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]

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]

La representación o decodificación de un texto audiovisual es una combinación de la producción formal del material audiovisual (sonidos, imágenes y texto). En el procesamiento de la información audiovisual intervienen diferentes roles de acuerdo a las personas involucradas en los procesos de producción y consumo televisivo. La sociedad actual…[Read more]

El desarrollo local es un tema emergente para Cuba y la Educación Superior le está prestando atención. Su connotación social es generalmente subsumida en su dimensión económica, pero demanda una visión equilibrada, porque es un proceso social. Este trabajo tiene como objetivo abordar la importancia de las redes sociales, que es el espacio donde…[Read more]

Los medios de comunicación de la región latinoamericana evidencian políticas públicas tergiversadas por las prácticas institucionalizadas. La problemática de la participación comunitaria en la producción televisiva subyace en la triada políticasprogramas-productos comunicativos. Se plantea como objetivo del estudio identificar los elemento…[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]

This study aims to Arab opinion leaders’ attitudes and perceptions towards the
coverage of Da’esh actions by Arab and non-Arab TV news services, thus, by
investigating the perception of Da’esh actions provided by Arab and non-Arab TV
services. Data were collected from 1,330 participants across 19 Arab countries,
with a probability sample due…[Read more]

Across time, in a variety of forms and spaces -from homes and workplaces to
digital domains of social media- women have become victims of male dominance.
So also are the other vulnerable sections that suffer multi-layered abuse, and
endure sexual harassment in social media. Yet, this phenomenon is insufficiently
explored. Therefore, this…[Read more]

The role of television in the development of information society culture in
Kazakhstan has been examined in the article. The features of the functioning of
private television in relation to the state have been analyzed. It has been
determined that the comprehensive state policy in this area is an important factor
in the successful…[Read more]

In the paper, the authors have reviewed common actions, an aim of which is
consumer engagement in interactions with a brand in social media. They have
also reviewed engagement types and effects of their use. Based on a literature
review, in a clearer way, the authors have presented attributes of Internet marketing
and explored brand-marketing…[Read more]

The rapid spreading of the Internet and virtual ways of communication actualizes the issue of compiling a sociological portrait of online mass media audience. The study examined the socio-demographic composition of online media audience in Russia in the dynamics over the last ten years from 2008 to 2018. The analysis of empirical data on the main…[Read more]