In 2001, CEO and owner of Black Entertainment Television (BET) Bob Johnson,
sold majority ownership to Viacom with much controversy. Many people in the
black community questioned the appropriateness of a network that claimed to
represent black life being under the defacto control of a white dominated
corporation. This study seeks to assess the…[Read more]

This paper reflects an extensive and in-depth review of the literature on the
role of hyper-reality in our contemporary lives and its impact on our migratory
decisions. Hyper-reality is defined as the somewhat surreal ability to peer into
living rooms thousands of miles away using state-of-the-art communication
technology such as Skype…[Read more]

This paper reflects an extensive and in-depth review of the literature on the
role of hyper-reality in our contemporary lives and its impact on our migratory
decisions. Hyper-reality is defined as the somewhat surreal ability to peer into
living rooms thousands of miles away using state-of-the-art communication
technology such as Skype…[Read more]

This paper is about how cybercafés in small and medium Asian towns highlight
new aspects of modernity. Especially in the context of Asian modernity, the
introduction of ICT-shaped social spaces in the form of cybercafés leads to
multiple conflicting rhetoric of empowerment and progress on the one hand,
and risk and moral degeneration on the o…[Read more]

“Out of Sorts: A Queer Crip in the Archive” analyzes the archive story of a queer, crip, wheelchair-using researcher at a U.S. archive. The article considers the archive as a material site where disability studies and disability history are practised; crip time and crip knowledge; the experience of feeling out of sorts; and the tension between the…[Read more]

This paper aims to examine Raunch culture, a strand of post-feminism in the
recent Bollywood movies, The Dirty Picture and Grand Masti. Both these movies
critique the perception that the investment in raunch feminine sexuality empowers
female characters, but if observed profoundly, they celebrate the commodification
of women’s body. F…[Read more]

With the rise of populism, both in American and European politics, one question
seems to circulate on a regular basis. Are voters, particularly American voters,
being conned by false promises and needless fear mongering?

Riots broke out in Ferguson, Missouri (USA) after a white police officer shot and
killed a black citizen of Ferguson. We explain how a breakdown of popular
sovereignty in Ferguson contributed to the preexisting hostility in Ferguson. The
rhetorical appeal of “Black Lives Matter” will hopefully lead to the restoration
of a democratic municipal…[Read more]

Mindanao is the Philippine’s second largest island in the south. Identifying
Mindanao-based documentaries that have development themes remain unknown
or unacknowledged. Using Phenomenology as theoretical framework and method,
as a result, the researcher found out that similar to other documentary films in
other parts of the country and the…[Read more]

This paper theorizes a model for the representation of risks in online news media.
Its practicability is demonstrated using Malaysian alternative online newspapers.
Anxiety and uncertainty about a risk event are naturally rooted in discourse and
count as discursive event because they appear on the discourse planes of politics
and the media…[Read more]

The study was aimed at ascertaining the level at which broadcast journalists in
South-East Nigeria deploy the social media in news gathering and transmission.
The survey research method was used while the questionnaire served as the
measuring instrument. The entire 867 broadcast journalists in the South-East
geopolitical zone of Nigeria…[Read more]

The purpose of this study was to provide information regarding a venue for exercise
adherence motivation toward physical activity via social media support. The five themes
identified that positively affected participants’ intrinsic and extrinsic motivation to adhere
to exercise through a social media fitness application were: accountability…[Read more]

In 2014, the MH370, MH17 and QZ8501 flight crash tragedies become a viral issue
and attract the attentions of media and stakeholders, globally, and raise many
crises to the airlines companies, respectively, including the risk of losing their
stakeholders’ trust. The study is to identify the crises management approaches
used for the tragedies…[Read more]

In 2014, the MH370, MH17 and QZ8501 flight crash tragedies become a viral issue
and attract the attentions of media and stakeholders, globally, and raise many
crises to the airlines companies, respectively, including the risk of losing their
stakeholders’ trust. The study is to identify the crises management approaches
used for the tragedies…[Read more]

It is trivially true that comedians make jokes and thus are not serious; they are “just playing.” But watching Louis CK, especially his performances in Chewed Up, Shameless, and Hilarious, it is evident that he has more in mind than simply getting his audience to frivolously guffaw. I will make the case that this is so given the content of som…[Read more]

What has proportion to do with humor or irony? And what do either of these have to do with being human? Jokes, laughter, and funniness connote excess, exaggeration, incongruity, dissonance, etc., the opposite of proportion–balance, symmetry, Aristotle’s golden mean. Yet, The Philosopher maintains, the wit has found the ideal moderate position b…[Read more]

In two very influential papers from 2008, Tamar Gendler introduced the concept of “alief” to describe the mental state one is in when acting in ways contrary to their consciously professed beliefs. For example, if asked to eat what they know is fudge, but shaped into the form of dog feces, they will hesitate, and behave in a manner that would be…[Read more]

The contemporary debate between patriotic nationalism and the freedom of
expression has sparked off in the wake of JNU students’ union president arrest on
the charges of sedition post the organization of a cultural program. The incident
infuriated debate amongst the country’s highest intellectuals, parliamentarians,
journalists and many others…[Read more]

The contemporary debate between patriotic nationalism and the freedom of
expression has sparked off in the wake of JNU students’ union president arrest on
the charges of sedition post the organization of a cultural program. The incident
infuriated debate amongst the country’s highest intellectuals, parliamentarians,
journalists and many others…[Read more]

This study explores the portrayal of Islam and Muslims in the western media talk
shows, CNN and BBC from January 2012 to December 2012 and draws the required
data from their online editions. It is a content analysis of 50 programs focusing on
Islam and Muslims from Piers Morgan Live, Fareed Zakaria GPS, HARDtalk and
Newsnight. The findings…[Read more]