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]

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 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]

This paper seeks to study the changing relationship between news and public
policies. It would address the changing modes of reporting along with changes in
different strands in public policy, its instruments and actors. Conventional literature
in the field provides a broader perspective related to news and public policy. It is
claimed that…[Read more]

The work presented here is an exploratory and descriptive study under a
qualitative approach. It purposes was to show the use of television series, as a
means of teaching and learning professional ethics in communication
undergraduate students. Among the results we found two direct areas of impact:
teaching and learning. In the case of…[Read more]

The work presented here is an exploratory and descriptive study under a
qualitative approach. It purposes was to show the use of television series, as a
means of teaching and learning professional ethics in communication
undergraduate students. Among the results we found two direct areas of impact:
teaching and learning. In the case of…[Read more]

Most of the research on the uses and effects of media focused on individuals rather than family systems. This shift in the approach to the study of children television viewing and parental mediation is considered as a meaningful approach and such a study on an empirical ground becomes a need of the hour in a country like India. The objective of…[Read more]

Most of the research on the uses and effects of media focused on individuals rather than family systems. This shift in the approach to the study of children television viewing and parental mediation is considered as a meaningful approach and such a study on an empirical ground becomes a need of the hour in a country like India. The objective of…[Read more]

In India, the practice of permission-based SMS advertising is yet to evolve as a marketing practice and mobile users resist SMS advertising in its current format due to unauthorised spamming. Given this context, what factors constitute the acceptance or rejection of SMS advertising is still unclear. So, the study investigated the factors…[Read more]

This study critically examines television commercials advertising AXE, a male body spray. Using the framework of male gaze, originally coined by Laura Mulvey, which manipulates the viewer’s (and camera’s) perspective, this analysis uncovers the ubiquitous myth that exposes such instinctual voyeuristic pleasures. This psychoanalytic inv…[Read more]

Binge TV-watching marks a new era of TV-watching behavior among youth. It is a result of dependence on new media and the widespread usage of smart phones connected to the Internet. The study investigates binge-watching among a sample of Arab residents in United Arab Emirates. It examines how binge-watching might correlate to depression and…[Read more]

Recent years have seen a sequence of “moral panics” regarding accessibility of information on the internet and its exercise for criminal/harmful activity. Such problems and wider availability of internet raises the public policy concerns among governments over whether the internet should be regulated or not. Some believe it should not, con…[Read more]

This paper examines the divergence and impact of Chilean news media and their uses of Facebook as a tool to deliver news and information and engagement with their audience. It also looks at the emergence of new digital media organizations during the last decade in Chile as a response to a concentrated duopoly market in the country. To do so, this…[Read more]

The guerrillas of the modern day marketing arena have been eyeing the innovative
strategies to promote their products. They aim to grab the maximum attention
with least amount the capital spent. This is what guerrilla marketing revolves
around. YouTube has evolved as one such platform. It is being used as a powerful
medium by the marketing…[Read more]

In the contemporary society, Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter, and Instagram are not
merely words, but are synonymous to a person’s identity. Though the extensive use
of social media is capable of rendering a huge amount of benefits in terms of
ease of communication, lightening marketing reach and so on, the graver sides of
the same requires t…[Read more]

Hindi cinema has always been a better citation for Indian culture. Now it is an
accepted proof for the changing scenarios of modern India. The cinema has shaped
and portrayed Indian culture to the extent that the sixth art forms could ever
achieve. Hindi cinema has a great influence on common man who sees the different
symbols of daily life…[Read more]

Hindi cinema has always been a better citation for Indian culture. Now it is an
accepted proof for the changing scenarios of modern India. The cinema has shaped
and portrayed Indian culture to the extent that the sixth art forms could ever
achieve. Hindi cinema has a great influence on common man who sees the different
symbols of daily life…[Read more]

The 1960s was a period of social change in countries around the world and in
hundreds of cities in the United States. We argue that music played a rhetorical
role in bringing a vast array of people together behind a wide range of issues. The
music of Bob Dylan unified people together, making Dylan a kind of prophet that
put into music the…[Read more]

India though being the birthplace of the ancient science of sex, it is really a matter
of shame that the post British India, considers it a taboo, to talk and discuss it in
the public. Like many other ancient scriptures and technologies that were all
initiated by India, but are now used and further developed by the western world,
India, in…[Read more]

India though being the birthplace of the ancient science of sex, it is really a matter
of shame that the post British India, considers it a taboo, to talk and discuss it in
the public. Like many other ancient scriptures and technologies that were all
initiated by India, but are now used and further developed by the western world,
India, in…[Read more]