reason for people to act and to vote. While the Russian
manipulation of the U.S. presidential election…[Read more]

The reflection of the idea of the leading role of native land is decided by the fact
that the primary attention is determined by the interest in the concept of the
revival of national identity. The aim of the article is addressed to the formation
of ideas about the reflection of native land during periods of socio-economic
upheaval. The…[Read more]

The article discusses some features of information technologies used by Kazakh
media during election campaigns of different years. The purpose of this work is
to analyze the peculiarities and factors behind the increasing role of the Kazakh
media in the process of democratic elections. The article shows that since 1991-
1996 transitional…[Read more]

The visionary Satyajit Ray (1921-1992) is India’s most famous director. His visual
style fused the aesthetics of European realism with evocative symbolic realism,
which he based on classic Indian iconography, the aesthetic and narrative
principles of rasa, the energies of shakti and shakta, the principles of dharma,
and the practice of d…[Read more]

News media studies, especially in the field of the political economy of media,
have traditionally been looking at frames used by news media. Structures are
usually examined as follows: the words or phrases emphasized; the images
excluded or trivialized; and what these frames suggest about the mediated
image of public issues. Recent studies in…[Read more]

The industry of public relations (PR) within the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is
lagging corresponding to the advancements which are happening in the external
world. In this context, social media has been regarded to be the primary catalyst
in terms of pushing the PR industry of the UAE to cope with the continuous
alterations of the external…[Read more]

The article examines the cultural and educational mission of modern media
related to the spiritual and cultural education of youth in Kazakhstan. Over the
past two decades, the socialization problems of Kazakh youth have been removed
from the state’s social policy agenda. Methods of comparative and complex
analysis were applied in this s…[Read more]