Fake news and its repercussions are now a global concern, especially in the wake
of the recent incidents that have shook the credibility of media, be it regional,
national or global. Media is now a web of propagandas and there are more views
then news. Three stories (Myanmar coup, Dimapur Lynching, and Grenfell Tower
fire) were taken as case…[Read more]

While the Internet and multimedia applications have made it easy to produce and
spread media, they have also made it possible to distribute fake news to masses.
With over 200 million active users in India and growing, WhatsApp’s reach and
features make it a top choice to spread fake news. This not only influences public
opinion in India but…[Read more]

This study is a comparative content analysis of news content of Aljazeera English
(AJE) and BBC News on China’s national political affairs in their online news
editions from 1 January 2013 to 31 December 2014 after the assumption of power by
Chinese president Xi Jinping. The study compares the patterns of news coverage
by two international…[Read more]

Digital technology tools like any computerized system have a viral tendency and
what awaits the Indian Elections in 2019 is a Trump style sophisticated digital
computational propaganda. Such tools are emerging as threats to democracies,
especially like India, with a free media and a booming population, connecting to
the web through smart…[Read more]

The idea of this study has been emerged from the importance of school press in
enriching and enhancing the educational press, and it also contributes in detecting
talents early. The researcher has conducted this study on a random sample of 360
students from intermediate school in Kuwait. The results have revealed that the
majority of students…[Read more]

This study investigates the perceptions of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) students
and professional journalists regarding the quality of curriculum and training
sessions that they received at the University and afterwards by looking at
curriculum, training sessions and practical programmes related to journalism
education, as well as the…[Read more]

The northeastern state of Assam in India has witnessed long years of armed
conflict waged by the ULFA and other militant outfits against the Indian state, and
intermittent identity struggles by different ethnic groups and communities
demanding greater autonomy and constitutionally guaranteed privileges. The 2000s
political landscape of Assam…[Read more]

The emergence of new media technologies has redefined how people, particularly
the youth, are exposed to the news. Social networking sites (SNS), in particular,
have widely changed the manner in which news is consumed. SNS platforms have
emerged as news sources where people engage in several activities such as
sharing, commenting and…[Read more]

In his acceptance speech for the Republican nomination to be President of the
United States, Donald J. Trump presented the audience with a stark world of good
vs. evil, chaos vs. stability. We use Burke’s concept good terms and evil terms to
rhetorically analyze the acceptance speech. While Trump used specific references
to real events in his…[Read more]

Online communication platforms have enabled millions of users to easily
communicate with one another. WhatsApp is one of the most popular
communication platforms in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), especially among
university students. To better understand the effectiveness of WhatsApp, this
research examines the trends and impact of WhatsApp…[Read more]

Authors assume that in the post-Soviet time, political consciousness among the
Russians has significantly changed. Causes of this not only include general depoliticization in the society, but also a modified nature of the media influence.
The research purpose is to search for reasons that cause booms and falls in the
interest of the Russians in…[Read more]

A participative and representative democracy like that of India cannot deny media’s
significant role in strengthening its democratic fabric. However, while media has
offered a huge platform for creating awareness, educating and sensitising people,
the quality of knowledge disseminated, the kind of awareness created, the way of
connecting with…[Read more]

The article reveals the tendencies in language norms development. Language
transformation is a natural phenomenon, but certain permissible limits, regulating
literary and stylistic norms of publicistic language are also important. The linguistic
and stylistic features characterizing the language of modern interviews are formed
under the…[Read more]

The purpose this study is to explore school students’ videogame playing and its
correlation to aggressive behaviour. Four hundred and six (406) videogame playing
students from different socio-economic background in Chennai city of India and
its suburban areas participated in the study. Data on aggressive behaviour from
the students were…[Read more]

The paper deals with the problems and prospects for the development of television
broadcasting in the Republic of Kazakhstan in the context of the information society.
The author suggests the mechanisms for controlling and forecasting socially
responsible television and discovers its role in democratic modernization of
society. The paper…[Read more]

With the introduction of the Internet, online news sites are encouraging ordinary
people to discuss and address their issues. Employing critical discourse analysis
approach, this paper analyses the discursive representation of news articles
published on tsheringtobgay.com. A critical discourse analysis of articles published
on the site reveals…[Read more]

This paper brings together the perspective of social production of space as a
‘category’ which creates the ‘inter-subjective’ world of virtual reality where
interaction is subjected to individual’s virtual ‘privacy’ and in turn shapes their
extended ‘self and identity’. This reality keeps on negotiating with the actor as an
external entity…[Read more]

Taking a selfie as a social phenomenon is a way that people try to feel better
about themselves. Selfies say us something important about the people who take
them, and then share them and offer useful insights into the uses of social media
in general. It seems that young Kuwaitis are obsessed with taking selfies. Young
Kuwaitis, especially…[Read more]

In South Asia, the public relations departments of the Indian and Pakistani
governments have been playing a critical role in the making of broadcast regulation
policies and enactment of media laws, which helped successive governments and
bureaucracies intervene in the business and functioning of the companies
providing electronic media…[Read more]

The digitization of communication and the mediatization of society transform the
forms and types of relationships of parties of the communication process. Social
media as a new media environment has a great potential for managing opinions,
media consumer’s impressions and the formation of certain attitudes and
stereotypes. The question arises…[Read more]